Uplink power control using received reference signal

• US 8,694,046 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2012
• Issued: 04/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Dick, Stephen G., Miller, James M., Zeira, Ariela, Zeira, Eldad M., Terry, Stephen G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Safaipour, Bobbak
• Application Number:
  US13/362,814
• Publication Number:
  US 20120127968A1
• Time in Patent Office: 798 Days
• Field of Search: 455/63.1, 455/67.11, 455/67.13, 455/69, 455/450, 455/522, 455/561, 370/342, 370/347
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1469 using time-sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/228 using past power values or information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/24 using SIR [Signal to Interference Ratio] or other wireless path parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/241 taking into account channel quality metrics, e.g. SIR, SNR, CIR, Eb/lo
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/242 taking into account path loss
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/243 taking into account interferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/246 where the output power of a terminal is based on a path parameter calculated in said terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/247 where the output power of a terminal is based on a path parameter sent by another terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/26 using transmission rate or quality of service QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A user equipment (UE) includes circuitry configured to receive control information on a downlink control channel from a base station. The control information indicates an allocation of an uplink channel and the control information is sent in response to the base station determining that the UE is to send an adaptive modulation and coding report. The circuitry is further configured in response to the control information to transmit a communication in the allocated uplink channel in a time interval including at least one time slot. The communication includes an adaptive modulation and coding report, and a transmission power level of the communication is derived from the control information and a pathloss measured by the UE.

Claims

1. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

circuitry configured to transmit a first communication over an uplink channel; and

circuitry configured to receive control information on a downlink control channel from a base station in response to the first communication;

wherein the control information indicates an allocation of an uplink channel and a quality margin determined from the first communication;

wherein the circuitry is further configured in response to receiving the control information to transmit a communication in the allocated uplink channel in a time interval including at least one time slot;

wherein the communication includes an adaptive modulation and coding report;

wherein a transmission power level of the communication is derived from the control information including the quality margin and a pathloss measured by the UE.

2. The UE of claim 1 wherein the communication further includes hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information.

3. A method for determining uplink power level, implemented in a user equipment (UE), comprising:

transmitting a first communication over an uplink channel;

receiving control information on a downlink control channel from a base station in response to the first communication;

wherein the control information indicates an allocation of an uplink channel and a quality margin determined from the first communication; and

transmitting a communication in the allocated uplink channel in a time interval including at least one time slot, in response to receiving the control information;

wherein the communication includes an adaptive modulation and coding report;

wherein a transmission power level of the communication is derived from the control information including the quality margin and a pathloss measured by the UE.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the communication further includes hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information.

5. A base station, comprising:

circuitry configured to receive a first communication signal over an uplink channel from a user equipment (UE);

circuitry configured to measure a channel quality of the uplink channel in response to the received first communication signal;

circuitry configured to provide a quality margin derived from the first communication signal; and

circuitry configured to transmit an allocation of an uplink channel and the quality margin over a downlink control channel to the UE; and

wherein the circuitry configured to receive the first communication is further configured to receive a second communication from the UE in at least one time slot in the allocated uplink channel in response to the allocation of the uplink channel and the quality margin;

wherein the second communication includes an adaptive modulation and coding report at a transmission power level derived from the quality margin.