WO2012061976A1 - Methods and devices for providing measurement reports - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to wireless network, and particularly to inter-cell interference coordination.
- Co-channel Heterogeneous Networks comprise macrocells and small cells operating on the same frequency channel . Such deployments present some specific interference scenarios for which new ICIC techniques are required.
- the small cells are picocells, which are open to users of the macrocellular network.
- user equipment UEs
- UEs near the edge of a picocell' s coverage area will suffer strong interference from one or more macrocells.
- some subframes may be configured as "blank" or "almost blank" in a macrocell .
- a blank subframe contains no transmission from the macrocell, while an "almost blank" subframe typically contains no data transmission and little or no control signaling transmission, but will contain reference signal transmissions in order to ensure backward compatibility with legacy terminals which expect to find the reference signals for measurements but are unaware of the configuration of almost blank subframes.
- Almost blank subframes may also contain synchronisation signals, broadcast control information and/or paging signals.
- ABS blank or almost blank subframes
- X2 backhaul interface
- this X2 signaling will take the form of a coordination bitmap to indicate the ABS pattern (for example with each bit corresponding to one subframe in a series of subframes, with the value of the bit indicating whether the subframe is an ABS or not) .
- Such signaling can help the picocell to schedule data transmissions in the picocell appropriately to avoid interference (e.g.
- RRM Radio Resource Management, typically relating to handover
- RLM Radio Link Monitoring, typically relating to detection of serving radio link failure
- CQI Channel Quality Information, derived from the signal strength from the serving cell and the interference from other cells, and typically used for link adaptation and scheduling on the serving radio link
- RRM Radio Resource Management, typically relating to handover
- RLM Radio Link Monitoring, typically relating to detection of serving radio link failure
- CQI Channel Quality Information, derived from the signal strength from the serving cell and the interference from other cells, and typically used for link adaptation and scheduling on the serving radio link
- a picocell may overlap multiple macrocells, and pico UEs (PUEs) in different parts of the picocell may therefore suffer interference from different macrocells.
- PUEs pico UEs
- Each macrocell may use a different ABS pattern.
- CQI measurements made by a PUE will depend on the particular subframes in which the interference is measured. If the CQI measurements are to be useful to the PeNB in determining which subframes to schedule a PUE in and what modulation and coding scheme (MCS) to use in those subframes, the PeNB needs CQI information corresponding to the different ABS patterns of the different macrocells.
- MCS modulation and coding scheme
- the small cells are femtocells, which operate on a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) basis, and are therefore typically not open to users of the macrocellular network.
- the femtocells can cause strong interference to the macrocell UEs when they come close to the femto eNBs . It may then be beneficial for the macrocells to indicate to their UEs the subframes in which they should make resource specific measurements (i.e. the subframes in which interference from one or more femtocells is reduced or absent) .
- a method, in a user equipment, of providing measurement reports, wherein said user equipment is interfered by a plurality of wireless networks said method comprises the steps of :
- a method, in an eNodeB, of assisting a user equipment to provide measurement reports, wherein said user equipment is interfered by a plurality of wireless networks said method comprises the steps of:
- said measurement reports are based on channel information measured by said user equipment in at least one of said plurality of subframe patterns
- a device in a user equipment, of providing measurement reports, wherein said user equipment is interfered by a plurality of wireless networks, said device comprises:
- a fifth unit for receiving, from a eNodeB, information about a plurality of subframe patterns respectively used by said plurality of wireless networks;
- a device in an eNodeB, of assisting a user equipment to provide measurement reports, wherein said user equipment is interfered by a plurality of wireless networks, said device comprises:
- a third unit for receiving measurement reports from said user equipment said measurement reports are based on channel information measured by said user equipment in at least one of said plurality of subframe patterns;
- Fig. 1 shows a schematic view of the wireless networks
- Fig.2 shows a schematic view of the ABS patterns of 3 macrocells
- Fig. 3 shows a flowchart of the method of proving measurement reports .
- Fig. 1 shows an example topology of a heterogeneous network.
- the Pico cell dominated by the Pico eNB (PeNB) is near three Macro cells dominated by three Macro eNB.
- a Pico UE (PUE) locates at the edge of the Pico cell.
- PUE Pico UE
- the invention is not limited to this topology and these two kinds of wireless networks.
- a macro cell dominated by a macro eNB can be near several femto cells dominated by femto eNB.
- each macrocell uses a different pattern of ABSs and signals its ABS pattern to the PeNB via the X2 interface .
- the PeNB may be preprogrammed with the ABS patterns of the neighbouring macrocells by means of the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) interface.
- O&M Operations and Maintenance
- the PeNB comprises the device of assisting a user equipment to provide measurement reports.
- the device comprises the first unit, the second unit, the third unit and the fourth unit.
- the PUE comprises a device of providing measurement reports.
- the device comprises the fifth unit, the sixth unit, the seventh unit and the eighth unit.
- the first unit sends user equipment PUE information about the three subframe patterns used by the three macro cells respectively.
- the PeNB may for example signal the three patterns directly to the PUEs .
- the PeNB may for example choose to signal subsets of the ABSs such that each measurement subframe pattern signalled to the PUEs comprises only ABSs of one macrocell.
- a signalled subset could be the common patterns in the event that the patterns of the three macrocells are overlapping.
- the mechanism used by the PeNB to notify the PUE the subframe patterns of the neighboring cells are not limited by the above examples.
- the pattern of subframes comprises positions of blank frames and/or almost blank frames (ABS) in the patterns.
- the first unit sends the information about the three subframe patterns via RC signaling.
- step Sll the fifth unit receives the information about the three subframe patterns respectively used by the three macro cells.
- step S12 the second unit notifies user equipment PUE associations between the measurement reports and the three subframe patterns.
- the number of measurement reports that can be configured to be reported back from the UE would depend on the total number of measurement patterns signaled to the UE.
- CQI measurement report is taken as an example of the measurement report.
- the CQI measurement report is one of a periodic sequence of CQI measurement reports, and at the time when the periodic sequence is configured, higher layer signaling is used to associate the reports of the sequence with one of the measurement subframe patterns; multiple such sequences of CQI measurement reports may thus be configured, each associated with a different measurement subframe pattern.
- the association between the CQI measurement report and the measurement subframe pattern is derived from the index of the subframe in which the CQI measurement report is to be sent.
- the identity of the associated subframe pattern is given by n ss mod N, where n ss is the index of the subframe in which the CQI measurement report is to be sent and N is the index of signaled subframe pattern.
- the association between the CQI measurement report and the measurement subframe pattern is derived from the index of the subframe in which the CQI measurement report is requested.
- the identity of the associated subframe pattern is given by n sr mod N, where n sr is the index of the subframe in which the CQI measurement report is requested and N is the index of signaled subframe pattern.
- the association between the CQI measurement report and the measurement subframe pattern is signalled to the PUE by the PeNB together with the signaling that requests the CQI measurement report.
- LTE Release 8 defines aperiodic CQI reporting, where an individual CQI report is triggered by a single bit transmitted in the uplink grant messages on the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) .
- PDCCH Physical Downlink Control Channel
- one or more additional bits could be added to such PDCCH messages, to indicate which measurement subframe pattern should be used for the triggered CQI report .
- the association between the CQI measurement report and the measurement subframe pattern cycles through the set of signalled measurement subframe patterns with each successive CQI measurement report.
- the first CQI measurement report is associated with the first signalled measurement subframe pattern
- the second CQI measurement report is associated with the second signalled measurement subframe pattern, and so on.
- step S13 the sixth unit obtains the associations between the measurement reports and the three subframe patterns .
- step S14 the seventh unit measures channel information in the three subframe patterns. Specifically, the SINR in the patterns are measured.
- step S14 the seventh unit generates measurement reports for the three subframe patterns according to the obtained association.
- step S15 the eighth unit sends the measurement reports to PeNB.
- the eighth unit sends the measurement reports to PeNB. For example, in case that the index of the subframe in which the measurement report is send is relating to the index of the subframe patterns, the eighth unit send each of the measurement report in the corresponding subframe, such that the PeNB could know the subframe pattern to which the received reports corresponds.
- step S16 the third unit receives measurement reports from the user equipment PUE.
- step S17 the fourth unit relates each of the received measurement reports with the corresponding subframe pattern according to the notified association. For example, in case that the index of the subframe in which the measurement report is send is relating to the index of the subframe pattern, the fourth unit acquires the index of the subframe in which the measurement report is send, and determines the index of the subframe pattern.
- the PeNB thus receives three CQI reports from the PUE, with each CQI report being based on interference measured in a different measurement subframe pattern, the PeNB can ascertain the supportable MCS for transmissions to the PUE in subframes where each of the three macrocells is independently using ABSs. This can help the PeNB to know which macrocells are causing significant interference to the UE, and therefore to schedule data transmissions to the PUEs appropriately, for example selecting only subframes where the PUE does not experience significant macrocellular interference, or by adjusting the MCS to reduce the code rate or modulation order in subframes where high interference is experienced.
- the information for subframe patterns to the UEs may be sent via UE- specific dedicated signaling. While in other embodiments it may be sent by broadcast/multicast signaling. For the latter case, due to that the PUE locates in the center suffers little interference thus don't need to provide the measurement report for interference, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, the PeNB sends instruction to the user equipment not to provide measurement reports. And for the PUE locate in the cell edge, the PeNB sends instruction to the user equipment to provide measurement reports.
- the PeNB notifies the user equipment to send the measurement report for one specific pattern.
- the PeNB notifies the user equipment to activate or deactivate the measurement report for one specific pattern.
- the serving cell may use the CQI reports associated with a given measurement subframe pattern to switch off the signaling of particular measurement subframe patterns to the UEs, for example if all the associated CQI reports indicate that there is no heavy interference in the subframes of a particular pattern.
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