Device in wireless communication system and method

• US 10,624,048 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2016
• Issued: 04/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hu, Bingshan, Sun, Chen, Guo, Xin, Lu, Penshun
• Primary Examiner(s): Cunningham, Kevin M
• Application Number:
  US15/760,502
• Publication Number:
  US 20180263002A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,300 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/06 Hybrid resource partitioning, e.g. channel borrowing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/143 Downlink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/34 TPC management, i.e. sharing limited amount of power among users or channels or data types, e.g. cell loading
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/54 Signalisation aspects of the TPC commands, e.g. frame structure
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management

Abstract

A main carrier on a licensed frequency band and a plurality of auxiliary carriers on an unlicensed frequency band exist in a wireless communication system, and a device at a base-station side in the wireless communication system includes: a controller configured to conduct power adjustment according to a result of detecting the usability of the plurality of auxiliary carriers, to enable a predetermined transmission power pre-allocated to one or more unavailable auxiliary carriers to be allocated to an auxiliary carrier to be used in available auxiliary carriers; and a communication unit configured to send a power adjustment result of the control unit to a user equipment, wherein the power adjustment result at least includes information instructing whether the power allocation changes.

Claims

1. A device on a base station side in a wireless communication system in which there are a primary component carrier on a licensed band and a plurality of secondary component carriers on an unlicensed band, the device comprising:

a control unit configured to perform, according to an availability detection result for the plurality of secondary component carriers, power adjustment so that predetermined transmission power pre-allocated to one or more unavailable secondary component carriers is allocated to a secondary component carrier to be used among available secondary component carriers; and

a communication unit configured to send a power adjustment result of the control unit to a user equipment, the power adjustment result comprising at least information indicating whether power allocation is changed and an offset amount of the power adjustment,

wherein the communication unit is further configured to send uplink scheduling grant signaling for the plurality of secondary component carriers to the user equipment, and receive the availability detection result for the plurality of secondary component carriers reported by the user equipment according to the uplink scheduling grant signaling.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit is further configured to interact, via X2 signaling, the availability detection result and the power adjustment result with a neighboring base station of the base station.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit is further configured to activate/deactivate the plurality of secondary component carriers according to a result of the interaction.

4. The device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a detecting unit configured to detect availability of the plurality of secondary component carriers to determine the unavailable secondary component carriers and the available secondary component carriers; and

a power control information generating unit configured to generate power control information comprising the power adjustment result,

wherein the control unit is further configured to perform the power adjustment according to a detection result of the detecting unit, and

the communication unit is further configured to send the power control information to the user equipment and perform downlink signal transmission according to the power adjustment result.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein the power control information generating unit is further configured to generate the power control information for each of the plurality of secondary component carriers.

6. The device according to claim 4, wherein the power control information generating unit is further configured to generate the power control information common to the plurality of secondary component carriers.

7. The device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit is further configured to perform the power adjustment according to the availability detection result from the user equipment, and

wherein the communication unit is further configured to comprise the power adjustment result in the uplink scheduling grant signaling to send it to the user equipment in a next cycle.

8. The device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a detecting unit configured to detect availability of a specific secondary component carrier among the plurality of secondary component carriers,

wherein the communication unit is further configured to send, if the detecting unit detects that the specific secondary component carrier is available, the uplink scheduling grant signaling to the user equipment over the specific secondary component carrier.

9. The device according to claim 7, wherein the communication unit is further configured to send the uplink scheduling grant signaling to the user equipment over the primary component carrier.

10. The device according to claim 7, wherein the control unit is further configured to perform the power adjustment by allocating resource blocks to be used for transmission blocks transmitted by the one or more unavailable secondary component carriers to a transmission block transmitted by the secondary component carrier to be used among the available secondary component carriers or by adjusting a modulation coding scheme to be used for the transmission block transmitted by the secondary component carrier to be used among the available secondary component carriers.

11. The device according to claim 7, wherein the control unit is further configured to recognize a reason of uplink data transmission failure according to the availability detection result from the user equipment, so as to adjust a size of a contention window of the plurality of secondary component carriers.

12. A device on a user equipment side in a wireless communication system, the device comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive a power adjustment result from a base station, so that predetermined transmission power pre-allocated to one or more unavailable secondary component carriers is allocated to a secondary component carrier to be used among available secondary component carriers, the power adjustment result comprising at least information indicating whether power allocation is changed and an offset amount of the power adjustment;

a control unit configured to perform a corresponding operation according to the power adjustment result;

a detecting unit configured to detect availability of the plurality of secondary component carriers according to the uplink scheduling grant signaling; and

a sending unit configured to send a detection result of the detecting unit to the base station.

13. The device according to claim 12, wherein the receiving unit is further configured to receive power control information comprising the power adjustment result from the base station, and the control unit is further configured to obtain the power adjustment result by decoding the power control information to control a channel status information measurement result and/or a radio resource management measurement result.

14. The device according to claim 13, wherein the control unit is further configured to obtain the power adjustment result by decoding the power control information common to the plurality of secondary component carriers.

15. The device according to claim 12, wherein the receiving unit is further configured to receive uplink scheduling grant signaling for the plurality of secondary component carriers from the base station,

wherein the power adjustment result is made by the base station according to the detection result of the detecting unit.

16. The device according to claim 15, wherein the sending unit is further configured to perform, if the detection result indicates that a specific secondary component carrier is available, uplink data transmission to the base station over the specific secondary component carrier according to the power adjustment result comprised in the uplink scheduling grant signaling in next cycle.

17. A method on a base station side in a wireless communication system in which there are a primary component carrier on a licensed band and a plurality of secondary component carriers on an unlicensed band, the method comprising:

a control step of performing, according to an availability detection result for the plurality of secondary component carriers, power adjustment so that predetermined transmission power pre-allocated to one or more unavailable secondary component carriers is allocated to a secondary component carrier to be used among available secondary component carriers; and

a communication step of sending a power adjustment result to a user equipment, the power adjustment result comprising at least information indicating whether power allocation is changed and an offset amount of the power adjustment,

wherein the communication unit is further configured to send uplink scheduling grant signaling for the plurality of secondary component carriers to the user equipment, and receive the availability detection result for the plurality of secondary component carriers reported by the user equipment according to the uplink scheduling grant signaling.