METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING RANDOM ACCESS PREAMBLE

• US 20150296539A1
• Filed: 08/29/2013
• Published: 10/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Guo, Qi, Li, Bin, Ding, Meiling
• Application Number:
  US14/413,248
• Publication Number:
  US 20150296539A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2607 Cyclic extensions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/261 Details of reference signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/24 Cell structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/002 Transmission of channel access control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/08 Non-scheduled access, e.g. ALOHA hybrid access H04W74/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

Provided are a method and device for processing a random access preamble. The method includes: determining, according to a coverage radius of a cell, a guard time (GT) that is needed when a user equipment (UE) communicates with a base station, wherein the coverage radius of the cell is greater than 100 kilometres; and, determining, according to the GT, a random access preamble transmitted by the UE to the base station, wherein the random access preamble is transmitted on a special subframe and at least one regular subframe of a radio frame when the UE communicates with the base station. The solution solves the problem that the maximum coverage range of a single-station cell cannot satisfy a need in a special scenario, further increases the coverage radius of the single-station cell, and satisfies the need in the special scenario for an extra-large radius in cell coverage range.

Claims

1. A method for processing a random access preamble, comprising:

determining, according to a coverage radius of a cell, a guard time (GT) that is needed when a user equipment (UE) communicates with a base station, wherein the coverage radius of the cell is greater than 100 kilometres; and

determining, according to the GT, a random access preamble transmitted by the UE to the base station, wherein the random access preamble is transmitted on a special subframe and at least one regular subframe of a radio frame when the UE communicates with the base station.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein before determining, according to the GT, the random access preamble transmitted by the UE to the base station, the method further comprises:

determining, according to the coverage radius of the cell, a guard period (GP) that is needed when the UE communicates with the base station.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining, according to the GT, the random access preamble transmitted by the UE to the base station comprises:

extending the length of the GT part in the random access preamble of the radio frame, wherein the length of the extended GT part, is equal to the length of the GT determined according to the coverage radius of the cell.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein after determining, according, to the GT, the random access preamble transmitted by the UE to the base station, the method further comprises:

judging., in communication resources used by the UE to communicate with the base station, whether there are sufficient time slot resources for transmitting the random access preamble by the UE to the base station; and

if the judging result is negative, adjusting the allocation of uplink/downlink time slot resources of the communication resources.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein the GP has a length in a range from a length of ⅔

of a subframe to a length of 2 subframes.

11. The method according to claim 2, wherein determining, according to the GT, the random access preamble transmitted by the UE to the base station comprises:

extending the length of the UE part in the random access preamble of the radio frame, wherein the length of the extended GT part is equal to the length of the GT determined according to the coverage radius of the cell.

12. The method according to claim 2, wherein after determining, according to the GT, the random access preamble transmitted by the UE to the base station, the method further comprises:

judging, in communication resources used by the UE to communicate with the base station, whether there are sufficient time slot resources for transmitting the random access preamble by the UE to the base station; and

if the judging result is negative, adjusting the allocation of uplink/downlink time Slot resources of the communication resources.

6. A device for processing a random access preamble, comprising:

a first determination component configured to determine, according to a coverage radius of a cell, a guard time (GT) that is needed when a user equipment (UE) communicates with a base station, wherein the coverage radius of the cell is greater than 100 kilometres; and

a second determination component configured to determine, according to the GT, a random access preamble transmitted by the UE to the base station, wherein the random access preamble is transmitted on a special subframe and at least one regular subframe of a radio frame when the UE communicates with the base station.

7. The device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a third determination component configured to determine, according to the coverage radius of the cell, a guard period (GP) that is needed when the UE communicates with the base station.

8. The device according to claim 6, wherein the second determination component comprises:

an extension unit configured to extend the length of the GT part in the random access preamble of the radio frame, wherein the length of the extended GT part is equal to the length of the GT determined according to the coverage radius of the cell.

9. The device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a judgment component configured to judge, in communication resources used by the UE to communicate with the base station, whether there is a sufficient uplink time slot resource for transmitting the random access preamble by the UE to the base station; and

an adjustment component configured to adjust, if the judging result of the judgment component is negative, the allocation of uplink/downlink time slot resources of the communication resources.

10. The device according to claim 7, wherein the third determination component is further configured to determine the length of the GP in a range from a length of 2/3 of a subframe to a length of 2 subframes.

13. The device according to claim 7, wherein the second determination component comprises:

an extension unit configured to extend the length of the GT part in the random access preamble of the radio frame, wherein the length of the extended GT part is equal to the length of the GT determined according to the coverage radius of the cell.

14. The device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a judgment component configured to judge, in communication resources used by the UE to communicate with the base station, whether there is a sufficient uplink time slot resource for transmitting the random access preamble by the UE to the base station; and

an adjustment component configured to adjust, if the judging result of the judgment component is negative, the allocation of uplink/downlink time slot resources of the communication resources.