Power density boosting in uplink shared channels

• US 10,128,994 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2014
• Issued: 11/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Webb, Matthew William, Clifton, John Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Randhawa, Mandish
• Application Number:
  US14/910,466
• Publication Number:
  US 20160182199A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,581 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0044 allocation of payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0051 of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals

Abstract

A communications device transmits/receives data to/from a mobile communications network including one or more network elements forming a wireless access interface for transmitting/receiving the data. An up-link includes a shared channel for transmitting the data to the mobile communications network. A controller controls a transmitter and receiver to transmit to the mobile communications network a request to transmit data in a smaller number of frequency division multiplexed symbols than available on the shared channel, to receive from the mobile communications network an indication of a sub-set of the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols in which the communications device should transmit the data on the shared channel, and to transmit signals representing the data in the shared channel to occupy a smaller number of frequency division multiplexed symbols than the number of the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols of the time period of the shared channel.

Claims

1. A communications device for transmitting data to or receiving data from a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network including one or more network elements which are arranged to form a wireless access interface for transmitting and receiving the data, the communications device comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit signals representing the data on an up-link of the wireless access interface to the mobile communications network,

a receiver configured to receive signals representing the data transmitted on a down-link from the mobile communications network via the wireless access interface, the wireless access interface providing a plurality of communications resource elements across a frequency range for the down-link and the up-link, the communications resource elements being formed by dividing sub-carriers at different frequencies into a plurality of time periods, one or more of the sub-carriers being provided to form, in the time domain, frequency division multiplexed symbols, each of the time periods comprising a predetermined number of the frequency division multiplexed symbols, wherein the up-link includes a shared channel providing the communications resources for allocation to the communications device by the mobile communications network for transmitting the data on the up-link to the mobile communications network, the shared channel providing communications resources which are shared with other communications terminals and comprising in the time domain, the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols in each time period for allocation to the communications device, and

a controller configured to control the transmitter to transmit the signals and the receiver to receive the signals to transmit or receive the data, wherein the controller is configured to control the transmitter and the receiver to

transmit to the mobile communications network a request to transmit data in a smaller number of frequency division multiplexed symbols than are available on the shared channel,

receive from the mobile communications network an indication of a sub-set of the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols in which the communications device should transmit the data on the shared channel, and

transmit signals representing the data in the shared channel to occupy a smaller number of frequency division multiplexed symbols than the number of the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols of the time period of the shared channel, wherein

the controller is configured to transmit the signals representing the data in the smaller number of frequency division multiplexed symbols within the time period of the shared channel starting at a different one of the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols, each of the different starting frequency division multiplexed symbols representing further information.

2. The communications device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to transmit the signals representing the data with one or more reference symbols included in the number of frequency division multiplexed symbols to assist in demodulating the received signal to recover the data, and a position of the one or more reference symbols within the transmitted frequency division multiplexed symbols is varied between a plurality of locations within the transmitted symbols, each of the locations representing further information.

3. The communications device of claim 1, wherein the further information forms part of the data being transmitted by the controller.

4. The communications device of claim 1, wherein the shared channel comprises a plurality of frequency division multiplexed symbols in the time domain and a plurality of sub-carriers in the frequency domain and transmission of the signaling information includes a contiguous sub-set of the frequency division multiplexed symbols starting at one of the predetermined frequency division multiplexed symbols.

5. The communications device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to transmit the data by mapping data symbols representing the frequency division multiplexed symbols by modulating the sub-carriers of the shared channel with modulation symbols representing the data symbols, the modulation order of the modulation symbols being so that the data can be transmitted in a temporal length which is less than the temporal length of the time period of the shared channel.

6. The communications device of claim 1, wherein the time period of the shared channel is formed from a sub-frame of a frame into which the up-link is divided.

7. The communications device of claim 6, wherein the shared channel is formed from two time slots into which the sub-frame is divided and the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols is the number of symbols in one of the time slots.

8. The communications device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured in combination with the receiver to

receive control information from the mobile communications network for configuring the transmission of the signals representing the data in the shared channel, whereby other communications devices can be configured to adapt transmissions of signals in the same shared channel with the transmission of the signals representing the data by the communications device, and

the controller is configured in combination with the transmitter to configure the transmitter in accordance with the control information received from the mobile communications network to transmit the signals representing the data in the shared channel.

9. A method of transmitting data to or receiving data from a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network including one or more network elements which are arranged to form a wireless access interface for transmitting and receiving the data, the method comprising:

transmitting signals representing the data on an up-link of the wireless access interface to the mobile communications network,

receiving signals representing the data transmitted on a down-link from the mobile communications network via the wireless access interface, the wireless access interface providing a plurality of communications resource elements across a frequency range for the down-link and the up-link, the communications resource elements being formed by dividing sub-carriers at different frequencies into a plurality of time periods, one or more of the sub-carriers being provided to form, in the time domain, frequency division multiplexed symbols, each of the time periods comprising a predetermined number of the frequency division multiplexed symbols, wherein the up-link includes a shared channel providing the communications resources for allocation to the communications device by the mobile communications network for transmitting the data on the up-link to the mobile communications network, the shared channel providing communications resources which are shared with other communications terminals and comprising in the time domain, the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols in each time period for allocation to the communications device, and

controlling the transmitting the signals and the receiving the signals to transmit or receive the data, wherein the controlling the transmitting includes

transmitting to the mobile communications network a request to transmit data in a smaller number of frequency division multiplexed symbols than are available on the shared channel,

receiving from the mobile communications network an indication of a sub-set of the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols in which the communications device should transmit the data on the shared channel, and

transmitting signals representing the data in the shared channel to occupy a smaller number of frequency division multiplexed symbols than the number of the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols of the time period of the shared channel, wherein

the controlling the transmitting includes transmitting the signals representing the data in the smaller number of frequency division multiplexed symbols within the time period of the shared channel starting at a different one of the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols, each of the different starting frequency division multiplexed symbols representing further information.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the controlling the transmitting includes transmitting the signals representing the data includes transmitting one or more reference symbols included in the number of frequency division multiplexed symbols to assist in demodulating the received signal to recover the data, and

varying a position of the one or more reference symbol within the transmitted frequency division multiplexed symbols between a plurality of locations within the transmitted symbols, each of the locations representing further information.

11. An infrastructure equipment for forming part of a mobile communications network and providing a wireless access interface for transmitting data to and receiving data from a communications device, the infrastructure equipment comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit signals representing the data on a down-link of the wireless access interface to the mobile communications network,

a receiver configured to receive signals representing the data transmitted on an up-link from the mobile communications network via the wireless access interface, the wireless access interface providing a plurality of communications resource elements across a frequency range for the down-link and the up-link, the communications resource elements being formed by dividing sub-carriers at different frequencies into a plurality of time periods, one or more of the sub-carriers being provided to form, in the time domain, frequency division multiplexed symbols, each of the time periods comprising a predetermined number of the frequency division multiplexed symbols, wherein the up-link includes a shared channel providing the communications resources for allocation to the communications device by the infrastructure equipment for transmitting the data on the up-link to the infrastructure equipment, the shared channel providing communications resources which are shared with other communications terminals and comprising in the time domain, the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols in each time period for allocation to the communications device, and

a controller configured to control the receiver to receive the signals and the transmitter to transmit the signals to transmit or receive the data, wherein the controller is configured to control the transmitter and the receiver to

receive from a communications device a request to transmit data in a smaller number of frequency division multiplexed symbols than are available on the shared channel,

transmit to the communications device an indication of a sub-set of the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols in which the communications device should transmit the data on the shared channel, and

receive signals representing the data in the shared channel within a smaller number of frequency division multiplexed symbols than the number of the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols of the time period of the shared channel, wherein

the controller is configured to receive the signals representing the data in the smaller number of frequency division multiplexed symbols within the time period of the shared channel starting at a different one of the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols, each of the different starting frequency division multiplexed symbols representing further information.

12. The infrastructure equipment of claim 11, wherein the controller is configured to receive the signals representing the data in the smaller number of frequency division multiplexed symbols within the time period of the shared channel, the received signals representing the data with one or more reference symbols included in the number of frequency division multiplexed symbols to assist in demodulating the received signal to recover the data, the one or more reference symbols transmitted with the data bearing symbols varying in location with respect to a position of the data bearing symbols, each of the locations representing further information, and

the controller is configured to detect the further information based on the location of the one or more reference symbols.