Method and apparatus for random access in communications system

• US 9,907,093 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2015
• Issued: 02/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Park, Juho, Song, Young Seog, Lee, Jun Hwan, Choi, Eun-Young, Ko, Young Jo, Bang, Seung Chan
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Parth
• Application Number:
  US14/982,305
• Publication Number:
  US 20160192401A1
• Time in Patent Office: 791 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/046 the resource being in the space domain, e.g. beams
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access

Abstract

In a communications system using a plurality of beams, a terminal determines a beam to be communicated with the terminal among the plurality of beams, determines one sequence among sequences allocated to the determined beam as a beam based random access preamble, and transmits the beam based random access preamble through the determined beam. In addition, if a random access response for the beam based random access preamble is not received from a base station for a set interval, the terminal determines one sequence among sequences in a cell based random access preamble collection as a cell based random access preamble and transmits the cell based random access preamble.

Claims

1. A method for a random access of a terminal in a communications system using at least one beam, the method comprising:

determining a random access preamble from a beam based preamble group and a cell based preamble group, respectively;

if a random access preamble from the beam based preamble group is determined to be used, transmitting the determined random access preamble through a beam among the at least one beam; and

if a random access response for the random access preamble is not received from a base station for a set interval, transmitting the determined random access preamble from another group through the beam,

wherein the cell based preamble group includes random access preambles allocated in each cell, and the beam based preamble group includes random access preambles allocated in each beam,

wherein the determining of the random access preamble from one group includes;

if it does not correspond to any of exception cases, preferentially selecting the random access preamble from the beam based preamble group; and

if it corresponds to any of the exception cases, selecting the new random access preamble from the cell based preamble group, and

wherein the exception cases include;

exception case 1, if a value of path-loss estimated from a reference signal of the base station is greater than a set reference value,

exception case 2, if interference between a beam determined by the terminal and a neighboring beam of the base station is greater than a set reference value, and

exception case 3, in the case in which restriction on latency of the terminal is higher than a set reference.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the set interval includes an interval retransmitting the beam based random access preamble as many as the set number of times.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

a plurality of sequences usable for a random access are classified into the cell based preamble group and the beam based preamble group, and sequences in the beam based preamble group are allocated to the plurality of beams.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

if a random access response for the random access preamble is not received with from the base station within the set interval, increasing transmission power of the random access preamble as many as the set number of times to retransmit the random access preamble.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the beam to be communicated with the terminal includes:

measuring signal quality of each beam based on downlink reference signals each transmitted through the plurality of beams from the base station; and

determining a beam having the best signal quality as a beam to be communicated with the terminal.

6. A method for a random access of a base station in a communications system using a plurality of beams, the method comprising:

performing a detection operation of a random access preamble transmitted from a terminal using random access preambles allocated to a beam based preamble group and a cell based preamble group, respectively;

if a beam based random access preamble from the beam based preamble group is detected from any one of the plurality of beams, transmitting a random access response to the terminal using the beam from which the beam based random access preamble is detected; and

if a cell based random access preamble from a cell based preamble group is detected from at least one of the plurality of beams, transmitting the random access response to the terminal using a beam to which the terminal belongs,

wherein cell based preamble group includes random access preambles allocated in each cell, and the beam based preamble group includes random access preambles allocated in each beam, and

wherein the cell based random access preamble is transmitted upon an assessment made by the terminal of each of the following exception cases;

exception case 1, if a value of path-loss estimated from a reference signal of the base station is greater than a set reference value,

exception case 2, if interference between a beam determined by the terminal and a neighboring beam of the base station is greater than a set reference value, and

exception case 3, in the case in which restriction on latency of the terminal is higher than a set reference.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the performing of the detection operation of the random access preamble includes:

detecting the beam based random access preamble using random access preambles allocated to a corresponding beam for each beam; and

detecting the cell based random access preamble using random access preambles in the cell based preamble group for each beam.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein:

the transmitting of the beam based random access response or the cell based random access response to the terminal using the beam to which the terminal belongs includes confirming the beam to which the terminal belongs.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein:

the confirming of the beam to which the terminal belongs includes;

measuring reception quality of the cell based random access preamble from the at least one beam; and

determining a beam having the highest reception quality of the cell based random access preamble as the beam to which the terminal belongs.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the confirming of the beam to which the terminal belongs includes receiving information of the beam to which the terminal belongs, from the terminal.

11. An apparatus for a random access of a terminal in a communications system using at least one beam, the apparatus comprising:

a processor determining a-random access preamble from a beam based preamble group and a cell based preamble group, respectively; and

a transceiver, if a random access preamble from the beam based preamble group is determined to be used, transmitting the determined random access preamble through a beam among the plurality of beams, and if a random access response for the transmitted random access preamble is not received from a base station for a set interval, transmitting a random access preamble determined from the cell based preamble group,

wherein the cell based preamble group include random access preambles allocated in each cell, and the beam based preamble group includes random access preambles allocated in each beam, and

wherein the processor determines the random access preamble from the cell based preamble group when it corresponds to each of the following exception cases;

exception case 1, if a value of path-loss estimated from a reference signal of the base station is greater than a set reference value,

exception case 2, if interference between a beam determined by the terminal and a neighboring beam of the base station is greater than a set reference value, and

exception case 3, in the case in which restriction on latency of the terminal is higher than a set reference.

12. An apparatus for a random access of a base station in a communications system using a plurality of beams, the apparatus comprising:

a processor performing a detection operation of a beam based random access preamble using random access preambles of a beam based preamble group, and performing a detection operation of a cell based random access preamble using random access preambles of a cell based preamble group; and

a transceiver, if the beam based random access preamble is detected from any one of the plurality of beams, transmitting the random access response to a terminal using the beam from which the beam based random access preamble is detected, and if a cell based random access preamble is detected from at least one of the plurality of beams, transmitting the random access response to the terminal using a beam to which the terminal belongs,

wherein the cell based preamble group includes random access preambles allocated in each cell, and the beam based preamble group includes random access preambles allocated in each beam, and

wherein the cell based random access preamble is transmitted upon an assessment made by the terminal of each of the following exception cases;

exception case 1, if a value of path-loss estimated from a reference signal of the base station is greater than a set reference value,

exception case 2, if interference between a beam determined by the terminal and a neighboring beam of the base station is greater than a set reference value, and

exception case 3, in the case in which restriction on latency of the terminal is higher than a set reference.