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Abstract
The same uplink time-frequency resource is scheduled 202 to at least two terminal devices and sensing periods of unequal lengths are allocated 204 to the terminal devices. A sensing period defines a duration for which a terminal device senses the uplink time-frequency resource for a conflicting transmission before transmitting in the uplink time-frequency resource. Additionally, the same uplink reference signal sequence may be allocated to the terminal devices. The lengths of the sensing periods may be multiples of an uplink symbol duration. Preferably, a shorter sensing period is allocated to a terminal having higher transmission priority and a longer sensing period is allocated to a terminal having lower transmission priority. A sensing period may be allocated dynamically together with a scheduling message delivering to the terminal device an indication of the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource. Sensing periods may be allocated only to terminal devices operating on an unlicensed frequency band.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of radio communications and, particularly, but not exclusively, to using channel sensing for uplink transmission in a radio communications system, such as a cellular communications system.
Background
In a modem cellular radio communications system, a base station or another element of a respective cellular communications network infrastructure (the terms communicat ion(s) system' and communication(s) network' may be used interchangeably hereinafter) schedules uplink and downlink transmission opportunities to terminal devices. With respect to uplink scheduling, typically separate communication resources are scheduled to the terminal devices so as to avoid collisions. Some cellular communications systems employ spatial multiplexing, e.g. multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO), to schedule at least two terminal devices to transmit in the same time-frequency resources. The at least two terminal devices may be separated in the space domain by using multiple reception antennas and appropriate signal processing in the base station.
Summary
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided method comprising: scheduling the same uplink time-frequency resource to at least two terminal devices operating in a radio communications network; and allocating sensing periods of unequal lengths to the at least two terminal devices, wherein each sensing period defines a duration for which a respective terminal device senses the uplink time-frequency resource for a conflicting transmission before transmitting in the uplink time-frequency resource.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising: acquiring, in a terminal device of a radio communications network, a scheduling message scheduling to the terminal device an uplink transmission in an uplink time-frequency resource; determining a sensing period unique in the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource; and causing the terminal device to sense the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource for a conflicting transmission for the duration of the sensing period before transmitting in the uplink time-frequency resource.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising processing means arranged to: schedule the same uplink time-frequency resource to at least two terminal devices of a radio communication system; and allocate sensing periods of unequal lengths to the at least two terminal devices, wherein each sensing period defines a duration for which a terminal device senses the uplink time-frequency resource for a conflicting transmission before transmitting in the uplink time-frequency resource.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising processing means arrangcd to: acquire a scheduling message addressed to a terminal device and scheduling to the terminal device an uplink transmission in an uplink time-frequency resource; determine a sensing period unique in thc scheduled uplink time-frequency resource; and cause the terminal device to sense the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource for a conflicting transmission for the duration of the sensing period before transmitting in the uplink time-frequency resource.
According to yet another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer program product embodied on a computer readable distribution medium which, when loaded into an apparatus, executes one of the foregoing methods.
Further aspects and embodiments of the present invention will become apparent from the following description, claims and drawings.
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Embodiments of the present invention are described below, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a diagram that illustrates a cellular communication scenario to which embodiments of the invention may be applied; Figures 2 and 3 are flow diagrams depicting processes for channel sensing before an uplink transmission according to embodiments of the invention; Figure 4 is a signalling diagram of a procedure for channel sensing before an uplink transmission according to an embodiment of the invention; Figure 5 is a diagram that illustrates scheduling combined with channel sensing according to an embodiment of the invention; Figure 6 is a signalling diagram of a procedure for channel sensing before an uplink transmission according to another embodiment of the invention; Figure 7 is a signalling diagram that illustrates a procedure for grouping terminal devices according to an embodiment of the invention; and Figures and 9 are block diagrams of apparatuses according to embodiments of the invention.
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The following embodiments are exemplary. Although the specification may refer to si bnd', or omë' embodiment(s) in several locations, this does not necessarily mean that each such reference is to the same embodiment(s), or that the feature only applies to a single embodiment. Single features of different embodiments may also be combined to provide other embodiments. Furthermore, words "comprising' and "including' should be understood as not limiting the described embodiments to consist of only those features that have been mentioned and such embodiments may contain also features/structures that have not been specifically mentioned.
A general communication scenario to which embodiments of the present invention may be applied is illustrated in Figure 1. Referring to Figure 1, a scenario where two neighbouring cells 100, 102 served by respective base stations 104, 106 is under consideration. The coverage areas of the cells 100, 102 may overlap at least partly, which is a common scenario in cellular communication systems. Terminal devices 110 to 116 are located in the coverage areas of the cells 100, 102, and the terminal device 110 is served by the base station 104, while the other terminal devices 112 to 116 are served by the base station 106. Each cell 100, 102 may be any type of a cell used in state-of-the-art cellular communication systems, e.g. a macro cell, a micro cell, a pieo cell, or a femto cell. The cells 100, 102 may belong to the fixed network infrastructure designed by network plamiing by an operator, or the cells 100, 1 02 may be set up for use in an office or at home, wherein the list of served terminal devices may be predefined and limited to certain terminal devices. The cells 100, 102 may utilize frequency bands licensed to the cellular systems, while in some embodiments the cells 100, 102 may expand their operating frequency band to unlicensed frequencies. Such unlicensed frequencies may include an Industrial, Scientific, Medical (ISM) band and/or television (TV) white spaces. With respect to the TV white spaces, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States has issued a report and order (R&O) which permits the use of TV white space spectrum.
White space is the term used by the FCC for a part of the TV spectrum which is not being occupied for primary usage e.g. by TV or wireless microphone transmitters. The cellular communication system comprising the base stations 100, 102 and/or other corresponding network elements may be configured to utilize available frequency bands of such a spectrum having a frequency band on a very high frequency (VHF) band (30 to 300 MHz), ultra-high frequency (UHF) band (300 to 3000 MHz), and/or other frequency bands. The available TV white space frequencies in each area are listed in a database to which the cellular communication system has an access. In addition to the list of free frequency bands, the database may specify transmission power restrictions applicable to each geographical area. The idea is that the condition for using the TV white spaces is that the cellular communication system does not interfere with a primary system, e.g. a television broadcast system.
The cellular communication system may be based on the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) or any one of its evolution versions (e.g. long-term evolution, LTE, or LTE-Advanced), a system based on International Mobile Telecommunication (IMT) standard or any one of its evolution versions (e.g. IMT-Advanced), Worldwide Intcroperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX). However, the cellular system is not limited to these examples and it may be any other wireless network within the scope of the present claims.
According to an embodiment, the cellular communication system employs a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) scheme in uplink transmission at least on some frequencies used by the cellular communication system. The CSMA scheme may be defined as a listen-before-talk procedure in which a device senses a radio channel for a conflicting transmission before accessing the radio channel. Upon sensing that the channel is free for a determined duration, the channel access is enabled.
Let us now consider some embodiments of the invention for using the CSMA in a system in which the base station 104, 106 or another corresponding network element schedules uplink time-frequency resources to the terminal devices to 116. A time-frequency resource may be understood as a determined number of frequency resource blocks that are scheduled to a given terminal device for the duration of a transmission time interval. The number of frequency resource blocks determines the scheduled bandwidth, while the transmission time interval defines the duration of the scheduling. A transmission time interval may be I ms or one sub-
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Figures 2 and 3 illustrate an embodiment from the point of view of the network element (Figure 2) and the terminal device (Figure 3).
Referring to Figure 2, the network element, e.g. the base station 106, schedules in block 202 the same uplink time-frequency resource to at least two terminal devices, e.g. the terminal devices 112, 114. In block 204, the network element allocates sensing periods of unequal lengths to the at least two terminal devices. The sensing period defines a duration a terminal device senses the uplink time-frequency resource for a conflicting transmission before transmitting in the uplink time-frequency resource. Note that the order in which the steps 202, 204 are carried out is reversed in some embodiments. It should be understood that the allocation of the sensing period may precede the scheduling command.
Referring to Figure 3, a scheduling message is acquired in the terminal device 110 to 116 in block 302. The scheduling message schedules to the terminal device 110 to 116 an uplink transmission in an uplink time-frequency resource. In block 304, a sensing period unique in the scheduled uplinlc time-frequency resource is determined. It should be understood that no other terminal device is scheduled to have the same sensing period associated with the same time-frequency resource.
In block 306, the terminal device 110 to 116 is configured to sense or scan the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource for a conflicting transmission for the duration of the sensing period before transmitting in the uplink time-frequency resource. In an embodiment, if a conflicting transmission is detected during the sensing period (block 308), the uplink transmission in the scheduled time-frequency resource is prevented in block 310. On the other hand, if no conflicting transmissions are detected during the sensing period (block 308), the uplink transmission in the scheduled time-frequency resource is enabled in block 312, and the terminal device 110 to 116 is configured to carry out the uplink transmission.
In the above-described embodiment, the network element schedules the same time-frequency resource to the plurality of terminal devices. Furthermore, the network element allocates sensing periods of different lengths to the plurality of terminal devices. As a consequence, the terminal devices scheduled to the same time-frequency resource are effectively configured to sense the time-frequency resource for a different time period. This results in a situation where a terminal device having a shorter sensing period occupies the time-frequency resource unless it detects a conflicting transmission. If the terminal device detects the conflicting transmission, it does not occupy the time-frequency resource. Then, the other terminal device having a longer sensing period may gain a transmission opportunity, if it does not detect the conflicting fransmission. This scheme reduces the waste of time-frequency resources in a case where the terminal device prevents the transmission because of a detected conflicting transmission; although the conflicting transmission would not interfere with the reception in the base station. The reduction is because at least one other terminaL device is scheduled to the same time-frequency resource, and the probability of actually using the time-frequency resource increases in proportion to the number of terminal devices scheduled to the time-frequency resource. However, the number of terminal devices scheduled to thc same time-frequency resource may be limited to two, three, or four terminal devices in order to reduce the number of unnecessary scheduling operations.
In an embodiment, the length of the sensing period is linked to an uplink transmission priority of the terminal device. The network element may allocate a shorter sensing period to a terminal device having a high transmission priority, while the network element may allocate a longer sensing period to a terminal device having a lower transmission priority. Accordingly, the length of the sensing period may be proportional to the uplink transmission priority of the terminal device. The transmission priority may refer to a required uplink data throughput, transmission delay, or any other priority classification. In an embodiment, the priority classification is defined in terms of quality of service (QoS) requirements. In another embodiment, the priority classification is defined in terms of user priority, e.g. a higher priority may be assigned to terminal devices related emergency communications while a lower priority may be assigned to a terminal device of a conventional consumer.
In an embodiment, the length of the sensing period is defined as a multiple of uplink symbol duration in the cellular communication system. As the symbol is a unit of uplink transmission, the multiple of one symbol duration maybe understood as a limit to the resolution of the sensing period allocation. In an embodiment the length of the sensing period is defined as a multiple of two uplink symbol durations. For example, let us consider a situation where a first terminal device having a shorter sensing period first senses the channel and, thereafter, starts to transmit a first uplink symbol, e.g. a single-carrier frequency division multiple access symbol. During the first symbol duration, a second terminal device scheduled to the same time-frequency resource and sensing the time-frequency resource receives the first symbol. Let us assume that the second terminal device needs some time to process the received signal (the first symbol). As a consequence, when the second terminal device makes the decision of a conflicting transmission, the first terminal device may already be sending the second symbol. Therefore, in order to prevent the second terminal device from being assigned a sensing period that is longer than the sensing period of the first terminal device by a margin that is too small, the sensing periods may be defined as multiples of two, three, or more uplink symbol durations, depending on the processing delays when evaluating the presence of conflicting transmissions.
In an embodiment, the network element is configured to arrange the channel sensing prior to the transmission only on frequency bands not licensed to the cellular telecommunication system. As a consequence, the network element and the terminal device(s) may be configured to apply the sensing periods when a time-frequency resource on the unlicensed spectrum is scheduled to the terminal device(s).
The network element and the terminal device(s) may be configured not to apply the sensing periods when a time-frequency resource on the licensed spectrum is scheduled to the terminal device(s). As a consequence, when the scheduled time-frequency resource is on the licensed spectrum, the network element does not allocate the sensing period and the terminal device does not carry out the channel sensing before the uplink transmission. Both schemes may be in use simultaneously when a given base station operates on the licensed spectrum and on an unlicensed spectrum simultaneously, e.g. in a carrier aggregation configuration.
Let us now turn to a signalling diagram of Figure 4 to discuss an embodiment for carrying out the CSMA in the uplink transmissions. Figure 4 illustrates a signalling diagram where a base station, e.g. base station 106, represents the network element scheduling uplink transmissions of terminal devices (also referred to herein as user equipment, or tiE) UEI and UE2. Referring to Figure 4, the base station determines in Si the transmission priorities of the terminal devices UEi and UE2. The base station may determine different transmission priorities for the terminal devices IJEI, UE2 and, as a consequence, different lengths of the sensing periods will be configured to the terminal devices UEI, UE2. The allocation of the sensing periods may also be carried out in Si. In S2, each terminal device liE 1, UE2 transmits an uplink scheduling request requesting the base station to schedule an uplink transmission resource to the terminal devices IJEI, UE2. In S3, the base station schedules the same time-frequency resource to the terminal devices UEI, IJE2. S3 may comprise selecting the uplink time-frequency resource for the terminal devices UE1, IJE2. In S4, the base station is configured to transmit a scheduling message to the terminal device, wherein the scheduling message may carry a scheduling assignment specifying the uplink time-frequency resource scheduled to the terminal devices UEI, UE2. The scheduling message may be transmitted on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). In an embodiment, the base station is configured to include a sensing period assignment in the PDCCH and to transmit the sensing period assignment in connection with the scheduling message. The scheduling assignment and the sensing period assignment may both be transmitted in the same frame on the
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PDCCI-I. The sensing period assignment may be comprised in a downlink control information (DCI) message on the PDCCH, e.g. DCI format 0 (zero) message. In an embodiment, a new field is defined in the DCI format 0 message to carry the sensing period assignment. Upon reception of the scheduling message and the sensing period assignment, the terminal devices UE1, UE2 prepare for the uplink transmission in the scheduled time-frequency resource. Before the uplink transmission, the terminal devices UE I, UE2 tune their respective receivers to scan the scheduled frequency resource from the beginning of the scheduled transmission time interval (S5). In this example, UE1 is determined in SI to have a higher uplink transmission priority than the uplink transmission priority of UE2 and, accordingly, IJEI has a shorter sensing period than the sensing period of UE2. UE1 senses the time-frequency resource for the duration of the sensing period of UE1 (denoted by Ti in Figure 4). Upon detection of no conflicting transmissions in the time-frequency resource, e.g. no radio energy or no signal is detected or only energy/signal below a determined threshold is detected, UEI carries out uplink transmission of an uplink message in S6. The uplink message may be any message, e.g. a control message and/or data. The uplink message may comprise in identifier of the terminal device UEI in order to enable the base station receiving the uplink transmission to identify which one of the terminal devices IJE1, UE2 carried out the uplink transmission. In an embodiment, the identifier is comprised in a Medium Access Control (MAC) header of the uplink message. The base station may then process the identifier contained in the uplink message, identify the transmitter that transmitted the uplink message in the time-frequency resource, and extract the contents of the uplink message (S6).
Upon detection of the uplink transmission of UEI, the other terminal device UE2 prevents its uplink transmission in the time-frequency resource scheduled in S4. The detection may be based on a result of a signal detection procedure carried out in the time-frequency resource. The signal detection procedure may be based on sensing the presence/absence of radio energy in the time-frequency resource, but it should be apprecited that any other signal detection procedure may be utilized. There may be a short processing delay between the start of the uplink transmission and the start of S7, as shown in Figure 4.
In the embodiment of Figure 4, the sensing period is allocated on a physical layer which enables dynamic reallocation of the sensing period. As a consequence, the base station may rapidly adjust the sensing periods of the terminal devices so as to carry out fair sharing of uplink resources. This prevents a lower priority terminal device from starving caused by losing all the uplink transmission opportunities.
Figure 5 illustratcs a timc-frequency diagram of an embodiment where the base station allocates the time-frequency resources and associated sensing periods to terminal devices in a dynamic manner. This means that the sensing period may be changed between any consecutive scheduled time-frequency resource, e.g. between consecutive transmission time intervals (TTI). Referring to Figure 5, a first time frequency resource represented by F I and TTI1 is scheduled to a first terminal device and a second terminal device. The base station assigns to the first terminal device a sensing period of length denoted by reference number 500 in Figure 5 (see vertical lining). The base station assigns to the second terminal device a sensing period of length denoted by reference number 502 in Figure 5 (sec horizontal lining). As the first terminal device has a shorter sensing period, is has a priority to carry out the uplink transmission during a time interval denoted by 504. Note that in case the first terminal device gains the channel access, the uplink transmission 504 begins from the end of the sensing period 500 of the first terminal device. If the first terminal device does not gain the channel access, the uplink transmission starts after the sensing period 502 of the second terminal device. The base station schedules a time-frequency block denoted by TTI I and F2 and associated sensing period 506 to a third terminal device and, upon detection of no conflicting transmissions during the sensing period 506, the third terminal device carries out the uplink transmission 508.
With respect to the subsequent transmission time interval TTI2, the base station may again schedule the third terminal device to an exclusive time-frequency resource F3, TTI2 with the sensing period 516 and an associated uplink data transmission period 518. The sensing period 516 may be different from the previous sensing period 506. With respect to the other time-frequency resource F4, TTI2, the base station may again schedule the first and second terminal device to the same time-frequency resource. However, the base station may now change the uplink transmission priorities of the terminal devices (Sl in Figure 4) such that the second terminal device now has a higher transmission priority and shorter sensing period 510.
The first terminal device then has a longer sensing period 512. This gives the priority for the channel access to the second terminal device and, therefore, it has a higher probability of carrying out the uplink transmission in 514. This type of dynamic changing enables the base station to control the uplink throughput of the terminal devices as well. For example, if the QoS requirements of the first terminal device are higher than the QoS requirements of the second terminal device, the base station may allocate a higher number of shorter sensing intervals to the first terminal device and a higher number of longer sensing intervals to the second terminal device, e.g. two out of three times the fir st terminal device has a shorter sensing interval and one out of three times the second terminal device has a shorter sensing interval.
It should be noted that the scheduling arrangement of Figure 5 is merely exemplary, and there may be a higher number of frequency resources with different numbers of frequency resource blocks and different sensing periods. The sizes of the scheduled frequency blocks and the sensing periods may vary between the transmission time intervals, as deemed necessary by the network element.
In the embodiments of Figures 4 and 5, the sensing interval was allocated in connection with the scheduling assignment by using physical layer signalling which enables dynamic and fast adaptation of the sensing periods. Let us now consider some further embodiments for signalling the sensing period. In an embodiment, the base station is configured to broadcast mapping information between the uplink transmission priorities and associated sensing periods, and the PDCCI-1 or another control channel carrying out the sensing period assignment may carry an information field containing the uplink transmission priority of a given terminal device. The terminal device may then use the broadcasted mapping information so as to derive the sensing period from the uplink transmission priority information included in the sensing period assignment. In another embodiment, the base station is configured to assign the sensing period through broadcast signalling, and the terminal device is configured to derive the sensing period from a broadcast message received from the base station. In another embodiment, the base station or another network element is configured to assign the sensing period by using a higher level signalling, e.g. radio resource control (RRC) signalling. As a consequence, the sensing period may be seen as a semi-static parameter.
Figure 6 illustrates a signalling diagram encompassing the above-mentioned embodiments for signalling the sensing period as separated from the scheduling assignment. The steps denoted by the same reference signs as in Figure 4 represent similar operations.
In Si, the base station determines the transmission priorities of the terminal devices UBI and IJE2 and selects the sensing periods of the terminal devices UEI, UE2 accordingly. In Sb, the base station is configured to transmit a message pertaining to the sensing periods. In an embodiment, the base station configures the terminal devices UE1, UE2 to apply the selected sensing periods through the RRC signalling, and the message communicated from the base station to the terminal devices in SlO is an RRC message. In another embodiment, the base station configures the terminal devices IJE1, UE2 to apply the selected sensing periods through the broadcast signalling, and the message communicated from the base station to the terminal devices in Sb is a broadcast message. In yet another embodiment, the base station transmits in 510 a broadcast message comprising the above-mentioned mapping information. Thereafter, the terminal devices communicate the scheduling request in 52, the base station schedules the uplink time-frequency resourccs in S3 and 54, and so on in the above-described manner (Figure 4).
In an embodiment, the terminal devices scheduled to use the same time-frequency resource are configured to use at least some of the same uplink transmission parameters. For example, the terminal devices may be configured to use the same uplink demodulation reference signal (DM RS) sequence. The DM RS sequence is transmitted within the uplink transmission and it enables the base station to demodulate the received uplink message. The DM RS sequence and/or associated properties, e.g. a cyclic shift of a base DM RS sequence, may be derived from the scheduling assignment, e.g. from a resource index specifying the scheduled time-frequency resource and contained in the scheduling assignment.
With respect to determining the terminal devices that are to be scheduled to the same time-frequency resource, let us consider some embodiments of a procedure for the base station or another network element to group the terminal devices. In an embodiment, the above-described embodiments for scheduling at least two terminal device to the same time-frequency resource is applied to cells having a coverage area so small that it is probable that all the terminal devices in the cell are able to sense the transmissions of any other terminal device in the cell. Such a cell may be a picocell or a femtocell, for example. In such embodiments, the network element may be configured to group any two or more terminal devices into the samc group and to schedule the same time-frequency resource to the terminal devices in the same group.
Tn a cell having a large coverage area such that terminal devices on opposite edges of the cell cannot detect one another, the network element may use a more sophisticated method for grouping the terminal devices. One criterion for adding at least one other terminal device to the group of a given terminal device is when the network element detects that the number of cancelled uplink transmissions of the terminal device exceeds a determined threshold. This means that the uplink transmission opportunity of the terminal device is constantly prevented by a conflicting transmission. As a consequence, the time-frequency resource is constantly wasted. Therefore, the network clement may add at least one other terminal device to the same group so as to improve the spectrum use. In another embodiment, the network detects increased interference on a given frequency band. The network element may then assign a plurality of terminal devices to the interfered frequency band, if the network element estimates that the interference is still within tolerable limits such that the base station has a chance of decoding an uplink transmission transmitted in the interference frequency resource.
Thereby, the probability of at least one terminal device transmitting in the interfered time-frequency resource is increased. The network element may naturally also consider the interference of the uplink transmission towards the source of the interference on the intcrfcrcd frequency band. For example, if the interference source is a primary system, e.g. a television broadcast system, the network element may choose to avoid that frequency band.
With respect to the grouping, the network element may determine the terminal devices to be grouped on the basis of their locations. In an embodiment, the network element is arranged to receive an estimate of the location of the terminal device in the cell. The location of the terminal devices may be derived by estimating the location of the tcrminal devices by using path loss estimation and/or multi-antenna reception with spatial signal processing. In another embodiment, a positioning system such as GPS (Global Positioning System) is used, and the terminal devices may periodically report their locations. In yet another embodiment, the terminal device may be configured, e.g. by the network element, to scan for uplink transmissions and to derive identities of neighbouring terminal devices from the detected uplink transmissions. The terminal devices may then be configured to report the identities of the detected terminal devices to the network clement. As a consequence, the network element gains knowledge which neighbouring terminal devices are detected by each terminal device. Then, the network element may assign at least some of the terminal devices that are able to detect each other into the same group so as to prevent conflicting uplink transmissions by terminal devices that cannot detect each other.
Referring to Figure 1, the terminal device 110 may constantly interfere with uplink transmissions of the terminal device 112 and, therefore, the base station 106 may choose to add another terminal device to the same group with the terminal device 112. The terminal device 116 on the other edge of the cell 102 may not be a potential candidate because of a high distance between the terminal devices 112, 116.
It may happen that both terminal devices would send an uplink message if they cannot detect each other's transmissions, thus resulting in a conflict. On the other hand, a terminal device 114 close to the terminal device 112 may prove to be a potential candidate for the grouping. Naturally, in some cells there may be a direct line-of-sight between the terminal devices 112, 116 and a concrete wall or another block between the terminal devices 112, 114. Therefore, the base station 106 may configure the terminal devices 112 to 116 to scan for the uplink transmissions of the other terminal devices and to report the identities of the detected terminal devices.
Let us now consider an embodiment for carrying out the grouping. Figure 7 illustrates a signalling diagram of such an embodiment. Figure 7 may be seen as a modification of any onc of the embodiments described above in connection with Figure 4 and Figure 6. Referring to Figure 7, the terminal dcvices TJEI, UE2 are configured to carry out scanning for uplink transmissions by other terminal devices in S21. S21 may be triggered by a command received from the base station, or the terminal devices UEI, 1JE2 may be configured to carry out the scanning periodically without an explicit command from the network. The terminal devices may be configured to monitor for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), andlor physical random access channel (PRACH) transmissions of the other terminal devices, or any other transmissions that comprise an identifier of a transmitting terminal device. This enables the terminal devices UIE1, UE2 to determine the identities of the detected terminal devices (S22). In S23, the terminal devices UEI, TJE2 report the identities of the detected terminal devices to the base station. The report may be transmitted through the uplink RRC signalling, for example. In S24, the base station groups the terminal devices on the basis of the report received from the terminal devices. For example, let us assume that the terminaL devices UFI, IJE2 both report that they detected each other. Then, the base station may be configured to group the terminal devices UEI, UE2 to the same group, provided that the base station has deemed the grouping to be feasible in general. En S25, the base station schedules the same time-frequency resource to the terminal devices in the same group. Note that the base station may have formed a plurality of groups, and it may apply the same rules to each group, c.g. schedule the same time-frequency resource to every terminal device included in the same group. Then, blocks S5 to S7 are carried out in the above-described manner.
Figure 8 illustrates an embodiment of an apparatus comprising means for carrying out the above-mentioned functionalitics of the network clement. The apparatus may be a communication apparatus of a cellular telecommunication system, e.g. an enhanced NodeB of the UMTS LTE-Advanced or another wireless network.
Thc apparatus may be a fixed or a mobile base station operating as an access point for a plurality of terminal devices, or another apparatus in the cellular radio access network. In another embodiment, the apparatus is comprised in such a communication apparatus, e.g. the apparatus may comprise a circuitry, e.g. a chip, a processor, a micro controller, or a combination of such circuitries in the communication apparatus.
The apparatus may comprise a communication controller circuitry 10 configured to control the communications in the communication apparatus. The communication controller circuitry 10 may comprise a control part 12 handling control signalling communication with respect to transmission, reception, and extraction of control frames including the schcduling assignment mcssagcs, the sensing period assignment messages, and any other control messages or control frames, as described above. The communication controller circuitry 10 may further comprise a data part 16 that handles transmission and reception of payload data during transmission time intervals of the communication apparatus (transmission) or transmission opportunities of the terminal devices (reception). The communication controller circuitry 10 may further comprise a scheduling controller circuitry 18 configured to schedule uplink and, optionally, downlink time-frequency resources to the terminal devices. The scheduling controller circuitry 18 may be configured to schedule at least two terminal devices to the same time-frequency resource according to a determined criterion. The information on the terminal devices to which the same time-frequency resource should be scheduled may be received from a terminal device grouping circuitry 15 configured to group the terminal devices in the above-described manner. The terminal device grouping circuitry 15 may also send information on the grouping to a sensing period allocator circuitry 14 configured to determine the sensing periods for the terminal devices. Upon receiving information on the grouping from the terminal device grouping circuitry 15, the sensing period allocator circuitry 14 may ensure that no two terminal devices assigned to the same group are assigned with the same sensing period.
The scheduling controller circuitry 18 may then instruct the control part 12 to transmit the schcduling assignments to the tcrminal devices, and the scnsing period allocator circuitry 14 may instruct the control part 12 to transmit the information on the allocated sensing periods by using appropriate downlink control signalling method.
The circuitries 12 to 18 of the communication controller circuitry 10 may be carried out by the one or more physical circuitries or processors. In practice, the different circuitries may be realized by different computer program modules.
Depending on the specifications and the design of the apparatus, the apparatus may comprise some of the circuitrics 12 to 18 or all of them.
The apparatus may frirther comprise the memory 20 that stores computer programs (software) configuring the apparatus to perform the above-described functionalities of the communication apparatus. The memory 20 may also store communication parameters and other information needed for the wireless communications, e.g. rules for carrying out the grouping and/or currently applicable sensing periods. The apparatus may further comprise radio interface components 22 providing the apparatus with radio communication capabilities with the terminal devices and, optionally, with other network elements of the radio access network, e.g. with other base stations over a wireless X2 interface. The radio interface components 22 may comprise standard well-known components such as amplifier, filter, frequency-converter, (de)modulator, and encoder/decoder circuitries and one or more antennas. The base station may further comprise a communication connection with a core network of the cellular communication system and/or with other network elements of the radio access network.
In an embodiment, the apparatus carrying out the embodiments of the invention in the communication apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code arc configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of the process of Figure 2. In further embodiments, the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to carry out any one of the embodiments related to scheduling the time-frequency resources and/or allocating the sensing periods, as described above in connection with Figures 4 to 7. Accordingly, the at least one processor, the memory, and the computer program code form processing means for carrying out embodiments of the present invention in the wireless communication apparatus.
Figure 9 illustrates an embodiment of an apparatus comprising means for carrying out the above-mentioned functionalities of the terminal device. The apparatus may be a communication apparatus of the cellular telecommunication system, e.g. UE of the UMTS LTE-Advanced. The apparatus may be a computer (PC), a laptop, a tablet computer, a cellular phone, a palm computer, or any other apparatus provided with radio communication capability and operating as the above-mentioned terminaL device. In another embodiment, the apparatus is comprised in such a communication apparatus, e.g. the apparatus may comprise a circuitry, e.g. a chip, a processor, a micro controller, or a combination of such circuitries in the communication apparatus.
The apparatus may comprise a communication controller circuitry 10 configured to control the communications in the communication apparatus. The communication controller circuitry 50 may comprise a control part 52 handling controL signalling communication with respect to reception and extraction of control frames including the scheduling assignments, the sensing period assignments, and any other control messages or control frames, as described above. The control part 52 may also handle transmission of control messages related to the reports about the detected neighbouring terminal devices. The communication controller circuitry 50 may further comprise a data part 56 that handles transmission and reception of payload data during uplink transmission opportunities of the communication apparatus (transmission) or reception of downlink data. The communication controller circuitry 50 may further comprise a sensing controller circuitry 54 configured to receive from the control part a scheduled time-frequency resource and an assigned sensing period. At the beginning of the scheduled time-frequency resource, the sensing controller circuitry 54 is configured to start a timer 58 counting the assigned sensing period and to configure the control part 52 to start scanning the time-frequency resource for a conflicting transmission.
The control part 52 may then measure radio energy or attempt to detect a signal in the time-frequency resource. Upon detecting no conflicting transmissions in the time-frequency resource within the sensing period, the sensing controller circuitry 54 may trigger the data part 56 to start the uplink transmission in the remaining time-frequency resource. However, upon receiving from the control part a notification about the presence of a conflicting transmission, the sensing controller circuitry 54 may cancel the uplink transmission.
The cireuitries 52 to 58 of the communication controller circuitry 50 may be carried out by the one or more physical circuitries or processors. In practice, the different circuitries may be realized by different computer program modules.
Depending on the specifications and the design of the apparatus, the apparatus may comprise some of the circuitrics 52 to 58 or all of them.
The apparatus may frirther comprise the memory 60 that stores computer programs (software) configuring the apparatus to perform the above-described functionalities of the communication apparatus. The memory 60 may also store communication parameters and other information needed for the wireless communications, e.g. communication parameters of the tcrmina! dcvicc. The apparatus may further comprise radio intcrfacc components 62 providing thc apparatus with radio communication capabilitics with the base station and othcr nctwork elements.
The radio interface components 62 may comprise standard well-known components such as amplifier, filter, frequency-converter, (de)modulator, and encoder/decoder circuitries and one or more antennas. The apparatus may further comprise a user interface cnabling intcraction with the uscr of thc communication dcvicc. The uscr interface may comprisc a display, a keypad or a kcyboard, a loudspeaker, ctc.
In an embodiment, the apparatus carrying out the embodiments of thc invcntion in the communication apparatus comprises at Icast onc processor and at least onc mcmory including a computcr program code, wherein thc at least one memory and thc computer program codc arc configured, with the at least onc processor, to cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of the process of Figure 3. In further embodiments, the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to carry out any one of the embodiments related to the terminal device, as described abovc in connection with Figures 3 to 7.
Accordingly, the at least one processor, thc memory, and the computer program codc form processing means for carrying out cmbodimcnts of the present invcntion in thc communication apparatus.
As used in this application, the term circuitry' rcfcrs to all of the following: (a) hardware-only circuit implementations, such as implcmentations in only analog and/or digital circuitry, and (b) to combinations of circuits and software (and/or firmware), such as (as applicable): (i) a combination of processor(s) or (ii) portions of processor(s)/software including digital signal processor(s), software, and memory(ies) that work together to cause an apparatus to perform various functions, and (c) to circuits, such as a microprocessor(s) or a portion of a microprocessor(s), that require software or firmwarc for operation, even if thc software or firmware is not physically present.
This definition of circuitry' applies to all uscs of this term in this application. As a further cxamplc, as used in this application, thc term "circuitry" would also cover an implcmcntation of merely a processor (or multiple processors) or portion of a processor and its (or their) accompanying software and/or firmware. The term "circuitry" would also cover, for example and if applicable to the particular element, a baseband integrated circuit or applications processor integrated circuit for a mobile phone or a similar integrated circuit in server, a cellular network device, or other network device.
The processes or methods described in Figures 2 to 7 may also be carried out in the form of a computer process defined by a computer program. The computer program may be in source code form, object code form, or in some intermediate form, and it may be stored in some sort of carrier, which may be any entity or device capable of carrying the program. Such carriers include a record medium, computer memory, read-only memory, electrical carrier signal, telecommunications signal, software distribution package, and any article of manufacture capable of storing such a computer program, for example. Depending on the processing power needed, the computer program may be executed in a single electronic digital processing unit or it may be distributed amongst a number of processing units.
The present invention is applicable to cellular or mobile telecommunication systems defined above but also to other suitable telecommunication systems. The protocols used, the specifications of mobile telecommunication systems, their network elements and subscriber terminals, deveLop rapidly. Such development may require extra changes to the described embodiments. Therefore, all words and expressions should be interpreted broadly and they are intended to illustrate, not to restrict, the embodiment. It will be obvious to a person skilled in the art that, as technology advances, the inventive concept can be implemented in various ways. The invention and its embodiments arc not limited to the examples described above but may vary within the scope of the claims.
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- <claim-text>Claims 1. A method comprising: scheduling the same uplink time-frequency resource to at least two terminal devices operating in a radio communications network; and allocating sensing periods of unequal lengths to the at least two terminal devices, wherein each sensing period defines a duration for which a respective terminal device senses the uplink time-frequency resource for a conflicting transmission before transmitting in the uplink time-frequency resource.</claim-text> <claim-text>2. The method of claim 1, further comprising allocating to the at least two terminal devices scheduled to the same uplink time-frequency resource the same uplink reference signal sequence.</claim-text> <claim-text>3. The method of any preceding claim, wherein the lengths of the sensing periods are multiples of an uplink symbol duration.</claim-text> <claim-text>4. The method of any preceding claim, further comprising allocating a shorter sensing period to a terminal device having higher transmission priority and a longer sensing period to a terminal device having a lower transmission priority.</claim-text> <claim-text>5. The method of any preceding claim, further comprising allocating the sensing period dynamically together with a scheduling message dclivering to the terminal device an indication of the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource.</claim-text> <claim-text>6. The method of any preceding claim, further comprising allocating the sensing periods only to terminal devices operating on an unlicensed frequency band.</claim-text> <claim-text>7. A method comprising: acquiring, in a terminal device of a radio communications network, a scheduling message scheduling to the terminal device an uplink transmission in an uplink time-frequency resource; determining a sensing period unique in the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource; and causing the terminal device to sense the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource for a conflicting transmission for the duration of the sensing period before transmitting in the uplink time-frequency resource.</claim-text> <claim-text>8. The method of claim 7, further comprising receiving a parameter defining the sensing period from a network element of the cellular communication network.</claim-text> <claim-text>9. The method of claim 7 or 8, further comprising: if the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource has been detected to be free for the duration of the sensing period, causing the terminal device to carry out the uplink transmission in thc scheduled uplink time-frequency resource; and if a conflicting transmission is detected in the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource during the sensing period, preventing the uplink transmission in the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource.</claim-text> <claim-text>10. An apparatus comprising processing means arranged to: schedule the same uplink time-frequency resource to at least two terminal devices of a radio communication system; and allocate sensing periods of unequal lengths to the at least two terminal devices, wherein each sensing period defines a duration for which a terminal device senses the uplink time-frequency resource for a conflicting transmission before transmitting in the uplink time-frequency resource.</claim-text> <claim-text>11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processing means is arranged to allocate to the at least two terminal device scheduled to the same uplink time-frequency resource the same uplink reference signal sequence.</claim-text> <claim-text>12. The apparatus of any preceding claim 10, 11, wherein the lengths of the sensing periods are multiples of an uplink symbol duration.</claim-text> <claim-text>13. The apparatus of any preceding claim 10 to 12, wherein the processing means is arranged allocate a shorter sensing period to a terminal device having higher transmission priority and a longer sensing period to a terminal device having a lower transmission priority.</claim-text> <claim-text>14. The apparatus of any preceding claim 10 to 13, wherein the processing means is arranged to allocate the sensing period dynamically together with a scheduling message delivering to the terminal device an indication of the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource.</claim-text> <claim-text>15. The apparatus of any one of claims 10 to 14, wherein the processing means is arranged to allocate the sensing periods only to terminal devices operating on an unlicensed frequency band.</claim-text> <claim-text>16. An apparatus comprising processing means arranged to: acquire a scheduling message addressed to a terminal device and scheduling to the terminal device an uplink transmission in an uplink time-frequency resource determine a sensing period unique in the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource; and cause the terminal device to sense the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource for a conflicting transmission for the duration of the sensing period before transmitting in the uplink time-frequency resource.</claim-text> <claim-text>17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processing means is arranged to receive a parameter defining the sensing period from a network element of the cellular communication network.</claim-text> <claim-text>18. The apparatus of claim 16 or 17, wherein the processing means is arranged: if the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource has been detected to be free for the duration of the sensing period, to cause the terminal device to carry out the uplink transmission in the scheduled upl[nk time-frequency resource; and if a conflicting transmission is detected in the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource during the sensing period, to prevent the uplink transmission in the scheduled uplink time-frequency resource.</claim-text> <claim-text>19. An apparatus arranged to perform the method according to any one of claims Ito 9.</claim-text> <claim-text>20. A computer program product embodied on a distribution medium readable by a computer and comprising program instructions which, when loaded into an apparatus, execute the method accord[ng to any one of claims I to 9.</claim-text> <claim-text>21. A method according to any one of claims I to 9, wherein the radio communications network is a cellular communications network.</claim-text> <claim-text>22. Apparatus according to any one of claims 10 to 19, wherein the radio communications network is a cellular communications network.</claim-text>
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