METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNALS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING SAME

• US 20180070265A1
• Filed: 04/21/2016
• Published: 03/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: SEO, Inkwon, KIM, Kijun, KIM, Hyungtae
• Granted Patent: US 10,039,030 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/004 using regenerative subtractive interference cancellation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0003 by switching between different modulation schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1822 involving configuration of automatic repeat request [ARQ] with parallel processes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1896 ARQ related signaling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/20 using signal quality detector
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/04 Error control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/243 taking into account interferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/48 during retransmission after error or non-acknowledgment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/541 using the level of interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access

Abstract

A method for receiving signals by a first terminal in a wireless communication system supporting non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: obtaining downlink control information with respect to a second terminal which is NOMA-paired with the first terminal; receiving NOMA signals in which a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) with respect to the first terminal and a second PDSCH with respect to the second terminal are multiplexed by different transmission power values; and removing interference by the second PDSCH from the NOMA signals on the basis of the downlink control information with respect to the second terminal. In the step of removing the interference by the second PDSCH, if the second PDSCH is re-transmitted to the second terminal by an HARQ process, the interference by the second PDSCH can be removed by reusing predetermined information obtained by the first terminal at the time of initial transmission with respect to the HARQ process.

Claims

1. A method of receiving a signal by a first user equipment in a wireless communication system supporting non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), the method comprising:

obtaining downlink control information for a second user equipment which is NOMA-paired with the first user equipment;

receiving a NOMA signal in which a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for the first user equipment and a second PDSCH for the second user equipment are multiplexed by different transmit power values; and

cancelling interference caused by the second PDSCH from the NOMA signal based on the downlink control information for the second user equipment,

wherein in the cancelling the interference caused by the second PDSCH, when the second PDSCH is a PDSCH retransmitted to the second user equipment by a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process, the interference caused by the second PDSCH is canceled by reusing predetermined information obtained by the first user equipment during an initial transmission for the HARQ process.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein when the second PDSCH is the retransmitted PDSCH, a process of decoding the second PDSCH from the NOMA signal is omitted.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined information reused for cancelling the interference caused by the second PDSCH includes at least one of a modulation order in the initial transmission for the HARQ process, a transport block size, a new data indicator (NDI) and an information bit sequence obtained by decoding the second PDSCH.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the cancelling the interference caused by the retransmitted second PDSCH comprises:

coding and modulating an information bit sequence of the second PDSCH stored by the first user equipment in the initial transmission of the second PDSCH;

estimating an interference signal based on a modulated symbol of the information bit sequence and a current channel state; and

cancelling the estimated interference signal from the NOMA signal.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a timing of initiating a NOMA operation for the first user equipment is differently configured for each of a plurality of HARQ processes which are configured in the second user equipment.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the NOMA operation for the first user equipment is initiated in an initial transmission subframe for each of the plurality of HARQ processes.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

reporting, to a base station, capability information of the first user equipment including at least one of information indicating a presence or non-presence of capability of performing the NOMA operation, a size of an additional buffer for the NOMA operation, and a maximum of interferers canceled for the NOMA operation.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein when the second PDSCH is the retransmitted PDSCH, the first user equipment assumes that MCS information (I_MCS) for which transmission block size (TBS) index is reserved is not configured in the downlink control information for the second user equipment.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein when the second PDSCH is the retransmitted PDSCH and MCS information (I_MCS) for which transmission block size (TBS) index is reserved is configured in the downlink control information for the second user equipment, the first user equipment performs symbol level interference cancellation instead of codeword level interference cancellation.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

reporting a NOMA link failure to a base station, when the first user equipment is unable to perform a NOMA operation despite that there is no degradation in a radio link between the first user equipment and the base station.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the report of the NOMA link failure is performed when a decoding failure of the first PDSCH occurs more than a first threshold, a decoding failure of the second PDSCH occurs more than a second threshold, or both failures of a decoding of the first PDSCH and a decoding of the second PDSCH occur more than a third threshold.

12. A first user equipment for receiving a signal in a wireless communication system supporting non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), the first user equipment comprising:

a receiver to obtain downlink control information for a second user equipment which is NOMA-paired with the first user equipment and to receive a NOMA signal in which a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for the first user equipment and a second PDSCH for the second user equipment are multiplexed by different transmit power values; and

a processor to cancel interference caused by the second PDSCH from the NOMA signal based on the downlink control information for the second user equipment,

wherein when the second PDSCH is a PDSCH retransmitted to the second user equipment by a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process, the processor cancels the interference caused by the second PDSCH by reusing predetermined information obtained by the first user equipment during an initial transmission for the HARQ process.

13. The user equipment of claim 12, wherein when the second PDSCH is the retransmitted PDSCH, the processor omits a process of decoding the second PDSCH from the NOMA signal.

14. The user equipment of claim 12, wherein the processor codes and modulates an information bit sequence of the second PDSCH stored by the first user equipment in the initial transmission of the second PDSCH, estimates an interference signal based on a modulated symbol of the information bit sequence and a current channel state, and cancels the estimated interference signal from the NOMA signal.

15. The user equipment of claim 12, wherein a timing of initiating a NOMA operation for the first user equipment is differently configured for each of a plurality of HARQ processes which are configured in the second user equipment.