METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ACTIVATING AND DEACTIVATING SECONDARY CELLS IN A CARRIER AGGREGATION ENVIRONMENT

摘要

The present invention provides methods and apparatusfor activating and deactivating secondary cells in a carrier aggregation environment. In one embodiment, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) command is received from a base station for activating/deactivating a secondary cell associated with user equipment (UE). Then, the secondary cell configured for user equipment is activated/deactivated based on the MAC CE command. Further, a first uplink grant is received from the base station upon activation/deactivation of the secondary cell. Accordingly, quality information (e.g., channel quality information and sounding reference signal information) associated with the cell(s) is transmitted to the base station in the received first uplink grant over a physical uplink shared channel. Furthermore, a hybrid automatic repeat request entity associated with the secondary cell is reset.