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1. Long Term Evolution –
Knowledge Services Medium Access Control
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3. Contents
Introduction
Long Term Evolution (LTE)
Channel Architecture
Medium Access Control
Channels at MAC Layer
MAC Architecture
MAC Functions
Taxonomy for LTE-MAC
Key Findings
Process flow for identifying probably essential patents of MAC from ETSI
Probably essential patents analysis
Overall Functions vs. No. of Patents
Random Access Procedure vs. No. of Patents
HARQ vs. No. of Patents
Scheduling vs. No. of Patents
Buffer Status Report vs. No. of Patents
Power Headroom Reporting vs. No. of Patents
Discontinuous Reception vs. No. of Patents
MAC PDU vs. No. of Patents
Others vs. No. of Patents
REFERENCES
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4. Introduction
 The Medium access control (MAC) layer is the lowest sub-layer in the Layer 2 architecture of the
LTE radio protocol stack.
 The connection to the physical layer below is through transport channels, and the connection to the
RLC layer above is through logical channels.
 The following functions are supported by MAC sub layer:
• Mapping between logical channels and transport channels;
• Multiplexing of MAC SDUs from one or different logical channels onto transport blocks
(TB) to be delivered to the physical layer on transport channels;
• Demultiplexing of MAC SDUs from one or different logical channels from transport blocks
(TB) delivered from the physical layer on transport channels;
• Scheduling information reporting;
• Error correction through HARQ;
• Priority handling between UEs by means of dynamic scheduling;
• Priority handling between logical channels of one UE;
• Logical Channel prioritization;
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5. LTE-MAC Taxonomy
A detailed taxonomy is presented covering all the functions of Medium access control layer in Long
term evolution
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6. Process flow for identifying probably essential patents
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7. Probably essential patents of MAC layer functions
The following chart illustrates the probably essential patents of MAC layer functions in Long term
evolution.
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8. Probably essential patents of Random access procedure
The following chart illustrates the probably essential patents of Random access procedure in Long term
evolution of various assignee.
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9. Probably essential patents of HARQ
The following chart illustrates the probably essential patents of Hybrid automatic repeat request in Long
term evolution of various assignee.
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10. Probably essential patents of Buffer status report
The following chart illustrates the probably essential patents of Buffer status report in Long term
evolution of various assignee.
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11. Probably essential patents of Discontinuous reception
The following chart illustrates the probably essential patents of Discontinuous reception in Long term
evolution of various assignee.
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12. Probably essential patents of Power headroom reporting
The following chart illustrates the probably essential patents of Power headroom reporting in Long term
evolution of various assignee.
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13. Probably essential patents of Scheduling
The following chart illustrates the probably essential patents of Scheduling in Long term evolution of
various assignee.
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14. Probably essential patents of MAC PDU
The following chart illustrates the probably essential patents of MAC PDU in Long term evolution of
various assignee.
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15. Probably essential patents of others category
The following chart illustrates the probably essential patents of others function of MAC in Long term
evolution of various assignee.
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