Electronic device and user equipment in wireless communication system and wireless communication method

• US 10,594,464 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2016
• Issued: 03/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sun, Chen, Hu, Bingshan
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Duc C
• Application Number:
  US15/771,504
• Publication Number:
  US 20190253224A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,237 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/318 Received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1864 ARQ related signaling H04L1/1607 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/002 Transmission of channel access control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/08 Non-scheduled access, e.g. ALOHA hybrid access H04W74/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0808 using carrier sensing, e.g. carrier sense multiple access [CSMA]

Abstract

An electronic device and a user equipment in a wireless communication system and a wireless communication method. The electronic device includes: one or more processing circuits configured to acquire NACK information indicating an information transmission failure between a transmitting end and a receiving end in a wireless communication system and to acquire failure cause information indicating a cause of the information transmission failure, wherein the cause of the information transmission failure is classified as a link quality cause or a non-link quality cause; and when the cause of the information transmission failure is determined to be the non-link quality cause, generating spectrum sensing parameter information to adjust a spectrum sensing parameter at the transmitting end to increase a probability of successful information transmission between the transmitting end and the receiving end.

Claims

1. An electronic device in a wireless communication system, comprising:

one or more processing circuits configured to;

acquire a NACK message indicating failed information transmission between a transmitting end and a receiving end in the wireless communication system and failure cause information indicating a cause of the failed information transmission, wherein the cause of the failed information transmission comprises a link quality cause and a non-link quality cause; and

generate spectrum sensing parameter information when it is determined that the cause of the failed information transmission is the non-link quality cause to adjust a spectrum sensing parameter of the transmitting end, so as to increase a probability of successful information transmission between the transmitting end and the receiving end.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein for generating the spectrum sensing parameter information, the processing circuit is further configured to:

acquire hidden node information indicating whether a hidden node exists, and

enable the spectrum sensing parameter information to be used for reducing an energy detection threshold of the transmitting end, in a case where the hidden node information indicates that a hidden node exists, such that the hidden node is sensed by the transmitting end.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein before acquiring the hidden node information, the processing circuit is further configured to:

generate a command to instruct the receiving end to sense whether a hidden node exists in the vicinity of the receiving end.

4. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein in a case where the hidden node information indicates that no hidden node exists, the processing circuit is further configured to:

enable the spectrum sensing parameter information to be used for increasing a contention window size or a value of a counter of the transmitting end.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein in a case where the probability of successful information transmission between the transmitting end and the receiving end is increased, the processing circuit is further configured to:

generate a command to recover the spectrum sensing parameter of the transmitting end upon elapse of a preset time period.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein for determining the cause of the failed information transmission is the non-link quality cause, the processing circuit is further configured to:

acquire a plurality of NACK messages and a plurality of pieces of failure cause information during a preset time period; and

determine the cause of the failed information transmission is the non-link quality cause based on a ratio of the number of pieces of failure cause information indicating that the cause of the failed information transmission is the non-link quality cause to the number of the NACK messages.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein when it is determined the cause of the failed information transmission is the non-link quality cause, the processing circuit is further configured to:

determine, based on the ratio, whether a hidden node exists;

enable the spectrum sensing parameter information to reduce an energy detection threshold of the transmitting end when the hidden node exists, such that the hidden node is sensed by the transmitting end; and

enable the spectrum sensing parameter information to increase a contention window size or a value of a counter of the transmitting end when a hidden node does not exist.

8. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein for determining the cause of the failed information transmission is the non-link quality cause, the processing circuit is further configured to:

acquire a plurality of NACK messages and a plurality of pieces of failure cause information, as well as a plurality of ACK messages indicating successful information transmission between the transmitting end and the receiving end during a preset time period; and

determine the cause of the failed information transmission is the non-link quality cause based on a ratio of the number of pieces of failure cause information indicating that the cause of the failed information transmission is the non-link quality cause to a sum of the number of the NACK messages and the number of the ACK messages.

9. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a spectrum management server in a core network.

10. An electronic device in a wireless communication system, comprising:

one or more processing circuits configured to;

acquire a NACK message indicating failed information transmission between a transmitting end and a receiving end in the wireless communication system and failure cause information indicating a cause of the failed information transmission, to inform a spectrum management server in the wireless communication system, wherein the cause of the failed information transmission comprises a link quality cause and a non-link quality cause; and

acquire spectrum sensing parameter information from the spectrum management server to adjust a spectrum sensing parameter of the transmitting end, so as to increase a probability of successful information transmission between the transmitting end and the receiving end.

11. The electronic device according to claim 10, wherein before acquiring the spectrum sensing parameter information from the spectrum management server, the processing circuit is further configured to:

acquire hidden node information indicating whether a hidden node exists, to inform the spectrum management server.

12. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the electronic device is located on a side of the transmitting end, and the processing circuit acquires the NACK message, the failure cause information and the hidden node information from the receiving end.

13. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein the processing circuit is further configured to perform, based on the spectrum sensing parameter information, at least one of:

reducing an energy detection threshold of the transmitting end so that the hidden node is sensed by the transmitting end; and

increasing a contention window size or a value of a counter of the transmitting end.

14. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the electronic device is located on a side of the receiving end, and for acquiring the NACK message and the failure cause information, the processing circuit is further configured to:

generate the NACK message when the failed information transmission occurs;

detect a value of a reference signal received power RSRP of a communication link between the receiving end and the transmitting end;

detect an interference value of an interference signal from a neighbor cell; and

generate the failure cause information based on the value of the RSRP and the interference value.

15. The electronic device according to claim 14, wherein for generating the failure cause information based on the value of the RSRP and the interference value, the processing circuit is further configured to:

generate failure cause information indicating that the cause of the failed information transmission is the non-link quality cause in a case where the value of the RSRP is greater than a first threshold and the interference value is less than a second threshold; and

generate failure cause information indicating that the cause of the failed information transmission is the link quality cause in a case where the value of the RSRP is less than or equal to the first threshold and/or the interference value is greater than or equal to the second threshold.

16. The electronic device according to claim 14, wherein for acquiring the hidden node information, the processing circuit is further configured to:

sense whether a hidden node exists in the vicinity of the receiving end; and

generate the hidden node information based on a sensed result.

17. A user equipment in a wireless communication system, wherein the user equipment operates as a receiving end and comprises:

a transceiver; and

one or more processing circuits configured to;

generate a NACK message indicating failed information transmission between a base station serving as a transmitting end and the user equipment in the wireless communication system and failure cause information indicating a cause of the failed information transmission, wherein the cause of the failed information transmission comprises a link quality cause and a non-link quality cause; and

control the transceiver to transmit the NACK message and the failure cause information to the base station, to inform a spectrum management server in the wireless communication system.

18. The user equipment according to claim 17, wherein if it is determined that the cause of the failed information transmission is the non-link quality cause, the processing circuit is further configured to:

sense whether a hidden node exists in the vicinity of the user equipment;

generate, based on a sensed result, hidden node information indicating whether the hidden node exists; and

control the transceiver to transmit the hidden node information to the base station, to inform the spectrum management server.

19. The user equipment according to claim 17, wherein for generating the NACK message and the failure cause information, the processing circuit is further configured to:

generate the NACK message when the failed information transmission occurs;

detect a value of a reference signal received power RSRP of a communication link between the base station and the user equipment;

detect an interference value of an interference signal from a neighbor cell; and

generate the failure cause information based on the value of the RSRP and the interference value.

20. The user equipment according to claim 19, wherein for generating the failure cause information based on the value of the RSRP and the interference value, the processing circuit is further configured to:

generate failure cause information indicating that the cause of the failed information transmission is the non-link quality cause in a case where the value of the RSRP is greater than a first threshold and the interference value is less than a second threshold; and

generate failure cause information indicating that the cause of the failed information transmission is the link quality cause in a case where the value of the RSRP is less than or equal to the first threshold and/or the interference value is greater than or equal to the second threshold.