Method for transition between distributed transmission and localized transmission

• US 8,208,855 B2
• Filed: 01/08/2007
• Issued: 06/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Samsung Telecom R&D Center (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.), Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Beijing Samsung Telecom R&D Center (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.), Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Ju-Ho, Li, Xiaoqiang, Sun, Chengjun, Sun, Chunying, Zhang, Yujian
• Primary Examiner(s): Pan, Yuwen
• Application Number:
  US12/160,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20090130985A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,996 Days
• Field of Search: 455/63.1, 455/65, 455/67.11
• US Class Current: 455/63.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0001 Systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality, e.g. power backoff adaptive data allocation for multicarrier modulation H04L5/0044; controlling transmission power for radio systems H04W52/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0044 allocation of payload

Abstract

Provided is a method for transitioning between a distributed transmission mode and a localized transmission mode, including transmitting, by a Base Station (BS), a measurement control message to a User Element (UE), wherein the UE makes corresponding measurement and transmits a required measurement report message to the BS and the BS transmits a transition indicator message of new mode to the UE based on measurement report message sent from the UE; and commencing CQI reporting and a downlink transmission of a new mode between the UE and the BS. The BS can choose a more appropriate transmission mode for the downlink transmission based on changing characteristics of the channel in the time domain and the frequency domain.

Claims

1. A method of transitioning between a distributed transmission mode and a localized transmission mode, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting, by a Base Station (BS), a measurement control message to a User Equipment (UE);

performing, by the UE, a measurement corresponding to the measurement control message;

transmitting a measurement report message based on the measurement to the BS;

transmitting, by the BS, a transition indicator message of a new mode to the UE, based on the measurement report message sent from the UE; and

performing Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) reporting and a downlink transmission of the new mode between the UE and the BS begins,

wherein the new mode includes one of the distributed transmission mode and the localized transmission mode, and

wherein the measurement report message includes a value indicating downlink channel fading selectivity in a frequency domain, which satisfies a threshold indicated by the BS to the UE.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the distributed transmission mode reports a single CQI of an entire frequency band to the BS for the UE.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the localized transmission mode reports several CQIs of several sub-frequency bands to the BS for the UE.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the measurement control message includes a report condition to be measured by the UE.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the measurement control message includes the threshold indicated by the BS to the UE.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the measurement control message includes a period of measurement report indicated by the BS to the UE.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the measurement report message further includes an event type.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the event type indicates a comparison result of the value indicating the downlink channel fading selectivity and a threshold indicated by the BS.