Wireless communication system, network device, and terminal device

• US 9,515,795 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2012
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nufront Mobile Communications Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nufront Mobile Communications Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Bao, Dongshan, Wang, Jing, Liu, Shenfa, Lei, Jun, Pan, Lijun, Yan, Zhigang, Wang, Feifei
• Primary Examiner(s): Mesfin, Yemane
• Assistant Examiner(s): Elmejjarmi, Abdelillah
• Application Number:
  US14/007,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20140086168A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,720 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0091 Signaling for the administration of the divided path
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0096 Indication of changes in allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1469 using time-sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/54 based on quality criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

Disclosed in present invention is a wireless communication system, comprising: a CAP, for determining a structure of a current physical frame according to scheduled transmission resources, and sending information for indicating the structure of the current physical frame in the current physical frame; and at least one STA communicating with the CAP, for determining the structure of the current physical frame according to the information for indicating the structure of the current physical frame, the length of each physical frame depending on the structure of the current physical frame and being not fixed. Also disclosed are two devices for wireless communication.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system, comprising:

a central access point (CAP), determining current physical frame structure based on scheduled transmission resources, and transmitting information for indicating current physical frame structure in the current physical frame;

wherein the determining current physical frame structure comprises;

configuring leader sequence used for synchronization for current physical, and system information channel used for sending information of indicating current physical frame structure;

wherein said CAP sends leader sequence, and information of indicating current physical frame structure in system information channel;

or configuring leader sequence used for synchronization for current physical, and system information channel used for sending information of indicating current physical frame structure; and

configuring selectively at least one of a plurality of channels for current physical frame;

wherein said CAP sends said leader sequence, and information of indicating current physical frame structure in system information channel; and

transmitting/receiving in the channel that is selectively configured; and

at least one station (STA) communicating with said CAP, according to information for indicating current physical frame structure in physical frame, determining structure of current physical frame;

wherein a length of each physical frame is unfixed, and the length of current physical frame is the sum of duration of each channel in the current physical frame.

2. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the length is determined by a structure of the each physical frame.

3. A network device, comprising:

a processor, according to scheduling transmission resource, determining current physical frame structure; and

a communicator, in communication with the processor, transmitting indication current physical frame structure information in the current physical frame, and communicating with at least one terminal device,

wherein a length of each physical frame is unfixed, and the length of current physical frame is the sum of duration of each channel in the current physical frame,

wherein the determining current physical frame structure comprises;

configuring leader sequence used for synchronization for current physical, and system information channel used for sending information of indicating current physical frame structure;

wherein said communicator sends leader sequence, and information of indicating current physical frame structure in system information channel;

or configuring leader sequence used for synchronization for current physical, and system information channel used for sending information of indicating current physical frame structure; and

configuring selectively at least one of a plurality of channels for current physical frame;

wherein said communicator sends said leader sequence, and information of indicating current physical frame structure in system information channel; and

transmitting/receiving in the channel that is selectively configured.

4. The network device of claim 3, wherein the determining current physical frame structure comprises:

configuring control channel for current physical frame, said control channel used for transmitting information of indicating allocation and scheduling of transmission resource, and transmission format of channel of occupying transmission resource.

5. The network device of claim 4, wherein the communicator sends a leader sequence, transmitting information of indicating current physical frame structure in system information channel;

transmitting information of indicating allocation and scheduling of transmission resource, and transmission format of channel of occupying transmission resource in control channel; and

transmitting/receiving in a selective channel;

said communicator sends said leader sequence;

transmitting a part of information of indicating current physical frame structure in system information channel, wherein including at least duration of the control channel, transmitting another part of information of indicating current physical frame structure in control channel, transmitting information of indicating allocation and scheduling of transmission resource, and transmission format of channel of occupying transmission resource in control channel; and

, transmitting/receiving in the selective channel.

6. The network device of claim 4, wherein the multiplexing resources by one way or combination of time division multiplexing, frequency division multiplex, code division multiple access in said control channel and said system information channel.

7. The network device of claim 3, wherein information of indicating current physical frame structure comprises:

information for indicating presence of first channel;

wherein, said first channel is a channel used for transmitting a signal for downlink probe;

said information of indicating current physical frame structure further comprises;

information for indicating duration of second channel, said duration is greater than or equal to zero;

or

said first channel is uplink random access channel used for triggering new user access.

8. The network device of claim 3, wherein the information of indicating current physical frame structure comprising:

information for indicating presence and duration of first channel information;

wherein,

said first channel is uplink scheduling request channel, used for triggering uplink transmission resource scheduling;

or

said first channel, for transmitting a signal for uplink probe;

said information of indicating current physical frame structure further comprising;

information for indicating duration of second channel, said duration is greater than or equal to zero.

9. The network device of claim 3, wherein the information of indicating current physical frame structure further comprises:

information for indicating duration of second channel, said duration is greater than or equal to zero.

10. A terminal device, comprising:

a processor, parsing information indicating current physical frame structure in current physical frame, determining current physical frame structure; and

a communicator, in connection with the processor, communicating with network device within current physical frame,

wherein a length of each physical frame is unfixed, and the length of current physical frame is the sum of duration of each channel in the current physical frame;

wherein the current physical frame is composed of leader sequence, and, system information channel carrying information of indicating current physical frame structure;

said communicator receiving leader sequence, and, receiving information of indicating current physical frame structure in system information channel;

or

wherein the current physical frame comprising a preamble sequence, system information channel of carrying information indicating current physical frame structure, and, at least one of selective channels;

said communicator receives said leader sequence, and, receives information of indicating current physical frame structure in system information channel; and

transmitting/receiving in the at least one of selective channels.

11. The terminal device of claim 10, wherein the current physical frame structure comprises:

control channel, used for transmitting information of indicating allocation and scheduling of transmission resource, and transmission format of channel of occupying transmission resource.

12. The terminal device of claim 11, wherein the communicator receive a leader sequence, receive information of indicating current physical frame structure in system information channel;

receive information of indicating allocation and scheduling of transmission resource, and transmission format of channel of occupying transmission resource in control channel; and

transmitting/receiving in the at least one of selective channels;

or said communicator receives said leader sequence;

receive a part of information of indicating current physical frame structure in system information channel, wherein including at least duration of the control channel, receives another part of information of indicating current physical frame structure in control channel, receives information of indicating allocation and scheduling of transmission resource, and transmission format of channel of occupying transmission resource in control channel; and

transmitting/receiving in the at least one selective channels.

13. The terminal device of claim 10, when performing transmitting in the at least one of selective channels, said selective channels comprising:

channels, for transmitting a signal for uplink probe;

uplink scheduling request channel, for transmitting uplink scheduling request;

uplink transmission channel, for transmitting uplink traffic, and/or uplink signaling, and/or downlink traffic feedback; and

/or downlink channel quality information (CQI), and/or downlink channel state information (CSI) feedback; and

uplink random access channel, used for triggering new user access;

or

said selectively configured channels comprising;

channels, for transmitting a signal for uplink probe;

uplink scheduling request channel, for transmitting uplink scheduling request;

uplink transmission channel, for transmitting uplink traffic, and/or uplink signaling, and/or downlink traffic feedback;

channel quality information (CQI) feedback channel, for transmitting CQI feedback for downlink;

channel state information (CSI) feedback channels, for transmitting downlink CSI feedback; and

uplink random access channel used for triggering new user access.

14. The terminal device of claim 13 wherein, when perform receiving in the at least one of the selective channels, said selective channels comprise:

first downlink transmission channel, for transmitting downlink traffic, and/or downlink signaling, and/or uplink traffic feedback;

a channel, for transmitting a single for downlink probe; and

second downlink transport channels, for transmitting downlink traffic, and/or downlink signaling, and/or uplink traffic feedback.

15. The terminal device of claim 10, wherein, when performing receiving in at least one of configured selectively channel, said selectively configured channel comprises:

first downlink transmission channel, for transmitting downlink traffic, and/or downlink signaling, and/or uplink traffic feedback;

downlink probing channel, for transmitting downlink probe; and

second downlink transport channels, for transmitting downlink traffic, and/or downlink signaling, and/or uplink traffic feedback.

16. The terminal device of claim 10, wherein the information of indicating current physical frame structure comprises:

information for indicating presence of first channel;

wherein,

said first channel is a channel used for transmitting a signal for downlink probe;

said information of indicating current physical frame structure further comprises;

information for indicating duration of second channel, said duration is greater than or equal to zero;

or

said first channel is uplink random access channel used for triggering new user access.

17. The terminal device of claim 16, wherein the first channel, used for transmitting information of indicating allocation and scheduling of transmission resource, and transmission format of channel of occupying transmission resource;

or

said first channel is an downlink transmission channel;

said information of indicating current physical frame structure further comprising;

information for indicating presence and duration of second channel information;

or

said information of indicating current physical frame structure further comprises;

information for indicating presence of second channel;

or

said first channel is an uplink transmission channel;

said information of indicating current physical frame structure further comprising;

information for indicating presence and duration of second channel information;

or

said information of indicating current physical frame structure comprises;

information for indicating presence of second channel.

18. The terminal device of claim 11, wherein the information of indicating current physical frame structure comprising:

information for indicating presence and duration of first channel information;

wherein,

said first channel is uplink scheduling request channel, used for triggering uplink transmission resource scheduling;

or

said first channel, for transmitting a signal for uplink probe;

said information of indicating current physical frame structure further comprising;

information for indicating duration of second channel, said duration is greater than or equal to zero.

19. The terminal device of claim 10, wherein the information of indicating current physical frame structure further comprises:

information for indicating duration of second channel, said duration is greater than or equal to zero.