Control channel signalling for triggering the independent transmission of a channel quality indicator

• US 8,385,239 B2
• Filed: 04/02/2009
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 (IP Bridge, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Wengerter, Christian, Lohr, Joachim, Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Alexander
• Primary Examiner(s): LEVITAN, DMITRY
• Application Number:
  US12/989,017
• Publication Number:
  US 20110103335A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,426 Days
• Field of Search: 370/310, 370328-330, 370342-349, 455450-452, 455/455
• US Class Current: 370/310
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0007 by modifying the frame length
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0025 Transmission of mode-switching indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0027 Scheduling of signalling, e.g. occurrence thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0029 Reduction of the amount of signalling, e.g. retention of useful signalling or differential signalling power control H04W52/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1819 with retransmission of additional or different redundancy
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0021 in which codes are applied as a frequency-domain sequences, e.g. MC-CDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0057 Physical resource allocation for CQI
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/14 using intermediate storage
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/02 Hybrid access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

The invention suggests a method for providing control signalling in a communication system of generating a control channel signal comprising a transport format and a channel quality indicator trigger signal for triggering a transmission of a channel quality indicator by at least one terminal to the base station, and transmitting the generated control channel signal to at least one terminal, wherein said transport format is a predetermined format for user data transmission by the at least one terminal to the base station and said control channel signal indicates a predetermined mode for reporting the channel quality indicator to the base station, wherein the channel quality indicator transmission is to be triggered by the at least one terminal based on the channel quality indicator trigger signal.

Claims

1. A method comprising the following steps performed by a mobile terminal:

receiving a control channel signal from a base station, wherein the control channel signal comprises a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) Index, information on resource blocks used for a transmission from the mobile terminal to the base station, and a channel quality indicator trigger for triggering a transmission of an aperiodic channel quality indicator report to the base station,

in case when the channel quality indicator trigger is set and the control channel signal indicates a determined value of the MCS Index and also indicates a number of resource blocks that is smaller than or equal to a determined number of resource blocks, transmitting the aperiodic channel quality indicator report to the base station without multiplexing the aperiodic channel quality indicator report, with data to be transmitted by the mobile terminal via an Uplink Shared Channel (UL-SCH), and

in case (a) when the channel quality indicator trigger is set and the control channel signal does not indicate the determined value of the MCS Index, or in case (b) when the channel quality indicator trigger is set and the control channel does not indicate a number of resource blocks that is smaller than or equal to the determined number of resource blocks, transmitting the aperiodic channel quality indicator report to the base station while multiplexing the aperiodic channel quality indicator report with data to be transmitted by the mobile terminal via the UL-SCH.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determined MCS Index has value 29.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal is configured to feed back the aperiodic channel quality indicator report on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) based on one of a plurality of reporting modes.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) is used to transmit the aperiodic channel quality indicator report.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the channel quality indicator trigger is a Channel Quality Indicator request bit.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determined MCS Index indicates a redundancy version with value 1.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determined number of resource blocks is smaller than 10.

8. A mobile terminal comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a control channel signal from a base station, wherein the control channel signal comprises a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) Index, information on resource blocks used for a transmission from the mobile terminal to the base station, and a channel quality indicator trigger for triggering a transmission of an aperiodic channel quality indicator report to the base station, and

a transmitter configured to transmit the aperiodic channel quality indicator report to the base station, the transmitter being further configured;

to transmit the aperiodic channel quality indicator report without multiplexing the aperiodic channel quality indicator report with data to be transmitted by the mobile terminal via an Uplink Shared Channel (UL-SCH), in case when the channel quality indicator trigger is set and the control channel signal indicates a determined value of the MCS Index and also indicates a number of resource blocks that is smaller than or equal to a determined number of resource blocks, and

to transmit the aperiodic channel quality indicator report while multiplexing the aperiodic channel quality indicator report, with data to be transmitted by the mobile terminal via the UL-SCH, in case (a) when the channel quality indicator trigger is set and the control channel signal does not indicate the determined value of the MCS Index, or in case (b) when the channel quality indicator trigger is set and the control channel does not indicate a number of resource blocks that is smaller than or equal to the determined number of resource blocks.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, wherein the determined MCS Index has value 29.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, which is configured to feed back the aperiodic channel quality indicator report on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) based on one of a plurality of reporting modes.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, wherein the transmitter is configured to use a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) to transmit the aperiodic channel quality indicator report.

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, wherein the determined MCS Index indicates a redundancy version with value 1.

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, wherein the determined number of resource blocks is smaller than 10.

14. A base station comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a control channel signal to a mobile terminal, wherein the control channel signal comprises a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) Index, information on resource blocks used for a transmission from the mobile terminal to the base station, and a channel quality indicator trigger for triggering a transmission of an aperiodic channel quality indicator report from the mobile station to the base station, and

a receiver configured to receive from the mobile terminal the aperiodic channel quality indicator report when the channel quality indicator trigger is set, wherein the aperiodic channel quality indicator report is not multiplexed with data transmitted by the mobile terminal via an Uplink Shared Channel (UL-SCH) in case when the control channel signal indicates a determined value of the MCS Index and also indicates a number of resource blocks that is smaller than or equal to a determined number of resource blocks, and wherein the aperiodic channel quality indicator report is multiplexed with data transmitted by the mobile terminal via the UL-SCH, in case (a) when the control channel signal does not indicate the determined value of the MCS Index, or in case (b) when the control channel does not indicate a number of resource blocks that is smaller than or equal to the determined number of resource blocks.

15. The base station according to claim 14, wherein the determined MCS Index has value 29.

16. The base station according to claim 14, which is configured to receive the aperiodic channel quality indicator report on a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) based on one of a plurality of reporting modes.

17. The base station according to claim 14, wherein the receiver is configured to use a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) to receive the aperiodic channel quality indicator report.

18. The base station according to claim 14, wherein the determined MCS Index indicates a redundancy version with value 1.

19. The base station according to claim 14, wherein the determined number of resource blocks is smaller than 10.