DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION METHOD IN A COORDINATED MULTI-POINT TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, NETWORK DEVICE, AND WIRELESS SYSTEM

• US 20110268077A1
• Filed: 07/11/2011
• Published: 11/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Cheng, Xingqing, Zhao, Yajuii, WAN, Lei, Ren, Xiaotao
• Application Number:
  US13/180,221
• Publication Number:
  US 20110268077A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/024 Co-operative use of antennas of several sites, e.g. in co-ordinated multipoint or co-operative multiple-input multiple-output [MIMO] systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/0053 using co-ordinated multipoint transmission/reception co-ordinated antenna or beam-forming aspects H04B7/022
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

A downlink transmission method in a Coordinated Multi-Point (COMP) transmission system, a network device, and a wireless system are disclosed. The method includes: determining a downlink physical resource and a downlink mapping rule corresponding to a physical downlink channel and/or a reference signal negotiated by cooperating cells; and mapping the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal to the downlink physical resource according to the downlink mapping rule, and sending the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal to a User Equipment (UE). According to the method, effective coverage can be improved and the problem of mutual interference between cells can be prevented.

Claims

1. A downlink transmission method in a Coordinated Multi-Point (COMP) transmission system, characterized by comprising:

determining, by a network device, a downlink physical resource and a downlink mapping rule corresponding to a physical downlink channel and/or a reference signal negotiated by cooperating cells; and

mapping, by the network device, the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal to the downlink physical resource according to the downlink mapping rule in order to send the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal to a User Equipment (UE).

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the physical downlink channel comprise one or more of;

a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), a Physical Control Format Indication Channel (PCFICH), a Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH), a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH), a Synchronization Channel (SCH), and Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH); and

/or

the reference signal comprise;

a public reference signal and/or a private reference signal; and

/or

the downlink physical resource comprise one or more of;

a carrier, a subcarrier, a physical resource block (PRB), a subframe, a timeslot, a sequence, a sequence offset, a sequence comb, a frequency hopping pattern, a period, and a scrambling code.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the determining, by the network device, the downlink physical resource and the downlink mapping rule corresponding to the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal negotiated by the cooperating cells comprises;

obtaining, by the network device, an identifier (ID) corresponding to the downlink physical resource and the downlink mapping rule, wherein the ID comprises one of the following;

a CoMP-ID, a UE-ID, an anchor cell-ID, and a serving cell-ID;

according to the ID, determining, by the network device, the downlink physical resource and the downlink mapping rule corresponding to the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal negotiated by the cooperating cells.

or, the determining, by the network device, the downlink physical resource and the downlink mapping rule corresponding to the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal negotiated by the cooperating cells comprises;

obtaining multiple IDs corresponding to the downlink physical resource and downlink mapping rule, wherein the IDs comprise one of the following;

the CoMP-ID, the UE-ID, the anchor cell-ID, and the serving cell-ID, or any combination thereof; and

determining a leading ID among the multiple IDs, and determining the corresponding downlink physical resource and the downlink mapping rule according to the leading ID.

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

Determining, by the network device, a sending mode corresponding to the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal negotiated by the cooperating cells, wherein the sending mode comprise;

the physical downlink channel of a same UE sent by one cooperating celor by multiple cooperating cells jointly;

when the sending mode is the physical downlink channel of a same UE sent by multiple cooperating cells jointly the sending mode further comprise a diversity mode and a multiplexing mode which are used during multiple cooperating cells sending the physical downlink channel of a same UE jointly.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the mapping, by the network device, the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal to the downlink physical resource comprises;

mapping physical downlink channels and/or reference signals corresponding to multiple CoMP UEs of multiple cooperating cells to a downlink physical resource of one of the multiple cooperating cells jointly;

or

mapping physical downlink channels and/or a reference signals corresponding to multiple CoMP UEs of multiple cooperating cells to downlink physical resource of at least two of the multiple cooperating cells jointly;

or

mapping physical downlink channels and/or reference signals corresponding to multiple CoMP UEs of multiple cooperating cells and physical downlink channels and/or reference signaled corresponding to one or more non-CoMP UEs of a first cooperating cell to downlink physical resource of the first cooperating cell jointly, wherein the first cooperating cell is one of the multiple cooperating cells;

or

mapping physical downlink channels and/or a reference signals corresponding to CoMP UEs and non-CoMP UEs of a cooperating cell to downlink physical resource of the cooperating cell jointly;

or

mapping physical downlink channels corresponding to CoMP UEs of each of multiple cooperating cells to downlink physical resource of the cooperating cell to which the CoMP UE belongs respectively.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

when the physical downlink channel is a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), the mapping, by the network device, the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal to the downlink physical resource according to the downlink mapping rule in order to send the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal to the UE comprises;

cooperating cell mapping, by an anchor cell, or a cell configured by a system, or a cell selected by the UE, or a cell allocated by an base station dynamically, or all cooperating cells, the PDCCH to the downlink physical resource according to the downlink mapping rule in a diversity mode or a multiplexing mode in order to send the PDCCH to the UE.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the mapping, by the network device, the reference signal to the downlink physical resource according to the downlink mapping rule in order to send the reference signal to the UE comprises;

mapping, by different cooperating cells, reference signals corresponding to different antenna ports belonging to a second cooperating cell to the downlink physical resource separately according to the downlink mapping rule, and sending the reference signals to the UE, wherein the second cooperating cell is any one of the different cooperating cells.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the cooperating cells negotiate a same downlink mapping, rule corresponding to the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the downlink mapping rules comprise at least one or any combination of;

mapping rule of Virtual Resource Block to Physical Resource Block;

or mapping rule of removing data sent at a location of sending the reference signal and performing power boosting on the reference signal by a serving cell in the cooperating cells.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

when the physical downlink channel is a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), the method further comprises;

notifying the number of symbols occupied by the PDCCH to the UE, wherein the number of symbols occupied by the PDCCH is a maximum value of numbers of symbols occupied by PDCCHs sent by the cooperating cells.

14. The network device according to claim 1 wherein the sending module maps the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal to the downlink physical resource comprises:

the sending module maps physical downlink channels and/or reference signals corresponding to multiple CoMP UEs of multiple cooperating cells to downlink physical resource of one of the multiple cooperating cells jointly;

or

the sending module maps physical downlink channels and/or a reference signals corresponding to multiple CoMP UEs of multiple cooperating cells to downlink physical resource of at least two of the multiple cooperating cells jointly;

or

the sending module maps physical downlink channels and/or reference signals corresponding to multiple CoMP UEs of multiple cooperating cells and physical downlink channels and/or reference signaled corresponding to one or more non-CoMP UEs of a first cooperating cell to downlink physical resource of the first cooperating cell jointly, wherein the first cooperating cell is one of the multiple cooperating cells;

or

the sending module maps physical downlink channels and/or a reference signals corresponding to CoMP UEs and non-CoMP UEs of a cooperating cell to downlink physical resource of the cooperating cell jointly;

or

the sending module maps physical downlink channels corresponding to CoMP UEs of each of multiple cooperating cells to downlink physical resource of the cooperating cell to which the CoMP UE belongs respectively.

11. A network device, characterized by comprising:

an obtaining module, configured to;

obtain a downlink physical resource and a downlink mapping rule corresponding to a physical downlink channel and/or a reference signal negotiated by cooperating cells; and

a sending module, connected with the obtaining module, and configured to map the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal to the downlink physical resource according to the downlink mapping rule in order to send the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal to a User Equipment (UE).

12. The network device according to claim 11, wherein the downlink physical channel comprises one or more of:

a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), a Physical Control Format Indication Channel (PCFICH), a Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH), a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH), a Synchronization Channel (SCH), and Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH); and

/or

the reference signal comprise;

a public reference signal and/or a private reference signal; and

/or

the downlink physical resource comprise one or more of;

a carrier, a subcarrier, a physical resource block (PRB), a subframe, a timeslot, a sequence, a sequence offset, a sequence comb, a frequency hopping pattern, a period, and a scrambling code.

13. The network device according to claim 11, wherein the obtaining module further configured to obtaining an identifier (ID) corresponding to the downlink physical resource and the downlink mapping rule, and according to the ID, the obtaining module determining the downlink physical resource and the downlink mapping rule corresponding to the physical downlink channel and/or the reference signal negotiated by the cooperating cells, wherein the ID comprises one of the following:

a CoMP-ID, a UE-ID, an anchor cell-ID, and a serving cell-ID;

or the obtaining module further configured to obtaining multiple IDs corresponding to the downlink physical resource and downlink mapping rule, wherein the IDs comprise one of the following;

the CoMP-ID, the UE-ID, the anchor cell-ID, and the serving cell-ID, or any combination thereof, and determining a leading ID among the multiple IDs, and determining the corresponding downlink physical resource and the downlink mapping rule according to the leading ID.