Additional Carrier Types for LTE

• US 20140226610A1
• Filed: 09/05/2012
• Published: 08/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Nguyen, Phong, Sathananthan, Satha
• Granted Patent: US 9,338,781 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/005 of common pilots, i.e. pilots destined for multiple users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0073 Allocation arrangements that take into account other cell interferences for intercell interference mitigation or co-ordination in orthogonal multiplex systems H04J11/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA

Abstract

A method for transmitting and receiving a carrier segment in a wireless communications system, including a base station and a user equipment, is disclosed. The carrier segment includes a first band having a first bandwidth and a second band having a second bandwidth, wherein a first segment gap is disposed in a frequency domain between the first band and the second band.

Claims

1. A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system, comprising:

transmitting a carrier segment to a user equipment,

wherein the carrier segment comprises;

a first band having a first bandwidth; and

a second band having a second bandwidth,

wherein a first segment gap is disposed in a frequency domain between the first band and the second band.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the carrier segment further comprises:

a third band having a third bandwidth,

wherein a second segment gap is disposed in the frequency domain between the first band and the third band.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the third bandwidth is equal to the second bandwidth.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first bandwidth is greater than 1.4 MHz.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first bandwidth is either one of 1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15, or 20 MHz.

6. The method as claimed in claim in claim 1, wherein the second band includes one or more UE-specific channels.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first band includes a physical downlink common control channel (PDCCH).

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the PDCCH comprises an enhanced physical downlink common control channel (EPDCCH).

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the carrier segment is used as a component carrier for carrier aggregation.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the component carrier is a primary carrier.

11. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the component carrier is a secondary carrier.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first band includes a cell-specific reference signal (CRS).

13. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a signaling message for the carrier segment comprises:

at least one of a master information block and a system information block; and

additional signaling information for the carrier segment.

14. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the additional signaling information is equal to or less than 4 bits.

15. A method implemented in a user equipment used in a wireless communications system, comprising:

receiving a carrier segment from a base station,

wherein the carrier segment comprises;

a first band having a first bandwidth; and

a second band having a second bandwidth,

wherein a first segment gap is disposed in a frequency domain between the first band and the second band.

16. A wireless communications system, comprising:

transmitting a carrier segment from a base station to a user equipment,

wherein the carrier segment comprises;

a first band having a first bandwidth; and

a second band having a second bandwidth,

wherein a first segment gap is disposed in a frequency domain between the first band and the second band.