Sounding reference signal transmission in carrier aggregation

• US 9,876,618 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2016
• Issued: 01/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Heo, Youn Hyoung, Fong, Mo-Han, Buckley, Michael Eoin, Earnshaw, Andrew Mark, Cai, Zhijun
• Primary Examiner(s): Mui, Gary
• Application Number:
  US15/017,962
• Publication Number:
  US 20160233996A1
• Time in Patent Office: 715 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 5/0066 Requirements on out-of-channel emissions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0078 Timing of allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0096 Indication of changes in allocation
• 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 52/367 Power values between minimum and maximum limits, e.g. dynamic range
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A system and method for transmitting uplink channels for a plurality of uplink component carriers(UL CCs). Based upon a total transmit power exceeding a maximum allowed power, a transmit power is reduced for uplink channel transmissions that comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI); and transmit power is not reduced for one or more other uplink channels that do not include comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI). The uplink channel transmissions and the one or more other uplink channels are simultaneously transmitted in multiple uplink (UL) component carriers (CCs).

Claims

1. A method for transmitting uplink channels for a plurality of uplink component carriers (UL CCs) comprising:

based upon a total transmit power exceeding a maximum allowed power, equally scaling down a transmit power for all uplink channel transmissions that do not comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI) as a scaling operation where at least one uplink channel that comprises Uplink Channel Information (UCI) is transmitted, where the scaling down the transmit power comprises puncturing a last symbol in a subframe of each Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH),

where the uplink channel transmissions that do not comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI) and one or more other uplink channels that do comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI) comprise Physical Uplink Shared CHannels (PUSCHs),

where the uplink channel transmissions and the one or more other uplink channels are simultaneously transmitted in multiple uplink (UL) component carriers (CCs).

2. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the scaling operation comprises applying a signaled ratio to the uplink channel that comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI).

3. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the scaling operation is applied at a subframe.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising not reducing, based upon the total transmit power exceeding the maximum allowed power, transmit power for the one or more other uplink channels that comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI).

5. An apparatus for transmitting a sounding reference symbol (SRS) comprising:

a processor;

memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor for;

receiving and applying a configuration for a plurality of uplink component carriers (UL CCs), where the configuration comprises a first set of uplink channels that comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI) and a second set of uplink channels that do not comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI), wherein the uplink channels in the first set and the second set comprise a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH); and

based on a total transmit power exceeding a maximum allowed power and the configuration comprising the first set of uplink channels and the second set of uplink channels, equally scaling down a transmit power of all uplink channel transmissions in the second set as a scaling operation where the first set of uplink channels is transmitted, where the scaling down the transmit power comprises puncturing a last symbol in a subframe of each Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH).

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein:

the scaling operation comprises applying a signaled ratio to the uplink channel transmissions that comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI).

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein:

the scaling operation is applied at a subframe.

8. The apparatus of claim 5, further comprising not reducing a transmit power of uplink channels in the first set.

9. A method for transmitting uplink channels for a plurality of uplink component carriers (UL CCs), the method comprising:

applying a configuration for a plurality of uplink component carriers(UL CCs) to be simultaneously transmitted, wherein the configuration comprises a first set of uplink channels that comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI) and a second set of uplink channels that do not comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI), wherein the uplink channels in the first set and the second set comprise a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH); and

equally scaling down, only when a total transmit power exceeds a maximum allowed power, a transmit power of all uplink carriers in the second set of uplink channels as a scaling operation where the first set of uplink channels is transmitted, where the scaling down the transmit power comprises puncturing a last symbol in a subframe of each Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH).