Mobile station, base station, methods for transmitting and receiving power headroom report, and computer readable medium

• US 10,206,182 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2013
• Issued: 02/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Oketani, Kengo
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Jay P
• Application Number:
  US14/761,385
• Publication Number:
  US 20150327186A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,002 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/365 Power headroom reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0473 the resource being transmission power
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network

Abstract

A mobile station (1) has a capability to communicate with a base station (2) simultaneously using activated first and second uplink carriers. The mobile station (1) is configured to transmit a power headroom report to the base station (2). The power headroom report includes an information element (ΔP_PUSCH) indicating a power difference between first maximum transmission power of the mobile station (1) for the first uplink carrier and second maximum transmission power of the mobile station (1) for the second uplink carrier. It is thus, for example, possible to provide improvement of power headroom reporting (PHR) suitable for uplink carrier aggregation.

Claims

1. A method in a mobile station for transmitting a power headroom report, the method comprising:

transmitting, to a base station, a power headroom report regarding activated first and second uplink carriers, the power headroom report including a first information element indicating a power difference between first maximum transmission power of the mobile station for the first uplink carrier and second maximum transmission power of the mobile station for the second uplink carrier.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the power headroom report includes neither an information element indicating the first maximum transmission power nor an information element indicating the second maximum transmission power.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the power headroom report further includes an information element indicating a first power headroom level for the first uplink carrier and an information element indicating a second power headroom level for the second uplink carrier.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the power headroom report relates to Ncell number of uplink carriers including the first and second uplink carriers, and

the power headroom report further includes (Ncell-2) number of information elements that each indicates a power difference between the first maximum transmission power and maximum transmission power of the mobile station on a respective one of the (Ncell-2) number of uplink carriers excluding the first and second uplink carriers.

5. A method in a base station for receiving a power headroom report, the method comprising:

receiving, from a mobile station, a power headroom report regarding activated first and second uplink carriers, the power headroom report including a first information element indicating a power difference between first maximum transmission power of the mobile station for the first uplink carrier and second maximum transmission power of the mobile station for the second uplink carrier.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the power headroom report includes neither an information element indicating the first maximum transmission power nor an information element indicating the second maximum transmission power.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the power headroom report further includes an information element indicating a first power headroom level for the first uplink carrier and an information element indicating a second power headroom level for the second uplink carrier.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein

the power headroom report relates to Ncell number of uplink carriers including the first and second uplink carriers, and

the power headroom report further includes (Ncell-2) number of information elements that each indicates a power difference between the first maximum transmission power and maximum transmission power of the mobile station on a respective one of the (Ncell-2) number of uplink carriers excluding the first and second uplink carriers.

9. The method according to claim 5, further comprising performing scheduling including allocating an uplink radio resource to the mobile station based on the power headroom report.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the scheduling includes calculating a radio resource amount that can be additionally allocated to the mobile station in at least one of the first and second uplink carriers.

11. A mobile station comprising:

a radio transceiver, comprising at least one hardware processor, configured to communicate with a base station simultaneously using activated first and second uplink carriers; and

a controller, comprising at least one hardware processor, configured to transmit a power headroom report to the base station, the power headroom report including a first information element indicating a power difference between first maximum transmission power of the mobile station for the first uplink carrier and second maximum transmission power of the mobile station for the second uplink carrier.

12. The mobile station according to claim 11, wherein the power headroom report includes neither an information element indicating the first maximum transmission power nor an information element indicating the second maximum transmission power.

13. The mobile station according to claim 11, wherein the power headroom report further includes an information element indicating a first power headroom level for the first uplink carrier and an information element indicating a second power headroom level for the second uplink carrier.

14. The mobile station according to claim 11, wherein

the power headroom report relates to Ncell number of uplink carriers including the first and second uplink carriers, and

the power headroom report further includes (Ncell-2) number of information elements that each indicates a power difference between the first maximum transmission power and maximum transmission power of the mobile station on a respective one of the (Ncell-2) number of uplink carriers excluding the first and second uplink carriers.

15. A base station comprising:

a radio transceiver, comprising at least one hardware processor, configured to communicate with a mobile station simultaneously using activated first and second uplink carriers; and

a controller, comprising at least one hardware processor, configured to receive a power headroom report from the mobile station, the power headroom report including a first information element indicating a power difference between first maximum transmission power of the mobile station for the first uplink carrier and second maximum transmission power of the mobile station for the second uplink carrier.

16. The base station according to claim 15, wherein the power headroom report includes neither an information element indicating the first maximum transmission power nor an information element indicating the second maximum transmission power.

17. The base station according to claim 15, wherein the power headroom report further includes an information element indicating a first power headroom level for the first uplink carrier and an information element indicating a second power headroom level for the second uplink carrier.

18. The base station according to claim 15, wherein

the power headroom report relates to Ncell number of uplink carriers including the first and second uplink carriers, and

the power headroom report further includes (Ncell-2) number of information elements that each indicates a power difference between the first maximum transmission power and maximum transmission power of the mobile station on a respective one of the (Ncell-2) number of uplink carriers excluding the first and second uplink carriers.

19. The base station according to claim 15, wherein the controller is configured to perform scheduling including allocating an uplink radio resource to the mobile station based on the power headroom report.

20. The base station according to claim 19, wherein the scheduling includes calculating a radio resource amount that can be additionally allocated to the mobile station in at least one of the first and second uplink carriers.

21. The base station according to claim 19, wherein

the scheduling includes calculating an uplink radio resource amount RRB, k that can be additionally allocated to the mobile station in an uplink carrier k according to the following two Formulas: