Methods and apparatus for power allocation and/or rate selection for UL MIMO/SIMO operations with PAR considerations

• US 8,655,396 B2
• Filed: 11/06/2007
• Issued: 02/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Malladi, Durga Prasad, Xu, Hao
• Primary Examiner(s): Pan, Yuwen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wang, Fanghwa
• Application Number:
  US12/444,575
• Publication Number:
  US 20100029320A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,296 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0404 the mobile station comprising multiple antennas, e.g. to provide uplink diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0003 by switching between different modulation schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2614 Peak power aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/367 Power values between minimum and maximum limits, e.g. dynamic range
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/42 in systems with time, space, frequency or polarisation diversity

Abstract

A method for a wireless communication includes receiving or storing a peak to average (PAR) back off value; and applying the PAR back off value to determine the transmission power and rate for SIMO and MIMO transmissions. In one aspect, the PAR back off value is at least partially based on modulation type. In another aspect, the PAR back off value is more for higher order QAM than for QPSK. The power allocation algorithm for different UL MIMO schemes is described as follows. For MIMO without antenna permutation (e.g. per antenna rate control), different PAR back off values are considered for different data streams. For MIMO with antenna permutation or other unitary transformation such as virtual antenna mapping or precoding, the PAR back off are determined based on combined channel. The transmission data rate depends on power and also the receiver algorithms such as a MMSE receiver or MMSE-SIC receiver.

Claims

1. A method of wireless communication, comprising:

reporting, by a user equipment (UE), channel quality information for a channel, the reporting associated with a first modulation scheme and a corresponding first peak to average power ratio (PAR) back off value; and

receiving scheduling information by the UE in response to the reporting, the scheduling information including a second modulation type associated with a second PAR back off value and a power allocation for the channel, the power allocation compensating for a difference between the first PAR backoff value and the second PAR back off value based on a difference between the first modulation scheme and the second modulation scheme.

2. The method of claim 1, in which the scheduling information further comprises a transmission rate based on the difference between the PAR back off value associated with the first modulation scheme and the PAR back off value associated with the second modulation scheme.

3. A method of wireless communication, comprising:

receiving a channel quality report of a channel, the channel quality report associated with a first modulation type and a corresponding first peak to average power ratio (PAR) back off value;

determining a second modulation type of the channel based on the channel quality report and the first PAR backoff value;

determining a second PAR backoff value associated with the second modulation type; and

transmitting scheduling information to a UE, the scheduling information including the second modulation type associated with the second PAR back off value and a power allocation, the power allocation compensating for a difference between the first PAR backoff value and the second PAR backoff value based on a difference between the first modulation scheme and the second modulation scheme.

4. The method of claim 3, in which the scheduling information further comprises a transmission rate for the channel based on a difference between the first PAR back off value associated with the first modulation scheme and the second PAR back off value associated with the second modulation scheme.

5. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

means for reporting, by a user equipment (UE), channel quality information for a channel, the reporting associated with a first modulation scheme and a corresponding first peak to average power ratio (PAR) back off value; and

means for receiving scheduling information by the UE in response to the reporting, the scheduling information including a second modulation type associated with a second PAR back off value and a power allocation for the channel, the power allocation compensating for a difference between the first PAR backoff value and the second PAR back off value based on a difference between the first modulation scheme and the second modulation scheme.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, in which the scheduling information further comprises a transmission rate based on the difference between the PAR back off value associated with the first modulation scheme and the PAR back off value associated with the second modulation scheme.

7. An apparatus of wireless communication, comprising:

means for receiving a channel quality report of a channel, the channel quality report associated with a first modulation type and a corresponding first peak to average power ratio (PAR) back off value;

means for determining a second modulation type of the channel based on the channel quality report and the first PAR backoff value;

means for determining a second PAR backoff value associated with the second modulation type; and

means for transmitting scheduling information to a UE, the scheduling information including the second modulation type associated with the second PAR back off value and a power allocation, the power allocation compensating for a difference between the first PAR backoff value and second PAR backoff value based on a difference between the first modulation scheme and the second modulation scheme.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, in which the scheduling information further comprises a transmission rate for the channel based on a difference between the first PAR back off value associated with the first modulation scheme and the second PAR back off value associated with the second modulation scheme.

9. A computer program product for wireless communications stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and comprising program code for performing the steps of:

reporting, by a user equipment (UE), channel quality information for a channel, the reporting associated with a first modulation scheme and a corresponding first peak to average power ratio (PAR) back off value; and

receiving scheduling information by the UE in response to the reporting, the scheduling information including a second modulation type associated with a second PAR back off value and a power allocation for the channel, the power allocation compensating for a difference between the first PAR backoff value and the second PAR back off value based on a difference between the first modulation scheme and the second modulation scheme.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, in which the scheduling information further comprises a transmission rate based on the difference between the PAR back off value associated with the first modulation scheme and the PAR back off value associated with the second modulation scheme.

11. A computer program product for wireless communications stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and comprising program code for performing the steps of:

receiving a channel quality report of a channel, the channel quality report associated with a first modulation type and a corresponding first peak to average power ratio (PAR) back off value;

determining a second modulation type of the channel based on the channel quality report and the first PAR backoff value;

determining a second PAR backoff value associated with the second modulation type; and

transmitting scheduling information to a UE, the scheduling information including the second modulation type associated with the second PAR back off value and a power allocation, the power allocation compensating for a difference between the first PAR backoff value and the second PAR backoff value based on a difference between the first modulation scheme and the second modulation scheme.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, in which the scheduling information further comprises a transmission rate for the channel based on a difference between the first PAR back off value associated with the first modulation scheme and the second PAR back off value associated with the second modulation scheme.

13. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured for;

reporting, by a user equipment (UE), channel quality information for a channel, the reporting associated with a first modulation scheme and a corresponding first peak to average power ratio (PAR) back off value; and

receiving scheduling information by the UE in response to the reporting, the scheduling information including a second modulation type associated with a second PAR back off value and a power allocation for the channel, the power allocation compensating for a difference between the first PAR backoff value and the second PAR back off value based on a difference between the first modulation scheme and the second modulation scheme.

14. An apparatus of wireless communication, comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured for;

receiving a channel quality report of a channel, the channel quality report associated with a first modulation type and a corresponding first peak to average power ratio (PAR) back off value;

determining a second modulation type of the channel based on the channel quality report and the first PAR backoff value;

determining a second PAR backoff value associated with the second modulation type; and

transmitting scheduling information to a UE, the scheduling information including the second modulation type associated with the second PAR back off value and a power allocation, the power allocation compensating for a difference between the first PAR backoff value and the second PAR backoff value based on a difference between the first modulation scheme and the second modulation scheme.