Power controlling method based on DwPTS

• US 20050282574A1
• Filed: 07/08/2005
• Published: 12/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Company Limited (China Information Communication Technology Group Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Company Limited (China Information Communication Technology Group Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yang, Guiliang, Li, Shihe
• Application Number:
  US11/177,844
• Publication Number:
  US 20050282574A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/06 TPC algorithms
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/20 using error rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/241 taking into account channel quality metrics, e.g. SIR, SNR, CIR, Eb/lo
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/243 taking into account interferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/245 taking into account received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/50 at the moment of starting communication in a multiple access environment

Abstract

A power-control method base on Downlink Piloting Time Slot (DwPTS) in a mobile communication system. While a terminal is being accessed randomly, the terminal determines the transmitting signal power at Uplink Piloting Time Slot (UpPTS) for open-loop power control by using broadcast information and the measured DwPTS power. While the communications are being maintained, the base station notifies the terminal of the required receiving power, the terminal then calculates the transmitting power for open-loop power control by using the measured DwPTS power, which is taken as the reference transmission power of the uplink channel and compared with the actual transmitting power required by the base station for closed-loop power control; the difference of the comparison is in turn compared with a threshold, if the difference is larger than the threshold, sum of the reference transmission power and the threshold is used as the power to perform transmission, otherwise, the closed-loop power control command is keeping executed. By taking the advantage of the TDD mode in which the uplink and downlink transmissions are, carried out in the same conditions, the method makes full use of open-loop power control which has the merits of being simple and accurate so that complex outer-loop power control is not needed in closed-loop power control, making the RNC simpler and the system more stable. hi addition, since it is the DwPTS power that is measured in the power control, the accuracy of power control is greatly improved.

Claims

1. A power control method based on Downlink Piloting Time Slot (DwPTS), comprising an open-loop power control procedure while a terminal is being accessed randomly and a closed-loop power control procedure while communications are being maintained after the terminal is accessed, wherein

the open-loop power control procedure while a terminal is being accessed randomly comprises the steps of:

A. the terminal measuring received DwPTS signal powers transmitted by adjacent base stations during cell searching, sorting the base stations in the order of signal intensity of DwPTS, and determining candidate base stations;

B. the terminal calculating Uplink Piloting Time Slot (UpPTS) transmission power for open-loop power control while the terminal is being accessed according to the base station transmission power broadcasted by a candidate base station, the expected receiving powers and the DwPTS signal power of the base station actually measured by the terminal, and sending an access request to the base station with this transmission power; and

wherein

the closed-loop power control procedure after the terminal is accessed comprises the steps of;

C. the base station determining required receiving power, determining actual uplink transmission power required by the base station for closed-loop power control, sending the required receiving power to the terminal by higher layer downlink signaling, and sending the actual uplink transmission power required by the base station to the terminal with a closed-loop power control command;

D. the terminal continuing to measure the actually received DwPTS signal power of the base station, then calculating an uplink transmission power reference value for open-loop power control according to the base station transmission power and the required receiving power; and

E. comparing the calculated uplink transmission power reference value under open-loop power control with the actual uplink transmission power required by the base station under closed-loop control and obtaining a difference, and comparing the difference with a threshold;

if the difference is larger than the threshold, the terminal performing uplink transmission with the power which is equal to the sum of the calculated uplink transmission power reference value for open-loop power control and the threshold, if the difference is not larger than the threshold, the terminal continuing to execute the closed-loop power control command and performing uplink power transmission with the actual transmission power required by the base station for closed-loop power control.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein, in said step A, the DwPTS signal powers transmitted by adjacent base- stations are the average values of multiple measurements of DwPTS signal powers.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein, in step B, the transmission power of UpPTS for open-loop power control while the terminal is getting accessed equals the transmission power of DwPTS signal broadcasted by the base station minus the receiving power expected by the base station plus the received DwPTS signal power actually measured by the terminal plus an increment of transmission power of the terminal to avoid burst interference.

4. A method according to claim 1, further comprising:

the terminal executing step B from the candidate base station with the largest DwPTS signal strength according to the sorting and waiting for a response from the base station after sending an access request;

if the base station returns a response, determining that the access is successful, otherwise repeatedly executing step B for the current candidate base station or repeatedly executing step B for the candidate base station with the second largest DwPTS signal strength.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein, in step C, the step of the base station determining the required receiving power further comprises:

the base station measuring Eb/I of the uplink signals;

from the terminal which are received when the terminal is getting accessed, and adjusting the required receiving power if the Eb/I is always below the communication quality requirement for a certain period of time.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein, in step C, the step of the base station sending the actual uplink transmission power required by the base station to the terminal with a closed-loop power control command is executed when it is judged that the measured Eb/I of uplink signals is always not below a value sustaining the communication quality requirement for a certain period of time.

7. A method according to claim 5, wherein the communication quality requirement is the Eb/I determined according to service of quality requirement.

8. A method according to claim 6, wherein the communication quality requirement is the Eb/I determined according to service of quality requirement.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein, in step D, the uplink transmission power reference value for open-loop power control equals DwPTS signal transmission power broadcasted by the base station minus the received DwPTS signal power of the base station actually measured by the terminal plus the receiving power expected by the base station.

10. A method according to claim 1, wherein, in step D, the received DwPTS signal power of the base station actually measured by the terminal is an averaged value for a certain period of time.

11. A method according to claim 1, wherein the threshold in the said step D is chosen between 3 dB and 6 dB according to specific engineering design.

12. A method according to claim 1, wherein a Radio Network Controller (RNC) does not participate in power control, and sets the maximum transmission power for each time-slot of the base station and setting quality requirements when the base station carries out various services, the maximum transmission power and the quality requirements being used when the base station determines the required receiving power and required Eb/I.

13. A power control method based on DwPTS, comprising an open-loop power control procedure while a terminal is being accessed randomly, wherein

the open-loop power control procedure while a terminal is getting accessed randomly comprises the steps of:

A. the terminal measuring received DwPTS signal powers transmitted by adjacent base stations during cell searching, sorting the base stations in the order of signal strength of DwPTS, and determining candidate base stations; and

B. the terminal obtaining UpPTS transmission power for open-loop power control while the terminal is getting accessed according to the base station transmission power broadcasted by a candidate base station, the expected receiving power and the DwPTS signal power of the base station actually measured by the terminal, and sending an access request to the base station with this transmission power.

14. A method according to claim 13, wherein, in step A, the DwPTS signal powers transmitted by adjacent base stations are the average values of multiple measurements of DwPTS signal powers.

15. A method according to claim 13, wherein, in step B, the transmission power of UpPTS under open-loop power control while the terminal is getting accessed equals the transmission power of DwPTS signal broadcasted by the base station minus the receiving power expected by the base station plus the received DwPTS signal power actually measured by the terminal plus an increment of transmission power of the terminal to avoid burst interference.

16. A method according to claim 13, further comprising:

the terminal executing step B from the candidate base station with the largest DwPTS signal strength according to the sorting and waiting for a response from the base station after sending an access request;

if the base station returns a response, determining that the access is successful, otherwise repeatedly executing step B for the current candidate base station or repeatedly executing step B for the candidate base station with the second largest DwPTS signal strength.

17. A power control method based on DwPTS, comprising a closed-loop power control procedure while communications are being maintained after the terminal is accessed, wherein

the said closed-loop power control procedure after the terminal is accessed comprising the steps of:

C. the base station determining the required receiving power, determining actual uplink transmission power required by the base station for closed-loop power control, sending the required receiving power to the terminal by higher layer downlink signaling, and sending the actual uplink transmission power required by the base station to the terminal with a closed-loop power control command;

D. the terminal keeping measuring the actually received DwPTS signal power of the base station, then calculating an uplink transmission power reference value for open-loop power control according to the base station transmission power and the required receiving power; and

E. comparing the calculated uplink transmission power reference value under open-loop power control with the actual uplink transmission power required by the base station for closed-loop control and obtaining a difference, comparing the difference with a threshold;

if the difference is larger than the threshold, the terminal performing uplink transmission with the power which is equal to the sum of the calculated uplink transmission power reference value for open-loop power control and the threshold, if the difference is not larger than the threshold, the terminal continuing to execute the closed-loop power control command and performing uplink power transmission with the actual transmission power required by the base station for closed-loop power control.

18. A method according to claim 17, wherein, in step C, the step of the base station determining the.required receiving power further comprises:

the base station measuring Eb/I of the uplink signals from the terminal which are received when the terminal is getting accessed, and adjusting the required receiving power if the Eb/I is always below a value sustaining the communication quality requirement for a certain period of time.

19. A method according to claim 17, wherein, said step C, the step of the base station sending the actual uplink transmission power required by the base station.to the terminal with a closed-loop power control command is executed when it is judged that the measured Eb/I of uplink signals is always not below a value sustaining the communication quality requirement for a certain period of time.

20. A method according to claim 17, wherein, in step D, the said uplink transmission power reference value for open-loop power control equals DwPTS signal transmission power broadcasted by the base station minus the received DwPTS signal power of the base station actually measured by the terminal plus the receiving power expected by the base station.

21. A method according to claim 20, wherein, in step D, the received DwPTS signal power of the base station actually measured by the terminal is an averaged value for a certain period of time.

22. A method according to claim 17, wherein, in step D, the received DwPTS signal power of the base station actually measured by the terminal is an averaged value for a certain period of time.

23. A method according to claim 17, wherein the said threshold in the said step D is chosen between 3 dB and 6 dB according to specific engineering design.