Interference cancellation method and apparatus between terminals in wireless access system supporting full-duplex radio scheme

• US 10,390,254 B2
• Filed: 10/10/2014
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Jinmin, Chung, Jaehoon, Kim, Kitae, Choi, Kukheon, Noh, Kwangseok
• Primary Examiner(s): Mesfin, Yemane
• Assistant Examiner(s): Banthrongsack, Jeff
• Application Number:
  US15/028,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20160249245A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,775 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/345 Interference values signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR] H04B17/336
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/16 Half-duplex systems; Simplex/duplex switching; Transmission of break signals non-automatically inverting the direction of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0236 radio quality, e.g. interference, losses or delay
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

The present invention relates to methods for interference cancellation between terminals in a full-duplex radio (FDR) system and apparatuses supporting the same. A method for cancelling interference between terminals in a wireless access system supporting a full-duplex radio (FDR) system, as an aspect of the present invention, may comprise the steps of: receiving, by a first terminal, reference signal information including information for configuring an interference reference signal from a base station; receiving the interference reference signal from a second terminal; obtaining, by the first terminal, interference channel information with regard to an interference channel between the first terminal and the second terminal on the basis of the interference reference signal; and transmitting by beamforming uplink data to the base station on the basis of the interference channel information by the first terminal. In this case, the first terminal is supported by the FDR system and the second terminal supports the half-duplex radio (HDR) system, and a resource area transmitting uplink data by the first terminal can be configured to match a resource area receiving downlink data by the second terminal.

Claims

1. A method for cancelling interference in a wireless access system supporting a full-duplex radio (FDR) system, the method comprising:

receiving, by a first user equipment (UE) from a base station, reference signal information including information for configuring an interference reference signal,

wherein the information for configuring the interference reference signal is configuration information for a reference signal separately configured for channel interference information between the first UE and a second UE;

receiving, by the first UE from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) including an interference reference signal request field indicating the interference reference signal for estimating an interference channel between the first UE and the second UE to be transmitted;

receiving, by the first UE from the second UE, the interference reference signal included in an uplink signal transmitted directly by the second UE;

acquiring, by the first UE, interference channel information on the interference channel between the first UE and the second UE based on the interference reference signal; and

transmitting, by the first UE, uplink data to the base station based on the interference channel information by performing beamforming for the uplink data,

wherein the first UE supports the FDR system and the second UE supports a half-duplex radio (HDR) system,

wherein the first UE identifies that the interference reference signal is the interference reference signal transmitted directly by the second UE based on the reference signal information, and

wherein a resource region where the first UE transmits the uplink data corresponds to a resource region where the second UE receives downlink data.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the reference signal information includes at least one of type information of the interference reference signal, timing information indicating when the interference reference signal is transmitted, and resource region information on a frequency domain to which the interference reference signal is transmitted.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first UE transmits the uplink data by performing null space projection based on the interference channel information.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the interference reference signal is transmitted to an uplink through only a partial band that is not a full system band.

5. The method according to claim 1, claim 4, wherein the partial band is allocated with ┌

log₂ (N_RB^UL(N_RB^UL+1)/2)┐

bits,

wherein the N_RB^UL is an uplink bandwidth configuration expressed by the product of N_sc^RB, and

wherein the N_sc^RB is a resource block size of a frequency domain expressed by the number of subcarriers.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second UE is a second UE which is a peer entity of the first UE.

6. A first user equipment (UE) for supporting cancellation of interference in a wireless access system supporting a full-duplex radio (FDR) system, the first UE comprising:

a transmitter;

a receiver; and

a processor configured to support cancellation of interference between the first UE and a second UE by controlling the transmitter and the receiver,

wherein the processor is further configured to;

control the receiver to receive, from a base station, reference signal information including information for configuring an interference reference signal,

wherein the information for configuring the interference reference signal is configuration information for a reference signal separately configured for channel interference information between the first UE and the second UE,

control the receiver to receive, from the base station, receive downlink control information (DCI) including an interference reference signal request field indicating the interference reference signal for estimating an interference channel between the first UE and the second UE to be transmitted,

control the receiver to receive the interference reference signal from the second UE included in an uplink signal transmitted directly by the second UE,

acquire interference channel information on the interference channel between the first UE and the second UE based on the interference reference signal, and

control the transmitter to transmit uplink data to the base station based on the interference channel information by performing beamforming for the uplink data,

wherein the first UE supports the FDR system and the second UE supports a half-duplex radio (HDR) system,

wherein the first UE identifies that the interference reference signal is the interference reference signal transmitted directly by the second UE based on the reference signal information, and

wherein a resource region where the first UE transmits the uplink data corresponds to a resource region where the second UE receives downlink data.

7. The first UE according to claim 6, wherein the reference signal information includes at least one of type information of the interference reference signal, timing information indicating when the interference reference signal is transmitted, and resource region information on a frequency domain to which the interference reference signal is transmitted.

8. The first UE according to claim 6, wherein the first UE transmits the uplink data by performing null space projection based on the interference channel information.

9. The first UE according to claim 6, wherein the interference reference signal is transmitted to an uplink through only a partial band that is not a full system band.

10. The first UE according to claim 6, claim 9, wherein the partial band is allocated with ┌

log₂ (N_RB^UL(N_RB^UL+1)/2)┐

bits,

wherein the N_RB^UL is an uplink bandwidth configuration expressed by the product of N_sc^RB, and

wherein the N_sc^RB is a resource block size of a frequency domain expressed by the number of subcarriers.

12. The first UE according to claim 6, wherein the second UE is a second UE which is a peer entity of the first UE.