Channel state information for adaptively configured TDD communication systems

• US 9,306,725 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2014
• Issued: 04/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Papasakellariou, Aris, Zhang, Jianzhong
• Primary Examiner(s): Ly, Anh-Vu
• Application Number:
  US14/201,087
• Publication Number:
  US 20140269460A1
• Time in Patent Office: 760 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1469 using time-sharing

Abstract

Methods and apparatus of a base station or a User Equipment (UE) in communication with each other are provided. The UE is configured by the base station for operation with an adapted Time Division Duplex (TDD) UpLink-DownLink (UL-DL) configuration. A process enabling the base station to configure a UE with resources for obtaining channel and interference measurements in two sets of Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs) and a process for the UE to obtain a Channel State Information (CSI) from the channel and interference measurements in the two sets of TTIs are provided.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

transmitting, by a base station to a User Equipment (UE), signaling indicating a first Time Division Duplexing (TDD) UpLink-DownLink (UL-DL) configuration, wherein a TDD UL-DL configuration is defined over a time period of ten SubFrames (SFs) that comprise DL SFs where a communication direction is from the base station to the UE, UL SFs where a communication direction is from the UE to the base station, and special SFs where a communication direction can be both from the base station to the UE and from the UE to the base station, and wherein each SF of the ten SFs has a unique time domain index; and

transmitting, by the base station, a control channel configured to convey a DL Control Information (DCI) format indicating an adaptation of the first TDD UL-DL configuration to a second TDD UL-DL configuration;

configuration information for;

resources of a non-zero power Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS)

resources of a first Channel State Information Interference Measurement (CSI-IM), and

resources of a second CSI-IM wherein the non-zero power CSI-RS resources, the first CSI-IM resources and the second CSI-IM resources are respectively in a SF that is a DL SF, the DL SF, and an UL SF in the first TDD UL-DL configuration;

wherein a system information block (SIB) indicating the first TDD UL-DL configuration, the DCI format indicating the second TDD UL-DL configuration, the configuration information is configured to cause the UE to measure a first quantity based on signaling received in the non-zero power CSI-RS resources and on the first CSI-IM resources and a second quantity based on signaling received in the non-zero power CSI-RS resources and on the second CSI-IM resources when the UL SF is a DL SF in the second TDD UL-DL configuration.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the UE computes a first Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) from the first quantity and a second CQI from the second quantity.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first quantity and the second quantity include respectively a first Signal-to-Noise and Interference Ratio (SINR) or a first estimate of a DL channel medium and a second SINR or a second estimate of the DL channel medium.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

configuring, by the base station to the UE, a periodic transmission for the first CSI and a periodic transmission for the second CSI wherein when the first CSI and the second CSI are to be transmitted in a same UL subframe, the UE transmits the second CSI and suspends transmission of the first CSI.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second CSI-IM resources are in every SF that is an UL SF in the first TDD UL-DL configuration and a DL SF in the second TDD UL-DL configuration.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second CSI-IM resources are in a set of configured SFs that include at least one UL SF in the first TDD UL-DL configuration that is a DL SF in the second TDD UL-DL configuration.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, by the base station to the UE, in a DL SF of the second TDD UL-DL configuration that is an UL SF in the first TDD UL-DL configuration, a DCI format scheduling a transmission by the UE of a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) that includes multiplexing in the PUSCH of a Channel State Information (CSI) report, and receiving, from the UE, the CSI report in the PUSCH wherein the UE computed the CSI based on signaling received in the non-zero power CSI-RS resources and in second CSI-IM resources only in the DL SF.

8. A method comprising:

transmitting, by a base station to a User Equipment (UE),

signaling indicating a first Time Division Duplexing (TDD) UpLink-Downlink (UL-DL) configuration, wherein a TDD UL-DL configuration is defined over a time period of ten SubFrames (SFs) that comprise DL SFs where a communication direction is from the base station to the UE, UL SFs where a communication direction is from the UE to the base station, and special SFs where a communication direction can be both from the base station to the UE and from the UE to the base station, and wherein each SF of the ten SFs has a unique time domain index; and

a control channel conveying a DL Control Information (DCI) format indicating an adaptation of the first TDD UL-DL configuration to a second TDD UL-DL configuration,

wherein, in response to receiving the signaling indicating the first TDD UL-DL configuration and the DCI format indicating the second TDD UL-DL configuration; and

the UE measures a first quantity in a first set of DL SFs of the second TDD UL-DL configuration to determine a first Channel State Information (CSI) and a second quantity in a second set of DL SFs of the second TDD UL-DL configuration to determine a second CSI, wherein the UE discards a measurement of the second quantity in a DL SF from the second set of DL SFs from the determination of the second CSI if the measurement value is smaller than a second threshold value.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first set of DL SFs includes all DL SFs of the first TDD UL-DL configuration and the second set of DL SFs includes at least one DL SF of the second TDD UL-DL configuration that is an UL SF in the first TDD UL-DL configuration.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the base station configures to the UE using higher layer signaling, the first set of DL SFs and the second set of DL SFs.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the UE discards a measurement of the first quantity in a DL SF in the first set of DL SFs from the determination of the first CSI if the measurement has a value that is larger than or equal to a first threshold value.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the UE includes the discarded measurement of the second quantity in the determination of the first CSI.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein a measurement is based on one or more Reference Signals (RSs) transmitted by the base station, and the first quantity and the second quantity include a Signal to Noise and Interference Ratio (SINR) the UE computes respectively based on RS reception by the UE in the first set of DL SFs and on RS reception in the second set of DL SFs.

14. A base station comprising:

a transmitter; and

a processor configured to cause the transmitter to transmit, to a User Equipment (UE);

signaling indicating a first Time Division Duplexing (TDD) UpLink-DownLink (UL-DL) configuration, wherein a TDD UL-DL configuration is defined over a time period of ten SubFrames (SFs) that comprise DL SFs where a communication direction is from the base station to the UE, UL SFs where a communication direction is from the UE to the base station, and special SFs where a communication direction can be both from the base station to the UE and from the UE to the base station, and wherein each SF of the ten SFs has a unique time domain index;

a control channel conveying a DL Control Information (DCI) format indicating an adaptation of the first TDD UL-DL configuration to a second TDD UL-DL configuration; and

configuration information for resources of a non-zero power Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS), for resources of a first Channel State Information Interference Measurement (CSI-IM), and for resources of a second CSI-IM wherein, in the first TDD UL-DL configuration, the non-zero power CSI-RS and the first CSI-IM resources are in a DL SF, and the second CSI-IM resources are in an UL SF in the first TDD UL-DL configuration.

15. The base station of claim 14, wherein the second CSI-IM resources are in every SF that is an UL SF in the first TDD UL-DL configuration and a DL SF in the second TDD UL-DL configuration.

16. The base station of claim 14, wherein the second CSI-IM resources are in a set of configured SFs that include at least one UL SF in the first TDD UL-DL configuration that is a DL SF in the second TDD UL-DL configuration.

17. A User Equipment (UE) comprising:

a receiver configured to receive;

signaling transmitted from a base station and indicating a first Time Division Duplexing (TDD) UpLink-DownLink (UL-DL) configuration, wherein a TDD UL-DL configuration is defined over a time period of ten SubFrames (SFs) that comprise DL SFs where a communication direction is from a base station to the UE, UL SFs where a communication direction is from the UE to the base station, and special SFs where a communication direction can be both from the base station to the UE and from the UE to the base station, and wherein each SF of the ten SFs has a unique time domain index;

a control channel transmitted from the base station and conveying a DL Control Information (DCI) format indicating an adaptation of the first TDD UL-DL configuration to a second TDD UL-DL configuration; and

one or more processors configured to measure a first quantity in a first set of DL SFs of the second TDD UL-DL configuration to determine a first Channel State Information (CSI) and a second quantity in a second set of DL SFs of the second TDD UL-DL configuration to determine a second CSI, wherein the one or more processors discard a measurement of the second quantity in a DL SF from the second set of DL SFs from the determination of the second CSI if the measurement value is smaller than a second threshold value.

18. The UE of claim 17, wherein the first set of DL SFs includes all DL SFs of the first TDD UL-DL configuration and the second set of DL SFs includes at least one DL SF of the second TDD UL-DL configuration that is an UL SF in the first TDD UL-DL configuration.

19. The UE of claim 17, wherein the one or more processors discards a measurement of the first quantity in a DL SF in the first set of DL SFs from the determination of the first CSI if the measurement has a value that is larger than or equal to a first threshold value.

20. The UE of claim 17, wherein a measurement is based on one or more Reference Signals (RSs) transmitted by the base station, and the first quantity and the second quantity include a Signal to Noise and Interference Ratio (SINR) the one or more processors computes, respectively, based on RS reception in the first set of DL SFs and on RS reception in the second set of DL SFs.