Downlink transmission method and user terminal equipment

• US 10,257,841 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2014
• Issued: 04/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Li, Yingyang, Sun, Chengjun
• Primary Examiner(s): Onamuti, Gbemileke J
• Application Number:
  US14/916,399
• Publication Number:
  US 20160219600A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,848 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/24 with feedback of measurements to the transmitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/309 Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0003 by switching between different modulation schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0009 by adapting the channel coding H04L1/1812 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0016 involving special memory structures, e.g. look-up tables
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/362 Modulation using more than one carrier, e.g. with quadrature carriers, separately amplitude modulated H04L27/366 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/366 Arrangements for compensating undesirable properties of the transmission path between the modulator and the demodulator
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0046 Determination of how many bits are transmitted on different sub-channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0057 Physical resource allocation for CQI
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/006 Quality of the received signal, e.g. BER, SNR, water filling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality

Abstract

The present application discloses a downlink transmission method including: UE receiving configuration information sent form base station and accordingly adjusting CQI table and MCS table; UE measuring and reporting downlink channel quality indicator information to the base station; here, the UE reports the CQI information according to a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation; the UE receiving downlink scheduling information sent from the base station, receiving accordingly downlink data sent from the base station, here, the UE processes the MCS information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation.

Claims

1. A method for downlink transmission, comprising:

reporting, by a user equipment (UE) to a base station (BS), downlink channel quality indicator (CQI) information based on a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation, wherein the backward compatible CQI table or the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is selected based on a state of the UE; and

receiving, by the UE from the BS, downlink scheduling information configured based on the CQI information;

receiving, by the UE from the BS, downlink data based on modulation coding scheme (MCS) information of downlink control information (DCI) included in the downlink scheduling information; and

processing, by the UE, the MCS information based on a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation,

wherein the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is generated by changing at least one CQI item in the backward compatible CQI table.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is:

in the backward compatible CQI table, removing some CQI items having a lowest spectrum efficiency, and adding correspondingly CQI items of 256QAM modulation;

or, in the backward compatible CQI table, keeping some CQI items having a lowest coding rate unchanged, removing some items of QPSK modulation or 16QAM modulation, and adding correspondingly CQI items of 256QAM modulation;

or, in the backward compatible CQI table, adding feedback granularity of CQI items having a spectrum efficiency within a determined range and adding correspondingly CQI items of 256QAM modulation;

and/or, in the backward compatible CQI table, removing some CQI items of 64QAM modulation having a highest coding rate, and adding correspondingly CQI items of 256QAM modulation.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is:

in the backward compatible CQI table, removing some CQI items having a lowest spectrum efficiency, and replacing the removed CQI items with CQI items of 256QAM modulation;

or, in the backward compatible CQI table, keeping some CQI items having a lowest coding rate unchanged, replacing some CQI items of QPSK modulation or 16QAM modulation with CQI items of 256QAM modulation;

or, in the backward compatible CQI table, replacing some CQI items having a spectrum efficiency within a determined range with CQI items of 256QAM modulation;

and/or, in the backward compatible CQI table, replacing one or some CQI items of 64QAM modulation having a highest coding rate with CQI items of 256QAM modulation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is:

in the backward compatible CQI table, adding CQI items of 256QAM modulation.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein when the UE reports the CQI information based on the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation, the method further comprises:

adding, by the UE, a number of bits occupied by the CQI information for indicating CQI index of the reported CQI information in the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation;

or,

reporting, by the UE, an offset value to the base station when the UE reports the CQI information, for indicating an actual index of the CQI information in the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation to the base station;

or,

receiving, by the UE, an offset value sent from the base station, extracting some CQI items from the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation based on the offset value to form a CQI table to be used for reporting the CQI information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

reporting, by the UE, the CQI information based on a CQI table used by a subframe set to which the CQI information belongs.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

reporting, by the UE, the CQI information based on a CQI table used by a channel state indication (CSI) process to which the CQI information belongs.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

reporting, by the UE, the CQI information based on a CQI table used by a channel state indication (CSI) process and a subframe set to which the CQI information belongs.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving, by the UE, configuration information sent from the base station for configuring the UE to use the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation or the backward compatible CQI table to report the CQI information.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation is:

in the backward compatible MCS table, removing some MCS items of QPSK modulation having a lowest coding rate, and adding MCS items of 256QAM modulation;

or, in the backward compatible MCS table, keeping some MCS items of QPSK modulation having a lowest coding rate unchanged, removing some MCS items of QPSK modulation or 16QAM modulation, and adding correspondingly MCS items of 256QAM modulation;

or, in the backward compatible MCS table, removing MCS items obtained through interpolation and whose spectrum efficiencies are within a determined range, and adding MCS items of 256QAM modulation;

or, when the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is;

removing some CQI items from the backward compatible CQI table and adding CQI items of 256QAM modulation, in the backward compatible MCS table, removing MCS items corresponding to the removed CQI items and adding MCS items of 256QAM modulation;

and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, removing some MCS items of 64QAM modulation having a highest coding rate, and adding correspondingly MCS items of 256QAM modulation;

and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, removing one of multiple MCS items having equal spectrum efficiencies and adding correspondingly MCS items of 256QAM modulation.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein when the UE supports 256QAM, if a detected DCI format is a normal DCI format, the MCS table is used which supports 256QAM modulation when processing the MCS information;

if a detected DCI format is a fallback DCI format, the backward compatible MCS table is used when processing the MCS information.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprising:

configuring, by the UE, MCS table corresponding to RE mapping and quasi-co-location (QCL) configuration of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) indicated by the downlink scheduling information as a MCS table when processing the MCS information,

wherein the MCS table corresponding to each resource element (RE) mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH is preconfigured by the base station.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprises:

determining a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information based on whether (enhanced) physical downlink control channel ((E)PDCCH) which carries the downlink scheduling information is in UE-specific search space (USS) or common search space (CSS) detected by the UE.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprises taking a MCS table corresponding to an aggregation level of (E)PDCCH which carries the downlink scheduling information as a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein determining a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information based on whether a type of (E)PDCCH is localized or distributed.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprises taking a MCS table corresponding to a EPDCCH set in which (E)PDCCH carrying the downlink scheduling information is, as a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information, and

wherein the MCS table corresponding to each EPDCCH set of the UE is preconfigured by the base station.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the method further comprises:

dividing downlink subframes into a plurality of sets, for each downlink subframe set, and configuring MCS table used by DCI which schedules downlink data transmission of each downlink subframe set,

wherein after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprises;

taking the MCS table used by DCI information as a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation is:

in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing some MCS items of QPSK modulation having a lowest coding rate with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;

or, in the backward compatible MCS table, keeping some MCS items of QPSK modulation having a lowest coding rate unchanged, replacing some MCS items of QPSK modulation or 16QAM modulation with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;

or, in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing some MCS items obtained through interpolation and whose spectrum efficiencies are within a determined range with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;

or, when the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is;

removing some CQI items from the backward compatible CQI table and adding CQI items of 256QAM modulation, in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing MCS items corresponding to the removed CQI items with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;

and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing one or some MCS items of 64QAM modulation having a highest coding rate with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;

and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing one of multiple MCS items having equal spectrum efficiencies with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;

and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, retaining an MCS item with I_MCS=0, and replacing one or more MCS items with I_MCS>

0 MCS items of 256QAM modulation;

wherein I_MCS represents MCS index value.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation, in the backward compatible MCS table, adds MCS items of 256QAM modulation.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein when the UE processes the MCS information based on the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation, the method further comprises:

adding, by the UE, a number of bits occupied by the MCS information for indicating MCS index of the reported MCS information in the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation;

or,

receiving, by the UE, an offset value sent from the base station, extracting some MCS items from the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation based on the offset value to form a MCS table to be used for processing the MCS information.

21. A user terminal equipment, comprising:

a channel quality indicator (CQI) information measuring and reporting unit configured to measure and report downlink CQI information to a base station based on a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation, wherein the backward compatible CQI table or the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is selected based on a state of the UE;

a downlink scheduling information receiving unit configured to receive, from the base station, downlink scheduling information configured based on the CQI information; and

a downlink data receiving and processing unit configured to, based on modulation coding scheme (MCS) information of downlink control information (DCI) included in the downlink scheduling information, receive and process downlink data sent from the base station based on a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation,

wherein the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is generated by changing at least one CQI item in the backward compatible CQI table.