Method and system for capacity and coverage enhancement in wireless networks with relays
First Claim
1. A method for capacity and coverage enhancement in a wireless network including a plurality of cells, at least one cell having at least one base station and a plurality of relay stations, the base station communicating with one or more user equipments in the cell directly or through one or more relay stations in the cell, the method comprising:
- collecting, by at least one base station in a cell of the plurality of cells, from a first user equipment in the cell interference information identifying pathloss information between the user equipment and one or more relay stations in the cell determined by the user equipment;
determining, based at least in part on the interference information, one or more noisy frequency channels or sub-channels on which interference is most severe;
dynamically generating a frequency hopping (FH) pattern that identifies a plurality of frequency channels or sub-channels for the first user equipment based on the one or more noisy frequency channels or sub-channels, wherein no noisy frequency channel or subchannel is used in the FH pattern; and
allocating one or more type slot types in a plurality of time slot types of the cell, wherein at least one time slot type comprises a time slot type where the base station operates at a low transmit power mode and transmits data to a second user equipment in a neighborhood of the base station, and at least one of the relay station transmits data to the first user equipment in a neighborhood of the relay station.
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Abstract
A method and system for capacity and coverage enhancement in wireless networks is provided. Each cell has a base station and in-cell relay stations. The base station includes interference avoidance/averaging mechanism, dynamic resource partitioning mechanism or a combination thereof. The interference avoidance/averaging mechanism dynamically creating a FH pattern based on interference information obtained from its serving cell. The base station may include a scheduler for dynamic resource partitioning mechanism for managing scheduling in the cell.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for capacity and coverage enhancement in a wireless network including a plurality of cells, at least one cell having at least one base station and a plurality of relay stations, the base station communicating with one or more user equipments in the cell directly or through one or more relay stations in the cell, the method comprising:
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collecting, by at least one base station in a cell of the plurality of cells, from a first user equipment in the cell interference information identifying pathloss information between the user equipment and one or more relay stations in the cell determined by the user equipment; determining, based at least in part on the interference information, one or more noisy frequency channels or sub-channels on which interference is most severe; dynamically generating a frequency hopping (FH) pattern that identifies a plurality of frequency channels or sub-channels for the first user equipment based on the one or more noisy frequency channels or sub-channels, wherein no noisy frequency channel or subchannel is used in the FH pattern; and allocating one or more type slot types in a plurality of time slot types of the cell, wherein at least one time slot type comprises a time slot type where the base station operates at a low transmit power mode and transmits data to a second user equipment in a neighborhood of the base station, and at least one of the relay station transmits data to the first user equipment in a neighborhood of the relay station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19)
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6. A network system for a wireless network including a cell, the cell having a plurality of relay stations, comprising:
a base station comprising; a module for collecting pathloss information between a first user equipment in the cell and at least one relay station in the cell, the pathloss information determined by the first user equipment; a module for identifying, based on the pathloss information, one or more noisy frequency channels or sub-channels on which interference is significant; a module for generating a frequency hopping (FH) pattern for the first user equipment in the cell based on the one or more noisy frequency channels or subchannels, wherein no noisy frequency channel or sub-channel is used in the FH pattern; and a scheduler for scheduling operation of the cell, wherein the operation of the cell is divided into a plurality of time slot types, the plurality of time slot types comprise a time slot type where the base station operates at a low transmit power mode and transmits data to a second user equipment in a neighborhood of the base station, and at least one of the relay stations transmits data to the first user equipment in a neighborhood of the relay station. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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18. A method for communicating with a user equipment in a cell having a base station and a plurality of relay stations, the method, comprising:
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communicating, between the base station and the user equipment, via at least one relay station, first data using a first frequency hopping (FH) pattern that identifies a first plurality of frequencies; subsequently receiving, by the base station, pathloss information determined by the user equipment, the pathloss information identifying pathloss between the user equipment and one or more relay stations of the plurality of relay stations, including the at least one relay station; based at least in part on the pathloss information, identifying, by the base station, a set of noisy frequencies that fail to meet a predetermined criterion; generating a new FH pattern comprising a second plurality of frequencies selected from a pool of frequencies that does not include the set of noisy frequencies, wherein at least one of the second plurality of frequencies in the new FH pattern differs from at least one of the first plurality of frequencies in the first FH pattern; and communicating, between the base station and the user equipment, via a relay station of the plurality of relay stations, second data using the new FH pattern, wherein the communication occurs in a time slot type where the base station operates at a low transmit power mode and transmits data to at least one other user equipment in a neighborhood of the base station, and at least one of the relay station transmits data to the user equipment in a neighborhood of the relay station.
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