Power controlling method and corresponding base station

• US 8,396,502 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2007
• Issued: 03/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Wu, Keying
• Primary Examiner(s): Rego, Dominic E
• Application Number:
  US12/670,183
• Publication Number:
  US 20100190521A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,059 Days
• Field of Search: 455/522, 455/67.11, 455 68- 70, 455/115.3, 455/126, 455/127.1, 455/127.2, 455/135, 455/226.3, 455/277.2, 455/296, 370/318
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0452 Multi-user MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/42 in systems with time, space, frequency or polarisation diversity

Abstract

A power controlling method and corresponding base station for controlling the transmission power of each user terminal are disclosed, in which, each user terminal is paired into virtual MIMO transmission. In the solution, first, determining the transmission power of each user terminal that makes the sum of the transmission power of each user terminal minimum under the case that the specific index for each user terminal meets a required threshold value; then, feed backing the determined transmission power of each user terminal to each user terminal. Compared with the prior art, the solution can achieve a preferable power efficiency.

Claims

1. A power controlling method for controlling transmission power of user terminals operating in a virtual MIMO transmission, the method comprising:

determining a respective transmission power of respective user terminals of the plurality that makes a sum of transmission powers of the respective user terminals of the plurality minimum under a condition that a respective specific index for respective user terminals meets a required threshold value; and

feeding back the respective determined transmission power to the respective user terminals.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the specific index is bit error rate or error code rate and the threshold value is a bit error rate or an error code rate, respectively.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the specific index is arrival signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the threshold value is a signal-to-noise ratio.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the threshold value depends on a respective modulating and encoding mode used by the respective user terminal and the bit error rate or error code rate required for the respective user terminal.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the threshold value is obtained offline using a Monte Carlo simulation.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining the respective transmission power of the respective user terminals that makes the sum of the transmission power of the respective user terminals minimum comprises:

determining an arrival power of the respective user terminals that makes the sum of the arrival power of the respective user terminals minimum under the case that the respective specific index for respective user terminals meets a required threshold value; and

determining the respective transmission power of respective user terminals according to the above-determined arrival power of the respective user terminals and respective path losses experienced by the respective user terminals.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein a successive interference cancellation (SIC) technique is employed to detect respective user terminals, and user terminals with higher arrival SNRs can be detected first.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the threshold value is a signal-to-noise ratio, and the respective specific index is an average output SNR of the detector at each level.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein interference of signals from other user terminals is considered as an additive white Gaussian noise.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein an interference suppression technique is used to deal with the interference of the signals from other user terminals.

11. A base station for controlling the transmission power of user terminals operating in virtual MIMO transmission, the base station comprising:

A first determiner that is operative to determine respective transmission powers of respective user terminals that makes a sum of the transmission power of the respective user terminals minimum under the condition that a respective specific index for respective user terminals meets a required threshold value; and

transmitter for feeding the above-determined transmission power of the respective user terminals back to the respective user terminals.

12. The base station according to claim 11, wherein the specific index is bit error rate or error code rate and the threshold value is a bit error rate or an error code rate, respectively.

13. The base station according to claim 11, wherein the specific index is arrival signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the threshold value is a signal-to-noise ratio.

14. The base station according to claim 13, wherein the threshold value depends on a modulating and encoding mode used by the respective user terminal and the bit error rate or error code rate required for the respective user terminal.

15. The base station according to claim 14, wherein the threshold value is obtained offline using a Monte Carlo simulation.

16. The base station according to claim 11, wherein the first determiner comprises:

A second determiner that is operative to determine the arrival power of the respective user terminals that makes the sum of the arrival power of the respective user terminals minimum under the condition that the respective specific index for the respective user terminals meets a required threshold value; and

a third determiner that is operative to determine a transmission power of the respective user terminals according to the above-determined arrival power of the respective user terminals and path loss experienced by the respective user terminals.

17. The base station according to claim 11, wherein a successive interference cancellation (SIC) technique is employed to detect respective user terminals, and user terminals with higher arrival SNRs can be detected first.

18. The base station according to claim 17, wherein the threshold value is a signal-to-noise ratio, and the specific index is an average output SNR of the detector at each level.

19. The base station according to claim 17, wherein interference of signals from other user terminals is considered as an additive white Gaussian noise.

20. The base station according to claim 17, wherein an interference suppression technique is used to deal with the interference of the signals from other user terminals.