Uplink access method, apparatus, and system

• US 10,735,228 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2016
• Issued: 08/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wu, Yiqun, Zhang, Shunqing, Chen, Yan
• Primary Examiner(s): George, Ayanah S
• Application Number:
  US15/218,095
• Publication Number:
  US 20160337149A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,471 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0404 the mobile station comprising multiple antennas, e.g. to provide uplink diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0456 Selection of precoding matrices or codebooks, e.g. using matrices antenna weighting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03904 cooperative design, e.g. exchanging of codebook information between base stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/08 Non-scheduled access, e.g. ALOHA hybrid access H04W74/02

Abstract

The present application provides a method for a terminal device to transmit uplink service data to a base station. The terminal device obtains uplink service data from a user input in a service session. The terminal device obtains a codebook from a preset codebook set of the terminal and a pilot sequence corresponding to the codebook. The terminal device generates an uplink data signal according to the codebook and the uplink service data, and generates a pilot signal corresponding to the pilot sequence. The terminal device transmits the uplink data signal and the pilot signal to the base station.

Claims

1. A method for a terminal device to transmit uplink service data to a base station, comprising:

obtaining the uplink service data;

obtaining a codebook from a preset codebook set, wherein each codebook in the preset codebook set is used for mapping a data block of S bits into a group of data modulation symbols, and wherein each codebook in the preset codebook set comprises a plurality of modulation symbol groups, each modulation symbol group corresponds to a data block, each modulation symbol group comprises a plurality of modulation symbols, and each modulation symbol corresponds to one element in a time-frequency resource block;

obtaining a pilot sequence corresponding to the codebook according to a mapping relationship between the codebook and the pilot sequence;

generating an uplink data signal according to the codebook and the uplink service data;

generating a pilot signal corresponding to the pilot sequence; and

transmitting the uplink data signal and the pilot signal to the base station.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein generating the uplink data signal according to the codebook and the uplink service data comprises:

mapping the uplink service data into one or more data modulation symbols according to the codebook; and

generating the uplink data signal according to the data modulation symbols.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein obtaining the pilot sequence corresponding to the codebook comprises:

obtaining the pilot sequence according to a mapping relationship between the codebook and a pilot sequence subset, wherein the pilot sequence belongs to the pilot sequence subset.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein each codebook of the codebook set corresponds to one pilot sequence subset, each pilot sequence subset comprises at least one pilot sequence, and no same pilot sequence exists in two pilot sequence subsets that correspond to two different codebooks.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein before obtaining the uplink service data, the method further comprises:

sending random access information to the base station, wherein the random access information comprises uplink clock information of the terminal device;

receiving uplink clock adjustment information from the base station, wherein the uplink clock adjustment information is generated by the base station according to the uplink clock information of the terminal device; and

adjusting clock information of the terminal device according to the uplink clock adjustment information.

19. The method according to claim 1, wherein obtaining the codebook from the preset codebook set comprises obtaining the codebook from the preset codebook set in response to a volume of the uplink service data being less than a preset data volume threshold, and wherein:

generating the uplink data signal, and generating the pilot signal, are performed;

before transmitting the uplink data and the pilot signals to the base station; and

in the absence of interacting with the base station.

6. A method for a base station to communicate with a terminal, comprising:

receiving an uplink data signal, wherein the uplink data signal is generated by the terminal according to a codebook obtained from a preset codebook set and uplink service data, wherein each codebook in the preset codebook set is used for mapping a data block of S bits into a group of data modulation symbols;

receiving a pilot signal, wherein the pilot signal is generated by the terminal according to a pilot sequence, wherein the codebook comprises a plurality of modulation symbol groups, each modulation symbol group corresponds to a data block, each modulation symbol group comprises a plurality of modulation symbols, and each of the multiple modulation symbols corresponds to one element in a time-frequency resource block;

obtaining the pilot sequence according to the pilot signal;

obtaining the codebook according to the pilot sequence and according to a mapping relationship between the codebook and the pilot sequence; and

obtaining the uplink service data according to the codebook.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the pilot sequence belongs to a pilot sequence subset, and wherein obtaining the codebook according to the pilot sequence comprises:

obtaining the codebook according to a mapping relationship between the codebook and the pilot sequence subset.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the codebook belongs to a preset codebook set, and wherein each codebook of the codebook set corresponds to one pilot sequence subset, each pilot sequence subset comprises at least one pilot sequence, and no same pilot sequence exists in two pilot sequence subsets that correspond to two different codebooks.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein before receiving the uplink data signal and the pilot signal from the terminal, the method further comprises:

receiving random access information from the terminal, wherein the random access information comprises uplink clock information of the terminal;

generating uplink clock adjustment information according to the uplink clock information; and

sending the uplink clock adjustment information to the terminal, so that the terminal adjusts clock information of the terminal according to the uplink clock adjustment information.

20. The method according to claim 6, wherein the preset codebook set of the terminal is the same as a preset codebook set of the base station.

10. A mobile terminal device, comprising a processor and a transmitter;

wherein the processor is configured to;

obtain uplink service data;

obtain a codebook from a preset codebook set of the terminal, wherein each codebook in the preset codebook set is used for mapping a data block of S bits into a group of data modulation symbols, and wherein each codebook in the preset codebook set comprises a plurality of modulation symbol groups, each modulation symbol group corresponds to a data block, each modulation symbol group comprises a plurality of modulation symbols, and each modulation symbol corresponds to one element in a time-frequency resource block;

obtain a pilot sequence corresponding to the codebook according to a mapping relationship between the codebook and a pilot sequence;

generate an uplink data signal according to the codebook and the uplink service data; and

generate a pilot signal corresponding to the pilot sequence;

and wherein the transmitter is configured to;

transmit the uplink data signal and the pilot signal to a base station.

11. The mobile terminal device according to claim 10, wherein in generating the uplink data signal according to the codebook and the uplink service data, the processor is configured to:

map the uplink service data into one or more data modulation symbols according to the codebook; and

generate the uplink data signal according to the data modulation symbols.

12. The mobile terminal device according to claim 10, wherein in obtaining the pilot sequence corresponding to the codebook, the processor is configured to:

obtain the pilot sequence according to a mapping relationship between the codebook and a pilot sequence subset, wherein the pilot sequence belongs to the pilot sequence subset.

13. The mobile terminal device according to claim 12, wherein each codebook of the codebook set corresponds to one pilot sequence subset, each pilot sequence subset comprises at least one pilot sequence, and no same pilot sequence exists in two pilot sequence subsets that correspond to two different codebooks.

14. The mobile terminal device according to claim 10, further comprising a receiver,

wherein the transmitter is further configured to send random access information to the base station, wherein the random access information comprises uplink clock information of the terminal device;

wherein the receiver is configured to receive the uplink clock adjustment information from the base station, wherein the uplink clock adjustment information is generated by base station according to the uplink clock information; and

wherein the processor is further configured to adjust clock information of the terminal device according to the uplink clock adjustment information.

21. The mobile terminal device according to claim 11, wherein:

the codebook is an SCMA codebook, and

to map the uplink service data into one or more data modulation symbols according to the codebook, the processor is further configured to map the uplink service data to be sent from the terminal to the base station into one or more data modulation symbols.

15. A base station, comprising a receiver and a processor;

wherein the receiver is configured to;

receive an uplink data signal, wherein the uplink data signal is generated by a terminal according to a codebook obtained from a preset codebook set and uplink service data, and wherein each codebook in the preset codebook set is used for mapping a data block of S bits into a group of data modulation symbols;

receive a pilot signal, wherein the pilot signal is generated by the terminal according to a pilot sequence, wherein the pilot sequence corresponds to the codebook, wherein the codebook comprises a plurality of modulation symbol groups, each modulation symbol group corresponds to a data block, each modulation symbol group comprises a plurality of modulation symbols, and each modulation symbol corresponds to one element in a time-frequency resource block,

wherein the processor is configured to;

obtain the pilot sequence according to the pilot signal;

obtain the codebook according to the pilot sequence and according to a mapping relationship between the codebook and the pilot sequence; and

obtain the uplink service data according to the codebook.

16. The base station according to claim 15, wherein the pilot sequence belongs to a pilot sequence subset, and wherein in obtaining the codebook according to the pilot sequence, the processor is configured to:

obtain the codebook according to a mapping relationship between the codebook and the pilot sequence subset.

17. The base station according to claim 16, wherein the codebook belongs to a preset codebook set, and wherein each codebook of the codebook set corresponds to one pilot sequence subset, each pilot sequence subset comprises at least one pilot sequence, and no same pilot sequence exists in two pilot sequence subsets that correspond to two different codebooks.

18. The base station according to claim 15, further comprising a transmitter,

wherein the receiver is further configured to receive random access information from the terminal, wherein the random access information comprises uplink clock information of the terminal;

wherein the processor is further configured to generate uplink clock adjustment information according to the uplink clock information; and

wherein the transmitter is configured to send the uplink clock adjustment information to the terminal, so that the terminal adjusts clock information of the terminal according to the uplink clock adjustment information.

22. The base station according to claim 15, wherein the preset codebook set of the terminal is the same as a preset codebook set of the base station.