Information exchange between base stations

• US 9,826,519 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2016
• Issued: 11/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Inventors: Dinan, Esmael Hejazi
• Primary Examiner(s): Jiang, Charles C
• Assistant Examiner(s): LIN, WILL W
• Application Number:
  US15/184,532
• Publication Number:
  US 20160374058A1
• Time in Patent Office: 523 Days
• Field of Search: 370329, 370330
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0032 Distributed allocation, i.e. involving a plurality of allocating devices, each making partial allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0092 Indication of how the channel is divided
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/27 between access points
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/20 between access points

Abstract

A first base station receives at least one application protocol message from a second base station. The second base station comprises a downlink carrier comprising a plurality of downlink resource blocks. The at least one application protocol message may comprise a second physical downlink control channel configuration. The first base station may transmit a packet comprising acknowledgement for the receipt of the at least one application protocol.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

transmitting, by a computing device and to a first base station;

first configuration information indicating that a first physical downlink control channel associated with the first base station is to begin in time at a first symbol number in a series of symbols of a subframe; and

second configuration information indicating that the first physical downlink control channel is to be transmitted by the first base station in fewer than all subframes of a frame; and

transmitting, by the computing device and to a second base station, the first configuration information to allow the second base station to manage overlap between first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel associated with the first base station and second radio resources of a second physical downlink control channel associated with the second base station.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first configuration information comprises a bitmap indicating the first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first configuration information comprises an index indicating a pre-defined set of resource blocks that comprise the first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first configuration information comprises an indication of a starting offset and bandwidth for the first physical downlink control channel.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second configuration information further indicates a subset of subframes for the first physical downlink control channel.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising configuring, by the second base station and based on the first configuration information, the second radio resources of the second physical downlink control channel associated with the second base station to reduce or avoid overlap between the first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel associated with the first base station and the second radio resources of the second physical downlink control channel associated with the second base station.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, by the computing device and to the first base station, a protected physical downlink control channel carrier component preference list.

8. A method comprising:

transmitting, by a computing device and to a first base station, first configuration information for a first physical downlink control channel associated with the first base station, the first configuration information comprising;

information indicating that the first physical downlink control channel is to begin in time at a first symbol number in a series of symbols of a subframe; and

information indicating that the first physical downlink control channel is to be transmitted by the first base station in fewer than all subframes of a frame;

transmitting, by the computing device and to a second base station, the first configuration information; and

configuring, by the second base station, a second physical downlink control channel associated with a second base station, wherein the configuring is based on the first symbol number of the first physical downlink control channel to manage overlap between first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel and second radio resources of the second physical downlink control channel.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first configuration information comprises a bitmap indicating the first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the first configuration information comprises an index indicating a pre-defined set of resource blocks that comprise the first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the first configuration information comprises an indication of a starting offset and bandwidth for the first physical downlink control channel.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the first configuration information further indicates a subset of subframes for the first physical downlink control channel.

13. A method comprising:

receiving, by a first base station;

first configuration information indicating that a first physical downlink control channel associated with the first base station is to begin in time at a first symbol number in a series of symbols of a subframe; and

second configuration information indicating that the first physical downlink control channel is to be transmitted by the first base station in fewer than all subframes of a frame;

receiving, by a second base station, the first configuration information; and

transmitting, by the second base station, a second physical downlink control channel using second radio resources configured, based on the first configuration information, to manage overlap with first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first configuration information comprises a bitmap indicating the first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the first configuration information comprises an index indicating a pre-defined set of resource blocks that comprise the first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the first configuration information comprises an indication of a starting offset and bandwidth for the first physical downlink control channel.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the first configuration information further indicates a subset of subframes for the first physical downlink control channel.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the transmitting comprises configuring, by the second base station and based on the first configuration information, the second radio resources to reduce overlap between the first radio resources and the second radio resources.

19. The method of claim 13, further comprising transmitting, by a computing device and to the first base station, a protected physical downlink control channel carrier component preference list.

20. The method of claim 13, wherein:

the receiving, by the first base station, the first configuration information and the second configuration information comprises receiving, from a computing device, the first configuration information and the second configuration information; and

the receiving, by the second base station, the first configuration information comprises receiving the first configuration information from the computing device.

21. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device and from the first base station, the first physical downlink control channel.

22. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device and from the second base station, the second physical downlink control channel.

23. A computing device comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to;

transmit, to a first base station;

first configuration information indicating that a first physical downlink control channel associated with the first base station is to begin in time at a first symbol number in a series of symbols of a subframe; and

second configuration information indicating that the first physical downlink control channel is to be transmitted by the first base station in fewer than all subframes of a frame; and

transmit, to a second base station, the first configuration information to allow the second base station to manage overlap between first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel associated with the first base station and second radio resources of a second physical downlink control channel associated with the second base station.

24. The computing device of claim 23, wherein the first configuration information comprises a bitmap indicating the first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

25. The computing device of claim 23, wherein the first configuration information comprises an index indicating a pre-defined set of resource blocks that comprise the first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

26. The computing device of claim 23, wherein the first configuration information comprises an indication of a starting offset and bandwidth for the first physical downlink control channel.

27. The computing device of claim 23, wherein the second configuration information further indicates a subset of subframes for the first physical downlink control channel.

28. The computing device of claim 23, wherein the one or more memories further store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to transmit, to the first base station, a protected physical downlink control channel carrier component preference list.

29. A system comprising:

a computing device configured to;

transmit, to a first base station, first configuration information for a first physical downlink control channel associated with the first base station, the first configuration information comprising;

information indicating that the first physical downlink control channel is to begin in time at a first symbol number in a series of symbols of a subframe; and

information indicating that the first physical downlink control channel is to be transmitted by the first base station in fewer than all subframes of a frame; and

transmit, to a second base station, the first configuration information; and

the second base station, wherein the second base station is configured to configure, based on the first symbol number of the first physical downlink control channel, a second physical downlink control channel associated with the second base station to manage overlap between first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel and second radio resources of the second physical downlink control channel.

30. The system of claim 29, wherein the first configuration information comprises a bitmap indicating the first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

31. The system of claim 29, wherein the first configuration information comprises an index indicating a pre-defined set of resource blocks that comprise the first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

32. The system of claim 29, wherein the first configuration information comprises an indication of a starting offset and bandwidth for the first physical downlink control channel.

33. The system of claim 29, wherein the first configuration information further indicates a subset of subframes for the first physical downlink control channel.

34. A system comprising:

a first base station configured to;

receive first configuration information indicating that a first physical downlink control channel associated with the first base station is to begin in time at a first symbol number in a series of symbols of a subframe; and

receive second configuration information indicating that the first physical downlink control channel is to be transmitted by the first base station in fewer than all subframes of a frame;

a second base station configured to;

receive the first configuration information; and

transmit a second physical downlink control channel using second radio resources configured, based on the first configuration information, to manage overlap with first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel; and

a wireless device configured to receive at least one of the first physical downlink control channel or the second physical downlink control channel.

35. The system of claim 34, wherein the first configuration information comprises a bitmap indicating the first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

36. The system of claim 34, wherein the first configuration information comprises an index indicating a pre-defined set of resource blocks that comprise the first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

37. The system of claim 34, wherein the first configuration information comprises an indication of a starting offset and bandwidth for the first physical downlink control channel.

38. The system of claim 34, wherein the first configuration information further indicates a subset of subframes for the first physical downlink control channel.

39. The system of claim 34, wherein the second base station is configured to use the first configuration information to configure the second radio resources to reduce overlap between the first radio resources and the second radio resources.

40. The system of claim 34, further comprising a computing device configured to transmit, to the first base station, a protected physical downlink control channel carrier component preference list.

41. The system of claim 34, wherein:

the first base station is configured to receive the first configuration information from a computing device; and

the second base station is configured to receive the first configuration information from the computing device.