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  • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
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  • H04W72/50—Allocation or scheduling criteria for wireless resources
  • H04W72/54—Allocation or scheduling criteria for wireless resources based on quality criteria
  • H04W72/542—Allocation or scheduling criteria for wireless resources based on quality criteria using measured or perceived quality

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• the present invention relates generally to wireless communication systems, and more particularly to a system and method for power control.
• Wireless communication systems are widely used to provide voice and data services for multiple users using a variety of access terminals such as cellular telephones, laptop computers and various multimedia devices.
• Such communications systems can encompass local area networks, such as IEEE 801.11 networks, cellular telephone and/or mobile broadband networks.
• the communication system can use a one or more multiple access techniques, such as Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) and others.
• FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
• TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
• CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
• OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
• SC-FDMA Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access
• Mobile broadband networks can conform to a number of system types or partnerships such as, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), 3rd-Generation standards (3G), Worldwide Interoperability for
• WiM AX WiM AX
• UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
• 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
• Evolution-Data Optimized EV-DO Long Term Evolution
• LTE Long Term Evolution
• the desired signal level as well as the interference level fluctuates in time due to temporal fading.
• highest performance is achieved when transmissions occur when the desired signal level is high and the interference level is low. This happens as naturally in downlink transmissions for some systems, such as LTE that are configured to have a user terminal transmit a latest C/I value to the base station.
• LTE Long Term Evolution
• the C/I value is highest when the desired signal is at the highest level and the interference is at the lowest level.
• the LTE base station therefore, assigns a user terminal a given resource block (RB), when the C/I is relatively high using a certain priority criterion.
• RB resource block
• a method of operating a base station configured to operate with user devices includes scheduling transmission for the user devices.
• Scheduling transmission includes determining a first fading metric for at least one user device from the at least one user device to the base station, determining a second fading metric for the at least one user device from the at least one user device to at least one other base station, and determining a priority metric for the at least one user device based on the first and second fading metrics.
• the priority metric is configured to assign a higher priority to a user device with a first fading metric indicating an up-fade and the second fading metric indicating a down- fade.
• the method further includes transmitting a transmission schedule to the at least one user device based on the priority metric.
• the method further includes requesting the user device to increase a transmission power if the second metric indicates that interference to another base station is experiencing a down-fade.
• An amount of transmission power increase is determined by an estimated total amount of down-fading of the interference to another base station.
• the amount of transmission power increase is further determined by a weighted sum of the estimated total amount of interference to a plurality of base stations.
• the weighting is performed according to a relative interference over thermal (IOT) level of each of the plurality of base stations.
• a method of operating a wireless network that includes a first transceiver configured to operate with a plurality of user devices. The method includes determining a first fading metric for at least one of the plurality of user devices to the first transceiver, determining a second fading metric for the at least one of the plurality of user devices to at least one adjoining transceiver, and determining a priority metric for the at least one of the plurality of user devices based on the first fading metric and the second fading metric. Determining the first and second fading metrics includes determining the first and second fading metric for a plurality of resource blocks.
• the priority metric configured to assign a higher priority to a user device with a first fading metric indicating an up-fade and the second fading metric indicating a down-fade.
• the method further includes the first transceiver assigning the at least one the plurality of user devices at least one resource block.
• a wireless base station includes transmitter and a receiver.
• the base station is configured to determine a first fading metric for at least one of a plurality of user devices to the base station for a plurality of resource blocks, and determine a second fading metric for the at least one of the plurality of user devices to at least one other transceiver for the plurality of resource blocks.
• the base station is further configured to determine a priority metric for the at least one of the plurality of user devices based on the first fading metric and the second fading metric, where the priority metric configured to assign a higher priority to a user device with a first fading metric indicating an up- fade and the second fading metric indicating a down- fade.
• the base station also assigns the at least one of the plurality of user devices at least one resource block.
• Figure 1 illustrates a diagram of an embodiment mobile broadband system
• Figure 2 illustrates a power diagram of an embodiment wireless system
• Figure 3 illustrates a diagram of an embodiment cell with multiple sectors
• Figure 4 illustrates an embodiment scheduling table
• Figure 5 illustrates a block diagram of an embodiment base station
• Figure 6 illustrates a block diagram of an embodiment user device.
• Mobile broadband system 100 is divided into cells 108, 110 and 112, where each cell
• 108, 110 and 112 has corresponding base station 102, 104 and 106.
• Mobile terminals or user equipment (UE) 114 and 116 access network 100 through one of base stations 102, 104 and 106.
• UE user equipment
• Three base stations 108, 110 and 112 and two UEs 114 and 116 are used for simplicity of illustration, however, multiple cells and UEs can be used and provided for in real systems.
• UE 114 is assigned to cell 108, and transmits with a power S a in the uplink channel to base station 102.
• the transmitted power of UE 114 also appears as interference power Il a and 12 ⁇ at base stations 106 and 104 of cells 112 and 110, respectively.
• UE 116 is assigned to cell 112, and transmits with a power S in the uplink channel to base station 102.
• the transmitted power of UE 116 appears as interference power II ⁇ and ⁇ 2 ⁇ at base stations 102 and 104 of cells 108 and 110, respectively.
• base station 102 receives both signal power S ⁇ from UE 114 an S ⁇ interference power 11 ⁇ from UE 116.
• S a , H a , 12 a , S ⁇ , ⁇ ⁇ , 12 ⁇ vary according to multipath conditions.
• the variability of multipath environment on S a , H a , 12 a , S ⁇ , ⁇ ⁇ , 12 ⁇ is exploited to increase throughput and coverage performance.
• Uplink transmissions are scheduled when interference impact to adjoining cells is small.
• uplink power control is adjusted so that the UE transmits with a higher power because the effect of its interference to adjoining cells is reduced.
• FIG. 2 a power diagram of a wireless system 200 is shown.
• UEO transmits desired signal S to the serving cell represented by vertical line 202.
• the transmission of UEO is also received by interfering cell 1, represented by vertical line 204, as signal II, and by interfering cell 2, represented by vertical line 206, as signal 12.
• signals II and 12 represent the dominant interfering signals at interfering cells 1 and 2.
• the serving cell also receives aggregate interference signals 208 and 210 at an average power of Iexp.
• the actual total received power 10 of aggregate interfering signals 208 and 210 varies according to the multipath environment.
• the distribution of 10 is represented as Gaussian distribution 212, however, in the actual distribution of 10 may be distributed differently from a Gaussian distribution depending on the transmission and multipath environment.
• An embodiment of the present invention takes into account three types of signal variations to improve the performance of uplink fade selective scheduling (FSS).
• the variations are signal S fluctuations due to fading, interference II and 12 fluctuation to other cells due to fading, and interference 10 from other cells to the serving cell due to fading.
• resources are ideally allocated when the amplitude of signal S is high and signals II, 12 and 10 are low due to fading.
• down-fade measurements are used by the serving cell to determine when to schedule the UE for transmission.
• the receiving signal can be measured by neighboring base stations when a UE is transmitting a specific reference signal, which is sometimes referred to as sounding.
• the UE can measure the downlink signal to determine fading information of the interference it causes to other stations. For example, a channel quality index (CQI) can be used.
• CQI channel quality index
• different common downlink pilot signals for each reuse group can be used for measurement in the case of Inter-cell Interference Control (ICIC) schemes.
• ICIC Inter-cell Interference Control
• Interference measurements for II and 12 can be sent to the serving base station from neighboring cells, or they can be derived by the UE itself as indicated above.
• the fading of II and 12 to neighboring cells in the uplink channel can be estimated by the UE's received signal from neighboring cells in the downlink channel.
• FIG. 3 illustrates an embodiment cell 300 in which an embodiment FSS approach is applied among multiple sector of the same service cell 308.
• UE 310 transmits desired signal S within sector 302.
• interference measurements are available to the serving cell 308 directly. Therefore, FSS can be implemented for adjacent sectors 302, 304 and 306 without the need for new messaging over the backhaul.
• Such an embodiment approach can be used to improve the throughput of users located at sector boundaries.
• embodiment algorithms can be used only for sectors in the same base station. In other embodiments, embodiment algorithms are used in other base stations as well as within different sectors of the same base station.
• Figure 4 illustrates an embodiment scheduling table 400 for a UE based on desired signal S and interference values II and 12 to neighboring cells. It should be noted that, while the interference to two neighboring cells is listed in table 400 for simplicity of illustration, the interference to any number of neighboring cells can be taken into account. The columns in table
• these available resource blocks can represent available uplink resources in frequency and/or time.
• an RB has a certain frequency band and a certain time duration.
• Each table entry contains either a "+" or a The
• resource block 4 represents a resource block with signal S is up- faded, and interference signals II and 12 are both down- faded.
• resource block 5 represents the resource block with signal S is down-faded and interfering signals II and 12 upfaded.
• an embodiment scheduling algorithm would choose resource block 4 because it maximizes desired signal level S and minimizes interference signals II and 12.
• An embodiment algorithm may avoid using resource block 5 because it minimizes desired signal S and maximizes interference signals II and 12 to neighboring cells or sectors.
• Figure 4 illustrates only two interfering signals II and 12, however, any number of interfering signals can be taken into account in embodiment algorithms.
• the choice of which interfering signals are taken into account depends on the strength of the interfering signals. For example if one interfering cell IA has a lower received amplitude than another interfering cell IB, then whether IB is upfaded or downfaded does not have a significant impact on the performance of the serving cell. Therefore, interfering signals IB and other interfering signals that are not dominant sources of interference can be omitted from some embodiment scheduling calculations. In an interfering signal can be considered non-dominant if the received interfering signal is more than 10 dB below the received signal level of the dominant interfering signal.
• additional information such as loading and target interference over thermal (IOT) values of each cell is taken into account.
• scheduling is performed by comparing one UE's priority with another UE's priority, where the UE with the highest priority is chosen for the particular time slot.
• the priority metric based on the the aggregated interference to a group of base stations.
• One example embodiment opportunistic priority function is S/Imax, where the only the strongest interference is taken into account. In this case, the priority metric is maximized when Imax is minimized.
• Another embodiment opportunistic priority function is S/(I1 + 12 + ... +IL). In this case, the priority metric is maximized when the sum of the L strongest interferences is down-faded, or the total interference to other cells and/or sectors is minimized.
• the L strongest interferences are chosen to be the L interference values that are the closest to the target interference values for the respective neighboring cells and/or sectors. This embodiment is appropriate, for example, in systems that use inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) where different cells have different target IOT levels.
• ICIC inter-cell interference coordination
• a further embodiment opportunistic priority function is:
• I k represents the interference of the user to k th base station
• S represents the UE's signal level received at the serving cell
• IOT k represents the IOT of the k th base station.
• the priority function is weighted by a relative interference over thermal (IOT) level for a group of base stations.
• the downlink C/I (DL CI) variation would mimic the uplink S/(I1+I2+...+IL) variation. Therefore, in an embodiment, the DL CI can be used to determine when the uplink S/(I1+I2+...+IL) is maximum and directly used as the priority index for uplink scheduling. In embodiments, uplink and downlink reciprocity can be assumed if the uplink and downlink frequencies are the same or similar.
• a power control scheme takes into account the fading information of a UE's interfering signal. For example, the transmit power of the UE can be adjusted such that the interference is maintained at the same level as a no fading case. When the interference signal is down faded, the interference caused to that cell is reduced, therefore, UE transmit power can be increased proportionally to the reduction in interference received by neighboring cells and/or sectors. Such an embodiment method will also reduce the fluctuation of total interference of a cell.
• the power can be increased by ⁇ * ⁇ 1, where ⁇ is a parameter to control the portion of the down-fade to be compensated.
• ⁇ is a parameter to control the portion of the down-fade to be compensated.
• the interferences can be combined (linearly or non- linearly), depending on the scenario, to determine the power adjustment.
• interference values are further weighted by the target IOT of each cell in order to obtain a temporal power adjustment.
• DL C/I measurements are used to reflect aggregate interference to neighboring cells (e.g., linear sum of interfering signals).
• downlink channel estimates are used for the uplink channel state information due to reciprocity, the following priority metric is used:
• Inst DL CI, and Mean DL CI are the instantaneous and mean downlink C/I estimate, respectively, for the resource block, respectively.
• the priority metric p for each resource block is compared to each other, and each UE is assigned a resource block with a higher comparative priority metric p.
• the priority of a UE for a resource block is decided based on other factors such as a UE's QoS requirement, the throughput a UE already had during recent times, etc. In such embodiments, the above priority factor can be multiplied by the other priority factors to obtain an overall priority index.
• the power of the UE can be adjusted as follows:
• Power with FPC is the transmitted power using a full power control algorithm
• Inst DL CI is an instantaneous downlink C/I estimate
• ⁇ is a parameter used to control the portion of the down-fade to be compensated.
• the total amount of a transmission power increase is determined by an estimated total amount of down- fading of the interference to another base station.
• the amount of transmission power increase is further determined by a weighted sum of the estimated total amount of interference to a group base stations, where the weighting is performed according to a relative interference over thermal (IOT) level of each of the plurality of base stations.
• IOT interference over thermal
• a UE's strongest interfering cell e.g., can be identified using the downlink, interference measurements
• the adjacent sector measures the signal received from the UE's sounding signal and reports the value to the serving cell. From these measurements, one can evaluate the up -faded RBs and use the metric, (Mean Interference / Instantaneous Interference), as a down-fade factor for that UE. This can be used for uplink scheduling prioritization as well as for uplink power adjustment in some embodiments.
• the planned IOT target is large for a given base station for a given RB, no consideration is taken into account as to whether interference to that base station is up-faded or not, when assigning a UE to a the particular RB.
• up-fading, down-fading, only up-fading or only-down fading can be taken into consideration.
• Base station 500 has a base station processor 504 coupled to transmitter 506 and receiver 508, and network interface 502. Transmitter 506 and receiver 508 are coupled to antenna 512 via coupler 510.
• Base station processor 504 executes embodiment partition indexing algorithms.
• base station 500 is configured to operate in a LTE network using an OFDMA downlink channel divided into multiple subbands and using single carrier FDMA in the uplink.
• OFDMA orthogonal frequency division multiple access
• FDMA single carrier FDMA
• User device 600 can be implemented, for example, as a cellular telephone, or other mobile communication device, such as a computer or network enabled peripheral. Alternatively, user device 600 can be a non-mobile device, such as a desktop computer with wireless network connectivity. User device 600 has mobile processor 604, transmitter 606 and receiver 608, which are coupled to antenna 612 via coupler 610. User interface 602 is coupled to mobile processor 604 and provides interfaces to loudspeaker 614, microphone 616 and display 618, for example. Alternatively, user device 600 may have a different configuration with respect to user interface 602, or user interface 602 may be omitted entirely.

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