Power headroom calculation apparatus and a power headroom calculation method

• US 10,349,415 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2016
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
• Original Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
• Inventors: Takaoka, Shinsuke, Iwai, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lai, Andrew
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rahman, M Mostazir
• Application Number:
  US15/372,563
• Publication Number:
  US 20170086200A1
• Time in Patent Office: 943 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0031 Multiple signaling transmission H04L1/1664, F15 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1607 Details of the supervisory signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0094 Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/16 Deriving transmission power values from another channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/242 taking into account path loss
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/262 taking into account adaptive modulation and coding [AMC] scheme AMC per se H04L1/0001
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/34 TPC management, i.e. sharing limited amount of power among users or channels or data types, e.g. cell loading
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/365 Power headroom reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/367 Power values between minimum and maximum limits, e.g. dynamic range
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0473 the resource being transmission power
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

Provided is an integrated circuit that calculates a power headroom (PHR) and that can preclude the recognition mismatch in which the reference formats of different UL grants are recognized between a wireless communication terminal apparatus and a wireless communication base station apparatus. For the PHR calculation of a PUSCH in a CC in which no UL grant is present, a UL grant, which was used for calculating the PHR in another CC having the same subframe number as the PUSCH, is used. For example, as to a subframe number=#1, the UL grant of CC #0 is used for calculating the PHR of CC #2 in which no UL grant is present.

Claims

1. An integrated circuit comprising:

at least one input port, which, in operation, receives an input; and

a circuit coupled to the at least one input port, which, in operation;

receives control information that is transmitted using a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) or a higher layer;

calculates a power headroom of an uplink channel based on parameter information including the received control information;

calculates a transmission power of the uplink channel using the parameter information that was used to calculate the power headroom of the uplink channel, wherein the power headroom of the uplink channel corresponds to the power headroom which is calculated when an accumulated value of a Transmit Power Control (TPC) command is zero, wherein a value of the TPC command is used to control the transmission power, wherein the power headroom which is calculated when the accumulated value of the TPC command is zero is obtained by subtracting, from a maximum transmission power (Pcmax), a value calculated using at least part of the parameter information except a transmission power accumulated value that is calculated using the TPC command transmitted on the PDCCH; and

controls an uplink transmission power using the calculated power headroom of the uplink channel.

2. The integrated circuit according to claim 1, further comprising:

at least one output coupled to the circuit, which, in operation, outputs a signal.

3. The integrated circuit according to claim 1, wherein the calculation of the power headroom and the calculation of the transmission power are performed for a single subframe.

4. The integrated circuit according to claim 1, wherein:

the control information includes at least one of an allocation bandwidth of the uplink channel, an offset value Δ

TF(j) that is related to a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS), the Transmit Power Control (TPC) command, and, parameters P0_PUSCH (j) and α

(j) which are information transmitted from a base station using the higher layer; and

the parameter information further includes a pathloss estimate value (PL), the maximum transmission power (Pcmax), and a parameter that is calculated using at least a portion of the control information.

5. The integrated circuit according to claim 1, wherein the power headroom of the uplink channel corresponds to a power headroom which is calculated when the uplink channel is not transmitted.

6. An integrated circuit comprising:

at least one input port which, in operation, receives an input; and

a circuit coupled to the at least one input port, which, in operation;

calculates a transmission power of an uplink channel using parameter information that was used to calculate a power headroom of the uplink channel;

calculates the power headroom using the parameter information including control information that was transmitted on a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) or a higher layer, wherein the power headroom corresponds to the power headroom which is calculated when an accumulated value of a Transmit Power Control (TPC) command is zero, wherein a value of the TPC command is used to control the transmission power, wherein the calculation of the power headroom and the calculation of the transmission power are performed for a single subframe, wherein the power headroom which is calculated when the accumulated value of the TPC command is zero is obtained by subtracting, from a maximum transmission power (Pcmax), a value calculated using at least part of the parameter information except a transmission power accumulated value that is calculated using the TPC command transmitted on the PDCCH; and

controls an uplink transmission power using the calculated power headroom of the uplink channel.

7. The integrated circuit according to claim 6, further comprising:

at least one output coupled to the circuit, which, in operation, outputs a signal.

8. The integrated circuit according to claim 6, wherein

the control information includes at least one of an allocation bandwidth of the uplink channel, an offset value Δ

TF(j) that is related to a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS), the Transmit Power Control (TPC) command, and, parameters P0_PUSCH (j) and α

(j) which are information transmitted from a base station using the higher layer; and

the parameter information further includes a pathloss estimate value (PL), the maximum transmission power (Pcmax), and a parameter that is calculated using at least a portion of the control information.

9. The integrated circuit according to claim 6, wherein the power headroom of the uplink channel corresponds to a power headroom which is calculated when the uplink channel is not transmitted.

10. A radio communication terminal apparatus comprising:

at least one input port, which, in operation, receives an input; and

a circuit coupled to the at least one input port, which, in operation;

receives control information that is transmitted using a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) or a higher layer;

calculates a power headroom of an uplink channel based on parameter information including the received control information and calculates a transmission power of the uplink channel using the parameter information that was used to calculate the power headroom of the uplink channel, wherein the power headroom of the uplink channel corresponds to the power headroom which is calculated when an accumulated value of a Transmit Power Control (TPC) command is zero, wherein a value of the TPC command is used to control the transmission power, wherein the power headroom which is calculated when the accumulated value of the TPC command is zero is obtained by subtracting, from a maximum transmission power (Pcmax), a value calculated using at least part of the parameter information except a transmission power accumulated value that is calculated using the TPC command transmitted on the PDCCH; and

controls an uplink transmission power using the calculated power headroom of the uplink channel.