Device and method

• US 10,667,269 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2015
• Issued: 05/26/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Uchiyama, Hiromasa, Yoshizawa, Atsushi, Kimura, Ryota, Takano, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Abelson, Ronald B
• Application Number:
  US15/516,779
• Publication Number:
  US 20180227903A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,716 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/346 distributing total power among users or channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/121 for groups of terminals or users
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/51 based on terminal or device properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/186 Processing of subscriber group data

Abstract

[Object] To enable radio resources to be used more efficiently in non-orthogonal multiple access.

[Solution] There is provided a device including: a grouping unit configured to perform grouping of a plurality of terminal devices that support non-orthogonal multiple access on the basis of a size of transmission data of each of the plurality of terminal devices; and an allocation unit configured to allocate the same radio resources to each of groups obtained as a result of the grouping.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

processing circuitry configured to

group a plurality of terminal devices that support superposition power control (SPC) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) on the basis of a size of transmission data to be transmitted by respective of the plurality of terminal devices; and

allocate the same radio resources to terminal devices in each group obtained as a result of the grouping so as to provide a needed amount of radio resources to support transmission of the transmission data for the terminal devices in each group, the allocation of the same radio resources requires the terminal devices in each group to use the same radio resources for SPC NOMA communications; and

transmit data to the terminal devices in each group informing the terminal devices of the same radio resources that are to be used by the terminal devices in each group, wherein

the same radio resources includes using at the same time the same time and frequency resource blocks that are commonly used by the terminal devices in each group,

the same radio resources are radio resources included in a resource pool for radio communication using the non-orthogonal multiple access,

the resource pool is a part of radio resources of a frequency band, and

the processing circuitry allocates other radio resources that are not included in the resource pool to a terminal device that does not support the non-orthogonal multiple access.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry performs the grouping for each of subframes on the basis of the size of the transmission data.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry performs the grouping further on the basis of one or a combination of a modulation scheme and a coding rate applied to the transmission data.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein the processing circuitry performs the grouping for each modulation scheme or for each coding rate.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry performs the grouping further on the basis of information regarding a position of each of the plurality of terminal devices.

6. The device according to claim 5, wherein the information regarding the position includes information indicating the position of each of the plurality of terminal devices, information indicating a timing advance of each of the plurality of terminal devices, or information indicating an angle of arrival of each of the plurality of terminal devices.

7. The device according to claim 5, wherein the processing circuitry performs the grouping such that terminal devices positioned at a close distance do not belong to the same group.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry performs the grouping further on the basis of information regarding a processing capability or a memory size of each of the plurality of terminal devices.

9. The device according to claim 8, wherein the processing circuitry performs the grouping such that terminal devices having similar processing capabilities or memory sizes belong to the same group.

10. The device according to claim 1,

wherein the transmission data is transmission data transmitted by each of the plurality of terminal devices, and

the same radio resources are the same uplink resources.

11. The device according to claim 10, wherein:

the processing circuitry is further configured to, when two or more terminal devices belong to a group obtained as a result of the grouping, control transmission power of transmission data transmitted by the two or more terminal devices such that the difference in levels of reception power of the transmission data transmitted by the two or more terminal devices is greater than a predetermined threshold.

12. The device according to claim 1,

wherein the transmission data is transmission data transmitted to each of the plurality of terminal devices, and

the same radio resources are the same downlink resources.

13. The device according to claim 1, wherein the non-orthogonal multiple access is interleave division multiple access.

14. The device according to claim 1, wherein the size of the transmission data is a size of a transport block.

15. The device according to claim 1, wherein the same radio resources are radio resources limited in at least one of a frequency direction and a time direction among the radio resources.

16. The device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to report the resource pool to the plurality of terminal devices.

17. A method performed by processing circuitry, the method comprising:

grouping of a plurality of terminal devices that superposition power control (SPC) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) on the basis of a size of transmission data to be transmitted by respective of the plurality of terminal devices;

allocating the same radio resources to terminal devices in each group obtained as a result of the grouping so as to provide a needed amount of radio resources to support transmission of the transmission data for the terminal devices in each group, the allocating of the same radio resources requires the terminal devices in each group to use the same radio resources for SPC NOMA communications

transmitting data to the terminal devices in each group informing the terminal devices of the same radio resources that are to be used by the terminal devices in each group, wherein

the same radio resources includes using at the same time the same time and frequency resource blocks that are commonly used by the terminal devices in each group,

the same radio resources are radio resources included in a resource pool for radio communication using the non-orthogonal multiple access,

the resource pool is a part of radio resources of a frequency band, and

the method further allocating other radio resources that are not included in the resource pool to a terminal device that does not support the non-orthogonal multiple access.

18. A device comprising:

processing circuitry configured to

acquire information indicating radio resources to be allocated to a terminal device; and

perform a process for transmitting or receiving transmission data of the terminal device using the radio resources,

wherein the terminal device is included in a plurality of terminal devices that support superposition power control (SPC) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), and belongs to a group obtained as a result of grouping of the plurality of terminal devices performed on the basis of a size of transmission data to be transmitted by respective of the plurality of terminal devices, and

the radio resources being same radio resources allocated to one or more terminal devices that belong to the group so as to provide a needed amount of radio resources to support transmission of the transmission data for the terminal devices in each group, the allocation of the same radio resources requires the terminal devices in each group to use the same radio resources for SPC NOMA communications, and

transmit data to the terminal devices in each group informing the terminal devices of the same radio resources that are to be used by the terminal devices in each group, wherein

the same radio resources includes using at the same time and frequency resource blocks that are commonly used by the terminal devices in each group,

the same radio resources are radio resources included in a resource pool for radio communication using the non-orthogonal multiple access,

the resource pool is a part of radio resources of a frequency band, and

the processing circuitry allocates other radio resources that are not included in the resource pool to a terminal device that does not support the non-orthogonal multiple access.