US20130165183A1 - Method and device for communication in a communication network - Google Patents

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US20130165183A1 US13/393,952 US201113393952A US2013165183A1 US 20130165183 A1 US20130165183 A1 US 20130165183A1 US 201113393952 A US201113393952 A US 201113393952A US 2013165183 A1 US2013165183 A1 US 2013165183A1
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  • Embodiments herein relate generally to a user equipment and a method in the user equipment, and to a base station and a method in the base station. More particularly the embodiments herein relate to communication in a communications network.
  • a wireless terminal(s) communicates via a Radio Access Network (RAN) to one or more Core Networks (CN).
  • the wireless terminal is also known as mobile station and/or User Equipment (UE), such as mobile telephones, cellular telephones, smart phones, tablet computers and laptops with wireless capability.
  • UE User Equipment
  • the user equipment's may be, for example, portable, pocket-storable, hand-held, computer-comprised, or vehicle-mounted mobile devices which communicate voice and/or data via the RAN.
  • the term user equipment is used when referring to the wireless terminal.
  • the RAN covers a geographical area via cells, where each cell is being served by a base station, e.g. a Radio Base Station (RBS), which in some networks is also called NodeB, B node, evolved Node B (eNB) or Base Transceiver Station (BTS).
  • RBS Radio Base Station
  • eNB evolved Node B
  • BTS Base Transceiver Station
  • a cell is a logical entity.
  • the cell has been assigned a set of logical resources, such as radio channels that provides for radio communication in a geographical area.
  • the base station at a base station site physically realizes the logical cell resources such as transmitting the channels. From a user equipment perspective the network is represented by a number of cells.
  • RNC Radio Network Controller
  • BSC Base Station Controller
  • the radio network controllers are typically connected to one or more CNs.
  • the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System is a third generation mobile communication system, which evolved from the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), and is intended to provide improved mobile communication services based on Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) access technology.
  • Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) is essentially a RAN using WCDMA for user equipment's.
  • the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has undertaken to evolve further the UTRAN and GSM based RAN technologies.
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • 3GPP 3GPP radio access technology
  • the base stations are connected directly to a CN rather than to RNCs.
  • the functions of a RNC are performed by the base station.
  • the RAN of an LTE system has an essentially “flat” architecture comprising base stations without reporting to RNCs.
  • LTE was introduced in 3GPP with its release 8. Release 9 and release 10 are later releases of LTE.
  • release 8 may be referred to as e.g. rel-8, release 8, LTE release 8 or 3GPP release 8.
  • codeword represents user data before it is formatted for transmission.
  • layer is synonymous with stream.
  • MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output
  • Precoding modifies the layer signals before transmission. This may be done for diversity, beam steering, or spatial multiplexing. Beam forming modifies the transmit signals to give the best Carrier to Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (CINR) at the output of the channel.
  • CINR Interference-plus-Noise Ratio
  • LTE comprises multi-antenna transmission.
  • the different multi-antenna transmission schemes in LTE correspond to different transmission modes (tm).
  • the different transmission modes differ with regards to the specific structure of antenna mapping, Reference Signals (RS) used for demodulation, and channel state information (CSI) feedback.
  • RS Reference Signals
  • CSI channel state information
  • LTE supports nine transmission modes for the DownLink (DL) transmission path. The nine transmission modes are as follows:
  • Modes 1-8 are for LTE release 8/9, and mode 9 is for LTE-Advanced, also referred to as LTE release 10.
  • Mode 9 is a multilayer transmission mode to support closed-loop SU-MIMO and enhanced MU-MIMO support.
  • the transmission modes supported by the base station is decided by the vendor of the base station upon implementation of the base station.
  • the base station configures the transmission mode in the user equipment and hence knows which transmission mode the user equipment is configured with.
  • the spatial multiplexing in mode 3 and 4 is a transmission technique in MIMO wireless communication to transmit independent and separately encoded data signals from each of the multiple transmit antennas.
  • Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) with incremental redundancy is used.
  • HARQ is a technique that enables faster recovery from errors in communication networks by storing corrupted data packets in the receiving device rather than discarding them. Even if retransmitted data packets have errors, a good data packet may be derived from the combination of bad ones. Instead of re-transmitting the same portion of the codeword, different redundancy versions are re-transmitted, yielding an extra gain over Chase combining.
  • a full soft buffer is available at the receiver side such that received soft values/bits for the entire codeword may be stored.
  • a soft bit is a representation of a measure of how likely it is that the bit is a 0 or 1.
  • the soft buffer size in a user equipment is limited.
  • the user equipment may have only limited buffer space and is not able to store the complete codeword. Therefore, the base station and the user equipment should agree on the soft buffer size. Otherwise, the base station may transmit coded bits that the user equipment is not able to store, or worse, the user equipment does not know these are other bits and confuses them with bits it has stored previously.
  • FIG. 1 depicts in simplified form a complete codeword and also how many soft bits the user equipment may store.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an encoded transport block and coded bits stored by the user equipment, i.e. soft buffer size.
  • the complete codeword comprises systematic bits and parity bits.
  • the soft buffer size comprises all systematic bits and some of the parity bits of the complete codeword.
  • Parity bits are bits generated by channel coding using a Forward Error Correction (FEC) channel code such as a turbo code. Parity bits may be used in the receiver to detect and correct transmission errors within the error correction/detection capabilities of the channel code.
  • FEC Forward Error Correction
  • the base station and the user equipment have the same understanding about the soft buffer size, the base station will not transmit coded bits which the user equipment is not able to store. Instead, the base station only takes those coded bits stored by user equipment and uses those bits for (re)transmissions.
  • the term circular buffer refers to an area in a memory which is used to store incoming data. When the buffer is filled, new data is written starting at the beginning of the buffer and overwriting the old.
  • the code word i.e. the systematic bits and the parity bits, are stored in the circular buffer.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates the bits used in a first transmission and re-transmissions, derived from the circular buffer.
  • the size of the circular buffer matches the soft buffer size of the user equipment.
  • the complete circle corresponds to the soft buffer size and not to the entire codeword.
  • In the first transmission depending on the code rate, some or all systematic bits, and none or some parity bits are transmitted.
  • the starting position is changed and bits corresponding to another part of the circumference, e.g. another point in the circular buffer, are transmitted.
  • each user equipment has up to 8 HARQ processes.
  • Each HARQ process may comprise up to two sub-processes for supporting dual-codeword MIMO transmissions.
  • LTE release 8 divides the available soft buffer equally into the configured number of HARQ processes.
  • Each of the divided soft buffers may be used to store soft values of the received codewords.
  • the divided soft buffer is further divided equally to store the soft values of the two received codewords.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates eight allocated soft buffers, where SB 0 illustrates a first soft buffer for a first codeword, SB 1 illustrates a second soft buffer for a second codeword, SB 2 illustrates a third soft buffer for a third codeword etc.
  • FIG. 3 shows soft buffer allocation in LTE release 8 when the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission mode is other than mode 3, 4 or 8. It may be observed that there is a buffer reserved for each codeword.
  • PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel
  • FIG. 4 illustrates sixteen allocated soft buffers, where SB 0 a illustrates a first buffer for a first codeword, SB 0 b illustrates a second buffer for a second codeword, SB 1 a illustrates a third buffer for a third codeword, SB 1 b illustrates a fourth soft buffer for a fourth codeword etc.
  • the soft buffer applies to a codeword.
  • the codeword is a term used for the coded bits associated with a transport block.
  • FIG. 4 shows soft buffer allocation in LTE release 8 when the PDSCH transmission mode is mode 3, 4 or 8.
  • the buffer reserved for each codeword is only half of the previous operating case.
  • the soft buffer limitation problem is particularly acute in dual-codeword MIMO transmission operations. This limitation reduces the effectiveness of soft combining gains from incremental redundancy retransmissions.
  • the LTE release 8 supports bandwidths up to 20 Mega Hertz (MHz).
  • IMT-Advanced International Mobile Telecommunications-Advanced
  • 3GPP has initiated work on LTE release 10.
  • One part of LTE release 10 is to support bandwidths larger than 20 MHz.
  • An important requirement for LTE release 10 is to assure backward compatibility with LTE release 8, including spectrum compatibility.
  • a carrier or LTE release 10 which is wider than 20 MHz, should appear as a number of smaller LTE carriers to a user equipment of LTE release 8.
  • Each such carrier may be referred to as a component carrier.
  • legacy refers to that the user equipment continues to be used, typically because it still functions for the users' needs, even though newer technology or more efficient technology is available.
  • Carrier aggregation implies that a LTE release 10 user equipment may receive multiple component carriers, where the component carriers have, or at least can have, the same width as a LTE release 8 carrier.
  • An example of carrier aggregation is illustrated in FIG. 5 .
  • the x-axis of FIG. 5 denotes the width of the spectrum 501 used for the five component carriers 505 and the y-axis defines the energy per frequency unit 510 .
  • each component carrier operates with its own set of HARQ processes. Since the total soft buffer memory needs to be shared among component carriers, the soft buffer size per component carrier may vary depending on the number of configured component carriers and the configured MIMO transmission modes for each component carriers. The available soft buffer size for each codeword also depends on how the soft buffer is divided and allocated amongst all codewords.
  • Multi-antenna capabilities are included already in LTE release 8, and are important enablers for high data rates, improved coverage and capacity.
  • the multiple antennas at transmitters and receivers may be used in different ways. Diversity techniques are used to improve the robustness of the link, and beamforming techniques may be used to improve the coverage.
  • Spatial multiplexing provides means to enhance the spectral efficiency of the link and may improve the performance of the whole system if properly designed. Peak rates may be substantially increased using spatial multiplexing and may ideally be increased proportionally to the minimum number of transmit and receive antennas of the link provided that the Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (SNR) is high enough and that the channel conditions are beneficial.
  • SNR Signal-to-Noise-Ratio
  • Realistic gains are highly channel dependent, e.g. they require a high SNR and beneficial interference situations of the relevant link, but may be substantially improved provided that the SNR is sufficiently high. Examples are low system load scenarios or when the user equipment is close to the cell center.
  • the downlink of LTE release 8 supports SU-MIMO spatial multiplexing of up to four layers via codebook based precoding.
  • transmit diversity modes as well as beamforming with single-layer transmission are supported in the downlink of LTE release 8.
  • LTE release 9 an enhanced downlink transmission mode is introduced in which the beamforming functionality is extended to also support dual-layer transmission, and in which MU-MIMO operation is offered where different layers are transmitted to different user equipment's.
  • the LTE release 8/9 uplink multi-antenna support is limited to user equipment antenna selection, which is optional in all user equipment categories. The user equipment categories will be described in more detail below.
  • User equipment's may be categorized in different user equipment categories, called UE categories or UE classes, which defines the overall performance and capabilities of the user equipment.
  • the user equipment categories are needed to ensure that the base station may communicate correctly with the user equipment. By letting the base station know the user equipment category, it is able to determine the performance of the user equipment and communicate with it accordingly. Accordingly, the base station will not communicate beyond the performance of the user equipment.
  • Different values of a buffer size are associated with each user equipment category.
  • the user equipment category may be referred to as UE category in some of the figures.
  • LTE release 8/9 there are five user equipment categories, 1-5.
  • LTE release 10 has three additional categories, 6-8, i.e. in all eight user equipment categories for the releases, as shown in Table 1 below.
  • the column 1 comprises the user equipment categories 1-8.
  • the column 2 illustrates that user equipment categories 1-5 are related to LTE release 8/9 and the column 3 illustrates that user equipment categories 1-8 are related to LTE release 10.
  • Table 2 below shows user equipment categories related to LTE release 8/9/10.
  • Column 1 i.e. the left most column, comprises the LTE releases, and column 2 comprises the user equipment categories 1-8.
  • Column 3 comprises the maximum number of Downlink-Shared Channel (DL-SCH) transport block bits received within a Transmission Time Interval (TTI).
  • TTI Transmission Time Interval
  • Column 4 comprises the maximum number of bits of a DL-SCH transport block received within a TTI.
  • Column 5 comprises the total number of soft channel bits.
  • Column 6 comprises the maximum number of supported layers for spatial multiplexing in DL.
  • spatial multiplexing is a transmission technique in MIMO wireless communication to transmit independent and separately encoded data signals from each of the multiple transmit antennas.
  • the different user equipment categories are associated with e.g. a total number of soft channel bits and a maximum number of supported layers for spatial multiplexing in downlink.
  • a user equipment of LTE release 10 supports transmission mode 9 and an 8 layer transmission is only possible with transmission mode 9.
  • the definition of user equipment categories related to LTE release 10 builds upon the principles used in LTE release 8/9, where the number of user equipment categories is limited to avoid fragmentation of user equipment implementation variants in the market.
  • the user equipment categories related to LTE release 10 are defined in terms of peak rate, ranging from 10, 50, 100, 150 and 300 Mbps up to about 3 Gbps in the downlink.
  • Different realizations of the peak rates are possible within a user equipment category.
  • user equipment categories 6 and 7 it is possible to either support two layers of MIMO together with carrier aggregation of 40 MHz, or four layers of MIMO with a single carrier of 20 MHz. Both configurations support up to 300 Mbps.
  • the user equipment categories related to LTE release 8/9 are reused, supporting, e.g. aggregation of two component carriers with up to 10 MHz bandwidth each for a user equipment of user equipment category 3.
  • the user equipment signals the number of supported MIMO layers for each band combination, in line with the requirements from the user equipment categories.
  • LTE release 10 supports a high-end user equipment category combining aggregation of five component carriers of 20 MHz each with eight layer MIMO, which supports a total peak data rate of about 3 Gbps for LTE-Advanced.
  • a LTE release 10 user equipment may indicate two user equipment categories: a user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9, e.g. user equipment category 5, and a user equipment category relating to LTE release 10, e.g. user equipment category 8.
  • a problem is that a base station supporting LTE release 8/9 may only detect the user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9, while a base station supporting LTE release 10 would detect both the user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9 and the user equipment category relating to LTE release 10.
  • a similar problem may also occur if the user equipment relates to a user equipment category 6/7 in a base station supporting LTE release 10, when it indicates a user equipment category 4 relating to LTE release 8/9.
  • the user equipment As the user equipment is not aware of the LTE release of the base station it does not know whether to operate according to the user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9, e.g. category 5, or the category relating to LTE release 10, e.g. category 8. This has serious consequences, as the user equipment would operate differently, depending on the user equipment category.
  • the soft buffer sizes for the two user equipment categories differ. This may result in that the user equipment and base station using different soft buffer size, which leads to corruption of the channel coding, as the rate matching in the base station and the user equipment would be done according to different soft buffer sizes. As a result, the user equipment will not be able to receive data on the PDSCH. The coding protection will not help as the encoded bits will be interleaved into the wrong place.
  • An object of embodiments herein is therefore to obviate at least one of the above disadvantages and to provide improved communication between a user equipment and a base station in a communications network.
  • the object is achieved by a method in a user equipment for communicating with a base station in a communications network.
  • the user equipment is configured to communicate with the base station according to a selectable of at least two user equipment categories.
  • the user equipment selects one of the at least two user equipment categories if information indicating the one of the at least two user equipment categories is received from the base station. If no information indicating which of the at least two user equipment categories is received from the base station, the user equipment selects a default of the at least two user equipment categories.
  • the user equipment determines a soft buffer size of a soft buffer comprised in the user equipment according to the selected user equipment category.
  • the user equipment communicates with the base station according to the selected user equipment category and applying the determined soft buffer size.
  • the object is achieved by a method in a base station for communicating with a user equipment in a communications network.
  • the base station is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to a selectable of at least two user equipment categories.
  • the base station determines a soft buffer size of a soft buffer comprised in the user equipment, based on information indicating one of the at least two user equipment categories.
  • the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the one of the at least two user equipment categories and applying the determined soft buffer size.
  • the object is achieved by a user equipment for communicating with a base station in a communications network.
  • the user equipment is configured to communicate with the base station according to a selectable of at least two user equipment categories.
  • the user equipment comprises a selecting unit configured to select one of the at least two user equipment categories if information indicating the one of the at least two user equipment categories is received from the base station.
  • the selecting unit is further configured to select a default of the at least two user equipment categories if no information indicating which of the at least two user equipment categories is received from the base station.
  • the user equipment comprises a determining unit configured to determine a soft buffer size of a soft buffer comprised in the user equipment according to the selected user equipment category.
  • the user equipment comprises a communicating unit configured to communicate with the base station according to the selected user equipment category and applying the determined soft buffer size.
  • the object is achieved by a base station for communicating with a user equipment in a communications network.
  • the base station is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to a selectable of at least two user equipment categories.
  • the base station comprises a determining unit which is configured to, based on information indicating one of the at least two user equipment categories, determine a soft buffer size of a soft buffer comprised in the user equipment.
  • the base station further comprises a communicating unit configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the one of the at least two user equipment categories and applying the respective soft buffer size.
  • the user equipment Since the user equipment communicates with the base station according to the selected user equipment category and applies the determined soft buffer size, they have a common understanding of the soft buffer size which they shall apply in their communication. Thereby, the communication between the user equipment and base station in the communications network is improved.
  • An advantage of the embodiments herein is that they allow a user equipment of LTE release 10 to operate in a legacy network.
  • An advantage of the embodiments herein is that it allows the introduction in a backward compatible way of user equipment categories related to LTE release 10 with a different soft buffer size compared to the user equipment categories related to previous releases.
  • a further advantage is that the embodiments herein allow the introduction of a new user equipment category(s) with a different soft buffer size than in previous release. These new user equipment categories may then both function in a network of an old release and a network of the new release.
  • An advantage of the embodiments herein is that as the user equipment is aware of the release of the base station, it knows whether to operate according to the user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9, e.g. category 5, or the user equipment category relating to LTE release 10, e.g. category 8. This results in the user equipment and base station using the same soft buffer size, which avoids corruption of the channel coding, as the rate matching in the base station and the user equipment would be done according to the same soft buffer sizes. As a result, the user equipment is able to receive data on PDSCH.
  • a further advantage of the embodiments herein is that they increase the effectiveness of the communications network, in addition to improving the coverage, capacity and performance of the network.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing of an encoded transport block and coded bits stored by a user equipment, i.e. soft buffer size.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing that bits used in the first transmission and re-transmissions are derived from a circular buffer, the size of the circular buffer matching the soft buffer size of the user equipment.
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing soft buffer allocation in LTE release 8 when the PDSCH transmission mode is other than mode 3, 4 or 8.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing soft buffer allocation in LTE release 8 when the PDSCH transmission mode is mode 3, 4 or 8.
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating carrier aggregation.
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram illustrating embodiments of a communications network.
  • FIG. 7 a - d are signaling diagrams illustrating embodiments of a method.
  • FIG. 8 is a flow chart illustrating embodiments of a method in a user equipment.
  • FIG. 9 is a schematic block diagram illustrating embodiments of a user equipment.
  • FIG. 10 a - b are flow charts illustrating embodiments of a method in base station.
  • FIG. 11 is a schematic block diagram illustrating embodiments of a base station.
  • FIG. 12 is a diagrammatic view illustrating embodiments of a base station and a user equipment.
  • FIG. 6 depicts a communications network 600 in which embodiments herein may be implemented.
  • the communications network 600 may in some embodiments apply to one or more radio access technologies such as for example LTE, LTE Advanced, WCDMA, GSM, Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), or any other 3GPP radio access technology.
  • radio access technologies such as for example LTE, LTE Advanced, WCDMA, GSM, Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), or any other 3GPP radio access technology.
  • the communications network 600 comprises a base station 603 serving a cell.
  • the base station 603 may be a base station such as a NodeB, an eNodeB, or any other network unit capable to communicate over a radio carrier 604 with a user equipment 605 being present in the cell.
  • the base station 603 may be of LTE release 8/9 or LTE release 10.
  • the base station 603 may be referred to as BS in some of the figures.
  • the user equipment 605 may be any suitable communication device or computational device with communication capabilities capable to communicate with the base station over a radio channel, for instance but not limited to mobile phone, smart phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), tablet computer, laptop, MP3 player or portable DVD player (or similar media content devices), digital camera, or even stationary devices such as a PC.
  • a PC may also be connected via a mobile station as the end station of the broadcast or multicast media.
  • the user equipment 605 may also be an embedded communication device in e.g. electronic photo frames, cardiac surveillance equipment, intrusion or other surveillance equipment, weather data monitoring systems, vehicle, car or transport communication equipment, etc.
  • the user equipment 605 is referred to as UE in some of the figures.
  • the user equipment 605 may be of LTE release 8/9 or LTE release 10.
  • the base station 603 knows how much memory the user equipment 605 has and encodes the data on PDSCH according to this. Then the user equipment 605 receives data from the base station 603 and decodes the data with the same understanding. If the base station 603 and the user equipment 605 would have different understands of memory size for storing bits, the bits will end up at the wrong place in the interleaving or de-interleaving process, depending on if it is the base station 603 or the user equipment 605 that is doing the error.
  • both the base station 603 and the user equipment 605 need to determine the soft buffer size in some way.
  • the user equipment 605 of LTE release 8/9 is associated with user equipment categories 1-5.
  • the user equipment 605 when being of LTE release 10 may by associated with one of three additional user equipment categories, 6-8, i.e. by associated is here meant that the user equipment 605 is arranged for operation according to this user equipment category.
  • the user equipment 605 of LTE release 10 is allowed to signal for example one user equipment category or two user equipment categories to the base station 603 , independent of which LTE release the base station 603 supports.
  • the user equipment 605 may also indicate a different number of MIMO layers than what is possible in LTE release 8/9.
  • a user equipment 605 of user equipment category 6 or 7 relating to LTE release 10 also signals the user equipment category 4. If the base station 603 is of LTE release 8/9, the base station 603 will only understand that the user equipment 605 is of user equipment category 4. This is because the information on the user equipment category 6 as signalled by the user equipment 605 has a format that a base station 603 of an older release, i.e. LTE release 8/9, does not understand and simply discards this part of the information that relates to the user equipment category 6.
  • a user equipment 605 of user equipment category 8 relating to LTE release 10 also signals information on user equipment category Sand that is not understood by the base station 603 of older release.
  • the two user equipment categories for example user equipment categories 4 and 8 or user equipment categories 5 and 8 that the user equipment 605 is arranged to operate according requires separate sizes of soft buffers.
  • the common understanding between the base station 603 and the user equipment 605 of what user equipment category to apply when two have been informed of by the user equipment 605 is based on what transmission mode is used for the communication. There are transmission modes 1-9 and one of which is applied for the communication between the base station 603 and the user equipment 605 . Decisive for what user equipment category to apply is typically whether the user equipment 605 is configured with transmission mode 9 or not. This is because transmission mode 9 is the one of the transmission modes that is solely used in release 10 and not in any earlier releases.
  • the base station 603 configures the transmission mode in the user equipment 605 and hence knows which transmission mode the user equipment 605 is configured with.
  • the user equipment 605 is of user equipment category 4 and user equipment category 6. If the base station 603 is of LTE release 10, the base station 603 will understand that the user equipment 605 is of both user equipment category 4 and user equipment category 6. However, the user equipment 605 will still only use the soft buffer size associated with user equipment category 4 since it is configured in one of the transmission modes 1-8.
  • the user equipment 605 does not know if the base station 603 has understood that the user equipment 605 is of both user equipment category 4 and 6. In other words, the user equipment 605 will apply a soft buffer size corresponding to its user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9 if it is configured with a transmission mode that is only available in LTE release 8/9.
  • the user equipment 605 may as default be configured with a default transmission mode depending on the antenna configuration of the base station 603 , unless the user equipment 605 has been configured in any other transmission mode by the base station 603 after initial access to the network 600 .
  • the only way for the user equipment 605 to apply its soft buffer size associated with its e.g. user equipment category 6 is if the user equipment 605 is configured in transmission mode 9.
  • transmission mode 9 is related to LTE release 10. Transmission mode 9 does not exist in a previous/earlier release of LTE, such as e.g. LTE release 8. Hence, if the base station 603 supports transmission mode 9 it may be assumed that the base station 603 is of LTE release 10 in this respect, and vice versa.
  • a transmission mode may change during a communication session between the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 . This change needs to be done both at the base station 603 and the user equipment 605 side.
  • the procedure for this is as follows.
  • the base station 603 sends a Radio Resource Control (RRC) reconfiguration message to the user equipment 605 instructing it to change transmission mode.
  • the user equipment 605 receives this message and has e.g. 15 ms of time to apply this message. During this 15 ms of time it is essentially undefined if the user equipment 605 is in the new transmission mode or in the old transmission mode.
  • the user equipment 605 will after applying the new transmission mode send an RRC configuration complete message to the base station 603 to indicate that it has applied the new transmission mode. In principle the same behaviour is also the case when the user equipment 605 is configured with more or less component carriers.
  • the RRC protocol handles the control plane signaling of Layer 3 between the User Equipment and the UTRAN.
  • the method for the user equipment 605 to communicate with the base station 603 in a communications network 600 where the base station 603 and the user equipment 605 have a common understanding of the soft buffer size, will now be described with reference to the examples shown in the combined signalling diagrams and flowcharts depicted in FIGS. 7 a - d.
  • FIG. 7 a illustrates an example of an embodiment where the base station 603 is of LTE release 8/9.
  • the user equipment 605 is of the user equipment categories 5 and 8.
  • the method comprises the following steps, which steps may as well be carried out in another suitable order than described below.
  • Step 701 a
  • the user equipment 605 signals information about its capability to act according to at least two user equipment categories related to different LTE releases to the base station 603 .
  • One user equipment category relates to LTE release 8/9 and another of the user equipment categories relates to LTE release 10.
  • the user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9 may be category 5
  • the user equipment category relating to LTE release 10 may be category 8.
  • the LTE release 8/9 base station 603 has capabilities to detect the user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9, user equipment category 5 in this example. These capabilities to detect the user equipment categories relating to LTE release 8/9 are predefined in the base station 603 .
  • the base station 603 selects the user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9 as is the only one detected by the base station 603 in the example where user equipment, category 5 is selected.
  • the base station 603 determines the soft buffer size based on the selected user equipment category, e.g. category 5, and applies it in the further communication with the user equipment 605 .
  • the user equipment 605 has not been provided with any information from the base station 603 indicating which user equipment category it should select. Therefore, as a default, the user equipment 605 selects its default user equipment category which is the one that relates to LTE release 8/9, i.e. user equipment category 5 in this example.
  • the user equipment category 5 is supported by both the base station 603 of LTE release 8/9 and the base station 603 of LTE release 10.
  • the user equipment 605 does not know if the base station 603 has understood that the user equipment 605 is of both user equipment category 5 and 8. Based on the selected default user equipment category 5, the user equipment 605 determines the soft buffer size.
  • the selected default user equipment category and related soft buffer size may be permanent or temporarily, until changed by the base station 603 , e.g. upon request.
  • the selected default user equipment category 5 and the corresponding soft buffer size may be preconfigured in the user equipment 605 .
  • the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 communicates according to the selected default user equipment category and that relates to LTE release 8/9, e.g. category 5, when no other instructions or requests are received from the base station 603 .
  • the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 apply the determined soft buffer size in the communication. Since both the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 apply the soft buffer size, i.e. the soft buffer size according to LTE release 8/9, they have a common understanding of the soft buffer size which they shall apply in their communication, and thereby improved communication between the user equipment 605 and base station 603 in the communications network 600 is provided.
  • FIG. 7 b illustrates an example of an embodiment where the base station 603 is of LTE release 10.
  • the base station 603 in FIG. 7 b is of LTE release 10
  • the base station 603 in FIG. 7 a is of LTE release 8/9.
  • the base station 603 sends information indicating a selected user equipment category to the user equipment 605 .
  • the user equipment 605 is of the user equipment categories 5 and 8.
  • the method comprises the following steps, which steps may as well be carried out in another suitable order than described below.
  • This step corresponds to step 701 a in FIG. 7 a.
  • the user equipment 605 signals information about its capability to act according to at least two user equipment categories.
  • One user equipment category relates to LTE release 8/9 and another of the user equipment categories relates to LTE release 10.
  • the user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9 may be user equipment category 3
  • the user equipment category relating to LTE release 10 may be user equipment category 8.
  • the base station 603 in this example is of the LTE release 10
  • the base station 603 has capabilities to detect both the user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9 and the user equipment category relating to LTE release 10, e.g. user equipment category 5 and user equipment category 8. These capabilities to detect both user equipment categories are predefined in the base station 603 .
  • This step corresponds to step 702 a in FIG. 7 a.
  • the base station 603 selects which user equipment category the user equipment 605 shall apply for/in its operation, among the two user equipment categories that the user equipment 605 has capability to handle according to the signaled information in step 701 b .
  • the base station 603 is of LTE release 10 and therefore the user equipment category 8 is selected among the two alternatives of user equipment category 5 and user equipment category 8.
  • the base station 603 also determines which soft buffer size it shall apply in its communication with the user equipment 605 , based on the selected user equipment category, e.g. 8.
  • the base station 603 signals to the user equipment 605 via the RRC protocol information indicating which of the user equipment categories that are selected by the base station 603 in step 703 b for use in the further communication with the user equipment 605 .
  • This step may be omitted in case the user equipment category as selected by the base station 603 is a user equipment category that is to be used as default if no information indicate the selected user equipment category is sent to the user equipment 605 , as illustrated in FIG. 7 a .
  • the default user equipment category has to be predefined in both the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 for the common understanding of what user equipment category to apply.
  • the user equipment 605 determines a soft buffer size to be applied in its communication with the base station 603 . The determining is based on information indicating the selected user equipment category received from the base station 603 .
  • the user equipment 605 selects the user equipment category to be the default user equipment category, and determines a soft buffer size based on the selected user equipment category, as illustrated in FIG. 7 a.
  • This step corresponds to step 704 a in FIG. 7 a.
  • the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 e communicate according to the selected user equipment category and apply the soft buffer size according to the selected user equipment category, e.g. user equipment category 8 in the communication between the base station 603 and the user equipment 605 . Since both the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 apply the same soft buffer size they have a common understanding of the soft buffer size which they shall apply in their communication, and thereby improved communication between the user equipment 605 and base station 603 in the communications network 600 is provided.
  • FIG. 7 c illustrates an example of an embodiment where the base station 603 is of LTE release 10.
  • the base station 603 in FIG. 7 c is of LTE release 10 and the base station 603 in FIG. 7 a is of LTE release 8/9.
  • Another difference between FIG. 7 c and FIG. 7 b is that signalling of the selected user equipment category in FIG. 7 b is not present in FIG. 7 c .
  • the user equipment 605 is of the user equipment categories 5 and 8.
  • the method comprises the following steps, which steps may as well be carried out in another suitable order than described below.
  • This step corresponds to step 701 a in FIG. 7 a and step 701 b in FIG. 7 b.
  • the user equipment 605 signals information about its capability to act according to at least two user equipment categories, one relating to LTE release 8/9 and the other user equipment category relating to LTE release 10, to the base station 603 .
  • the user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9 may be user equipment category 5
  • the user equipment category relating to LTE release 10 may be user equipment category 8.
  • the base station 603 As the base station 603 is of LTE release 10 and thus supports transmission mode 9, it has capabilities to detect both the user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9 and the user equipment category relating to LTE release 10, e.g. user equipment category 5 and user equipment category 8 from the signaled information. These capabilities to detect both user equipment categories are predefined in the base station 603 .
  • This step corresponds to step 702 a in FIG. 7 a and step 702 b in FIG. 7 b.
  • the base station 603 supporting transmission mode 9, selects one of the two alternative user equipment categories for the further communication with the user equipment 605 , e.g. user equipment category 5. Based on the selected user equipment category, the base station 603 determines the soft buffer size based on user equipment category 5.
  • This step corresponds to step 703 a in FIG. 7 a and step 704 b in FIG. 7 b.
  • the user equipment 605 has not received any information indicating which of the at least two user equipment categories from the base station 603 , so the user equipment 605 selects the default user equipment category, e.g. category 5, and determines a soft buffer size to be applied in its communication with the base station 603 .
  • the default user equipment category e.g. category 5
  • the user equipment 605 determines the default soft buffer size associated with user equipment category 3 if it is configured in at least one of transmission modes 1-8. This is because the user equipment 605 will not know if the base station 603 has understood that the user equipment 605 is of user equipment category 5 and 8. The user equipment 605 will determine a soft buffer size corresponding to its default user equipment category relating to LTE release 8/9 if it is configured with a transmission mode that is only available in LTE release 8/9.
  • the selected default user equipment category may be preconfigured in the user equipment 605 .
  • This step corresponds to step 704 a in FIG. 7 a and step 705 b in FIG. 7 b.
  • the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 communicate according to the selected default user equipment category, i.e. user equipment category related to LTE release 8/9 which may be user equipment category 5.
  • the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 apply the soft buffer size according to the selected default user equipment category related to LTE release 8/9, e.g. user equipment category 5, as determined in step 703 c.
  • the base station 603 does not signal the selected user equipment category via the RRC protocol to the user equipment 605 in this example. Since both the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 apply the same soft buffer size, i.e. the soft buffer size according to LTE release 8/9, they have a common understanding of the soft buffer size which they shall apply in their communication, and thereby improved communication between the user equipment 605 and base station 603 in the communications network 600 is provided.
  • FIG. 7 d illustrates an example of a base station 603 of a LTE release 10.
  • the difference between FIG. 7 d and FIGS. 7 a - c is that the information about the selected user equipment category is broadcast, instead of signalled to one specified receiver.
  • the user equipment 605 is of the user equipment categories 5 and 8.
  • the method comprises the following steps, which steps may as well be carried out in another suitable order than described below.
  • This step corresponds to step 701 a in FIG. 7 a , step 701 b in FIG. 7 and step 701 c in FIG. 7 c.
  • the user equipment 605 signals its capability to handle two user equipment categories, one relating to LTE release 8/9 and the other relating to LTE release 10, to the base station 603 .
  • the user equipment category related to LTE release 8/9 is user equipment category 5
  • the category related to LTE release 10 is user equipment category 8.
  • the base station 603 is of LTE release 10.
  • the LTE release 10 base station 603 has capabilities to detect information from user equipment 605 on its capability to act according to user equipment categories related to both the LTE release 8/9 and the LTE release 10, e.g. user equipment category 5 and user equipment category 8. These capabilities to detect both user equipment categories are predefined in the base station 603 .
  • This step corresponds to step 702 a in FIG. 7 a , step 702 b in FIG. 7 b and step 702 c in FIG. 7 c.
  • the base station 603 selects one of the two alternative user equipment categories for the further communication with the user equipment 605 . Based on the selected user equipment category and the transmission mode 9 which the base station 603 supports, the base station 603 determines the soft buffer size.
  • the base station 603 broadcasts to all user equipment's 605 in the communications network 600 that it comprehends LTE release 10 user equipment categories.
  • the broadcasting is performed with the RRC protocol, e.g. by using a System Information Block (SIB).
  • SIB System Information Block
  • the broadcast information may e.g. be composed of an optional Information Element (IE) that is added in the end of an existing system information block as a so called non-critical extension.
  • IE Information Element
  • the absence of the information element means that the network side of the radio interface supports only user equipment categories related to LTE release 8/9 whereas the presence of the information element means that it supports both user equipment categories related to LTE release 8/9 and categories related to LTE release 10.
  • the user equipment 605 uses the soft buffer size according to its user equipment category related to LTE release 10, e.g. user equipment category 8. Otherwise, if the base station 603 does not broadcast the information element, it shall indicate a user equipment category related to LTE release 8/9 only, and use the corresponding soft buffer size. Implementation of the optional LTE release 10 extension at the base station 603 side does not create any interoperability problems because the user equipment 605 that is implemented according to an earlier release of the signaling syntax silently discards optional extensions that are not comprehended.
  • This step corresponds to step 703 a in FIG. 7 a , step 704 b in FIG. 7 and step 703 c in FIG. 7 c.
  • the user equipment 605 determines, based on the broadcast selected user equipment category, e.g. category 8, and the transmission mode which the user equipment 605 is configured with, a soft buffer size to be applied in its communication with the base station 603 . In other words, it re-determines or updates the soft buffer size.
  • This step corresponds to step 704 a in FIG. 7 a , step 705 b in FIG. 7 and step 704 c in FIG. 7 c.
  • the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 communicate according to the selected user equipment category, e.g. category 8, and apply the determined soft buffer size. Since both the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 apply the determined soft buffer size, they have a common understanding of the soft buffer size which they shall apply in their communication, and thereby improved communication between the user equipment 605 and base station 603 in the communications network 600 is provided.
  • category 8 e.g. category 8
  • the user equipment 605 is configured with a transmission mode for a downlink communication from the base station 603 to the user equipment 605 .
  • the transmission mode relates to the bitrates that may be achieved over the communications channel.
  • the user equipment 605 is configured to receive communication from the base station 603 according to the transmission mode.
  • the transmission mode is transmission mode 9.
  • Transmission mode 9 is a multilayer transmission mode which supports both SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO transmission capabilities without the need for the user equipment 605 to be reconfigured via higher-layer signaling when switching between SU and MU transmission and reception on the shared data channel. Transmission mode 9 is based on the use of user equipment 605 specific RS for demodulation and CSI-RS for CSI estimation.
  • a user equipment 605 that is of user equipment category 6 or 7 also provides an additional user equipment category 4.
  • the user equipment 605 determines which soft buffer size to apply based on which transmission mode the user equipment 605 is configured with. In other words, the user equipment 605 determines if it should apply its soft buffer size associated with user equipment category 1-5 or user equipment category 6-8, based on which transmission mode it is configured with. If the user equipment 605 is configured with transmission mode 1-8, the user equipment 605 applies the soft buffer size associated with its user equipment category 1-5. If the user equipment 605 is configured with transmission mode 9, it applies its soft buffer size according to user equipment category 6-8.
  • the information indicating what user category to apply in the mobile terminal as is signalled in step 703 from the base station 603 to the user equipment 605 is the configuration of transmission mode, it this particular embodiment.
  • the user equipment in step 704 b selects the user equipment category that is available only in release 10 if configured with transmission mode 9. If configured with any of transmission modes 1-8 a user equipment category that is available in release 8/9 is selected by the user equipment in step 704 b.
  • the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 has selected a default user equipment category, determined a corresponding soft buffer size and communicates according to the default user equipment category and determined soft buffer size before the user equipment 605 starts to send information about its user equipment categories related to LTE release 8/9 and LTE release 10. Therefore, the selection of user equipment category and determination of soft buffer size in e.g. step 702 b is a selection of another user equipment category and a re-determination of the soft buffer size. The re-determined soft buffer size will then override the determined default soft buffer size.
  • FIG. 8 is a flowchart describing embodiments of a method in the user equipment 605 for communicating with the base station 603 in the communications network 600 .
  • the communication with the base station 603 is in the downlink direction from the base station 603 to the user equipment 605 .
  • the user equipment 605 is configured to communicate with the base station 603 according to a selectable of at least two user equipment categories.
  • the respective at least two user equipment categories are related to at least one of LTE release 8/9 and LTE release 10.
  • a user equipment category related to LTE release 8/9 may be of user equipment category 1-5, and a user equipment category related to LTE release 10 may have any of the categories 6-8, in addition to one of the user equipment categories 1-5.
  • the method comprises the following steps to be performed by the user equipment 605 , which steps may be performed in any suitable order:
  • This step corresponds to step 701 a in FIG. 7 a , step 701 b in FIG. 7 b , step 701 c in FIG. 7 c and step 701 d in FIG. 7 d.
  • the user equipment 605 sends or signals information about the at least two user equipment categories to the base station 603 .
  • the information about the user equipment category is comprised in an information element.
  • the user equipment signaling of user equipment categories is defined in the following way.
  • User equipment categories relating to LTE release 8/9 1-5 are signaled from the user equipment 605 to the base station 603 via the RRC protocol.
  • User equipment categories relating to LTE release 10 are signaled from the user equipment 605 to the base station 603 separately via the RRC protocol, using a LTE release 10 part of the RRC protocol.
  • the receiver of the message is the base station 603 , and it is also the base station 603 that uses the received information.
  • a LTE release 10 user equipment 605 that reports a user equipment category related to LTE release 10 would also report a user equipment category related to LTE release 8/9, e.g.
  • the user equipment category related to LTE release 10 would be understood by a LTE release 10 base station 603 , but not by the LTE release 8/9 base station 603 . By doing so, the user equipment 605 may inform both legacy and new base stations 603 of its user equipment category.
  • This step corresponds to step 704 b in FIG. 7 b and step 704 d in FIG. 7 d.
  • the user equipment 605 selects one of the at least two user equipment categories if information indicating the one of the at least two user equipment categories is received from the base station 603 .
  • the base station 603 has configured or told the user equipment 605 which of the at least two user equipment categories to use in communication with the base station 603 .
  • the information about the selected user equipment category is comprised in an information element.
  • the user equipment 605 receives a message from the base station 603 comprising information which indicates which of the at least two user equipment categories it shall apply.
  • the information indicating the selected user equipment category of the at least two user equipment categories is received via the RRC protocol.
  • the information on the selected user equipment category is received in the form of the transmission mode that the base station 603 configures the user equipment 605 with.
  • user equipment category is thereby selected based on the transmission mode that the user equipment 605 is configured with.
  • the information indicating the selected user equipment category of the at least two user equipment categories is received via broadcast from the base station 603 , for example in an information element.
  • This step corresponds to step 703 a in FIG. 7 a and step 703 c in FIG. 7 c.
  • the user equipment 605 selects 803 a default of the at least two user equipment categories if no information indicating which of the at least two user equipment categories is received from the base station 603 .
  • Information about the default user equipment category may be preconfigured in the user equipment 605 .
  • the default of the at least two user equipment categories is the earliest of the at least two user equipment categories to have been released by standard.
  • This step corresponds to step 703 a in FIG. 7 a , step 704 b in FIG. 7 b , step 703 c in FIG. 7 c and step 704 d in FIG. 7 d.
  • the user equipment 605 determines a soft buffer size of a soft buffer comprised in the user equipment 605 according to the selected user equipment category for downlink reception.
  • the selected user equipment category may be according to information indicated from the base station 603 or a default user equipment category.
  • the soft buffer size is determined based on the user equipment category. In some embodiments, the determining may be further based on transmission mode. In other words, the transmission mode may be used in combination with the user equipment category for the determining of the soft buffer size.
  • the user equipment 605 is configured with a transmission mode for a downlink communication from the base station 603 to the user equipment 605 .
  • the user equipment 605 is configured to receive communication from the base station 603 according to the transmission mode.
  • the transmission mode is transmission mode 9.
  • the base station 603 determines which soft buffer size the user equipment 605 shall use based on the DL transmission mode.
  • the user equipment 605 selects which soft buffer it shall apply based on which DL transmission mode it is configured with.
  • This step corresponds to step 704 a in FIG. 7 a , step 705 b in FIG. 7 b , step 704 c in FIG. 7 c and step 705 d in FIG. 7 d.
  • the user equipment 605 communicates with the base station 603 according to the selected user equipment category and applying the determined soft buffer size.
  • the communication is in a downlink direction from the base station 603 to the user equipment 605 .
  • the communication continues according to the default user equipment category at least until information about a selected user equipment category is received from the base station 603 .
  • the circular buffer w k for the r-th coded block may be generated as follows:
  • N IR bits the soft buffer size for the transport block
  • N cb bits the soft buffer size for the r-th code block
  • N cb min ⁇ ( ⁇ N IR C ⁇ , K w )
  • N IR ⁇ N soft K MIMO ⁇ min ⁇ ( M DL_HARQ , M limit ) ⁇
  • N_soft is the total number of soft channel bits according to the user equipment category indicated by the parameter ue-Category-v10xy. Otherwise, N_soft is the total number of soft channel bits according to the user equipment category indicated by the parameter ue-Category.
  • a user equipment 605 indicating user equipment category 6 or 7 shall also indicate user equipment category 4.
  • a user equipment 605 indicating user equipment category 8 shall also indicate user equipment category 5.
  • the user equipment 605 applies as a default transmission mode 1 or transmission mode 2. If transmission mode 1 or transmission mode 2 is applied the user equipment 605 will apply a soft buffer size according to the user equipment category indicated by the parameter ue-Category.
  • the base station 603 has the possibility to configure the user equipment 605 in transmission mode 9 in which case the user equipment 605 will change its soft buffer size to be according to the parameter ue-Category-v10xy.
  • the user equipment 605 comprises an arrangement as shown in FIG. 9 .
  • the user equipment 605 is configured to communicate with the base station 603 according to a selectable of at least two user equipment categories.
  • the at least two user equipment categories are associated with at least one of release 8/9 of long term evolution, referred to as LTE, and with release 10 of LTE.
  • One of the at least to user equipment categories may be a default user equipment category preconfigured in the user equipment 605 .
  • the user equipment 605 is configured with a transmission mode for downlink communication from the base station 603 to the user equipment 605 .
  • the transmission mode is transmission mode 9.
  • the base station 603 selects which soft buffer size the user equipment 605 shall use based on the transmission mode.
  • the user equipment 605 comprises a selecting unit 901 configured to select one of the at least two user equipment categories if information indicating the one of the at least two user equipment categories is received from the base station 603 .
  • the selecting unit 901 is further configured to select a default of the at least two user equipment categories if no information indicating which of the at least two user equipment categories is received from the base station 603 .
  • the default of the at least two user equipment categories is the earliest of the at least two user equipment categories to have been released by standard.
  • the user equipment 605 comprises a determining unit 902 configured to determine a soft buffer size of a soft buffer comprised in the user equipment 605 according to the selected user equipment category.
  • the information about the selected user equipment category may be a preconfigured default user equipment category.
  • the information about the user equipment category is comprised in an information element.
  • the determining unit 902 is further configured to determine the soft buffer size based on a transmission mode.
  • the user equipment 605 further comprises a communicating unit 903 which is configured to communicate with the base station 603 according to the selected user equipment category and applying the determined soft buffer size.
  • the communication with the base station 603 is in the downlink direction from the base station 603 to the user equipment 605 .
  • the communicating unit 903 is further is configured to communicate with the base station according to the default user equipment category at least until information indicating the one of the at least to user equipment categories is received from the base station 603 . The received information indicating the one of the at least two user equipment categories overrides the default user equipment category.
  • the user equipment 605 comprises a receiver 905 configured to receive the information indicating the one of the at least two user equipment category from the base station 603 .
  • the base station 603 configures or tells the user equipment 605 which user equipment category to use in communication with the base station 603 .
  • the receiver 905 is further configured to receive information indicating the selected user equipment category via the RRC protocol.
  • the receiver 905 is further configured to receive information indicating the selected user equipment category via broadcast from the base station 603 .
  • the information indicating the user equipment category may be comprised in an information element.
  • the user equipment 605 further comprises a sender 908 which is configured to send information about the at least two user equipment categories to the base station 603 .
  • the information about the user equipment category is comprised in an information element.
  • FIGS. 10 a and b are flowcharts describing embodiments of the method in the base station 603 for communicating with the user equipment 605 in the communications network 600 .
  • FIG. 10 a illustrates the main steps of the method
  • FIG. 10 b illustrates all steps of the method.
  • the base station 603 is configured to communicate with the user equipment 605 according to a selectable of at least two user equipment categories, e.g. a first user equipment category and a second user equipment category.
  • the at least two user equipment categories are associated with at least one of release 8/9 of long term evolution, referred to as LTE, and with release 10 of LTE.
  • the transmission mode as used on the communication link between the user equipment 605 and the base station 603 is used in combination with the user equipment category capability for determining the soft buffer size for DL reception.
  • the transmission mode may be transmission mode 9.
  • the base station 603 communicates with a plurality of user equipment's, where one is the user equipment 605 .
  • the base station 603 handles the plurality of user equipment's according to different user equipment categories, depending for example on whether the user equipment's supports LTE release 10 or not.
  • the base station 603 communicates with the user equipment 605 according to a selected default user equipment category and applies the corresponding determined soft buffer size.
  • the communication is in a downlink direction from the base station 603 to the user equipment 605 . This communication continues at least until information about a selected user equipment category is sent from the base station 603 .
  • the method comprises the following steps to be performed by the base station 603 , which steps may be taken in any suitable order:
  • This step is illustrated in FIG. 10 b .
  • This step corresponds to step 701 a in FIG. 7 a , step 701 b in FIG. 7 b , step 701 c in FIG. 7 c and step 701 d in FIG. 7 d.
  • the base station 603 receives information from the user equipment 605 about the user equipment capability to act according to the at least two user equipment categories.
  • the information about the user equipment category is comprised in an information element.
  • This step is illustrated in FIG. 10 b .
  • This step corresponds to step 702 a in FIG. 7 a , step 702 b in FIG. 7 b , step 702 c in FIG. 7 c and step 702 d in FIG. 7 d.
  • the base station 603 determines that the communication with the user equipment 605 should be according to one of the at least two user equipment categories.
  • This step is illustrated in FIGS. 10 a and 10 b .
  • This step corresponds to step 702 a in FIG. 7 a , step 702 b in FIG. 7 b , step 702 c in FIG. 7 c , and step 702 d in FIG. 7 d.
  • the base station 603 determines the soft buffer size comprised in the user equipment 605 .
  • the determining the soft buffer size comprised in the user equipment 605 is based on a transmission mode.
  • the transmission mode is used for communicating with the user equipment 605 .
  • the transmission mode is transmission mode 9.
  • the user equipment 605 re-determines the soft buffer size.
  • the information about the selected user equipment category overrides the default user equipment category.
  • This step is illustrated in FIG. 10 b . This step corresponds to step 703 b in FIG. 7 b and step 703 d in FIG. 7 d.
  • the base station 603 sends information indicating the one user equipment category of the at least two user equipment categories to the user equipment 605 .
  • the base station 603 configures or tells the user equipment 605 which user equipment category of the at least two user equipment categories to use in communication with the base station 603 .
  • the information indicating the selected user equipment category is comprised in an information element.
  • the information indicating the selected user equipment category is sent via the RRC protocol.
  • the information indicating the selected user equipment category is sent via broadcast to the user equipment 605 .
  • This step is illustrated in FIGS. 10 a and 10 b .
  • This step corresponds to step 704 a in FIG. 7 a , step 705 b in FIG. 7 b , step 704 c in FIG. 7 c and step 705 d in FIG. 7 d.
  • the base station 603 communicates with the user equipment 605 according to the selected user equipment category of the at least two user equipment categories and applies the determined soft buffer size.
  • the communication with the user equipment 605 is in the downlink direction from the base station 603 to the user equipment 605 .
  • the base station 603 comprises an arrangement as shown in FIG. 11 .
  • the base station 603 is configured to communicate with the user equipment 605 according to a selectable of at least two user equipment categories.
  • the at least two user equipment categories are associated with at least one of release 8/9 of LTE and release 10 of LTE.
  • the base station 603 comprises a determining unit 1101 configured to determine a soft buffer size comprised in the user equipment 605 based on information indicating one of the at least two user equipment categories. In some embodiments, the determining the soft buffer size comprised in the user equipment 605 is based on a transmission mode. The transmission mode is used for communicating with the user equipment 605 . In some embodiments, the transmission mode is transmission mode 9. In some embodiments, the determining unit 1101 is further configured to determine that the communicating with the user equipment 605 should be according to the selected user equipment category.
  • the base station further comprises a communicating unit 1103 configured to communicate with the user equipment 605 according to the selected user equipment category of the at least two user equipment categories and applying the determined soft buffer size.
  • the soft buffer size is determined by the user equipment 605 .
  • the base station 603 must adapt its transmission and retransmission according to the soft buffer size in the user equipment 605 .
  • the base station 603 will rate match the transport blocks it transmits to the user equipment 605 according to the soft buffer size.
  • the base station 603 comprises a sender 1105 which is configured to send information indicating the selected user equipment category of the at least two user equipment categories to the user equipment 605 .
  • the base station 603 configures or tells the user equipment 605 which user equipment category of the at least two user equipment categories to use in communication with the base station 603 .
  • the sending unit 1105 is further configured to send information indicating the selected user equipment category via a Radio Resource Control, referred to as RRC, protocol.
  • the sending unit 1105 may further be configured to send information indicating the selected user equipment category via broadcast to the user equipment 605 .
  • the information indicating the user equipment category is comprised in an information element.
  • the base station 603 comprises a receiver 1108 which is configured to receive information about the at least two user equipment categories from the user equipment 605 .
  • the information about the at least two user equipment categories is comprised in an information element.
  • the present mechanism for communication between a user equipment 605 and a base station 603 in a communication network 600 may be implemented through one or more processors, such as a processing unit 910 in the user equipment 905 depicted in FIG. 9 and a processing unit 1110 in the base station 603 depicted in FIG. 11 , together with computer program code for performing the functions of the embodiments herein.
  • the processor may be for example a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) processor, Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) processor or micro processor.
  • DSP Digital Signal Processor
  • ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
  • FPGA Field-programmable gate array
  • the program code mentioned above may also be provided as a computer program product, for instance in the form of a data carrier carrying computer program code for performing the embodiments herein when being loaded into the user equipment 605 and/or base station 603 .
  • One such carrier may be in the form of a CD ROM disc. It is however feasible with other data carriers such as a memory stick.
  • the computer program code can furthermore be provided as pure program code on a server and downloaded to the user equipment 605 and/or base station 603 remotely.
  • FIG. 12 illustrates non-limiting functional block diagrams illustrating embodiments of the base station 603 and the user equipment 605 for implementing the technology described above including the user equipment category signaling.
  • the base station 603 includes an overall base station controller 1201 coupled to one or more memories 1203 that performs soft buffering.
  • soft buffering may refer to performing rate matching according to the total amount of soft channel bits.
  • soft buffering may refer to performing rate matching according to the total amount of soft channel bits.
  • Radio Frequency (RF) circuitry 1205 is coupled to multiple antennas 1208 for performing radio transmission and reception for the base station. In FIG. 12 , four antennas 1208 are shown as an example. The antennas 1208 in FIG.
  • FIG. 12 corresponds to the sending unit 1105 and the receiving unit 1108 in FIG. 1 .
  • the example of FIG. 6 shows that carrier aggregation is supported.
  • Multiple processors corresponding to the processing unit 1110 , the determining unit 1101 and the communicating unit 1103 in FIG. 1 , are shown for performing corresponding tasks including HARQ processing 1210 , user equipment category signaling processing 1212 , and MIMO layer processing 1215 .
  • the user equipment 605 comprises similar processing and memory blocks, and depending on its release, more or less sophistication, bandwidth, and other capabilities.
  • the user equipment 605 comprises an overall user equipment controller 1220 coupled to one or more memories 1223 that performs soft buffering.
  • a RF circuitry 1225 is coupled to multiple antennas 1228 for performing radio transmission and reception for the user equipment 605 .
  • two antennas 1228 are shown as an example.
  • the antennas 1228 in FIG. 12 corresponds to the sending unit 908 and the receiving unit 905 in FIG. 9 .
  • the user equipment 605 further comprises a user interface 1240 for enabling communication with a user of the user equipment 605 .
  • a user equipment 605 of release 10 and of any of the user equipment category 6-8 signal two different user equipment categories, one related to release 8/9 and the other related to release 10.
  • the user equipment 605 signals the user equipment category related to LTE release 8 by the RRC parameter ue-category. That parameter indicates either user equipment category 4 or user equipment category 5, depending on which user equipment category related to LTE release 10 the user equipment 605 signals.
  • the user equipment 605 signals its LTE release 10 user equipment category by the RRC parameter ue-Category-v1020.
  • the user equipment category related to LTE release 8 and user equipment category related to LTE release 10 has support of different number of maximum supported layers for spatial multiplexing.
  • the functional blocks of the base station 603 and wireless terminal 605 may be realized by a machine platform or electronic circuit which may take the form of a computer implementation or a hardware circuit, e.g., ASIC, implementation.
  • various functionalities as described herein are executed by a processor(s) or the like, further involving or invoking a memory, e.g. RAM, ROM, application memory, and, when necessary, various input and output devices.
  • the functional blocks may include or encompass, without limitation, Digital Signal Processor (DSP) hardware, reduced instruction set processor, hardware, e.g. digital or analog, circuitry including but not limited to application specific integrated circuit(s) (ASIC), and, where appropriate, state machines capable of performing such functions.
  • DSP Digital Signal Processor
  • ASIC application specific integrated circuit
  • a computer is generally understood to comprise one or more processors or one or more controllers, and the terms computer and processor and controller may be employed interchangeably herein.
  • the functions may be provided by a single dedicated computer or processor or controller, by a single shared computer or processor or controller, or by a plurality of individual computers or processors or controllers, some of which may be shared or distributed.
  • processor or “controller” shall also be construed to refer to other hardware capable of performing such functions and/or executing software, such as the example hardware recited above.
  • block diagrams herein may represent conceptual views of illustrative circuitry or other functional units embodying the principles of the technology.
  • any flow charts, state transition diagrams, pseudocode, and the like represent various processes which may be substantially represented in computer readable medium and so executed by a computer or processor, whether or not such computer or processor is explicitly shown.

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