Background technology
In order to improve transmitting uplink data ability, Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) (FrequencyDivisionDuplex in WCDMA access system (WCDMA), FDD) pattern, high spreading rate time division duplex (HighChipRateTimeDivisionDuplex, HCRTDD) pattern and TD-SCDMA system (TD-SCDMA, be also called low spreading rate tdd mode, LCRTDD) in succession in Release6 and Release7 of 3G (Third Generation) Moblie standardization body definition, up enhancing (EnhancedUplink) technology is introduced, be called high speed uplink packet access (HighSpeedUplinkPacketAccess, HSUPA) technology.
HSUPA uses mixed spin system (HybridAutomaticRepeatRequest, HARQ), Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AdaptiveModulationandCode, and the key technology such as fast dispatch AMC), the change of the quick adaptive channel of transfer of data can be made, thus reduction retransmission delay time, improve link performance, elevator system throughput.
In order to support the performance of HSUPA, the new channel of LCRTDD system definition is used for the transmission of data and control signal, and the new channel of definition comprises: Enhanced Uplink Dedicated Channel (E-DCH), E-DCH physical uplink channel (E-PUCH), up-enhancing control channel (E-UCCH), enhanced uplink random access channel (E-RUCCH), E-DCH absolute grant channel (E-AGCH), E-DCH mixed automatic retransfer (HARQ) confirm indicating channel (E-HICH).
Respectively the new channel of definition is described below.
E-DCH channel is high speed uplink shared channel, and be responsible for the resource that carrying private subscribers high speed business data use, comprise power resource, time interval resource, code channel resource etc., this channel can be distributed by base station scheduling.
E-UCCH channel and E-RUCCH channel, for transmitting the signaling information relevant to up enhancing.Wherein E-UCCH channel is E-DCH ascending control channel, together with usually multiplexing with E-DCH, be together mapped to the data block portions of E-PUCH, for carrying up dedicated control signaling, transmit the information that current E-DCHHARQ is correlated with E-DCH; E-RUCCH is E-DCH Stochastic accessing ascending control channel, carries schedule information (SI) and carries out allocation of radio resources for assistant base station to terminal.
E-AGCH is down physical channel, for carrying up E-DCH authorization message.Described authorization message comprises: power grants information, code channel authorization message, time slot authorization message, resource continuous indication information, E-HICH indicate (E-HICHIndicator, EI) information, E-UCCH quantity indication information and do the E-AGCH round-robin queue number of open sea wharf for E-AGCH.The resource such as power, code channel, time slot that terminal is authorized by E-AGCH channel according to base station, carries out transmitting uplink data by up E-DCH channel.
E-HICH is down physical channel, and for transmitting in base station HARQ entity to the confirmation of up E-PUCH channel data, it is defined by the down physical channel of a SF16 and a signature sequence.In community, configurable many E-HICH channels, an E-HICH can carry the confirmation indication information of one or more terminal.Which bar E-CH channel is a terminal use be indicated by the respective indicator EI on E-AGCH.
The transfer of data that LCRTDD system is carried out is divided into two kinds of modes, and one is scheduled transmission, and another kind is non-scheduled transmission.In scheduled transmission modes, Radio Resource carries out dispatching distribution by base station (NodeB), when terminal is without available resources, need on E-RUCCH channel to base station application Radio Resource, base station is terminal distribution Radio Resource by E-AGCH channel again, and for this reason, radio network controller (RNC) needs the relevant information for terminal configuration E-RUCCH channel, as shown in table 1, be the allocation list of E-RUCCH channel defined in Release8.
Table 1
Above-described HSUPA is based on single-carrier technology, namely terminal is only in the transmission of the enterprising row data of carrier wave, the control information of E-RUCCH channel and resource indication information are configured in a carrier wave by RNC, and terminal directly can carry out E-RUCCH access according to the configuration information received.
But because Traffic Channel and control channel are all on a carrier wave, when this carrier wave can be used in the resource-constrained of HSUPA, in single carrier HSUPA technology, the peak value of transmission rate will be limited to the quantity of code channel, in order to improve transmission rate further, propose multi-carrier HSUPA technology.
There is the terminal of multi-carrier HSUPA ability when carrying out scheduled transmission, need equally to apply for Radio Resource by E-RUCCH channel to base station, but multi-carrier HSUPA terminal may be simultaneously operated on multiple carrier wave, namely can carry out E-RUCCH access over a number of carriers, if utilize the configuration mode of existing single carrier HSUPA, terminal cannot determine the carrier wave that carry out E-RUCCH access on which carrier wave, and causing E-RUCCH to access can not correctly perform.
Summary of the invention
The embodiment of the present invention provides the indicating means of E-RUCCH channel in a kind of multicarrier, system, radio network controller and terminal, solve multi-carrier HSUPA terminal when carrying out multicarrier E-RUCCH and accessing, the problem carrying out the carrier wave of E-RUCCH access cannot be determined.
An indicating means of enhanced uplink random access channel E-RUCCH in multicarrier, described method comprises:
The carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place of radio network controller (RNC) determination terminal, described E-RUCCH channel be RNC utilize its this terminal can carrier wave in the carrier wave selected come for this terminal distribution, wherein, RNC selects the mode of carrier wave to be in the available carrier wave of this terminal: when resource occupation amount is less, selects whole available carrier wave of terminal; Or, according to performance or the channel condition of terminal, from the available carrier wave of terminal, select at least one carrier wave;
The carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place of each terminal is sent to corresponding terminal by RNC, indicates described terminal to determine the carrier wave at E-RUCCH channel place by the carrier identification received.
A kind of radio network controller, described radio network controller comprises:
Carrier identification determination module, for determining the carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place of terminal, described E-RUCCH channel be RNC utilize its this terminal can carrier wave in the carrier wave selected come for this terminal distribution, wherein, RNC selects the mode of carrier wave to be in the available carrier wave of this terminal: when resource occupation amount is less, selects whole available carrier wave of terminal; Or, according to performance or the channel condition of terminal, from the available carrier wave of terminal, select at least one carrier wave;
Sending module, the carrier identification for all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place by each terminal sends to corresponding terminal, indicates described terminal to determine the carrier wave at E-RUCCH channel place by the carrier identification received.
An indication mechanism for E-RUCCH channel in multicarrier, described system comprises radio network controller and terminal, wherein:
Radio network controller, for determining the carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place of described terminal, and the carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place of each terminal is sent to corresponding terminal, described E-RUCCH channel be RNC utilize its this terminal can carrier wave in the carrier wave selected come for this terminal distribution, wherein, RNC selects the mode of carrier wave to be in the available carrier wave of this terminal: when resource occupation amount is less, selects whole available carrier wave of terminal; Or, according to performance or the channel condition of terminal, from the available carrier wave of terminal, select at least one carrier wave;
Terminal, determines the carrier wave at E-RUCCH channel place for the carrier identification by receiving.
A kind of terminal, described terminal comprises:
Receiver module, for receiving the carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place of described terminal, described E-RUCCH channel be RNC utilize its this terminal can carrier wave in the carrier wave selected come for this terminal distribution, wherein, RNC selects the mode of carrier wave to be in the available carrier wave of this terminal: when resource occupation amount is less, selects whole available carrier wave of terminal; Or, according to performance or the channel condition of terminal, from the available carrier wave of terminal, select at least one carrier wave;
Executive Module, for determining the carrier wave at E-RUCCH channel place according to the carrier identification received.
The present invention is after terminal distributes E-RUCCH channel at least one carrier wave by RNC, the carrier identification of E-RUCCH channel place carrier wave is sent to terminal, terminal is enable correctly to know the carrier wave with E-RUCCH channel according to the carrier identification received, solve in multi-carrier HSUPA technology, terminal is not determined as the problem of the carrier wave at the E-RUCCH channel place of terminal distribution, realizes E-RUCCH access while of making terminal whole over a number of carriers.
Embodiment
In order in multi-carrier HSUPA technology, terminal is enable to know the carrier wave at E-RUCCH channel place, the present invention proposes when RNC is the relevant information of terminal configuration E-RUCCH channel, the mark of each E-RUCCH channel place carrier wave is placed in configuration information simultaneously, after terminal receives the configuration information that RNC issues, correctly can find the E-RUCCH channel in carrier wave according to carrier identification wherein, and then carry out E-RUCCH access.
Multi-carrier HSUPA system or high-speed packet access (HSPA) and follow-up evolution system can be applied in various embodiments of the present invention, the terminal related to is the terminal with multi-carrier HSUPA ability, and the carrier identification related to is the information that uniquely can represent carrier wave.
Below in conjunction with Figure of description, the embodiment of the present invention is described in detail.
As shown in Figure 1, in the embodiment of the present invention one to the indicating means step schematic diagram of E-RUCCH channel, as can be seen from the figure said method comprising the steps of:
Step 101:RNC from terminal can carrier wave select at least one carrier wave.
RNC selects the mode of carrier wave can have multiple, such as: when resource occupation amount is less, can select whole available carrier wave of terminal; Or, according to performance or the channel condition of terminal, from the available carrier wave of terminal, select at least one carrier wave.
Step 102:RNC is described terminal distribution E-RUCCH channel in the carrier wave selected.
RNC can be described terminal distribution E-RUCCH channel in the carrier wave of each selection.
RNC is that terminal distribution E-RUCCH channel comprises: be the control information in terminal configuration E-RUCCH channel and physical resource indication information.It is one or more that one of them control information can comprise in following parameter: E-RUCCH timer (T-RUCCH), E-RUCCH counter (N-RUCCH), scheduling waiting timer (T-WAIT), scheduling activation period timer (T-SI), expansion detection window (ExtendedEstimationWindow), E-RUCCH access service grade (E-RUCCHAccessServiceclass), the E-RUCCH persistence probability factor (E-RUCCHpersistencescalingfactorlist), it is one or more that physical resource indication information can comprise in following parameter: multi-upstream access code information (SYNC_ULinfo), Physical Random Access Channel information (PRACHInformation).
Step 103:RNC determines the carrier identification of each carrier wave at the E-RUCCH channel place of described terminal.
In the present embodiment, RNC can be one or more terminal distribution channels simultaneously, such as: RNC can determine the available carrier wave of terminal A and terminal B respectively, and for terminal A configures E-RUCCH channel in the available carrier wave of terminal A, for terminal B configures E-RUCCH channel in the available carrier wave of terminal B.
The carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place of the just each terminal of step 104:RNC sends to corresponding terminal.
In this step, carrier identification is sent to the corresponding relation simultaneously also sending the channel of the configuration in each carrier identification carrier wave corresponding with this mark during corresponding terminal to terminal by RNC, and what configure in the carrier wave that the carrier identification that notification terminal receives is corresponding is E-RUCCH channel.Such as: RNC selects two carrier waves from the available carrier wave of terminal A, mark is respectively carrier wave 1 and carrier wave 2.The E-RUCCH channel of RNC difference configurating terminal A in two carrier waves, when then carrier wave 1 and carrier wave 2 are sent to terminal A as carrier identification by RNC, the corresponding relation notification terminal A of channel that simultaneously can also will configure in carrier wave and carrier wave, corresponding relation is here: be configured with an E-RUCCH channel in the carrier wave of carrier wave 1 correspondence; An E-RUCCH channel is configured with in the carrier wave of carrier wave 2 correspondence.Terminal receives the corresponding relation of the channel of carrier identification and carrier identification and configuration, and after determining corresponding carrier wave according to the carrier identification received, can know in the carrier wave determined to have E-RUCCH channel.
If RNC is terminal A and terminal B configure E-RUCCH channel simultaneously, then in this step, the carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place configured for terminal A is sent to corresponding terminal (terminal A) by RNC, and the carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place configured for terminal B is sent to corresponding terminal (terminal B) by RNC.
After RNC determines the carrier identification of the carrier wave at the E-RUCCH channel place of terminal, control information and the physical resource indication information of each E-RUCCH channel of terminal can be determined further, then the control information of all E-RUCCH channels of terminal and physical resource indication information are sent to corresponding terminal, namely the control information of all E-RUCCH channels of terminal A and physical resource indication information send to terminal A, and control information and the physical resource indication information of all E-RUCCH channels of terminal B send to terminal B.
Control information and the physical resource indication information of E-RUCCH channel can send with carrier identification simultaneously, also first can send carrier identification, or first send control information and the physical resource indication information of E-RUCCH channel.
In follow-up embodiment, can regard that RNC configures the method for E-RUCCH channel to terminal A as, RNC is that the method for terminal B configuration E-RUCCH channel is identical.
The all carrier identification determined, control information, physical resource indication information can be sent to described terminal by system broadcast message or dedicated signaling notice by RNC.Here system broadcast message can be system information block 5 (SIB5) in system broadcast message, and system broadcast message is transmitted by Uu interface; Dedicated signaling can be the dedicated signaling of the wave point (Uu interface) between UE and UTRAN, comprises that radio bearer is set up, radio bearer is reshuffled, transmission channel is reshuffled, physical channel is reshuffled and the signaling such as cell update confirmation.
Step 105: terminal determines the carrier wave at E-RUCCH channel place by the carrier identification received.
Further, terminal, according to the control information of the E-RUCCH channel received and physical resource indication information, corresponding carrier wave carries out E-RUCCH access.
By step 101 in embodiment one to the scheme of step 105, the mark of each E-RUCCH channel place carrier wave of terminal is configured in and sends in the information of terminal by RNC, allow terminal accurately can find available multiple E-RUCCH channels, realize the operation simultaneously carrying out E-RUCCH access over a number of carriers.
In the present embodiment one, RNC can distribute E-RUCCH channel for terminal in multiple carrier wave, because each E-RUCCH channel has its relevant information (comprising the information such as mark of control information, physical resource indication information and place carrier wave), therefore, the relevant information in the E-RUCCH channel distributed can be regarded as a set of E-RUCCH channel of distribution.
The mode that RNC configures a set of E-RUCCH channel can have multiple, include but not limited to following two kinds of modes: a kind of mode is the control information of all E-RUCCH channel sharings, another kind of mode is that each E-RUCCH channel has an independently control information, is described respectively below to these two kinds of modes.
The mode of all E-RUCCH channel sharings control information refers to: be many cover E-RUCCH channel sharings control information of terminal distribution, the mark of the physical resource indication information of each E-RUCCH channel and this E-RUCCH channel place carrier wave is sent to corresponding terminal by RNC respectively, a control information of each E-RUCCH channel sharing is sent to corresponding terminal.Terminal, when carrying out E-RUCCH access, utilizes a unique control information to carry out access control.
Utilize the manner can reduce the quantity of configuration information, reduce the expense of Uu interface signaling.
As shown in table 2, for sharing multicarrier E-RUCCH channel configuration table in a control information mode in the embodiment of the present invention one.Allocation list shown in table 2 be the allocation list of the E-RUCCH channel defined in the Release8 shown in table 1 basis on increased two signalings newly, the quantity of physical resource indication information in the E-RUCCH channel of a denoting signaling configuration, its value is an integer of 1 ~ N, the mark of another denoting signaling E-RUCCH channel place carrier wave.Because each E-RUCCH channel configures a physical resource indication information, but all E-RUCCH channels only have a control information, therefore, only need the number of physical resource indication information and the mark of place carrier wave in configuration E-RUCCH channel in allocation list shown in table 2, terminal just can confirm that current each E-RUCCH channel safeguards a control information jointly.Such as: RNC is that terminal is assigned with E-RUCCH channel (E-RUCCH_1 and E-RUCCH_2) respectively in two carrier waves, the physical resource indication information for each E-RUCCH channel allocation, and the control information that has been two E-RUCCH channel configurations, here control information comprises Parameter N-RUCCH, represents that frequency of failure when terminal E-RUCCH accesses can not be greater than N.
The physical resource indication information of the mark of E-RUCCH_1 channel place carrier wave, E-RUCCH_1 channel, the mark of E-RUCCH_2 channel place carrier wave, the physical resource indication information of E-RUCCH_2 channel and a control information are sent to terminal by RNC.The mark of terminal according to E-RUCCH_1 channel place carrier wave and the physical resource indication information of E-RUCCH_1 channel, initiate the access of E-RUCCH_1, and record access failure number of times; The mark of terminal according to E-RUCCH_2 channel place carrier wave and the physical resource indication information of E-RUCCH_2 channel simultaneously, initiates the access of E-RUCCH_2, and records access failure number of times.Access failure number of times sum in two E-RUCCH channels and the N-RUCCH parameter in control information compare by terminal, judge whether can access successfully.In this example, the access control process of two E-RUCCH channels all utilizes a control information to carry out.
Table 2
Each E-RUCCH channel has an independently control information mode to refer to: every suit E-RUCCH channel at least comprises the mark of a control information, physical resource indication information and this channel place carrier wave.The content of the control information in any two cover E-RUCCH channels may identical also possibility difference.The information of often overlapping in E-RUCCH channel is sent to terminal by RNC, in units of the information of terminal in a set of E-RUCCH channel, initiates the access for an E-RUCCH.
Utilize the manner that E-RUCCH channel configuration process can be made more flexible, meet the application under various varying environment.
As shown in table 3, for E-RUCCH channel each in the embodiment of the present invention one has the multicarrier E-RUCCH channel configuration table of an independently control information mode, allocation list shown in table 3 be the allocation list of the E-RUCCH channel defined in the Release8 shown in table 1 basis on increased two signalings newly,, a quantity for the E-RUCCH channel of denoting signaling configuration, its value is an integer of 1 ~ N, the mark of another denoting signaling E-RUCCH channel place carrier wave.By the allocation list shown in table 3, terminal can know the relevant information of each E-RUCCH channel.
Such as: RNC is that terminal distributes E-RUCCH channel on two carrier waves, and be each E-RUCCH channel configuration physical resource indication information and control information, the carrier identification of multiple E-RUCCH channels obtained after configuration, physical resource indication information and control information are divided into groups, makes the control information in same E-RUCCH channel, the mark of physical resource indication information and this E-RUCCH channel place carrier wave belongs to same group.The one group of information obtained is exactly a set of E-RUCCH channel.
RNC is by after grouping obtain each group, the control information often organized, send to described terminal after physical resource indication information and carrier identification binding, that is, RNC is by the mark of E-RUCCH_1 channel place carrier wave, send to terminal after the physical resource indication information of E-RUCCH_1 channel and control information (control information here the comprises Parameter N-RUCCH) binding of E-RUCCH_1 channel, simultaneously by the mark of E-RUCCH_2 channel place carrier wave, send to terminal after the physical resource indication information of E-RUCCH_2 channel and control information (control information here the comprises Parameter N-RUCCH) binding of E-RUCCH_2 channel.
Terminal is according to the control information of the mark of E-RUCCH_1 channel place carrier wave, the physical resource indication information of E-RUCCH_1 channel and E-RUCCH_1 channel, initiate the access of E-RUCCH_1, and record access failure number of times, N-RUCCH parameter in the frequency of failure of this record and the control information of E-RUCCH_1 channel is compared, namely utilizes the control information in same set of E-RUCCH channel to control this E-RUCCH access.Simultaneously terminal can also according to the control information of the physical resource indication information of the mark of E-RUCCH_2 channel place carrier wave, E-RUCCH_2 channel and E-RUCCH_2 channel, initiate the access of E-RUCCH_2, and record access failure number of times, N-RUCCH parameter in the frequency of failure of this record and the control information of E-RUCCH_2 channel is compared, realizes access control.
Table 3
The embodiment of the present invention two also provides the indication mechanism of E-RUCCH channel in a kind of multicarrier, as shown in Figure 2, described system comprises radio network controller 11 and terminal 12, wherein: the carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place of each terminal for determining the carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place of described terminal, and is sent to corresponding terminal by radio network controller 11; Terminal 12 determines the carrier wave at E-RUCCH channel place for the carrier identification by receiving.
Each carrier identification can also be sent to terminal with the corresponding relation of the channel configured in corresponding carrier wave and this carrier wave by RNC, enables terminal according to after the carrier identification determination carrier wave received, and then what determine to configure in each carrier wave is E-RUCCH channel.
The quantity of terminal 12 can be one also can be multiple.
Further, carrier identification corresponding for terminal is sent to terminal 12 by system broadcast message or dedicated signaling by Uu interface by described RNC, also can regard that carrier identification corresponding for terminal is passed through terminal 12 by base station by RNC as.
The embodiment of the present invention three also provides a kind of radio network controller, as shown in Figure 3, described radio network controller comprises carrier identification determination module 21 and sending module 22, wherein: carrier identification determination module 21 is for determining the carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place of terminal; Sending module 22 sends to corresponding terminal for the carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place by each terminal, indicates described terminal to determine the carrier wave at E-RUCCH channel place by the carrier identification received.
Described radio network controller also comprises information determination module 23, for determining control information and the physical resource indication information of each E-RUCCH channel of described terminal.Described sending module 22 also sends to corresponding terminal for the control information of all E-RUCCH channels by described terminal and physical resource indication information, indicates described terminal to access according to the control information of this E-RUCCH channel and physical resource indication information.
When information determination module 23 determines each E-RUCCH channel sharing control information of terminal, the mark of the physical resource indication information of each E-RUCCH channel and this E-RUCCH channel place carrier wave sends to described terminal by sending module 22 respectively, and a control information of each E-RUCCH channel sharing is sent to terminal.
When information determination module 23 determines that each E-RUCCH channel has independently control information, described sending module 22 is for being divided in same group by the mark of the control information in same E-RUCCH channel, physical resource indication information and this E-RUCCH channel place carrier wave, and by after dividing obtain each group, send to described terminal after the control information often organized, physical resource indication information and carrier identification binding.
Control information in carrier identification, E-RUCCH channel, physical resource indication information can be passed through terminal by base station by described sending module.
The embodiment of the present invention four also provides a kind of terminal, and as shown in Figure 4, described terminal comprises receiver module 31 and Executive Module 32, wherein: receiver module 31 is for receiving the carrier identification of all carrier waves at the E-RUCCH channel place of described terminal; Executive Module 32 is for determining the carrier wave at E-RUCCH channel place according to the carrier identification received.
The carrier identification that described terminal receives is sent by RNC and by base station transparent transmission.