Invention Grant
- Patent Title: User equipment and uplink data transmission method
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Application No.: US15112510Application Date: 2015-03-05
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Publication No.: US10039149B2Publication Date: 2018-07-31
- Inventor: Tooru Uchino , Hideaki Takahashi , Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari
- Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
- Current Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Osha Liang LLP
- Priority: JP2014-056820 20140319
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/056474 WO 20150305
- International Announcement: WO2015/141478 WO 20150924
- Main IPC: H04W76/15
- IPC: H04W76/15 ; H04W28/08 ; H04W80/02 ; H04W16/14 ; H04W88/06

Abstract:
User equipment having a dual connectivity function to communicate with multiple base stations simultaneously, comprising: a PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) layer processing unit configured to generate packet sequences for transmission to respective ones of the multiple base stations from to-be-transmitted uplink data; and a RLC (Radio Link Control) layer processing unit configured to transmit the generated packet sequences to the multiple base stations. The RLC layer processing unit includes: a RLC buffer configured to store packets transmitted from the PDCP layer processing unit and destined for the respective ones of the multiple base stations; RLC entities provided corresponding to respective ones of the multiple base stations, the RLC entities being configured to transmit the packets stored in the RLC buffer to the corresponding base stations; and a RLC entity control unit configured to control the RLC buffer and the RLC entities. The RLC entity control unit has a RLC discard timer configured to count a staying time of the respective packets stored in the RLC buffer, the RLC entity control unit discards a staying packet, for which the RLC discard timer has expired, from the RLC buffer, indicates the PDCP layer processing unit to retransmit the staying packet to the RLC buffer as a packet destined for a different base station, and transmits the staying packet retransmitted from the PDCP layer processing unit from a RLC entity corresponding to the different base station.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160338132A1 USER EQUIPMENT AND UPLINK DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD Public/Granted day:2016-11-17
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