WO2011002243A2 - 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법 및 그 방법을 이용하는 중계기 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and to a signal transmission and reception method of a repeater.
- a relay node When the channel state between the base station and the terminal is poor, a relay node (RN) may be installed between the base station and the terminal to provide a wireless channel having a better channel state to the terminal.
- RN relay node
- the repeater is currently widely used as a technique introduced for eliminating the radio shadow area in a wireless communication system.
- the repeater technology is a technology necessary for reducing the base station expansion cost and the backhaul network maintenance cost in the next generation mobile communication system, while expanding service coverage and improving data throughput. As the repeater technology gradually develops, it is necessary to support the repeater used in the conventional wireless communication system in the new wireless communication system.
- the role of forwarding link connection between a base station and a terminal in a repeater is introduced, and two types of links having different attributes are applied to each uplink and downlink carrier frequency band. do.
- the part of the connection link established between the link between the base station and the repeater is defined as a backhaul link.
- the transmission is performed by the frequency division duplex (FDD) or the time division duplex (TDD) using the downlink resources, and is called backhaul downlink, and the transmission is performed by the FDD or TDD using the uplink resources. This may be expressed as a backhaul uplink.
- FDD frequency division duplex
- TDD time division duplex
- a repeater may include a transmitting module and a downlink for both uplink and downlink. Two modules of the receiving module need to be implemented.
- the repeater may transmit a signal to the base station in uplink and may receive a signal from the terminal.
- the repeater may receive a signal from the base station in the downlink, and may transmit a signal to the terminal.
- a repeater simultaneously transmits and receives a signal, it is not preferable to transmit and receive signals at the same time because many interferences and errors occur.
- the technical problem to be achieved in the present invention is to provide a method in which a repeater transmits and receives a signal.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a repeater device for transmitting and receiving signals.
- a repeater transmits and receives a signal in a downlink subframe, the first physical downlink control channel (Physical) to the terminals in the relay cell Transmitting a Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH); And receiving a second PDCCH or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) from the base station after a first guard time following the PDCCH interval, wherein the downlink subframe
- the second PDCCH received from the base station or a second guard time subsequent to the PDSCH is allocated, and the repeater receives the second PDCCH through a range of symbols according to predetermined control channel interval information received from the base station. Can be received.
- the repeater When the predetermined control channel interval information according to an embodiment of the present invention includes information on the maximum value or the minimum value of the length of the second PDCCH transmitted from the base station, the repeater includes the predetermined information in the downlink subframe.
- a signal may be transmitted and received using remaining symbols except for a predetermined range of symbols according to the control channel interval information.
- the predetermined control channel interval information may include a length of a fixed value set by the base station.
- the predetermined channel interval information is determined by the base station, and the repeater may receive through any downlink subframe preceding the downlink subframe used to receive the second PDCCH from the base station. .
- the first PDCCH according to an embodiment of the present invention may be transmitted after a time corresponding to a propagation delay and a time delay corresponding to a predetermined delay symbol at the start of the downlink subframe.
- the number of predetermined delay symbols may correspond to 0 and 5 symbols.
- the first guard time and the second guard time may correspond to 0, 5 or one or more symbol periods.
- a repeater resource region used by the repeater to transmit / receive the first PDCCH, the second PDCCH, and the PDSCH and a terminal in a cell In order to distinguish the base station resource region used for the downlink signal transmission to them, a predetermined range of symbols may be set as a guard band.
- the guard band may be set to a symbol located at at least one of both ends of the repeater resource region.
- the repeater resource region may further include a plurality of guard bands for distinguishing resource regions used for each of the plurality of repeaters.
- a repeater transmits and receives a signal in an uplink subframe in a wireless communication system according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- the physical downlink starts after a first guard time elapses.
- a guard time may be selectively assigned to a last symbol of the uplink backhaul subframe, and the first guard time and the second guard time may be allocated to a divided symbol or one or more symbols.
- the predetermined delay symbol may correspond to 0.5 symbols.
- the signal transmission and reception method of the repeater further comprises the step of receiving the SRS through a specific symbol of the uplink backhaul subframe of the repeater from one or more terminals in the relay cell, the second guard time
- the specific symbol used to receive the SRS from the terminal can be used.
- a symbol to which at least one of PDCCH, PDSCH, and SRS of the repeater is allocated may correspond to 12 or 13 symbols.
- the first guard time may be set after a time corresponding to a predetermined delay symbol at a time earlier than a time corresponding to a propagation delay at the start of the uplink subframe.
- a repeater resource region and a terminal used by the repeater to transmit at least one of the PDCCH, the PDSCH, and the SRS may be used by the base station or the repeater.
- a predetermined range of symbols may be set as a guard band.
- the guard band may be set to a symbol located at at least one of both ends of the repeater resource region.
- the repeater resource region When the repeater resource region according to an embodiment of the present invention is divided into resource regions for a plurality of repeaters, the repeater resource region further includes a plurality of guard bands for distinguishing resource regions used for each of the plurality of repeaters. can do.
- a repeater for transmitting and receiving a signal in a downlink subframe of a wireless communication system includes: a receiving module for receiving a wireless signal; A transmission module for transmitting a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to terminals in a relay cell; And a processor configured to receive a second PDCCH or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) from the base station after the first guard time following the PDCCH interval through the receiving module.
- the processor allocates a second guard time subsequent to the second PDCCH or the PDSCH received from the base station in the downlink subframe, and predetermined control channel interval information received from the base station through the receiving module
- the second PDCCH may be received on a predetermined range of symbols.
- the processor When the predetermined control channel interval information includes information on the maximum value or the minimum value of the length of the second PDCCH transmitted from the base station, the processor according to the predetermined control channel interval information in the downlink subframe.
- the transmission module signal and the reception module may be used to transmit / receive a signal by using the remaining symbols except for a range of symbols.
- the receiving module may receive the predetermined channel interval information through any downlink subframe preceding the downlink subframe used to receive the second PDCCH from the base station.
- the receiving module may receive the first PDCCH after a time corresponding to a propagation delay and a time corresponding to a predetermined delay symbol at the start of the downlink subframe.
- the processor may include a relay resource region used for transmitting and receiving the first PDCCH, the second PDCCH, and the PDSCH in a system-wide resource region, and a base station resource region used by the base station for downlink signal transmission to terminals in a cell. To distinguish, a range of symbols may be set as a guard band.
- the processor may further set a plurality of guard bands for classifying resource regions used for each of the plurality of repeaters when dividing the repeater resource regions into resource regions for a plurality of repeaters.
- a repeater for transmitting and receiving signals in an uplink backhaul subframe of a wireless communication system according to another embodiment, after a first guard time in the uplink backhaul subframe Transmission module for transmitting at least one of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a sounding reference signal (SRS) from the time point ; And a processor for selectively allocating the second guard time to a last symbol of the uplink backhaul subframe, wherein the first guard time and the second guard time may be allocated as a divided symbol or one or more symbols.
- a first guard time in the uplink backhaul subframe Transmission module for transmitting at least one of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a sounding reference signal (SRS) from the time point ;
- a processor for selectively allocating the second guard time to a last symbol of the uplink backhaul subframe, wherein the first guard time and the second guard time may be
- the repeater further includes a receiving module for receiving a radio signal, wherein the receiving module receives an SRS through a specific symbol of an uplink backhaul subframe of the repeater from one or more terminals in a relay cell.
- the processor may use the specific symbol used to receive the SRS from the terminal in the second guard time.
- the processor may set the first guard time after a time corresponding to a predetermined delay symbol at a time earlier than a time corresponding to a propagation delay at the start of the uplink subframe.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of a relay backhaul link and a relay access link in a wireless communication system.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a frame structure in a 3GPP LTE system which is an example of a mobile communication system.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a symbol structure allocated for R-PDCCH and R-PDSCH transmission in a downlink backhaul subframe of a base station and a structure of a multimedia broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe in a repeater.
- MSSFN multimedia broadcast single frequency network
- FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a symbol structure allocated for R-PDCCH and R-PDSCH transmission in a downlink backhaul subframe of a base station and a multimedia broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe structure in a repeater according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- MMSFN multimedia broadcast single frequency network
- 5 and 6 illustrate examples of a symbol structure allocated for R-PUCCH and R-PUSCH reception in an uplink subframe of a base station and an uplink backhaul subframe structure in a repeater according to an embodiment of the present invention; The figure shown.
- FIG. 7 illustrates another example of a symbol structure allocated for R-PDCCH and R-PDSCH transmission in a downlink backhaul subframe of a base station and a structure of a multimedia broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe in a repeater.
- MMSFN multimedia broadcast single frequency network
- FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a downlink subframe structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of an uplink subframe structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of a downlink subframe structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- 13 to 15 are diagrams illustrating an example of setting a guard band in a resource region used for communication between a base station and a relay period according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- 16 is a block diagram showing a preferred configuration of a repeater device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a terminal collectively refers to a mobile or fixed user terminal device such as a user equipment (UE), a mobile station (MS), an advanced mobile station (AMS), and the like.
- the base station collectively refers to any node of the network side that communicates with the terminal such as a Node B, an eNode B, a Base Station, and an Access Point (AP).
- UE user equipment
- MS mobile station
- AMS advanced mobile station
- AP Access Point
- a user equipment may receive information from a base station through downlink, and the terminal may also transmit information through uplink.
- the information transmitted or received by the terminal includes data and various control information, and various physical channels exist according to the type and use of the information transmitted or received by the terminal.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of a relay backhaul link and a relay access link in a wireless communication system.
- the relay RN may receive information from a base station through a relay backhaul downlink, and may transmit information to the base station through a relay backhaul uplink.
- the repeater may transmit information to the terminal through the relay access downlink, and may receive information from the terminal through the relay access uplink.
- the repeater may perform an initial cell search operation such as synchronization with the base station. To this end, the repeater may receive a synchronization channel from the base station, synchronize with the base station, and obtain information such as a cell ID. Subsequently, the repeater may receive a physical broadcast channel from the base station to obtain broadcast information in a cell. Meanwhile, the repeater may check the channel state of the relay backhaul downlink by receiving a relay backhaul downlink reference signal in an initial cell search step.
- the repeater may include a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or a physical downlink control channel (PDSCH) according to the physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) and the physical downlink control channel information. Alternatively, more specific system information may be obtained by receiving a relay-physical downlink control channel (R-PDSCH).
- the repeater may perform a random access procedure (Random Access Procedure) to the base station.
- the repeater transmits a feature sequence as a preamble through a physical random access channel (PRACH) and the like, and relays the random access through a relay physical downlink control channel and a corresponding relay physical downlink shared channel.
- PRACH physical random access channel
- a response message can be received.
- contention resolution procedures such as additional physical random access channel transmission and R-PDCCH / R-PDSCH reception may be performed.
- the repeater performing the above-described procedure is a general uplink / downlink signal transmission procedure, and then the R-PDCCH / R-PDSCH and the relay-physical uplink shared channel (R-PUSCH) / relay- Relay-Physical Uplink Control Channel (R-PUCCH) transmission may be performed.
- the control information transmitted from the repeater to the base station through the uplink or from the repeater to the base station includes downlink / uplink ACK / NACK signal, channel quality information (CQI), and precoding matrix index (PMI). Matrix Index (RI), Rank Indicator (RI), etc. may be included.
- the repeater may transmit control information such as CQI, PMI, RI, and the like through the R-PUSCH / R-PUCCH.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a frame structure in a 3GPP LTE system which is an example of a mobile communication system.
- one radio frame may include 10 subframes, and one subframe may include two slots in the time domain.
- the time for transmitting one subframe may be defined as a transmission time interval (TTI).
- TTI transmission time interval
- one subframe may have a length of 1 ms
- one slot may have a length of 0.5 ms.
- One slot may include a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the time domain.
- OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
- an OFDMA scheme is used in downlink, and an OFDM symbol may represent one symbol period.
- the OFDM symbol may be regarded as one SC-FDMA symbol or one symbol period in uplink.
- a resource block (RB) may be a resource allocation unit and may include a plurality of subcarriers adjacent to one slot. For example, ten subframes included in one radio frame, two slots included in one subframe, and the number of OFDM symbols included in one slot may be seven. However, the number of subframes, the number of slots, and the number of OFDM symbols can be changed to various values. In the following description, it is assumed that the number of OFDM symbols included in one subframe is 14 for simplicity.
- the repeater needs to implement two modules, a transmitting module and a receiving module, for both uplink and downlink. This is shown in Table 1 below.
- the base station needs to implement only the receiving module in the uplink, the transmitting module in the downlink, the terminal needs to implement only the transmitting module in the uplink, the receiving module in the downlink. That is, the terminal and the base station need only implement one module of a transmission module or a reception module in uplink and downlink, respectively.
- the repeater plays a role of relaying a signal received from the base station to the terminal and correspondingly relays a signal received from the terminal to the base station, the transmitting module and the receiving module in the uplink and the downlink, respectively. You need to implement everything.
- resource use in units of subframes may be defined in a TDM scheme.
- the number of subframes to be used by the repeater may be one or more, and the resource may be used in a backhaul compatible form.
- the repeater is capable of both transmitting and receiving, so it is desirable to perform the transmitting and receiving functions in the same band.
- the repeater may also transmit control information and / or data to terminals served by the repeater. And / or receive data.
- the repeater must transmit essential channels to the serving terminals, and then a situation may arise in which a communication with the base station is required.
- Tx is prepared before the subframe starts to transmit downlink traffic to the serving terminals.
- the repeater may use a specific subframe to communicate with the base station in the process of receiving the uplink from the terminal.
- the repeater also needs to perform an operation of simultaneously transmitting control information and / or data from the terminal to the base station in the corresponding subframe.
- an OFDM symbol belonging to the subframe is allocated as a guard time (GT) for RF switching (the relay switches between transmission mode and reception mode). Needs to be.
- the guard time may be used interchangeably with the same meaning as a transition time gap required for switching between transmission and reception modes in the same subframe.
- the present invention is to propose a method for setting a guard time for mitigating interference effects in one or more subframes when heterogeneous system versions are mixed, such as when a repeater is added to an LTE / LTE-A system. do.
- the MBSFN subframe may be used for the downlink as a scheme for supporting the repeater.
- the terminals served by the repeater may commonly receive the PDCCH transmitted through the base station or the repeater and operate differently according to the terminal performance for the remaining subframe regions.
- the repeater may provide a service from the relay cell to the PDCCH and may communicate with the base station using the remaining OFDM symbols.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a symbol structure allocated for R-PDCCH and R-PDSCH transmission in a downlink backhaul subframe of a base station and a structure of a multimedia broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe in a repeater.
- MSSFN multimedia broadcast single frequency network
- the downlink subframe timing of the repeater RN may be set differently from the downlink reception timing of the base station.
- the subframe of the repeater may be configured in a form preceding the subframe of the base station as shown in FIG. 3.
- a time shift may be used in the same meaning as a symbol shift or a time shift.
- the repeater since the repeater can read the PDCCH transmitted from the base station after transmitting the R-PDCCH for the plurality of terminals located in the repeater cell, the PDCCH of the legacy system can be used again for the repeater.
- a timing lag may be provided for the relay subframe.
- the boundary area of the repeater subframe is lagging behind the base station, and in the repeater, MBSFN is continuously performed for two downlink subframes. You must perform the setup. In this case, it is possible to read the remaining PDCCH except for the first subframe, so that the PDCCH can be reused, but a continuous downlink subframe must be designated as MBSFN.
- the time shift value may be set by an integer multiple of the OFDM symbol length.
- a fragmentary OFDM symbol obtained by dividing one OFDM symbol into an OFDM symbol used for time shifting may be used.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a symbol structure allocated for R-PDCCH and R-PDSCH transmission in a downlink backhaul subframe of a base station and a multimedia broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe structure in a repeater according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- MMSFN multimedia broadcast single frequency network
- a base station and a relay period propagation delay due to distance An example of considering (Propagation Delay T P), the base station and relay backhaul link and a DL / UL in a subframe perspective fragmentary OFDM symbol movement on the access link It represents.
- the base station allocates three OFDM symbols as PDCCHs for the UE in the macro cell in one downlink backhaul subframe, and the remaining 11 OFDM symbols are PDSCH for the UE in the macro cell and R-PDCCH and R-PDSCH for the repeater. Can be assigned as
- the propagation delay T P occurs when a donor eNB transmits a PDCCH to a terminal in a macro cell or transmits an R-PDCCH and an R-PDSCH for a repeater. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, propagation delay may occur by one OFDM symbol.
- the base station may be set in consideration of the guard time while setting the MBSFN subframe timing used by the repeater to be aligned with the reception timing of the downlink backhaul subframe of the base station. This will be described later in connection with the guard time setting.
- the fractional OFDM symbol following the PDCCH may be allocated as a guard time (GT) for RF switching (the relay switches between transmit and receive modes). That is, the RF switching time is required when the repeater switches to the reception mode for receiving the R-PDCCH or the R-PDSCH from the base station after the transmission mode for transmitting the PDCCH to the UE in the relay cell in the MBSFN subframe.
- the repeater unlike the conventional method of allocating an OFDM symbol allocated at the guard time by an integer multiple of the symbol, the repeater allocates a fragmentary OFDM symbol (for example, 0.5 symbols) and requires RF switching. It can be set at the end of the MBSFN subframe.
- 0,5 OFDM symbol shifts are performed to align the timing of the downlink subframe of the repeater with the downlink reception timing of the base station. Can be set. That is, after the base station adds the time corresponding to the propagation delay (eg, 1 OFDM symbol) and the symbol shifting (eg, 0.5 OFDM symbols) from the time of transmitting the PDCCH to the UE in the macro cell, the repeater By allowing the terminal in the relay cell to transmit the PDCCH, the repeater can align the OFDM symbol timing of receiving the R-PDCCH and the R-PDSCH from the base station to the symbol timing of the base station.
- the propagation delay eg, 1 OFDM symbol
- the symbol shifting eg, 0.5 OFDM symbols
- the repeater allocates two OFDM symbols for PDCCH transmission in the MBSFN subframe, divides one OFDM symbol and allocates the guard time, and allocates R-PDCCH and R-PDSCH from the base station through the remaining 11 OFDM symbols. Can be received.
- the timing shift of the downlink of the base station and the downlink of the repeater is made, it may be difficult to utilize macro diversity or a multipoint transmission function using the base station and the repeater, as shown in FIG. 4. It is preferable to match the boundary of the downlink subframe of the repeater.
- the repeater cannot read the PDCCH transmitted by the base station in the subframe set by the repeater as the MBSFN subframe while transmitting the PDCCH.
- the repeater does not know the length of the subframe used for PDCCH transmission in the corresponding subframe.
- the information on the number of OFDM symbols (or subframe lengths) allocated to the PDCCH transmitted to the terminals in the relay cell in the downlink subframe of the repeater is set according to a predetermined rule or The base station may arbitrarily determine and inform the repeater.
- the length of a control channel used by a base station in a subframe used for communication with a repeater is a maximum / minimum value (for example, 3/1 OFDM symbol) and corresponds to control information and / or data transmission.
- the remaining symbols may be used in the subframe.
- the number of specific OFDM symbols may be fixed by the length of the control channel used by the base station in the subframe used for communication with the repeater. For example, when the number of OFDM symbols for the PDCCH is fixed according to the number of transmit antennas, two OFDM symbols may be set for three or more transmit antennas and one OFDM symbol for two or less transmit antennas. have.
- the length of the control channel of the base station may be informed in advance in the communication section with the m (m ⁇ n-1) -th repeater which is the previous repeater.
- the base station changes the PDCCH length only when it is determined that all repeaters communicating in the corresponding subframe share the PDCCH length information (for example, when the acknowledgment of the PDCCH length change information is received from all the repeaters). Can be considered.
- 5 and 6 illustrate examples of a symbol structure allocated for R-PUCCH and R-PUSCH reception in an uplink subframe of a base station and an uplink backhaul subframe structure in a repeater according to an embodiment of the present invention; The figure shown.
- the base station needs to estimate the channel quality for the uplink backhaul channels.
- the repeater may transmit a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) to the base station between stations available for uplink backhaul transmission.
- SRS Sounding Reference Signal
- the repeater may transmit the SRS to the base station through the last SC-FDMA symbol of the uplink subframe, and the base station may receive the SRS from the repeater through the last symbol in the uplink subframe.
- the SRS may be separately transmitted through a symbol of a subframe other than the corresponding subframe.
- Symbols that can be used for R-PUCCH, R-PUSCH and SRS transmission in the uplink subframe of the repeater may be determined according to the guard time required for the RF switching required in the repeater. 5 and 6, in the embodiment of the present invention, 0.5 SC-FDMA symbols may be allocated as the guard time.
- the timing of the uplink backhaul subframe used in the repeater may be set by advancing 0.5 SC-FDMA symbols from the reception timing of the uplink frame at the base station. This is a case of synchronizing the uplink frame timing of the repeater according to the value added by 0.5 symbol length to the uplink timing advance value adjusted through the RACH procedure of the donor base station during the initial entry of the repeater.
- the repeater may set 0.5 SC-FDMA symbols back and forth in the uplink backhaul subframe as guard time and 13 SC-FDMA symbols for R-PUCCH, R-PUSCH and SRS transmission.
- the symbol timing of the uplink backhaul subframe used by the repeater may be set to match the timing at which the uplink subframe of the base station starts.
- FIG. 7 illustrates another example of a symbol structure allocated for R-PDCCH and R-PDSCH transmission in a downlink backhaul subframe of a base station and another structure of a multimedia broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe in a repeater. to be.
- MMSFN multimedia broadcast single frequency network
- FIG. 7 illustrates a case where the timing of the downlink backhaul subframe of the base station is aligned with the timing of the downlink subframe of the repeater.
- the method of setting the PDCCH length described above with reference to FIG. 4 may be used.
- 3 to 6 and 7 illustrate an example of a subframe related to a general cyclic prefix (CP), and the same may be applied to other CP lengths.
- CP general cyclic prefix
- the base station and the repeater may use the same CP for the downlink control channel portion.
- the base station may insert a guard band in the subframe without setting the same CP length for transmitting the downlink signal to the UEs located in the macro cell and for transmitting the CP to the repeater.
- the limitation on the configuration of the subframe according to the control channel does not occur as much as in the downlink, and the base station and the repeater can negotiate in advance about the SC-FDMA symbol that can be used in one subframe. have.
- the uplink transmission timing of the terminals of the relay cell may not be the same as the transmission timing in the macro cell that the base station provides the service. That is, since the repeater must transmit a signal to the terminal through the uplink subframe after receiving all the uplink traffic from the serving terminal from the point of view of the repeater, the uplink signal is transmitted to the base station when the receiving terminal receives the uplink signal.
- the uplink timing of the serving terminal in the repeater cell may be configured to be a timing that can be transmitted.
- the base station is scheduled so that the RACH or SRS transmission does not affect the operation of the relay when the RACH or SRS is transmitted from the repeater through an uplink subframe used for communication between the base station and the relay period. I can do it.
- the RACH it can be seen that it does not affect the operation of the repeater if it is assumed that the repeater communicates using another RB.
- SRS in general, Rel 8 terminals may be scheduled to be transmitted periodically (for example, 10 ms) to the base station. In this case, when the transmission period of the SRS is not 10ms, there may be a problem such that the SRS is present in the communication period between the repeater and the base station, the transmission failure or ambiguous SRS confirmation.
- the predetermined transmission period can be performed assuming that it does not change.
- the base station may inform the repeater about the presence of the SRS in the uplink backhaul subframe used by the repeater.
- the SRS may be used as a guard time.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a downlink subframe structure according to an embodiment of the present invention, and specifically, illustrates an example of a downlink subframe structure used by a repeater for communication with a base station.
- the repeater Since the repeater needs to transmit the PDCCH to the UEs in the cell it serves at the beginning of the downlink subframe, it can transmit the corresponding PCFICH, PHICH, PDCCH.
- the length of the control channel may be determined depending on the capability of the repeater such as the number of antennas, and may be set to allocate one OFDM symbol as illustrated in FIG. 8.
- the repeater Since the repeater performs both transmission and reception in one subframe, it must be converted to the reception mode after transmitting all the PDCCHs in the transmission mode. At this time, a guard time according to mode switching is required. In addition, another guard time is required when receiving downlink OFDM symbols from the base station in the reception mode and converting back to the transmission mode through the last symbol of the subframe.
- the guard time is a fractional OFDM symbol (not an integer OFDM symbol). For example, 0.5 OFDM symbols) may be allocated.
- the boundary of the OFDM symbols in the subframe transmitted from the base station to the repeater is aligned with the boundary of the OFDM symbol originally used by the base station to transmit the downlink signal into the macro cell. Otherwise it can be classified.
- the OFDM symbol boundary is aligned, the downlink between the repeater and the macro base station is not aligned, and this means that the multipoint transmission scheme cannot be used in the downlink.
- the OFDM symbol boundary used for transmitting a signal from the base station to the repeater is aligned with the boundary of the OFDM symbol used for the macro cell downlink signal
- the downlink between the repeater and the macro base station may be aligned with each other.
- Multipoint transmission schemes are possible.
- a signal present in OFDM symbols transmitted from the base station to the repeater may affect the interference or vice versa when the macro terminals receive the signal from the base station.
- a guard band may be added between a resource region used by a base station for transmitting downlink signals to a repeater and a resource region used for transmitting downlink signals to terminals in a macro cell.
- the guard band represents a transition time gap inserted in order to reduce the influence of signal interference between one resource region and another resource region in the frequency domain.
- an integer number of OFDM symbols (eg, one OFDM symbol) may be allocated as guard time in a transmission mode and a reception mode conversion process.
- all the downlink subframes of the base station and the repeater may be transmitted to be aligned when transmitted to the terminals.
- OFDM symbols transmitted from the base station to the repeater may be aligned in line with the OFDM symbols transmitted to the terminals located in the macro cell. In this case, more resource regions are used as guard bands than in FIG.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of an uplink subframe structure according to an embodiment of the present invention, and specifically, an example of an uplink subframe structure used by a repeater for communication with a base station.
- the repeater since the repeater receives the uplink signals from the serving terminals, the repeater needs to switch from the reception mode to the transmission mode at the beginning of the corresponding subframe, so that a guard time can be inserted at the time when the mode is converted.
- the last SC-FDMA symbol of the corresponding subframe You can set the guard time.
- joint processing between the repeater and the base station may be performed using a multipoint transmission technique.
- the transmission timing of the uplink subframes used in the repeater cell may be arbitrarily set.
- the base station is such that the SC-FDMA symbols used for signal transmission in the uplink subframe used for transmitting signals from the repeater to the base station based on the transmission timing is aligned with the SC-FDMA symbols used by other macro terminals for transmission.
- the overall uplink timing of the repeater cell can be set.
- a base station may be proposed in various methods for configuring uplink timing by inserting guard time in an uplink subframe.
- the fragmentary OFDM symbol length may be set with an uplink guard time. That is, 0.5 SC-FDMA symbols of the beginning of the uplink subframe and the last 0.5 SC-FDMA symbols of the subframe may be allocated as the guard time.
- a symbol having an integer multiple (for example, one SC-FDMA symbol) including 0 may be set as the guard time.
- a guard time may be defined at the beginning or the end of the subframe.
- the maximum number may be used as an OFDM symbol used for uplink transmission from a repeater to a base station.
- the guard time is defined at the end of the subframe, when the SRS exists in the corresponding subframe, the symbol used for the SRS transmission may be used as the guard time.
- the SRS exists for each uplink subframe, it may be implemented as shown in FIG. 9B by using the start symbol and the last symbol of the subframe as the guard time.
- FIGS. 10 and 11 are diagrams illustrating an example of an uplink subframe structure according to an embodiment of the present invention. Specifically, one uplink subframe used by a repeater for communication with a base station is continuously allocated. For example.
- FIG. 10 illustrates a subframe stage structure in which subframes are continuously allocated when fragmentary SC-FDMA symbols are allocated as guard time according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 11 is a guard time according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- a subframe stage structure in which subframes when an SC-FDMA symbol of an integer multiple is allocated is continuously allocated.
- 10 and 11 illustrate one subframe stage in which three subframes are continuously allocated as an example for describing the present invention.
- the present invention is not limited thereto, and the subframe stage may be configured with any number of subframes. .
- a certain number of subframes constituting the subframe stage may be allocated continuously and simultaneously.
- the repeater may determine whether the guard time is applied depending on whether the transmission mode is changed. In the consecutively allocated uplink subframes used by the repeater, no mode conversion is required from the transmission mode to the reception mode. Therefore, the guard time is not allocated in the middle of the subframes as shown in FIGS. 10 (b) and 11 (b). Can be.
- the guard time may be allocated to any one of a start portion or a last portion of the continuously allocated subframe stage in the continuously allocated subframe structure.
- FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of a downlink subframe structure according to an embodiment of the present invention, and specifically, an example of a structure in which downlink subframes used by a repeater for communication with a base station are continuously allocated. .
- a guard time is required for distinguishing an area for transmitting data / control information to a terminal and a repeater in a region corresponding to the control channel.
- a part or one or more symbols of the last symbol of the corresponding downlink subframe is allocated as the guard time. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 12A, a fragmentary OFDM symbol may be allocated as a guard time, or as shown in FIG. 12B, an integer multiple OFDM symbol may be allocated as a guard time and a continuously allocated subframe structure may be implemented.
- the guard band may be inserted between the resource region used by the first repeater and the resource region used by the second repeater.
- the illustrated resource region includes a downlink resource region used by a base station for signal transmission into a macro cell and an uplink resource region used by a repeater to transmit an uplink signal to a base station.
- a guard band may be set at both ends of a start part and a end part for each predetermined resource area used by each repeater for signal transmission and reception.
- two guard bands may be continuously inserted at the boundary point of the resource region for the repeater A and the resource region for the repeater B in succession.
- the base station continuously inserts guard bands inserted at the boundary of the resource area allocated for each repeater to expand the use area of the resource area used by the base station to transmit downlink signals in the macro cell. Can be set.
- the guard bands are formed at both ends of the entire resource region used by the plurality of repeaters without setting a separate guard band in the region where the repeater resources are continuous. Can be set.
- the use of subcarriers can be efficiently performed by minimizing the resource area allocated to the guard band.
- FIG. 14B illustrates another embodiment of a resource region in which a guard band is set at both ends of an available system bandwidth.
- the control region resource and the resource region for traffic transmission can be continuously allocated from the available system bandwidth, and the resource region for the repeater can be allocated at both ends.
- the resource region for the repeater may be a resource region for a plurality of repeaters, and the guard band may be inserted only at the boundary region of the resource region different from the resource region for the repeater.
- predetermined resource regions for a plurality of repeaters may be allocated within available system bandwidths, and guard bands may be set at both ends of the predetermined resource regions for repeaters.
- interference effects may be minimized even when the repeater and the base station perform the wireless communication in the conversion from the transmission mode to the reception mode and the conversion from the reception mode to the transmission mode.
- the repeater since the repeater can know the number of OFDM symbols or SC-FDMA symbols allocated to the guard band in one subframe, the repeater can operate without affecting the terminals of the legacy system.
- 16 is a block diagram showing a preferred configuration of a repeater device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a repeater includes a receiving module 1610, a transmitting module 1620, a processor 1630, and a memory 1640.
- the receiving module 1610 of the repeater may receive various control information, data, signals, and the like from the base station and the terminal.
- the reception module 1610 may receive control information from a base station using a specific OFDM symbol period in a subframe configured according to the embodiments of the present invention described above with reference to FIGS. 3 to 15.
- a signal may be received from the terminal through a specific OFDM symbol period of a subframe different from the specific subframe.
- a fragmentary OFDM symbol may be allocated as a guard time that can alleviate the influence of interference at the time of switching the transmission / reception operation of the repeater in a subframe that can be used by the repeater.
- the transmission module 1620 of the repeater may transmit various control information, data, signals, and the like to the base station and the terminal.
- the transmitting module 1620 of the repeater may similarly transmit a signal to a base station using a specific SC-FDMA symbol period in a subframe configured according to the embodiments of the present invention described above with reference to FIGS. 3 to 15.
- a signal or the like may be transmitted to the terminal using a specific SC-FDMA symbol period of a subframe other than the subframe used for transmission to the base station.
- guard bands may be set at both ends of the resource region used by the reception module 1610 and the transmission module 1620 of the repeater for signal reception or transmission.
- the processor 1630 may perform processing on various signals and information received by the repeater or various signals and information transmitted by the repeater.
- the memory 1640 may store information processed by the processor 1630 or information received by the receiving module 1610 of the repeater for a predetermined time, and may be replaced with a component such as a buffer (not shown).
- Embodiments according to the present invention may be implemented by various means, for example, hardware, firmware, software, or a combination thereof.
- the control information transmission and reception method according to an embodiment of the present invention is one or more application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal processors (DSPs), digital signal processing devices (DSPDs), programmable (PLDs) logic devices), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), processors, controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, and the like.
- ASICs application specific integrated circuits
- DSPs digital signal processors
- DSPDs digital signal processing devices
- PLDs programmable logic devices
- FPGAs field programmable gate arrays
- processors controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, and the like.
- firmware or software may be implemented in the form of a module, procedure, function, etc. to perform the functions or operations described above.
- the software code may be stored in a memory unit and driven by a processor.
- the memory unit may be located inside or outside the processor, and may exchange data with the processor by various known means.
- Embodiments of the present invention can be applied to various wireless communication systems.
- Examples of various radio access systems include 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), 3GPP2 and / or IEEE 802.xx (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers 802) systems.
- Embodiments of the present invention can be applied not only to the various radio access systems, but also to all technical fields to which the various radio access systems are applied.
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기능 | 기지국 | 중계기 | 단말 |
하향링크 전송 | O | O | X |
하향링크 수신 | X | O | O |
상향링크 전송 | X | O | O |
상향링크 수신 | O | O | X |
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- 무선 통신 시스템에서 중계기가 하향링크 서브프레임에서 신호를 송수신하는 방법에 있어서,하향링크 서브프레임상에서 중계기 셀 내 단말들에게 제1 물리 하향링크 제어 채널(Physical Downlink Control CHannel: PDCCH)을 전송하는 단계; 및상기 제1 PDCCH 구간에 후속하는 제1 가드 시간(guard time) 경과 후 기지국으로부터 제2 PDCCH 또는 물리 하향링크 공유 채널(Physical Downlink Shared CHannel: PDSCH)을 수신하는 단계를 포함하되,상기 하향링크 서브프레임에는 상기 기지국으로부터 수신한 상기 제2 PDCCH 또는 상기 PDSCH에 후속하는 제2 가드 시간이 할당되고,중계기는 상기 기지국으로부터 수신한 소정의 제어 채널 구간 정보에 따른 일정 범위의 심볼을 통해 상기 제2 PDCCH를 수신하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서,상기 소정의 제어 채널 구간 정보가 상기 기지국에서 전송되는 상기 제2 PDCCH 길이의 최대값 또는 최소값에 관한 정보를 포함하는 경우,상기 중계기는 상기 하향링크 서브프레임에서 상기 소정의 제어 채널 구간 정보에 따른 일정 범위의 심볼을 제외한 나머지 심볼들을 이용하여 신호를 송수신하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서,상기 소정의 제어 채널 구간 정보는 상기 기지국에서 설정한 고정된 값의 구간 길이를 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서,상기 소정의 채널 구간 정보는 상기 기지국에서 결정되는 것으로,상기 중계기가 상기 기지국으로부터 상기 제2 PDCCH를 수신하는데 이용되는 상기 하향링크 서브프레임보다 앞선 임의의 하향링크 서브프레임을 통해 수신하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서,상기 제1 PDCCH는 상기 하향링크 서브프레임 시작 시점에서 전파 지연에 해당하는 시간 및 소정의 지연 심볼에 해당하는 시간 경과 후 전송되는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서,상기 제1 가드 시간 및 상기 제2 가드 시간은 0,5개 또는 1개 이상의 심볼 구간에 해당하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 제1항에 있어서,시스템 전체 자원 영역에서,상기 중계기가 상기 제1 PDCCH, 상기 제2 PDCCH 및 상기 PDSCH를 송수신하는데 사용하는 중계기 자원 영역과 상기 기지국이 셀 내 단말들에게 하향링크 신호 전송을 위해 사용하는 기지국 자원 영역을 구분하기 위해 일정 범위의 심볼을 가드 밴드(guard band)로 설정하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 제7항에 있어서,상기 가드 밴드는 상기 중계기 자원 영역의 양 끝단 중 적어도 하나에 위치하는 심볼로 설정되는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 제7항에 있어서,상기 중계기 자원 영역이 다수의 중계기에 대한 자원 영역으로 분할되는 경우,상기 중계기 자원 영역은 상기 다수의 중계기별로 사용하는 자원 영역을 구분하기 위한 다수의 가드 밴드를 더 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 무선 통신 시스템에서 중계기가 상향링크 백홀 서브프레임에서 신호를 송수신하는 방법에 있어서,상향링크 백홀 서브프레임을 통해 제1 가드 시간(guard time) 경과 후 시점부터 물리 하향링크 제어 채널(Physical Downlink Control CHannel: PDCCH), 물리 하향링크 공유 채널(Physical Downlink Shared CHannel: PDSCH) 및 사운딩 기준 신호(Sounding Reference Signal: SRS) 중 적어도 하나를 전송하는 단계를 포함하되,제2 가드 시간은 상기 상향링크 백홀 서브프레임의 마지막 심볼에 선택적으로 할당되고,상기 제1 가드 시간 및 상기 제2 가드 시간은 분할된 심볼 또는 하나 이상의 심볼로 할당되는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 제10항에 있어서,중계기 셀 내 하나 이상의 단말로부터 상기 중계기의 상향링크 백홀 서브프레임의 특정 심볼을 통해 SRS를 수신하는 단계를 더 포함하는 경우,상기 제2 가드 시간으로 상기 단말로부터 상기 SRS를 수신하는데 이용되는 상기 특정 심볼을 이용하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 제10항에 있어서,상기 제1 가드 시간은 상기 상향링크 백홀 서브프레임 시작 시점에서 전파 지연에 해당하는 시간만큼 앞선 시점에서 소정의 지연 심볼에 해당하는 시간 후 설정되는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 제10항에 있어서,시스템 전체 자원 영역에서,상기 중계기가 상기 PDCCH, 상기 PDSCH 및 상기 SRS 중 적어도 하나를 전송하는데 사용하는 중계기 자원 영역과 단말이 상기 기지국 또는 상기 중계기로 상향링크 신호 전송에 사용하는 단말 자원 영역을 구분하기 위해 일정 범위의 심볼을 가드 밴드(guard band)로 설정하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 제13항에 있어서,상기 가드 밴드는 상기 중계기 자원 영역의 양 끝단 중 적어도 하나에 위치하는 심볼로 설정되는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 제13항에 있어서,상기 중계기 자원 영역이 다수의 중계기에 대한 자원 영역으로 분할되는 경우,상기 중계기 자원 영역은 상기 다수의 중계기별로 사용하는 자원 영역을 구분하기 위한 다수의 가드 밴드를 더 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기의 신호 송수신 방법.
- 무선 통신 시스템의 하향링크 서브프레임에서 신호를 송수신하는 중계기는,하향링크 서브프레임을 통해 무선 신호를 수신하기 위한 수신 모듈;상기 하향링크 서브프레임을 통해 중계기 셀 내 단말들에게 제1 물리 하향링크 제어 채널(Physical Downlink Control CHannel: PDCCH)을 전송하기 위한 송신 모듈; 및상기 제1 PDCCH 구간에 후속하는 제1 가드 시간(guard time) 경과 후 기지국으로부터 제2 PDCCH 또는 물리 하향링크 공유 채널(Physical Downlink Shared CHannel: PDSCH)을 상기 수신 모듈을 통해 수신하도록 수행하는 프로세서를 포함하되,상기 프로세서는 상기 하향링크 서브프레임 내 상기 기지국으로부터 수신한 상기 제2 PDCCH 또는 상기 PDSCH에 후속하는 제2 가드 시간을 할당하고,상기 수신 모듈을 통해 상기 기지국으로부터 수신한 소정의 제어 채널 구간 정보에 따른 일정 범위의 심볼상에서 상기 제2 PDCCH를 수신하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 제16항에 있어서,상기 소정의 제어 채널 구간 정보가 상기 기지국에서 전송되는 상기 제2 PDCCH 길이의 최대값 또는 최소값에 관한 정보를 포함하는 경우,상기 프로세서는 상기 하향링크 서브프레임에서 상기 소정의 제어 채널 구간 정보에 따른 일정 범위의 심볼을 제외한 나머지 심볼들을 이용하여 상기 송신 모듈신호 및 상기 수신 모듈을 이용하여 신호를 송수신하도록 수행하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 제16항에 있어서,상기 소정의 제어 채널 구간 정보는 상기 기지국에서 설정한 고정된 값의 구간 길이를 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 제16항에 있어서,상기 소정의 채널 구간 정보는 상기 기지국에서 결정되는 것으로,상기 수신 모듈은 상기 기지국으로부터 상기 제2 PDCCH를 수신하는데 이용되는 상기 하향링크 서브프레임보다 앞선 임의의 하향링크 서브프레임을 통해 상기 소정의 채널 구간 정보를 수신하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 제16항에 있어서,상기 수신 모듈은 상기 하향링크 서브프레임 시작 시점에서 전파 지연에 해당하는 시간 및 소정의 지연 심볼에 해당하는 시간 경과 후 상기 제1 PDCCH를 수신하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 제16항에 있어서,상기 제1 가드 시간 및 상기 제2 가드 시간은 0,5개 또는 1개 이상의 심볼 구간에 해당하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 제16항에 있어서,상기 프로세서는,시스템 전체 자원 영역에서 상기 제1 PDCCH, 상기 제2 PDCCH 및 상기 PDSCH를 송수신하는데 사용하는 중계기 자원 영역과 상기 기지국이 셀 내 단말들에게 하향링크 신호 전송을 위해 사용하는 기지국 자원 영역을 구분하기 위해 일정 범위의 심볼을 가드 밴드(guard band)로 설정하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 제22항에 있어서,상기 가드 밴드는 상기 중계기 자원 영역의 양 끝단 중 적어도 하나에 위치하는 심볼로 설정되는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 제22항에 있어서,상기 프로세서는,상기 중계기 자원 영역을 다수의 중계기에 대한 자원 영역으로 분할하는 경우 상기 다수의 중계기별로 사용하는 자원 영역을 구분하기 위한 다수의 가드 밴드를 더 설정하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 무선 통신 시스템의 상향링크 백홀 서브프레임에서 신호를 송수신하는 중계기는,상향링크 백홀 서브프레임을 통해 제1 가드 시간(guard time) 경과 후 시점부터 물리 하향링크 제어 채널(Physical Downlink Control CHannel: PDCCH), 물리 하향링크 공유 채널(Physical Downlink Shared CHannel: PDSCH) 및 사운딩 기준 신호(Sounding Reference Signal: SRS) 중 적어도 하나를 전송하기 위한 송신 모듈; 및상기 상향링크 백홀 서브프레임의 마지막 심볼에 상기 제2 가드 시간을 선택적으로 할당하는 프로세서를 포함하며,상기 제1 가드 시간 및 상기 제2 가드 시간은 분할된 심볼 또는 하나 이상의 심볼로 할당되는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 제25항에 있어서,무선 신호를 수신하기 위한 수신 모듈을 더 포함하며,상기 수신 모듈이 릴레이 셀 내 하나 이상의 단말로부터 상기 중계기의 상향링크 백홀 서브프레임의 특정 심볼을 통해 SRS를 수신하는 경우,상기 프로세서는,상기 제2 가드 시간으로 상기 단말로부터 상기 SRS를 수신하는데 이용되는 상기 특정 심볼을 이용하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 제25항에 있어서,상기 프로세서는,상기 상향링크 서브프레임 시작 시점에서 전파 지연에 해당하는 시간만큼 앞선 시점에서 소정의 지연 심볼에 해당하는 시간 후 상기 제1 가드 시간을 설정하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 제25항에 있어서,상기 프로세서는,시스템 전체 자원 영역에서, 상기 PDCCH, 상기 PDSCH 및 상기 SRS 중 적어도 하나를 전송하는데 사용하는 중계기 자원 영역과 단말이 상기 기지국 또는 상기 중계기로 상향링크 신호 전송에 사용하는 단말 자원 영역을 구분하기 위해 일정 범위의 심볼을 가드 밴드(guard band)로 설정하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 제28항에 있어서,상기 프로세서는, 상기 가드 밴드를 상기 중계기 자원 영역의 양 끝단 중 적어도 하나에 위치하는 심볼로 설정하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
- 제28항에 있어서,상기 프로세서는,상기 중계기 자원 영역이 다수의 중계기에 대한 자원 영역으로 분할하는 경우, 상기 시스템 전체 자원 영역에서 상기 다수의 중계기별로 사용하는 자원 영역을 구분하기 위한 다수의 가드 밴드를 더 설정하는 것을 특징으로 하는, 중계기.
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