METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCE IN MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORK

• US 20120163316A1
• Filed: 12/22/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: KIM, Keun Young, Yeh, Choongil, Shin, Wooram, Kim, Jihyung, Kwon, Dong Seung, Ahn, Dong Hyun
• Granted Patent: US 8,830,855 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters

Abstract

In a mobile wireless network system including a plurality of nodes, available resources of a transmitting node and available resources of a receiving node are searched for. Commonly overlapped allocatable resources among available resources of a transmitting node and available resources of a receiving node are searched for, areas corresponding to the calculated allocation resource number according to an allocation condition that is set in the allocatable resource area are selected, and the areas are allocated to the transmitting node or the receiving node.

Claims

1. A method of allocating resources to a node in a mobile wireless network system comprising a plurality of nodes, the method comprising:

searching for available resources of a transmitting node;

searching for available resources of a receiving node;

searching for an area of commonly overlapped allocatable resources in the available resources of the transmitting node and the available resource of the receiving node;

calculating the number of allocation resources based on a size of data to transmit or to receive; and

selecting areas corresponding to the calculated allocation resource number according to an allocation condition that is set in the allocatable resource area and allocating the selected areas to the transmitting node or the receiving node.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in a frame in which the resource areas are arranged along a time axis and a frequency axis and comprising a plurality of packet data unit (PDU) slots in which data are transmitted and received,

the searching of an area of commonly overlapped allocatable resources comprises searching for the allocatable resource area in consideration of at least one of:

a position A of PDU slots in which the transmitting node can transmit;

a position B of PDU slots in which the receiving node can receive;

a position C of all frequency areas within a time domain in which the transmitting node is presently receiving data; and

a position D of all frequency areas within a time domain in which the receiving node is presently transmitting data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the searching for an area of commonly overlapped allocatable resources comprises selecting areas satisfying A∩

B−

C−

D among available resources of the transmitting node and the receiving node as the allocatable resource area.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the position of a PDU slot in which the transmitting node can transmit represents a position of PDU slots corresponding to a position of ACK slots that are determined as slots that are not being used based on a result achieved by performing carrier sensing of ACK slots or collecting allocation area information of adjacent nodes, and

the position of a PDU slot in which the receiving node can receive represents a position of PDU slots that are not being used based on a result achieved by performing carrier sensing of PDU slots or collecting allocation area information of neighbor nodes.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating of the areas comprises allocating, if an allocatable resource area exists within a time domain in which the node is already transmitting, an area according to an allocation condition that selects at least one of PDU slots of other frequency domains within a corresponding time domain as an allocation area.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating of the areas comprises allocating, if an allocatable resource area does not exist within a time domain in which the node is already transmitting, an area according to an allocation condition that selects at least one of PDU slots a plurality of frequency/time domains within the allocatable resource area as an allocation area.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating of the areas comprises allocating an area according to an allocation condition that selects a plurality of time domains as an allocation area when all data can be transmitted through an allocatable resource area within a frame duration.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating of the areas comprises allocating, if a transmitting node wants to get transmission range wider than current transmission range, an area according to an allocation condition that preferentially selects PDU slots having the same frequency domain from a plurality of time domains as an allocation area.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the calculating of the number of allocation resources comprises calculating the number of allocation resources that are allocated within a frame based on the number of resource areas necessary for transmitting all data and the number of allocatable resource areas within a frame.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein when the number of an allocatable resource area within a frame is and the number of resource areas necessary for transmitting all data is b, the number Slot_No of resource areas that are allocated within a frame is calculated based on ┌

b/┌

b/a┐

┐

, where ┌

a┐

is a maximum integer that does not exceed a.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the number b of resource areas necessary for transmitting all data is calculated based on a total amount of data to transmit or to receive and the number of data bits that can be sent to one resource area, and

the number of data bits that can be sent to the one resource area is determined based on the carrier number, the symbol number, a modulation method, and a channel coding method of a resource unit constituting a resource area.

12. An apparatus for allocating resources to a node in a mobile wireless network system comprising a plurality of nodes, the apparatus comprising:

a resource area search unit that searches for available resources of a transmitting node and that searches for available resources of a receiving node;

a common resource acquisition unit that searches for an area of commonly overlapped allocatable resources in the available resources of the transmitting node and the available resources of the receiving node;

an allocation number calculation unit that calculates the number of allocation resources based on a size of data to transmit or to receive; and

an allocation processor that selects areas corresponding to the calculated allocation resource number according to an allocation condition that is set in the allocatable resource area and that allocates the selected areas to the transmitting node or the receiving node.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein in a frame in which the resource areas are arranged along a time axis and a frequency axis and comprising a plurality of PDU slots in which data are transmitted and received, the common resource acquisition unit selects areas satisfying A∩

B−

C−

D among available resources of the transmitting node and the receiving node as the allocatable resource area based on;

a position A of PDU slots in which the transmitting node can transmit;

a position B of PDU slots in which the receiving node can receive;

a position C of all frequency areas within a time domain in which the transmitting node is presently receiving data; and

a position D of all frequency areas within a time domain in which the receiving node is presently transmitting data.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the allocation processor selects and allocates, if an allocatable resource area exists within a time domain in which the node is already transmitting, areas corresponding to the number of allocation resources from frequency domains that can allocate resources within a corresponding time domain.

15. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the allocation processor selects and allocates, if an allocatable resource area does not exist within a time domain in which the node is already transmitting, areas corresponding to the number of allocation resources from a plurality of frequency domains within the allocatable resource area.

16. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the allocation processor selects and allocates areas corresponding to the allocation resource number from a plurality of time domains when all data can be transmitted through an allocatable resource area within a frame duration.

17. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the allocation processor preferentially selects and allocates, if a transmitting node wants to get transmission range wider than current transmission range, PDU slots corresponding to the allocation resource number, having the same frequency domain from a plurality of time domains.

18. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the allocation number calculation unit calculates the number of resource areas that are allocated within a frame based on ┌

b/┌

b/a┐

┐

, when the number of allocatable resource areas within a frame is a and the number of resource areas necessary for transmitting all data is b, where ┌

a┐

is a maximum integer that does not exceed a.