Telecommunications method, telecommunications system, primary node, secondary node and user equipment
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsChandrika K. Worrall, Sudeep K. Palat
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Abstract
A telecommunications method for a telecommunications system comprising a user equipment (202) in dual connection with a primary node (204) and a secondary node (206) is disclosed. The method comprises generating configuration information for the user equipment at a virtual radio resource control entity (210) of the secondary node or at the user equipment; transmitting the configuration information from the secondary node or the user equipment to a radio resource control entity (210) of the primary node; and transmitting the configuration information from the primary node to the other of the user equipment or secondary node from where the configuration information is received.
Claims15
A telecommunications method for a telecommunications system comprising a user equipment in dual connection with a primary node and a secondary node, the method comprising:
- generating configuration information for the user equipment at a virtual radio resource control entity of the secondary node or at the user equipment;
- transmitting the configuration information from the secondary node or the user equipment to a radio resource control entity of the primary node;
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- transmitting the configuration information from the primary node to the other of the user equipment or secondary node from where the configuration information is received.
A telecommunications system, comprising:
- a primary node comprising a radio resource control entity;
- a secondary node comprising a virtual radio resource control entity;
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- a user equipment in dual connection with the primary node and the secondary node, wherein
- the virtual radio resource control entity is operable to generate configuration information for the user equipment and transmit the configuration information to the radio resource control entity of the primary node,
- the user equipment is operable to generate configuration information and transmit the configuration information to the radio resource control entity of the primary node;
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- the radio resource control entity of the primary node is operable to transmit received configuration information to the other of the user equipment or secondary node from where the configuration information is received.
A primary node of a telecommunications system comprising a user equipment in dual connection with the primary node and a secondary node, the primary node comprising:
- a radio resource control entity operable to receive configuration information for the user equipment from a virtual radio resource control entity of the secondary node or from the user equipment, and operable to transmit the received configuration information to the other of the user equipment or secondary node from where the configuration information is received.
A secondary node of a telecommunications system comprising a user equipment in dual connection with the secondary node and a primary node, the secondary node comprising:
- a virtual radio resource control entity operable to generate configuration information for the user equipment and transmit the configuration information to a radio resource control entity of the primary node for subsequent transmission to the user equipment, and operable to receive configuration information from the user equipment via the radio resource control entity of the primary node.
A user equipment of a telecommunications system comprising a primary node and a secondary node, wherein
- the user equipment is in dual communication with the primary node and the secondary node, and
- the user equipment is operable to receive a configuration information for the user equipment from the secondary node via a radio resource control entity of the primary node, and is operable to generate configuration information and transmit the configuration information to the radio resource control entity of the primary node for subsequent transmission to the secondary node.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.