Patent ID: 9686814
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of reference cell maintenance for a mobile device in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: being configured a plurality of secondary cells, where one of the plurality of secondary cells is a reference cell for information reference for another secondary cell; keeping the reference cell in activated when the reference cell is used by the another secondary cell for information reference, wherein keeping the reference cell in activated when the reference cell is used by the another secondary cell for information reference comprises: starting or restarting a prohibit timer for the reference cell when the first deactivation timer for the reference cell is started or restarted; wherein starting or restarting the first deactivation timer for the reference cell when the reference cell is used by another secondary cell for information reference and the second deactivation timer for the another secondary cell is started or restarted comprises: