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US 2016/0113023 A1Published application
Network Communications Method, Apparatus, And System
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsHan Zhou, Meng Hua, Peng Zhang, Xiaolei Tie
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Abstract
A network communications method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), instruction information sent by a radio network controller (RNC) in an access network, where the instruction information is used to instruct the UE to perform uplink and downlink service transmission with a macro base station and perform uplink service transmission with a micro base station in a first area, and/or perform uplink and downlink service transmission with a micro base station and perform downlink service transmission with a macro base station in a second area, and performing, by the UE, service transmission according to the instruction information.
Claims21
A user equipment (UE) in an access network, comprising:
- a radio transceiver configured to:
- receive first radio resource control (RRC) signaling of a radio network controller (RNC) indicating an RRC instruction;
- add a first base station to an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) active set of the UE according to the RRC instruction;
- receive an enhanced dedicated channel hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel (E-HICH) of the first base station;
- and
- send new E-DCH data when the E-HICH indicates an acknowledgement (ACK);
- and
- a processor coupled to the radio transceiver and configured to:
- disable, according to the RRC instruction, a first function of receiving a fractional dedicated physical channel (F-DPCH) of the first base station when the UE receives no dedicated channel (DCH) data from the access network;
- and
- disable, according to the RRC instruction, a second function of receiving a downlink dedicated physical data channel (DPDCH) of the first base station when the UE receives DCH data from the access network.
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A radio network controller (RNC) in an access network, comprising:
- a radio transceiver configured to:
- send first RRC signaling to a user equipment (UE) to instruct the UE to add a first base station to an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) active set of the UE and to receive an enhanced dedicated channel hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel (E-HICH) of the first base station;
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- send first network signaling to the first base station in the access network to instruct the first base station to receive E-DCH data from the UE and to send the E-HICH to the UE;
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- a processor coupled to the radio transceiver and configured to:
- generate the first RRC signaling;
- generate the first control signaling;
- remove first configuration information of a fractional dedicated physical channel (F-DPCH) from the first RRC signaling or set a first preset indication field in the first RRC signaling when determining that the UE receives no dedicated channel (DCH) data from the access network to instruct the UE to disable a first function of receiving the F-DPCH of the first base station;
- remove second configuration information of the F-DPCH from the first network signaling or set a second preset indication field in the first network signaling when determining that the UE receives no DCH data from the access network to instruct the first base station to disable a second function of sending the F-DPCH;
- remove third configuration information of a dedicated physical channel (DPCH) from the first RRC signaling or using a third preset indication field in the first RRC signaling when determining that the UE receives first DCH data from the access network to instruct the UE to disable a third function of receiving a downlink dedicated physical data channel (DPDCH) of the first base station;
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- remove fourth configuration information of the DPCH from the first network signaling or set a fourth preset indication field in the first network signaling when determining that the UE receives the first DCH data from the access network to instruct the first base station to disable a fourth function of sending the downlink DPDCH.
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A first base station in an access network, comprising:
- a radio transceiver configured to:
- receive first network signaling from a radio network controller (RNC);
- and
- receive enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) data from a user equipment (UE) in the access network according to the first network signaling;
- and
- send an enhanced dedicated channel hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel (E-HICH) to the UE according to the first network signaling;
- and
- a processor coupled to the radio transceiver and configured to:
- disable, according to an instruction of the first network signaling, a first function of sending a fractional dedicated physical channel (F-DPCH) to the UE when the UE receives no dedicated channel (DCH) data from the access network;
- and
- disable, according to the instruction of the first network signaling, a second function of sending a downlink dedicated physical data channel (DPDCH) to the UE.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.