COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD USING MILLIMETER-WAVE FREQUENCY BAND

• US 20140073337A1
• Filed: 09/10/2013
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: HONG, Seung Eun, LEE, Moon Sik, SONG, Young Seog, LEE, Jun Hwan, KIM, Il Gyu, BANG, Seung Chan, CHOI, Eun Young
• Application Number:
  US14/023,050
• Publication Number:
  US 20140073337A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/452.1
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/246 specially adapted for base stations
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/205 providing an omnidirectional coverage turnstile aerials H01Q21/26
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/28 using beam steering
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/046 the resource being in the space domain, e.g. beams
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality

Abstract

There are provided a communication device using a millimeter-wave frequency band and a communication method using the millimeter-wave frequency band. The communication device includes a beam scheduling unit configured to schedule uplink and downlink beams corresponding to movement of a terminal, a core network interface unit configured to transmit data provided from the beam scheduling unit to a core network, and to provide data received from the core network to the beam scheduling unit, a mobility management unit configured to configure an uplink and downlink beam set based on inter-beam interference information provided from the beam scheduling unit, and an inter-base station interface unit configured to exchange a control message with another base station under control of the mobility management unit. Therefore, it is possible to efficiently build a cellular network using the millimeter-wave frequency band.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device using a millimeter-wave frequency band comprising:

a beam scheduling unit configured to schedule uplink and downlink beams corresponding to movement of a terminal;

a core network interface unit configured to transmit data provided from the beam scheduling unit to a core network, and to provide data received from the core network to the beam scheduling unit;

a mobility management unit configured to configure an uplink and downlink beam set based on inter-beam interference information provided from the beam scheduling unit; and

an inter-base station interface unit configured to exchange a control message with another base station under control of the mobility management unit.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the beam scheduling unit includes a central scheduler and at least one beam scheduler connected to the central scheduler,

the central scheduler distributes packets input from the core network through the core network interface unit to the at least one beam scheduler, schedules the packets provided from the at least one beam scheduler, and transmits the packets to the core network through the core network interface unit, and

the at least one beam scheduler schedules based on scheduling information provided from the central scheduler.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the at least one beam scheduler receives location information of at least one terminal from the at least one terminal, reports the received location information of the at least one terminal to the central scheduler, and then schedules resources for the at least one terminal based on scheduling information provided from the central scheduler.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the central scheduler obtains information on a terminal located in an inter-beam overlapping area based on the location information of the at least one terminal, and schedules based on the obtained terminal information such that inter-beam interference is minimized.

5. The device of claim 2, wherein, when at least two base stations cooperate to transmit downlink packets to the terminal, the central scheduler schedules a transmission time of packets, and then transmits scheduling information to the at least one beam scheduler and another base station.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the mobility management unit configures a measurement beam set to be measured by the terminal based on location information of the terminal provided from the beam scheduling unit, and reports the configured measurement beam set information to the terminal.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the mobility management unit determines a cooperated beam set that provides downlink beams to the terminal based on the inter-beam interference information.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the mobility management unit compares a candidate cooperated beam set provided by the terminal and a pre-stored candidate cooperated beam set, determines a change of the candidate cooperated beam set, and then, when there is a deleted beam in the pre-stored candidate cooperated set, requests deletion of resources associated with the deleted beam from a base station that forms the deleted beam.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the mobility management unit obtains round-trip time information obtained through terminal uplink synchronization operations from at least one other base station through the inter-base station interface unit, and determines a cooperated beam set for uplink transmission of the terminal based on the obtained round-trip time information.

10. A wireless communication device using a millimeter-wave frequency band comprising:

a beam scheduling unit configured to schedule a beam for accessing of a terminal;

a wireless backhaul interface unit configured to communicate with least one other base station under control of the beam scheduling unit; and

a mobility management unit configured to deliver information provided from the terminal to another base station through the wireless backhaul interface unit.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the beam scheduling unit includes a central scheduler and at least one beam scheduler connected to the central scheduler,

the central scheduler controls scheduling of the at least one beam scheduler, and

the at least one beam scheduling unit respectively provides an access beam for at least one terminal under control of the central scheduler.

12. The device of claim 10, wherein the mobility management unit receives location information from at least one terminal, and delivers the information to another base station through the wireless backhaul interface unit.

13. The device of claim 10, wherein the mobility management unit delivers information on a downlink candidate cooperated beam set provided from at least one terminal to another base station through the wireless backhaul interface unit, and delivers round-trip time values of the at least one terminal to the another base station.

14. A wireless communication method using a millimeter-wave frequency band comprising:

obtaining location information of at least one terminal;

obtaining information on a terminal located in an inter-beam overlapping area based on the obtained location information; and

scheduling based on information on the terminal located in the obtained inter-beam overlapping area such that inter-beam interference is minimized.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein in the obtaining of location information of the at least one terminal, beam identifier information for at least one beam that can be received by the at least one terminal is respectively received from the at least one terminal.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein in the obtaining of location information of the at least one terminal, inter-beam interference information is received from the at least one terminal.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein in the scheduling for minimizing the inter-beam interference, different frequency bands are assigned to an overlapping beam area and a non-overlapping beam area in consideration of the inter-beam overlapping area, and a frequency band assigned to the overlapping beam area is changed according to location of at least one terminal and resource allocation information of the at least one terminal.

18. A wireless communication method using a millimeter-wave frequency band that is performed in a terminal using the millimeter-wave frequency band, the method comprising:

registering transmitting and receiving capability information in a base station;

measuring received power of each beam included in a beam set based on information on the beam set provided from the base station;

updating a downlink candidate cooperated beam set based on the received power measurement result of each beam, and then reporting the updated downlink candidate cooperated beam set to the base station; and

performing uplink synchronization based on a downlink active cooperated beam set provided from the base station.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein in the registering of the transmitting and receiving capability information in the base station, information on the number of beams that can be simultaneously received by the terminal and the number of beams that can be simultaneously transmitted from the terminal is reported to the base station.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the performing of the uplink synchronization includes:

setting the downlink active cooperated beam set provided from the base station as an uplink active cooperated beam set; and

performing uplink synchronization for beams included in the uplink active cooperated beam set.