Method and device for performing LBT process on multiple carriers in wireless access system supporting unlicensed band

• US 10,492,222 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2016
• Issued: 11/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Seonwook, Ahn, Joonkui, Park, Hanjun
• Primary Examiner(s): Roberts, Brian S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Haque, Abusayeed M
• Application Number:
  US15/758,306
• Publication Number:
  US 20180255578A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,175 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1268 of uplink data flows
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0808 using carrier sensing, e.g. carrier sense multiple access [CSMA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless access system supporting an unlicensed band. According to this disclosure, a method by which a terminal performs LBT in a wireless access system supporting an unlicensed band and multiple carriers can comprise receiving, from a base station, each of uplink grants for scheduling uplink channels on two or more component carriers (CCs); randomly selecting a first CC on which a first LBT is to be performed from among the two or more CCs; performing the first LBT on the selected first CC; and performing a second LBT on the remaining CCs among the two or more CCs, wherein the first LBT can be a random back-off-based LBT for performing a random back-off by a random back-off counter value, and the second LBT can be a channel sensing-based LBT for sensing a channel during a predetermined time interval before uplink transmission.

Claims

1. A method for performing an uplink channel access procedure in a wireless access system supporting an unlicensed band and multiple carriers, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprising:

receiving, from a base station, an uplink grant for scheduling an uplink channel in each of two or more component carriers (CCs), wherein the uplink grant indicates a first uplink channel access procedure for each of the two or more CCs;

randomly selecting a first CC for the first uplink channel access procedure from among the two or more CCs;

performing the first uplink channel access procedure on the selected first CC; and

performing a second uplink channel access procedure on each of remaining CCs of the two or more CCs,

wherein the first uplink channel access procedure is a random backoff-based uplink channel access procedure based on a random backoff count, and

wherein the second uplink channel access procedure is a carrier sensing-based uplink channel access procedure based on a predetermined time period before an uplink transmission.

2. The method according to of claim 1, wherein the UE transmits an uplink signal in a CC determined to be, in an idle state, by performing the first uplink channel access procedure and the second uplink channel access procedure.

3. The method of claim 1,

wherein a carrier group is configured for the two or more CCs before the first CC is selected, and

wherein the carrier group is configured dynamically by physical layer signaling.

4. The method of claim 3,

wherein the carrier group includes CCs configured for the first uplink channel access procedure.

5. The method of claim 3,

wherein the carrier group includes a CC configured for the first uplink channel access procedure and a CC configured for the second uplink channel access procedure.

6. The method of claim 1,

wherein the uplink grant includes an uplink channel access procedure type parameter, indicating a type of the uplink channel access procedure to be performed in a scheduled CC, and an uplink channel access procedure parameter, required for performing the uplink channel access procedure.

7. The method of claim 1,

wherein two or more physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) starting positions, of the two or more CCs, are the same as each other.

8. A user equipment (UE) for performing an uplink channel access procedure in a wireless access system supporting an unlicensed band and multiple carriers, the UE comprising:

a receiver coupled to a processor; and

the processor configured to;

receive, from a base station, an uplink grant for scheduling an uplink channel in each of two or more component carriers (CCs), wherein the uplink grant indicates a first uplink channel access procedure for each of the two or more CCs,

randomly select a first CC for the first uplink channel access procedure from among the two or more CCs,

perform the first uplink channel access procedure on the selected first CC, and

preform a second uplink channel access procedure on each of remaining CCs of the two or more CCs,

wherein the first uplink channel access procedure is a random backoff-based uplink channel access procedure based on a random backoff count, and

wherein the second uplink channel access procedure is a carrier sensing-based uplink channel access procedure based on a predetermined time period before an uplink transmission.

9. The UE of claim 8,

wherein the UE transmits an uplink signal in a CC determined to be, in an idle state, by performing the first uplink channel access procedure and the second uplink channel access procedure.

10. The UE of claim 9,

wherein a carrier group is configured for the two or more CCs before the first CC is selected, and

wherein the carrier group is configured dynamically by physical layer signaling.

11. The UE of claim 10,

wherein the carrier group includes CCs configured for the first uplink channel access procedure.

12. The UE of claim 10,

wherein the carrier group includes a CC configured for the first uplink channel access procedure and a CC configured for the second uplink channel access procedure.

13. The UE of claim 8,

wherein the uplink grant includes an uplink channel access procedure type parameter, indicating a type of the uplink channel access procedure to be performed in a scheduled CC, and an uplink channel access procedure parameter, required for performing to perform the uplink channel access procedure.

14. The UE of claim 8,

wherein two or more physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) starting positions, of the two or more CCs, are the same as each other.