Power control method for guaranteeing quality of service of device to device direct communication and apparatus therefor

• US 9,883,468 B2
• Filed: 11/22/2013
• Issued: 01/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation), SungKyunKwan University's Research & Business Foundation (SungKyunKwan University)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation), SungKyunKwan University's Research & Business Foundation (SungKyunKwan University)
• Inventors: Seo, Hanbyul, Song, Hojin, Ryu, Jongyeol, Kim, Dongin, Kim, Byounghoon, Choi, Wan
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, DINH
• Application Number:
  US14/901,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20160142986A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,530 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/367 Power values between minimum and maximum limits, e.g. dynamic range
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/383 power control in peer-to-peer links

Abstract

Disclosed is a method of controlling, by a device, power for guaranteeing the quality of service of a device to device (D2D) direct communication. In detail, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, information containing at least one of channel information and information of a receiving side device in a D2D communication; estimating an uplink channel with the base station on the basis of the received information; and selecting a transmission power by comparing the channel gain value of the uplink channel with a threshold value for determining the maximum transmission power, and transmitting data to the base station using the selected transmission power, wherein the channel information comprises at least one of channel information of the D2D communication, uplink channel information between the device and the base station, and interference channel information between the device and the receiving side device in the D2D communication.

Claims

1. A power control method performed by a user equipment to assure quality of service of a device-to-device (D2D) communication, the power control method comprising:

receiving, from a base station, information that includes at least one of channel information and information of a receiving side user equipment in the D2D communication;

estimating a channel gain value of an uplink channel based on the received information; and

selecting a transmission power by comparing the channel gain value of the uplink channel with a threshold value for determining a maximum transmission power, and transmitting data to the base station by using the selected transmission power,

wherein when the channel gain value of the uplink channel is greater than or equal to the threshold value, the selected transmission power is determined to be a smaller value of a first transmission power and a maximum instantaneous power,

wherein when the channel gain value of the uplink channel is smaller than the threshold value, the selected transmission power is determined to be a smaller value of a second transmission power and the maximum instantaneous power,

wherein the threshold value is determined as a function of a probability of outage in the D2D communication, a received power of the D2D communication, and long term statistic information for the D2D communication, and

wherein the channel information includes at least one of channel information of the D2D communication, uplink channel information between the user equipment and the base station, and interference channel information between the user equipment and the receiving side user equipment in the D2D communication.

2. The power control method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of channel information of the D2D communication, uplink channel information between the user equipment and the base station, and interference channel information between the user equipment and the receiving side user equipment in the D2D communication is long term statistic information.

3. The power control method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of a channel of the D2D communication, an uplink channel between the user equipment and the base station and an interference channel between the user equipment and the receiving side user equipment in the D2D communication follows Rayleigh distribution.

4. The power control method according to claim 1, wherein the channel information of the D2D communication is received from the receiving side user equipment in the D2D communication.

5. The power control method according to claim 1, wherein the information of the receiving side user equipment in the D2D communication includes information on information recovery of the receiving side user equipment, and information in the receiving side user equipment is recovered through at least one of single user decoding (SUD) and successive interference cancellation (SIC).

6. The power control method according to claim 5, wherein a transmission rate of data transmitted from the user equipment through an uplink is a maximum transmission rate or less when the information of the receiving side user equipment is recovered through SIC.

7. A power control method performed by a user equipment to assure quality of service of a device-to-device (D2D) communication, the power control method comprising:

receiving, from a base station, information as to a transmission power for transmitting data; and

transmitting the data to the base station by using the transmission power,

wherein the transmission power is a value selected by the base station by comparing a channel gain value of an uplink channel, which is calculated based on at least one of channel information and information of a receiving side user equipment in the D2D communication, with a threshold value for determining a maximum transmission power,

wherein when the channel gain value of the uplink channel is greater than or equal to the threshold value, the selected transmission power is determined to be a smaller value of a first transmission power and a maximum instantaneous power,

wherein when the channel gain value of the uplink channel is smaller than the threshold value, the selected transmission power is determined as a smaller value of a second transmission power and the maximum instantaneous power,

wherein the threshold value is determined as a function of a probability of outage in the D2D communication, a received power of the D2D communication, and long term statistic information for the D2D communication, and

wherein the channel information includes at least one of channel information of the D2D communication, uplink channel information between the user equipment and the base station, and interference channel information between the user equipment and the receiving side user equipment in the D2D communication.

8. The power control method according to claim 7, wherein the information of the receiving side user equipment in the D2D communication includes information on information recovery of the receiving side user equipment, and information in the receiving side user equipment is recovered through at least one of single user decoding (SUD) and successive interference cancellation (SIC).

9. The power control method according to claim 8, wherein a transmission rate of data transmitted from the user equipment through an uplink is a maximum transmission rate or less when the information of the receiving side user equipment is recovered through SIC.

10. The power control method according to claim 9, further comprising the step of receiving information on the transmission rate of the data from the base station.