Method for terminal, configured to aggregate plurality of component carriers, for mitigating interference

• US 10,700,723 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2017
• Issued: 06/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Hwang, Jinyup, Yang, Yoonoh, Lee, Sangwook, Lim, Suhwan, Jung, Manyoung
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Lana N
• Application Number:
  US16/327,772
• Publication Number:
  US 20190229759A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,042 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/10 Means associated with receiver for limiting or suppressing noise or interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03 Shaping networks in transmitter or receiver, e.g. adaptive shaping networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03821 Inter-carrier interference cancellation [ICI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/00 Arrangements affording multiple use of the transmission path
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

One embodiment of the present specification provides a method for a terminal, configured to aggregate a plurality of component carriers, for mitigating interference. The method comprises the steps of: the terminal receiving control information from a base station, the control information comprising information indicating that interference mitigation action is to be carried out for a signal transmitted by means of a first component carrier from among the plurality of component carriers; on the basis of the interference environment, the terminal carrying out interference mitigation action by blind-detecting a cell-specific reference signal information for a second component carrier that is not the first component carrier; and the terminal transmitting, to the base station, information indicating that the interference mitigation action was carried out for the second component carrier.

Claims

1. A method of performing interference mitigation by a user equipment (UE) configured to aggregate a plurality of component carriers, the method comprising:

receiving, by the UE, control information from a base station, the control information including information indicating that interference mitigation is to be performed for a signal transmitted via a first component carrier among the plurality of component carriers;

performing, by the UE, interference mitigation for a second component carrier other than the first component carrier based on an interference environment, based on that the UE is capable of performing blind detection of cell-specific reference signal from an adjacent cell in the second component carrier; and

transmitting, by the UE, information that the interference mitigation has been performed for the second component carrier to the base station, through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) signal,

wherein the PUCCH signal includes a channel quality indication (CQI) index and a cell-specific reference signal-interference cancellation (CRS-IC) index, and

wherein at least one of the CQI index and the CRS-IC index includes the information that the interference mitigation has been performed for the second component carrier.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the interference environment comprises a strength of an interference signal.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the interference mitigation comprises CRS-IC and control channel interference mitigation (CCIM).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein when a number of component carriers for which the UE can perform interference mitigation is greater than a number of component carriers indicated by the base station for interference mitigation, the UE performs interference mitigation for the first component carrier and additionally perform the interference mitigation for the second component carrier.

5. A user equipment (UE) configured to aggregate a plurality of component carriers, the UE comprising:

a transceiver to receive control information from a base station; and

a processor to control the transceiver,

wherein the control information includes information indicating that interference mitigation is to be performed for a signal transmitted via a first component carrier among the plurality of component carriers, and

wherein the processor;

performs interference mitigation for a second component carrier other than the first component carrier based on an interference environment, based on that the UE is capable of performing blind detection of cell-specific reference signal from an adjacent cell in the second component carrier; and

transmits information that the interference mitigation has been performed for the second component carrier to the base station through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) signal,

wherein the PUCCH signal includes a channel quality indication (CQI) index and a cell-specific reference signal-interference cancellation (CRS-IC) index,

wherein at least one of the CQI index and the CRS-IC index includes the information that the interference mitigation has been performed for the second component carrier.

6. The UE of claim 5, wherein the interference environment comprises a strength of an interference signal.