Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR)
What is a Patent for Method and apparatus for measuring reporting in wireless communication system
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1. Field
The disclosure relates to an instrument for testing the strength of a signal within an electronic communication system. The disclosure also provides an approach to quickly recovering from failure using the use of a timer in the wireless communication system.
2. Description of Related Art
In order to meet the increasing demands for wireless data since the deployment of 4th-Generation (4G), communication systems, efforts were made to improve the 5th Generation (5G) or pre-5G communications network. Thus, the 5G or pre-5G communications system can also be referred to as a “Beyond 4G Network” or an “Post LTE System”. The 5G communications system is considered to be implemented with higher frequencies (mmWave) bands, e.g., 60 GHz bands, to accomplish higher data rates. Todecrease propagation loss of the radio waves and increase the distance of transmission, beamforming, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and full-dimensional MIMO (FD-MIMO), array antenna, an analog beam-forming technique, and large-scale antenna techniques are being discussed in 5G communication systems. The development of 5G communication technology is based on the latest small cell, cloud radio access networks (RANs), ultra dense networks, device to device (D2D), wireless backhaul, and moving networks. This includes cooperative communications as well as coordinated multiple-points (CoMP), reception end interference cancellation, and other such technologies. As an advanced access technology, 5G systems will use hybrid FSK/QAM modulation (FQAM), sliding window superpositioncoding(SWSC) and filter bank multi carrier (FBMC) as well as sparse code multiple accessibility (SCMA), and non-orthogonal multiple acces (NOMA) to offer coding modulation (ACM).
Internet is a human-centered connectivity system that allows humans to create and consume information. However the Internet of things (IoT), where distributed entities such as things can exchange and process information without human intervention is in the process of evolving. The Internet of everything (IoE), which is a combination of the IoT technology as well as the huge data processing technology via connection to a cloud server has come into existence. As technology elements, such as “sensing technology”,”wired/wireless communication and network infrastructure”, “service interface technology”, and “security technology” have been demanded for IoT implementation, a sensor network, a machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, machine type communication (MTC),and so forth have been recently researched. This type of IoT environment may provide intelligent Internet technology that adds the possibility of a brand new value to human life by collecting and analyzing data generated among connected things. IoT can be used in a wide range of fields, including smart home and smart cities, smart buildings, connected cars or smart cars and smart grids as well as health care and medical technology. It’s possible to integrate the existing technology of information technology (IT) with other industrial applications.
There have been numerous attempts in this direction, to use 5G communication systems to support IoT networks. For instance, technology such as a sensor network machine type communication (MTC), and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication may beimplemented through beamforming, MIMO, and array antennas. The use of a cloud radio access network (RAN) as described above big data processing technology could be considered as an illustration of the convergence of 5G technology and the IoT technology.
As a variety of services are delivered with the development of wireless communication systems , as described above, schemes to provide these services efficiently are required.
This background information is provided to aid in understanding the disclosure. There is no determination or any assertion has been made, as to whether any of these might be applicable as prior art, in connection with the disclosure.
The disclosure’s objectives are to address at least the problems mentioned above or drawbacks and provide at least the advantages described below. A method of efficiently measuring the strength of wireless signals in the communication system is an aspect of the disclosure.
A third aspect of the disclosure is that it offers an opportunity to rapidly recover from failure using an alarm clock within a wireless communication network.
Other aspects are described in part in the description that follows and in part will be apparent from the description, or could be learned through practicing the embodiments described.
In accordance with the disclosed aspect in the event that the base station transmits an indication of signal strength to a terminal, when a condition of the given configuration is met, the terminal transmits the strength of aserving cell, as well as the strength the neighboring cell, but the strength transmission is not applicable to all cells in the vicinity, and can only be to a neighboring cell operating at a frequency that is similar to the serving cell to where a serving cell measurement object is set up.
According to another aspect of disclosure, the terminal can operate an wireless signal timer through strength measurement of a downstream signal, then if a handover target cells is found the timer will be reset with a short timer value that could be used as serving cells. If a handover operation message is not received within the specified time and the terminal declares failure.
In accordance with a different aspect of the disclosure, during the time of measuring signal strength in a mobile communication system, the measurement object of a serving cell is restricted to a neighboring cell in a restricted frequency, ratherthan measuring the signal strength of all the potential neighboring cells, so that the amount of information produced by sending measurement data of an unnecessary neighboring cell is reduced.
According to another aspect of disclosure In the event there is no other alternative than transfer to a different cell via quick failure announcement in addition to time for monitoring the signal strength of serving cells is eliminated to allow fastfailure recovery.
The detailed description that follows will allow you to understand the other advantages, aspects, and key features of the disclosure. It is accompanied by the attached drawings.
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