METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK TRANSMISSION POWER FOR OFDMA BASED EVOLVED UTRA

• US 20070082620A1
• Filed: 10/02/2006
• Published: 04/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Zhang, Guodong, Tsai, Yingming
• Application Number:
  US11/537,784
• Publication Number:
  US 20070082620A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/69
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/022 Site diversity; Macro-diversity using two or more spaced independent antennas H04B7/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/226 using past references to control power, e.g. look-up-table
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/24 using SIR [Signal to Interference Ratio] or other wireless path parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/242 taking into account path loss
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/247 where the output power of a terminal is based on a path parameter sent by another terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/286 during data packet transmission, e.g. high speed packet access [HSPA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/40 during macro-diversity or soft handoff

Abstract

A method and apparatus for controlling uplink transmission power control of signals transmitted from a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to a serving base station in a packet-switched data based system having a plurality of neighbor cells. The path loss of neighbor interfering cells is measured by the WTRU and uplink interference measurements received from the neighbor interfering cells are monitored. The WTRU sends an uplink transmission request to the serving base station which includes a pilot signal and an uplink transmission power adjustment parameter computed by the WTRU. The serving base station performs a channel quality indicator (CQI) measurement of the pilot signal included in the uplink transmission request and determines the uplink transmission power of at least one of an uplink shared control channel and an uplink shared data channel established between the WTRU and the serving base station using the CQI and the uplink transmission power adjustment parameter.

Claims

1. A method of controlling uplink transmission power of signals transmitted from at least one wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) to a serving base station in a packet-switched data based system having a plurality of neighbor cells, the method comprising:

the WTRU receiving downlink pilot signals from the serving base station and the plurality of neighbor cells;

the WTRU receiving a plurality of uplink interference measurements from the neighbor cells;

the WTRU measuring the path loss of the neighbor cells based on the strength of the received downlink pilots;

the WTRU computing an uplink transmission power adjustment parameter based on the received uplink interference measurement of the neighbor cell having the lowest path loss;

the WTRU transmitting an uplink transmission request to the serving base station, the uplink transmission request including the power adjustment parameter and a pilot signal; and

the serving base station using the power adjustment parameter to reduce the power of uplink transmissions emitted from the WTRU to the serving base station.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

measuring at the serving base station a channel quality indicator (CQI) of the pilot signal included in the uplink transmission request.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

the serving base station sending a signal to the WTRU which includes information that indicates the transmission power of an uplink shared control channel established between the WTRU and the serving base station.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the information includes a modulation and coding set (MCS) selected by the serving base station.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the WTRU uses a predetermined lookup table which contains modulation and coding set (MCS) values and corresponding transmission power values to determine transmission power of the uplink shared control channel.

6. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

the serving base station sending a signal to the WTRU which includes information that indicates the transmission power of an uplink shared data channel established between the WTRU and the serving base station.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the information includes a modulation and coding set (MCS) selected by the serving base station.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein the WTRU uses a predetermined lookup table which contains modulation and coding set (MCS) values and corresponding transmission power values to determine transmission power of the uplink shared data channel.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the value of the uplink transmission power adjustment parameter is based on the interference of the neighbor cell having the lowest path loss.

10. The method of claim 2 wherein intra-base station macro diversity is used for the uplink signal and interfering neighbor cells include all neighbor cells except cells that are in an uplink active set for the WTRU.

11. The method of claim 2 wherein intra-base station macro diversity is used for the uplink signal such that the CQI measurement is performed only for a cell having the lowest path loss.

12. The method of claim 2 wherein intra-base station macro diversity is used for the uplink signal such that the CQI measurement is performed only for a cell in which the WTRU resides.

13. The method of claim 2 wherein inter-base station macro diversity is used for the uplink signal and the uplink transmission request is sent to the serving base station having the lowest uplink path loss.

14. The method of claim 2 wherein inter-base station macro diversity is used for the uplink signal and the uplink transmission request is sent to the serving base station which controls the cell in which the WTRU resides.

15. A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) comprising:

a receiver for (i) receiving a plurality of downlink pilots from a plurality of neighbor interfering cells, (ii) receiving a plurality of uplink interference measurements from the neighbor interfering cells, and (iii) receiving a signal from a serving base station which reduces the power of uplink transmissions emitted from the WTRU to the serving base station;

a processor for measuring the path loss of the neighbor interfering cells based on the strength of the received downlink pilots and for computing an uplink transmission power adjustment parameter based on the received uplink interference measurement of the neighbor interfering cell having the lowest path loss; and

a transmitter for transmitting an uplink transmission request to the serving base station, the uplink transmission request including the power adjustment parameter, and for transmitting the uplink transmissions at a power level determined by the serving base station.

16. An integrated circuit (IC) embedded in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), the IC comprising:

a receiver for (i) receiving a plurality of downlink pilots from a plurality of neighbor interfering cells, (ii) receiving a plurality of uplink interference measurements from the neighbor interfering cells, and (iii) receiving a signal from a serving base station which reduces the power of uplink transmissions emitted from the WTRU to the serving base station;

a processor for measuring the path loss of the neighbor interfering cells based on the strength of the received downlink pilots and for computing an uplink transmission power adjustment parameter based on the received uplink interference measurement of the neighbor interfering cell having the lowest path loss; and

a transmitter for transmitting an uplink transmission request to the serving base station, the uplink transmission request including the uplink power adjustment parameter, and for transmitting the uplink transmissions at a power level determined by the base station.