WO2008004052A2 - Multi-level control for handling measurement reports - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method, terminal device, network element, system, and computer program products for handling measurement reports in a communication network.
- UMTS universal mobile telecommunications system
- E-UTRAN enhanced UTRAN
- OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
- Node B in line with UMTS terminology
- CQI channel quality indication
- the reported CQI in FDD is derived as follows (per 3GPP TS 25.214, Physical layer procedures (FDD), v5.4.0 (2003-03), section 6A.2): "the UE shall report the highest tabulated CQI value for which a single HS-DSCH sub-frame formatted with the transport block size, number of HS- PDSCH codes and modulation corresponding to the reported or lower CQI value could be received in a 3-slot reference period ending 1 slot before the start of the first slot in which the reported CQI value is transmitted and for which the transport block error probability would not exceed 0.1.”
- TDD Time Division Duplex
- reporting is different; the transport block size is reported if it was transmitted during the last received transmission interval and that transmission would have yielded a block error rate (BLER) of 0.1.
- the CQI is an information bit sequence five bits long which is encoded by means of a (20, 5) Reed-Muller code.
- the resulting 20 bit long coded sequence is sent in the UL on a High- Speed Dedicated Physical Control Channel (HS-DPCCH). Every user has a separate HS-DPCCH with an adjustable CQI reporting cycle (feedback rate). A user can report the CQI on the HS-DPCCH even if the user does not receive data on the HS-DSCH.
- the CQI is an information bit sequence ten bits long which is encoded by means of a (32, 10) Reed- Muller code.
- the resulting 32 bit long coded sequence is sent in the UL as part of the HS-SICH (High-Speed Signaling Channel).
- HS-SICH High-Speed Signaling Channel
- Such a mechanism can be realized by introducing a continuously adjusted CQI offset value, for instance, which is subtracted from all received CQI values in the Node B before an ap-litiste modulation and coding scheme (MCS) is selected.
- MCS ap- intestinal modulation and coding scheme
- the US20060089104 discloses a methodology for improving a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) transport format allocation in communication systems (e.g., mobile phone networks) using, e.g., a network element such as a Node B.
- a network element such as a Node B.
- CQI reports made by a user terminal, such as a UE are time stamped in a sense that they correspond to a given reference period
- the Node B is able to determine what time instant in the past the given CQI report corresponds to.
- the Node B scheduler knows a history of HS-DSCH (high speed downlink shared channel) transmission, it is able to determine how much HS-DSCH power was transmitted during the time corresponding to the received CQI report.
- an allocated HS-DSCH transport format is either positively or negatively “biased” to adjust an ACK/NACK ratio towards a desired target.
- accuracy of a current "outer loop" algorithm (based on the received ACK/NACK messages) can be improved, which leads to an improved HS-DSCH link adaptation and scheduling performance.
- a promising CQI reporting method is to use a tree-based approach, which will rely on using time staggering and partial updates to gradually improve the fre- quency domain resolution as well as improving the observed measurement error. Thereby, the requirements for accuracy, flexibility, and low-signalling bandwidth can be met.
- a problem using this tree based approach is that the measurement error on the CQI reports will be dependent on the bandwidth as well as the time that the CQI has been measured over. This means that the approach of using a single outer loop algorithm to handle the potential errors made by CQI reporting might prove insufficient.
- This object is achieved by a method of handling measurement reports received from a terminal device (10) of a communication network, said method comprising:
- a network element for handling measurement reports received from a terminal device of a communication network comprising:
- detecting means for detecting a level of a received measurement report, said level indicating an amount of resource blocks on which said measurement report is based;
- compensation means for applying to said received measurement report a compensation offset selected in response to said detecting means.
- a multi-level outer loop control is applied to handle the fact that different levels in the tree-structure of measurement reports will have different amounts of measurement errors and potential bias values.
- a time-varying compensation offset is applied to the received measurement reports before they are utilized for further processing, e.g., in packet scheduling and/or link adaptation.
- the measurement error correction can thus be adapted dynamically to the current situation.
- a complete measurement report may be divided into sub-reports covering different ones of the resource blocks, wherein each of the at least two different levels covers a different number of the sub-reports.
- the level of a meas- urement report defines the number of sub-reports and resource blocks covered by the measurement.
- the measurement report may be a channel quality report.
- the transmission in the communication network may be based for example on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing.
- the resource blocks may correspond to groups of sub-carriers.
- At least one of the measurement reports may be used for making at least one of a scheduling and link adaptation decision.
- the compensation offset may be used for mapping the measurement report into a signal-to-noise ratio.
- a plurality of different compensation offset values may be provided or stored for the at least two different levels of said measurement reports.
- the compensation offset can be adapted to different degrees of reliability associated with the different levels of measurement reports.
- Fig. 1 shows a schematic block diagram of a network environment with a terminal device and a network element according to the preferred embodiment
- Fig. 2 shows an illustration of a tree-based structure of a set of measurement reports
- Fig. 3 shows a schematic block diagram of report handling unit according to the preferred embodiment.
- the preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described based on a CQI report handling scheme for a wireless connection be- tween a mobile terminal and a base station device of a radio access network, such as evolved UTRAN (E-UTRAN) for example.
- E-UTRAN evolved UTRAN
- the proposed concept of the preferred embodiment can be transferred to other measurement reporting schemes, as well.
- Fig. 1 shows schematic block diagrams of the mobile terminal or UE 10 and the base station device or Node B 20 which is connected via an access gateway (AGW) 30 of the radio access network to a core network (CN) 40.
- AGW access gateway
- CN core network
- Both the UE 10 and the Node B 20 comprise respective transceiver (TRX) circuits 18, 28 for enabling transmission and reception of wireless signals.
- TRX transceiver
- a multi-level outer loop mechanism is provided to handle the fact that different levels in a tree-structure of CQI measurement reports will have different amounts of measurement errors and potential bias values.
- the idea is to have each level in the tree such that it will have a time varying offset which is applied to the received CQI measurement reports, which will be applied before the CQI measurements are utilized in a packet scheduler/link adaptation unit 22 of the Node B 20.
- the UE 10 comprises a CQI determination unit 12 which generates a CQI measurement report (QR) 15 of a predetermined level determined based on the amount of transmission resources currently allocated to the UE 10, as explained in the following.
- QR CQI measurement report
- Fig. 2 shows an illustration of a tree-based structure of a set of measurement reports mo to m 7 which may be used in the preferred embodiment.
- the complete CQI report is divided into eight sub-reports S 0 -S 7 , wherein each sub-report could for instance represent a group of sub-carriers, a so-called physical resource block, in the frequency domain.
- This example pre- sents the situation where there are only eight resources (e.g. groups of sub- carriers of an OFDM system) reserved for signalling the CQI measurements.
- the number of available physical resource blocks will likely increase to twelve (assuming that there is an OFDM sub-carrier spacing of 15 kHz and that twenty-five adjacent sub-carriers are grouped into a single physical resource block).
- the proposed solution scales well with this number.
- the principle behind an example way of doing CQI measurements will be explained. Since the UE 10 will have to use some known reference signal to be able to estimate the channel quality reliably, the estimation is based upon a signal 25 that is transmitted from the Node B 20 using a pre-determined configuration (in terms of time, power, and frequency allocation). The signal that would normally be used for this is the pilot sequence (PS) which is needed to be able to estimate the channel transfer function.
- PS pilot sequence
- the above first situation corresponds to the measurement reports i ⁇ u to m 7 at the nodes at the bottom of the tree of Fig. 2, which will have only one sub-report and thus only few pilot symbols for CQI estimation, while the latter corresponds to the measurement report m 0 at the top node of the tree, which will have all sub-reports S 0 to S 7 and thus many pilot. symbols available for channel quality estimation.
- the measurement report mi covers sub- reports So to S3, and the measurement reports tri 2 and rri 3 cover sub-reports So to Si and S 4 to S 5 , respectively.
- the error of the CQI measurements will be a normal distributed in the log-domain, and that the standard deviation of the estimation error scales as a function of the square root of the number of pilot symbols available.
- the Standard deviation of the measurement error as a function of the position in the tree is shown in the following table (showing the setup for a 20 MHz system bandwidth):
- an outer loop control mechanism is provided, which will operate on each level of the tree-based multi-level reporting structure of Fig. 2.
- the smart thing about the tree-based structure is that the Node B 20 can make a scheduling and link adaptation decision already after having received a partial CQI report, e.g., one of the measurement reports ⁇ TH to In 7 of Fig. 2. That is, the decision can be made when knowing only the first or second tree levels. However, the reliability of the measurements is different, as can be gathered from the above table. If a decision is based on the first tree- level, the CQI measurement report mo is reliable to a larger extent than if the scheduling decision is based on a later tree level to achieve frequency domain scheduling gain.
- SINR signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio
- SIR signal-to- noise ratio
- a CQI outer loop control unit 26 is provided at the Node B 20 so as to perform the above compensation and supply the corrected control value, e.g. SINR or SIR value, to a packet scheduling and link adaptation unit 22 which control packet scheduling at a scheduling unit 24.
- the corrected control value e.g. SINR or SIR value
- Fig. 3 shows a schematic block diagram of the CQI outer loop control unit 26 which serves as a report handling unit in the preferred embodiment.
- Measurement reports 15 received from the UE 10 are supplied to a level detection unit 262 which determines the tree-level of the measurement report. This may be achieved based on a corresponding information added to the meas- urement report, the length of the measurement report or any other detectable parameter. Based on the detected level of the measurement report, a corresponding compensation offset value is determined. This may be achieved by accessing a memory, storage, look-up table or database 264 which stores a plurality of compensation offset values in association with possible tree levels of the measurement reports. Of course, other possibilities or alternative can be used for deriving the compensation offset values, such as algorithms, a conversion arithmetic, or the like.
- the derived offset compensation value is then applied to a level compensation unit 266 where the CQI value(s) of the CQI report is(are) corrected or adjusted based on the compensation offset value using a suitable processing or conversion algorithm for obtaining an adjusted SINR or SIR value.
- a suitable processing or conversion algorithm for obtaining an adjusted SINR or SIR value.
- different CQI measurement compensation values can be used for different levels in the tree structure of the measurement reports.
- the adjustment at the level compensation unit 266 may be based on an algorithm, which is able to adjust different correction levels based on various pieces of feed-back information (for instance considering the operating BLER for different types of allocations within the tree structure).
- the algorithm could be based on the outer loop link adaptation framework described in D. W. Paranchych and M.
- a method, terminal device, network element, system and computer program product for handling measurement reports in a communication network have been described, wherein at least two different levels of measurements reports are provided, and wherein each of the at least two levels corresponds to a different amount of resource blocks on which the measurement reports are based.
- the level of a received measurement report is detected and a compensation offset is selected based on the detection result and applied to the measurement report.
- measurement errors and biases of the measurement reports can be dynamically corrected in multi-level reporting schemes.
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