Radio communication system for optimal CFI control in a cross-carrier scheduling environment

• US 9,191,951 B2
• Filed: 05/16/2011
• Issued: 11/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Takeda, Kazuaki, Miki, Nobuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Dung B
• Application Number:
  US13/698,063
• Publication Number:
  US 20130107855A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,646 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2647 Arrangements specific to the receiver only equalisation H04L27/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0073 Allocation arrangements that take into account other cell interferences for intercell interference mitigation or co-ordination in orthogonal multiplex systems H04J11/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA

Abstract

In order to implement optimal CFI control under a cross-carrier scheduling environment and improve PDSCH transmission efficiency, for the MACRO_UE2 where the cross-carrier scheduling is employed, the PDSCH initiation position of CC1 that is used to transmit PDCCH is dynamically controlled, and the PDSCH initiation position of CC2 that is not used to transmit PDCCH is quasi-statically controlled. For the PICO_UE2 where the cross-carrier scheduling is employed, the PDSCH initiation position of CC2 that is used to transmit PDCCH is dynamically controlled, and the PDSCH initiation position of CC1 that is not used to transmit PDCCH is dynamically controlled.

Claims

1. A radio communication system comprising:

a first base station that forms a first cell; and

a second base station that forms a second cell overlapping with at least a part of the first cell,

wherein,

in a case where communication between subordinate terminals is performed using a plurality of fundamental frequency blocks, the first base station transmits first resource information indicating a data channel initiation position in one of the fundamental frequency blocks, and second resource information indicating a data channel initiation position in the other fundamental frequency block through a control channel of the one of the fundamental frequency block, the first resource information is dynamically controlled, and the second resource information is quasi-statically controlled,

in a case where communication between subordinate terminals existing in positions where there is interference from the first cell within the second cell is performed using the one and the other fundamental frequency blocks, the second base station transmits third resource information indicating a data channel initiation position in the other fundamental frequency block and fourth resource information indicating a data channel initiation position in the one of the fundamental frequency block through a control channel of the other fundamental frequency block, and the third resource information and the fourth resource information are dynamically controlled,

the first base station controls the second resource information such that the data channel initiation position in the other fundamental frequency block occurs before the data channel initiation position in the one fundamental frequency block while the number of control channel symbols allocated by the second base station to the subordinate terminal in the other fundamental frequency block is smaller than a maximum number of symbols, and

the number of control channel symbols are estimated from the number of subordinate terminals existing in the second cell.

2. The radio communication system according to claim 1, wherein the first cell is a macrocell larger than the second cell, and the second cell is a picocell which is included in the first cell or fills a part of the first cell.

3. The radio communication system according to claim 1, wherein the first base station controls the first resource info cation in every subframe serving as a transmission time interval and controls the second resource information with a period longer than that of the subframe.