Method for measuring interference and user equipment for LTE-U

• US 9,949,167 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2015
• Issued: 04/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: You, Hyangsun, Yi, Yunjung, Ahn, Joonkui, Kim, Seonwook
• Primary Examiner(s): Trinh, Sonny
• Application Number:
  US15/325,708
• Publication Number:
  US 20170164230A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,027 Days
• Field of Search: 455 631, 4551142, 4552781
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/24 with feedback of measurements to the transmitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/336 Signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/345 Interference values signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR] H04B17/336
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/04 Error control

Abstract

Provided in one embodiment of the present invention is a method for measuring interference with user equipment (UE) using a licensed band and an unlicensed band, through carrier aggregation (CA) according to long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A). The method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, configuration on the position of a resource for measuring interference in the unlicensed band; measuring, from the position of the resource on the unlicensed band, interference from a wireless LAN (WLAN), excluding interference from the LTE-A; and reporting the measured interference to the base station.

Claims

1. A method for measuring interference in a user equipment using a licensed band and an unlicensed band through LTE-A (Long Term Evolution-Advanced) based carrier aggregation (CA), comprising:

receiving configuration information on at least one or more resources for measuring interference in the unlicensed band from a base station;

measuring interference caused by Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) at the at least one or more resources in the unlicensed band except for interference caused by LTE or the LTE-A; and

reporting the measured interference to the base station,

wherein the configuration information includes information about a position of a specific subframe in a time domain.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration information further includes information about a specific PRB (Physical Resource Block) region or a sub-carrier region in a frequency domain.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the specific PRB region or sub-carrier region is distributed across the whole system bandwidth.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration information is received through upper layer signaling.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration information is obtained from a primary cell or a secondary cell operated by the base station in the unlicensed band.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

measuring the interference caused by LTE or the LTE-A in both-sided edges of the unlicensed band.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one or more resources are located in a middle area of the unlicensed band.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the specific subframe is used to measure the interference caused by WLAN.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the specific subframe is configured with a zero power by the LTE or the LTE-A and for radio resource management—

Interference Measurement (RRM-IM).

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

calculating a received signal strength indicator (RSSI),

wherein RSSI=RSSI_I−

α

*RSSI_w,

wherein RSSI_w denotes a total received power,

wherein RSSI_I denotes a power measured in resources configured for an RRM-IM, and

wherein a denotes an amount of the resources used for measuring RSSI_I/an amount of resources used for measuring RSSI_w.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

measuring interference on at least one or more resources configured for channel status information—

interference measurement (CSI-IM); and

reporting information on the measured interference on the at least one or more resources configured for CSI-IM.

12. A user equipment (UE) using a licensed band and an unlicensed band through LTE-A (Long Term Evolution-Advanced) based carrier aggregation (CA), comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) receiver; and

a processor configured to receive configuration information on at least one or more resources for measuring interference in the unlicensed band from a base station through the RF receiver, to measure interference caused by Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) at the at least one or more resources in the unlicensed band except for interference caused by LTE or the LTE-A, and to report the measured interference to the base station,

wherein the configuration information includes information about a position of a specific subframe in a time domain.

13. The UE of claim 12, wherein the configuration information further includes information about a specific PRB (Physical Resource Block) region or a sub-carrier region in a frequency domain.

14. The UE of claim 13, wherein the specific PRB region or sub-carrier region is distributed across the whole system bandwidth.

15. The UE of claim 12, wherein the configuration information is received through upper layer signaling.

16. The UE of claim 12, wherein the configuration information is obtained from a primary cell or a secondary cell operated by the base station in the unlicensed band.