APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20130294351A1
• Filed: 01/17/2012
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kwon, Ki Bum, Ahn, Jae Hyun, Park, Kyung Min, Kim, Si Hyung
• Application Number:
  US13/979,071
• Publication Number:
  US 20130294351A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0025 Transmission of mode-switching indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0027 Scheduling of signalling, e.g. occurrence thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0028 Formatting
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 Wireless traffic scheduling

Abstract

The present description relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting channel state information in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the following steps: receiving, from a base station, information indicating a linkage between a cell set including a serving cell and a subset including a subframe; configuring channel state information for the subframe on the serving cell; receiving, from the base station, channel-state-information-request information indicating the cell set; and transmitting the channel state information to the base station. According to the present invention, channel state information, which varies as time elapses, may be accurately measured, and channel state information of the point in time desired by the base station may be provided.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting channel state information in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the following steps:

receiving, from a base station, information indicating a linkage between a cell set including a serving cell and a subset including a subframe;

configuring channel state information for the subframe on the serving cell;

receiving, from the base station, channel-state-information-request information indicating the cell set; and

transmitting the channel state information to the base station.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the subset is determined based on an almost blank subframe (ABS) pattern for performing time division multiplexing (TDM) on a frame common to first and second base stations.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of receiving, from the base station, cell set configuration information for configuring the cell set for a user equipment (UE).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the information indicating a linkage is a radio resource control (RRC) message.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the RRC message is an RRC connection reconfiguration message for reconfiguring an RRC connection.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the channel-state-information-request information is included and received in Downlink Control Information (DCI) of format 0 or 4.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein there are two cell sets, and the channel-state-information-request information is 2-bit information.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the channel state information is transmitted on a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).

9. A user equipment (UE) for transmitting channel state information in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a downlink reception unit which receives, from a base station, information indicating a linkage between a cell set including a serving cell and a subset including a subframe, and channel-state-information-request information indicating the cell set;

a channel state information configuration unit which measures a channel state for the subframe on the serving cell, and configures channel state information indicating the measured channel state; and

an uplink transmission unit which transmits the channel state information to the base station.

10. The UE of claim 9, wherein the subset is determined by the base station, based on an almost blank subframe (ABS) pattern for performing time division multiplexing (TDM) on a frame common to different base stations.

11. The UE of claim 9, wherein the downlink reception unit receives, from the base station, cell set configuration information for configuring the cell set for the UE.

12. The UE of claim 9, wherein the downlink reception unit receives the channel-state-information-request information through Downlink Control Information (DCI) of format 0 or 4.

13. A method for receiving channel state information by a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), information indicating a linkage between a cell set including a serving cell and a subset including a subframe;

transmitting, to the UE, channel-state-information-request information indicating the cell set; and

receiving the channel state information from the UE.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the subset is determined based on an almost blank subframe (ABS) pattern for performing time division multiplexing (TDM) on a frame common to first and second base stations.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the first base station is a macro base station, and the second base station is a femto base station.

16. A base station for receiving channel state information in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising:

a downlink transmission unit which transmits, to a user equipment (UE), information indicating a linkage between a cell set including a serving cell and a subset including a subframe, and channel-state-information-request information indicating the cell set;

a channel-state-information-request generation unit which generates the channel-state-information-request information to be transmitted on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and

an uplink reception unit which receives the channel state information from the UE.

17. A method for periodically transmitting channel state information by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

determining whether there exists at least one of a change in the report period of channel state information, a subset change, and an almost blank subframe (ABS) pattern change;

measuring a channel state for the changed subset if a subset change exists; and

transmitting, to a base station, channel state information indicating the measured channel state, based on the changed report period of channel state information if there exists a change in the report period of channel state information,

wherein the subset comprises at least one subframe for which the channel state information is to be reported.