Method and apparatus for receiving downlink signals in wireless communication system

• US 9,750,036 B2
• Filed: 12/02/2013
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Seo, Inkwon, Chae, Hyukjin, Seo, Hanbyul
• Primary Examiner(s): Sam, Phirin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ghafoerkhan, Faiyazkhan
• Application Number:
  US14/651,977
• Publication Number:
  US 20150327281A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,366 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/004 using regenerative subtractive interference cancellation
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/005 of intercell interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/541 using the level of interference

Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method by which a terminal receives downlink signals in a wireless communication system. The method for receiving downlink signals include the steps of: receiving information related to an interference signal from a serving cell; and removing interference from a pair of physical resource blocks (PRBs) used for transmitting the downlink signal, wherein the information related to the interference signal includes each use of the PRB pair in a neighboring cell of the serving cell and, when the use is an EPDCCH, an EPDCCH transmission type.

Claims

1. A method of receiving a downlink signal at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving interference information on a PRB (Physical Resource Block) pair used to transmit the downlink signal from a serving cell;

determining a first resource region in the PRB pair in which the UE performs interference cancellation; and

performing interference cancellation in the first resource region based on the interference information, the interference information being of a second resource region,

wherein the second resource region corresponds to the first resource region,

wherein the interference information includes use of each of information of PRB pairs, transmission type information, and information on whether an interference of the second region is homogeneous to an interference of the first resource region, and

wherein the UE performs interference cancellation only in the first resource region corresponding to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) allocated region of the second resource region.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, if each PRB pair is used for the EPDCCH, the EPDCCH transmission type is a localized transmission type and interference is not homogeneous, the UE performs energy detection in enhanced control channel element (ECCE) units, for interference cancellation.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein, if each PRB pair is used for the EPDCCH, the EPDCCH transmission type is a localized transmission type and interference is homogeneous, the UE performs interference cancellation regardless of an aggregation level and antenna port of an EPDCCH via which control information is transmitted.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the downlink signal is one of an EPDCCH or a PDSCH.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein, if each PRB pair is used for the PDSCH, the UE performs interference cancellation regardless of an aggregation level and antenna port of an EPDCCH via which control information is transmitted.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the interference information further includes port information used to transmit an EPDCCH by the neighbor cell in each PRB pair.

7. The method according to claim 4, wherein interference information further includes information related to amount of resource elements used to transmit an EPDCCH by the neighbor cell.

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the interference information includes a cyclic shift type, a subframe type, a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration and a number of EPDCCH symbols.

9. The method according to claim 4, wherein the interference information is determined according to capability information of the UE and the capability information includes a number of types of interference to be cancelled by the UE in one PRB pair.

10. The method according to claim 4, wherein the interference information further includes a scrambling sequence parameter used by the neighbor cell.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the scrambling sequence parameter includes one or both of a cell identifier (ID) and a UE ID.

12. A user equipment (UE) apparatus is in a wireless communication system, the UP apparatus comprising:

a receiver; and

a processor,

wherein the processor configured to;

control the receiver to receive interference information on a PRB (Physical Resource Block) pair used to transmit the downlink signal from a serving cell,

determine a first resource region in the PRB pair in which the UE apparatus performs interference cancellation, and

perform interference cancellation in the first resource region based on the interference information, the interference information being of a second resource region,

wherein the second resource region corresponds to the first resource region,

wherein the interference information includes use of each of information of PRB pairs, transmission type information, and information on whether an interference of the second resource region is homogeneous to an interference of the first resource region, and

wherein the processor performs interference cancellation only in the first resource region corresponding to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) allocated region of the second resource region.