WO2015034151A1 - Downlink transmission method and user terminal equipment - Google Patents

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WO2015034151A1
WO2015034151A1 PCT/KR2014/002289 KR2014002289W WO2015034151A1 WO 2015034151 A1 WO2015034151 A1 WO 2015034151A1 KR 2014002289 W KR2014002289 W KR 2014002289W WO 2015034151 A1 WO2015034151 A1 WO 2015034151A1
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  • the present invention relates to wireless communication system, and more particularly to a downlink transmission method and a user terminal equipment.
  • each wireless frame has a length of 10ms, and is divided into ten equally sized subframes.
  • a downlink transmission time interval (TTI) is defined in one subframe.
  • each downlink subframe includes two slots.
  • CP cyclic prefix
  • each slot contains 7 OFDM symbols;
  • each slot contains 6 OFDM symbols.
  • the front n (n is equal to 1, 2 or 3) OFDM symbols are to transmit downlink control information including a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and other control information; the remaining OFDM symbols are to transmit Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) or enhanced PDCCH (E PDCCH).
  • PDCCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel
  • E PDCCH enhanced PDCCH
  • the resource allocation granularity is a physical resource block (PRB).
  • PRB physical resource block
  • One PRB contains 12 consecutive subcarriers in frequency and corresponds to a time slot in time.
  • two PRBs respectively located in two slots of the subframe while occupying same subcarriers are referred to as a PRB pair.
  • each resource elements (RE) is the smallest unit of time-frequency resources, i.e., a subcarrier in frequency and an OFDM symbol in time.
  • RE can be used for different functions, respectively. For example, some RE can be used to transmit cell-specific reference signal (CRS), user-specific demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and channel quality indicator reference signal (CSI-RS), etc.
  • CRS cell-specific reference signal
  • DMRS user-specific demodulation reference signal
  • CSI-RS channel quality indicator reference signal
  • multiple transmission modes are defined for transmitting data.
  • MIMO closed loop multiple-input multiple-output
  • open loop MIMO transmission mode transmit diversity transmission
  • DCI normal downlink control informal
  • the base station also configures UE to detect one kind of fallback DCI format.
  • the fallback DCI format usually has fewer bits, adopts a more conservative way to schedule data, such as transmit diversity or single-antenna sending data, and thus has high reliability.
  • DCIs which are sent to different UEs or have different functions can be independently coded and transmitted.
  • CCE control channel Element
  • ECCE enhanced CCE
  • E)PDCCH when it is not needed to specifically distinguish PDCCH and EPDCCH, they can be collectively referred to as (E)PDCCH; accordingly, CCE and ECCE can be collectively referred to as (E)CCE.
  • modulation symbols of one (E)PDCCH can be mapped to L (E)CCE, where L can be equal to 1, 2, 4, 16 or 32, and L can also be known as aggregation level of (E)PDCCH.
  • E)PDCCH fixed adopts QPSK modulation method; according to bit number of control information and link condition of UE, the base station can select aggregation level of (E)CCE for sending (E)PDCCH.
  • MCS modulation coding scheme
  • TBS transport block size
  • CSI channel status indication
  • CQI channel quality indicator
  • Table 2 shows modulation mode and code rate, etc. of each CQI index.
  • 4 bits are used to report CQI information.
  • CQI measurement only situations in which downlink data transmissions based on QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM can be currently supported.
  • one possible candidate technique is to support PDSCH transmission based on 256QAM modulation.
  • a typical network configuration for example, uses a macro base station on lower frequencies to achieve large coverage; and sets some small base stations on higher frequencies to achieve hotspot coverage. Since the small base station uses high frequency point, its propagation characteristics determine inter-cell interference is small and there is not interference from the macro base station, thus, signal to interference and noise ratio of UE in smaller cell can be very high and can sufficiently support downlink transmission based on 256QAM.
  • it is needed to modify processing way of MCS and CQI in the existing LTE specifications and solve a series of resulting problems.
  • the present application discloses a downlink transmission method and user terminal equipment, which can support 256QAM modulation and optimize performance of downlink transmission.
  • a downlink transmission method includes:
  • CQI downlink channel quality indicator
  • the UE receiving downlink scheduling information sent from the base station, receiving and processing accordingly downlink data sent from the base station according to modulation coding scheme (MCS) information of downlink control informal (DCI) included in the CQI information; wherein the UE processes the MCS information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation.
  • MCS modulation coding scheme
  • DCI downlink control informal
  • the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is:
  • the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is:
  • the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is: in the backward compatible CQI table, adding CQI items of 256QAM modulation.
  • the method further comprises:
  • the UE reporting an offset value to the base station when the UE reports the CQI information, for indicating an actual index of the CQI information in the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation to the base station; or,
  • the UE receiving an offset value sent from the base station, extracting some CQI items from the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation according to The offset value to form an actually used CQI table when reporting the CQI information.
  • the method further comprises: the base station configuring CQI table used by each subframe set of the UE, respectively;
  • the UE reporting the CQI information according to CQI table used by a subframe set to which the CQI information belongs.
  • the method further comprises: the base station configuring CQI table used in each CSI process of the UE, respectively; the UE reporting the CQI information according to CQI table used by a CSI process to which the CQI information belongs.
  • the method further comprises: the base station configuring CQI table used in each CSI process and by each subframe set of the UE, respectively;
  • the UE reporting the CQI information according to CQI table used by a CSI process and a subframe set to which the CQI information belongs.
  • the method further comprises: the UE receiving configuration information sent from the base station for configuring the UE to use the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation or the backward compatible CQI table to report the CQI information.
  • the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation is:
  • the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is: removing some CQI items from the backward compatible CQI table and adding CQI items of 256QAM modulation, in the backward compatible MCS table, removing MCS items corresponding to the removed CQI items and adding MCS items of 256QAM modulation;
  • the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation is:
  • the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is: removing some CQI items from the backward compatible CQI table and adding CQI items of 256QAM modulation, in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing MCS items corresponding to the removed CQI items with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;
  • the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation is: in the backward compatible MCS table, adding MCS items of 256QAM modulation.
  • the method further comprises:
  • the UE receiving an offset value sent from the base station, extracting some MCS items from the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation according to The offset value to form an actually used MCS table when processing the MCS information.
  • a detected DCI format is a normal DCI format, using the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation when processing the MCS information; if a detected DCI format is a fallback DCI format, using the backward compatible MCS table when processing the MCS information.
  • the method further comprising: configuring MCS table corresponding to RE mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH indicated by the downlink scheduling information as a MCS table when processing the MCS information; wherein the MCS table corresponding to each RE mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH is preconfigured by the base station.
  • the method further comprising: determining a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information according to whether (E)PDCCH which carries the downlink scheduling information is in USS or CSS detected by the UE.
  • the method further comprising: taking a MCS table corresponding to an aggregation level of (E)PDCCH which carries the downlink scheduling information as a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information.
  • E aggregation level of
  • determining a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information according to whether a type of (E)PDCCH is localized or?distributed.
  • the method further comprising: taking a MCS table corresponding to a EPDCCH set in which (E)PDCCH carrying the downlink scheduling information is, as a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information; wherein the MCS table corresponding to each EPDCCH set of the UE is preconfigured by the base station.
  • the method further comprises: dividing downlink subframes into a plurality of sets, for each downlink subframe set, configuring MCS table used by DCI which schedules downlink data transmission of each downlink subframe set;
  • the method further comprises: taking the MCS table used by DCI information as a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information.
  • a user terminal equipment includes a channel quality indicator (CQI) information measuring and reporting unit, a downlink scheduling information receiving unit and a downlink data receiving and processing unit; wherein
  • CQI channel quality indicator
  • the CQI information measuring and reporting unit is configured to measure and report downlink channel quality indicator (CQI) information to a base station; wherein UE reports the CQI information according to a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation;
  • CQI downlink channel quality indicator
  • the downlink scheduling information receiving unit is configured to receive downlink scheduling information sent from the base station;
  • the downlink data receiving and processing unit is configured to, according to modulation coding scheme (MCS) information of downlink control informal (DCI) included in the downlink scheduling information, receive and process accordingly downlink data sent from the base station; wherein the UE processes the MCS information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation.
  • MCS modulation coding scheme
  • DCI downlink control informal
  • Application of the method and equipment of the present application can generate CQI table and MCS table which support 256 QAM transmission, and supports selecting utilization of CQI/MCS tables of the existing LTE standard or selecting utilization of CQI/MCS tables which support 256 QAM transmission according to link status of UE, thereby optimizing performance of downlink transmission.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a subframe
  • Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a downlink transmission method of the present application
  • Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram showing different CSI processes uses different CQI tables
  • Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram showing different downlink subframe sets corresponding to different MCS tables.
  • Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a user terminal equipment of the present application.
  • the existing version of LTE only supports three kinds of modulation modes including QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM. These 3 kinds of modulation modes cover transmission requirements under a variety of typical situations. That is, supporting transmissions based on QPSK when channel conditions are very poor, and supporting transmissions based on 64QAM when the channel conditions are very good. Only for some scenes of particularly high SINR, downlink transmission can be performed based on 256QAM, thereby improving downlink peak rate.
  • link status of UE is not always capable of performing downlink transmission based on 256QAM; that is to say, it is needed to support switching between modulation modes such as 256QAM, 64QAM, 16QAM and QPSK.
  • MCS table or CQI table of the existing version of LTE is already suitable for downlink transmission of UE; while in some other situations, MCS table or CQI table which are newly defined for supporting 256QAM is more suitable for processing downlink transmission of UE.
  • Fig. 2 is specific flowchart of a downlink transmission method of the present application. As shown in Fig. 2, the method includes:
  • Block 201 UE receiving configuration information sent from a base station, and accordingly adjusting CQI table and MCS table.
  • UE uses CQI table and MCS table of the existing version of LTE, this ensures that UE can successfully access a base station of the existing version of LTE and a base station of the new version of LTE.
  • a base station does not know whether UE supports transmissions of 256QAM before UE reports its capabilities, thus, the system must work according to the existing version of LTE at this moment.
  • a high layer signaling can be adopted to configure UE to work in a mode of supporting 256QAM.
  • Block 202 UE measuring and reporting downlink channel quality information to the base station; here, UE can report the CQI information according to a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation;
  • a CQI table of the existing LTE version can be extended to add support for 256QAM. Two prefer ways of configuring CQI table are described as follows.
  • a first way is to define one or more new CQI tables which support 256QAM, based on CQI table of the existing LTE version. Recording a number of the new CQI tables is N, then, N+1 CQI tables can be supported in the new version of LTE system.
  • the base station uses a high layer signaling to configure UE to use CQI tables supporting 256QAM. For example, if defining only one new CQI table which supports 256QAM, 1 bit signaling can be used to configure UE to use CQI table of the existing LTE standard or the CQI table which supports 256QAM.
  • CQI table which supports 256QAM can be to remove some CQI item having lower modulation order from the existing CQI table and add items which uses 256QAM.
  • CQI index 0 can be used to indicate invalid CQI value; or, in a table supporting 256QAM, all 16 values indicate valid CQI information.
  • one way of generating CQI table which supports 256QAM can be to remove some CQI item having the lowest spectrum efficiency from the existing CQI table, renumber the remaining CQI items for QPSK/16QAM/64QAM in return, and then add items for 256QAM. For example, removing 5 items having the lowest index from the existing CQI table, 5 items which support 256QAM can be added accordingly.
  • some CQI items refer to one or more CQI items.
  • Still another way of generating CQI table which supports 256QAM can be to, based on the existing CQI table, increase feedback granularity of CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency; for example, for CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency, retaining only one of every two CQI items, i.e., removing CQI items 2, 4, 6 and 8; renumber the remaining CQI items for QPSK/16QAM/64QAM in return and then add items for 256QAM.
  • the CQI table which supports 256QAM still can cover all channel statuses, just increasing granularity of CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency.
  • some CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency of the existing CQI table can be replaced with items of 256QAM; or, on the premise of keeping some QPSK items having lowest or lower coding rate in the existing MCS table unchanged, some QPSK even 16QAM items can be replaced with items of 256QAM; or, based on the existing CQI table, increasing feedback granularity of CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency, for example, for CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency, one of every two CQI items can be replaced with items of 256QAM.
  • CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency can be reduced to indicate 256QAM.
  • CQI table in the existing standard can support 64QAM and coding rate as high as 0.92, on the premise that UE can support 256QAM, the performance of using 64QAM and coding rate as high as 0.92 may be not optimized, and they may be replaced with some CQI items which based on 256QAM transmission. That is to say, in addition to the above mentioned reducing some CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency to indicate 256QAM, one or more items of 64QAM having highest coding rate can be removed to indicate 256QAM.
  • one manner of removing one or more items of 64QAM to indicate 256QAM can be used separately to generate new CQI table, and can also be combined with the above mentioned manner of reducing some CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency to indicate 256QAM to generate new CQI table.
  • a second kind of ways is to add items corresponding to 256QAM in CQI table of the existing version of LTE, thereby obtaining a long CQI table of a length more than 16 items, i.e., the long CQI table contains information of more than 16 items of CQI indexes. At this moment, since the length of the CQI table is more than 16 items, thus, it is needed to reconsider reporting manner of CQI information.
  • One reporting manner can be to add number of bits through which UE reports CQI information; for example, using 5 bits to feedback CQI.
  • a bit number of 4 bit CQI information can also remain unchanged, and thus CQI reporting mechanism of the existing version of LTE can be directly be reused.
  • UE can feed back an offset value for indicating an actual index of CQI information reported by the base station in the long CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation. For example, recoding a value of 4 bit CQI is c and an offset value is v, CQI value c which is equal to 0 can still represent invalid CQI value; while for CQI value c is equal to 1 ⁇ 15, an actual index of CQI fed back by UE is CQI index c+v of the above long CQI table.
  • the offset value v and rank indication (RI) information of CSI feedback information of UE can be joint coded and feed back at a same timing position.
  • the base station uses a high layer signaling to configure an offset value v of CQI table for UE, and UE extracts 16 CQI items from the above long CQI table according to the offset value v so as to form a CQI table which actually configures UE.
  • CQI value 0 can still represent invalid CQI value; while CQI value c (c is equal to 1 ⁇ 15) can be mapped in turn to CQI index c+v of the above long CQI table.
  • downlink subframes of a cell can be divided into two sets, and channel statuses of the two are different. Accordingly, CSI information can be fed back for the two subframe sets, respectively. That is, the base station can configure UE to report feedback information of the two subframe sets, respectively.
  • Average SINR levels of the above multiple subframe sets are usually different. As shown in Fig. 3, taking eICIC as example, one subframe set configured with ABSF corresponding to macro base station, that is, interference on a smaller cell from the macro base station is smaller, thus, SINR of UE in smaller cell can be very high and may be suitable for using the modulation mode of 256QAM. For the other subframe set, since the macro base station sends downlink control and downlink data, thus, SINR of UE is smaller and may not be suitable for using the modulation mode of 256QAM.
  • the present application provides, when the base station configures multiple subframe sets of UE, configuring information of CQI table used by each subframe set, respectively. If defining new table for 256QAM, then, in the present application, UE is configured to use CQI table of the existing version of LTE or new CQI table which supports 256QAM, according to SINR situation of this subframe set. If defining the above long CQI table, then, in the present application, UE is configured to select an offset value v of CQI index from the long CQI table, according to SINR situation of this subframe set.
  • CQI value 0 can still represent invalid CQI value; while CQI value c (c is equal to 1 ⁇ 15) can be mapped in turn to CQI index c+v of the above long CQI table.
  • the base station when the base station configures CSI reporting manner for UE, the base station can configure information of CQI table used in each subframe set, respectively. Accordingly, UE receives information of CQI table configured by the base station for each subframe set, respectively, measures channel status for each subframe set, and feeds back CQI information according to CQI table configured by the base station for this subframe set.
  • the base station in order to support data transmission of CoMP, the base station further supports configuring UE to report feedback information of multiple CSI processes, and each CSI process can further be divided into two subframe sets.
  • the existing LTE system already supports configuring UE to feed back feedback information of multiple CSI processes and multiple subframe sets.
  • Average SINR levels of the above multiple CSI processes and multiple subframe sets are usually different. In some CSI processes and subframe sets, SINR of UE can be very high and may be suitable for using the modulation mode of 256QAM; while in other CSI processes and subframe sets, SINR of UE is smaller and may not be suitable for using the modulation mode of 256QAM.
  • the present application provides, when the base station configures multiple CSI processes of UE, configuring information of CQI table used in each CSI process, respectively. If defining new table for 256QAM, then, in the present application, UE is configured to use CQI table of the existing version of LTE or new CQI table which supports 256QAM, according to SINR situation of this CSI process. If defining the above long CQI table, then, in the present application, UE is configured to select an offset value v of CQI index from the long CQI table, according to SINR situation of this CSI process.
  • CQI value 0 can still represent invalid CQI value; while CQI value c (c is equal to 1 ⁇ 15) can be mapped in turn to CQI index c+v of the above long CQI table.
  • the base station when the base station configures CSI reporting manner for UE, the base station can configure information of CQI table used in each CSI process, respectively. Accordingly, UE receives information of CQI table configured by the base station for each CSI process, respectively, measures channel status for each CSI process, and feeds back CQI information according to CQI table configured by the base station for this CSI process.
  • the present application further provides, when the base station configures multiple CSI processes and multiple subframe sets of UE, configuring information of CQI table used in each CSI process and by each subframe set, respectively. If defining new table for 256QAM, then, in the present application, UE is configured to use CQI table of the existing version of LTE or new CQI table which supports 256QAM, according to SINR situation of one CSI process and one subframe set. If defining the above long CQI table, then, in the present application, UE is configured to select an offset value v of CQI index from the long CQI table, according to SINR situation of one CSI process and one subframe set.
  • CQI value 0 can still represent invalid CQI value; while CQI value c (c is equal to 1 ⁇ 15) can be mapped in turn to CQI index c+v of the above long CQI table.
  • the base station when the base station configures CSI reporting manner for UE, the base station can configure information of CQI table used in each CSI process and by each subfrane set, respectively.
  • UE receives information of CQI table configured by the base station for each CSI process and each subframe set, respectively, measures channel status for each CSI process and each subframe set, and feeds back CQI information according to CQI table configured by the base station for this CSI process and this subframe set.
  • Block 203 UE receiving downlink scheduling information sent from the base station, receiving and processing accordingly downlink data sent from the base station according to MCS information of DCI included in the downlink scheduling information.
  • UE can process MCS information of DCI information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation.
  • an MCS table of the existing LTE version can be extended to add support for 256QAM. Two prefer ways of configuring MCS table are described as follows.
  • a first kind of ways is to define one or more new MCS tables which support 256QAM based on MCS table of the existing version of LTE. Recording a number of the new MCS tables is N, then, N+1 MCS tables can be supported in the new version of LTE system.
  • base stations supporting 256QAM can be divided into different levels. For example, a simple device only supports using 256QAM in a not high encoding rate; while a complex device supports using 256QAM in high encoding rate.
  • Different MCS tables of 256QAM can be configured for base stations which are of different levels and supports 256QAM, respectively. This is one reason why defines multiple MCS tables which supports 256QAM in above.
  • the base station uses a high layer signaling to configure UE to use MCS table which supports 256QAM.
  • one way of generating MCS table which supports 256QAM can be to remove some MCS items having lower modulation order from the existing MCS table and add items which uses 256QAM.
  • a preferred way of the present application is described as follows.
  • the largest MCS values can only indicate modulation order while not contain TBS information. The following description mainly refers to other MCS items which simultaneously indicate modulation order and TBS.
  • one way of generating MCS table which supports 256QAM can be to remove some QPSK items having the lowest coding rate from the existing MCS table, renumber the remaining MCS items for QPSK/16QAM/64QAM in return starting from 0, and then add items for 256QAM. For example, removing 5 items having the lowest index from the existing MCS table, 5 items which support 256QAM can be added accordingly.
  • MCS table of 256QAM For situations in which channels of UE can support 256QAM, in order to deal with the case of deep fading occurring on the channels of UE, it may be necessary to retain some QPSK items having lower coding rate. In this way, when configuring MCS table of 256QAM, another way of generating MCS table which supports 256QAM can be to, on the premise of keeping some QPSK items having lowest or lower coding rate in the existing MCS table unchanged, remove some QPSK, even 16QAM items, renumber the remaining MCS items for QPSK/16QAM/64QAM in return, and then add items for 256QAM. For example, removing indexes 2 ⁇ 6 from the existing MCS table, 5 items which support 256QAM can be added accordingly.
  • some MCS items refer to one or more MCS items.
  • MCS table which supports 256QAM can be to remove MCS items obtained through interpolation and whose spectrum efficiencies are within a specified range (such as MCS?items having lower spectrum efficiency) from the existing MCS table, renumber the remaining MCS items for QPSK/16QAM/64QAM in return starting from 0, and then add items for 256QAM. For example, removing indexes 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 from the existing MCS table, 5 items which support 256QAM can be added accordingly.
  • the present invention does not specifically limit using which MCS items with I MCS > 0 to indicate 256QAM modulation mode.
  • UE simultaneously detects two kinds of DCI formats, i.e., normal format and fallback format.
  • the two kinds of DCI formats can simultaneously use MCS table supporting 256QAM.
  • the represented modulation orders and TBS have the same definition as that of corresponding MCS indexes in the existing MCS table, thus, when configuring or reconfiguring downlink transmission mode, so long as using fallback DCI format and consistent MCS items of the two tables, confusion of MCS information in DCI can be avoided.
  • MCS?items having lower modulation order can be reduced to indicate 256QAM modulation mode.
  • MCS table in the existing standard can support 64QAM and coding rate as high as 0.92, on the premise that UE can support 256QAM, the performance of using 64QAM and coding rate as high as 0.92 may be not optimized, and they may be replaced with some MCS items which based on 256QAM transmission. That is to say, in the present application, in addition to the above mentioned reducing some MCS?items having lower modulation order to indicate 256QAM, one or more items of 64QAM having highest coding rate can be removed to indicate 256QAM modulation mode and corresponding TBS.
  • one manner of removing one or more items of 64QAM to indicate 256QAM can be used separately to generate new MCS table, and can also be combined with the above mentioned manner of reducing some MCS?items having lower modulation order to indicate 256QAM to generate new MCS table.
  • MCS indexes 10 and 11 have equal spectrum efficiencies, but they adopt QPSK and 16QAM, respectively; MCS indexes 16 and 17 have equal spectrum efficiencies, but they adopt 16QAM and 64QAM, respectively.
  • One of the two MCS having equal spectrum efficiencies can be removed, thereby obtaining one code word for indicating 256QAM transmission.
  • one of two MCS having equal spectrum efficiencies, which has lower modulation order can be removed.
  • Adoption of this method two code words can be obtained for indicating 256QAM transmission.
  • a second kind of ways is to add items corresponding to 256QAM in MCS table of the existing version of LTE, thereby obtaining a long MCS table of a length more than 32 items, i.e., the long MCS table contains information of more than 32 items of MCS indexes. At this moment, since the length of the MCS table is more than 32 items, thus, it is needed to reconsider reporting manner of MCS information.
  • One reporting manner can be to add number of bits occupied by CQI information in DCI format; for example, using 6 bits to support MCS information.
  • 5 bit MCS can also remain unchanged, and thus the DCI format of the existing version of LTE can be directly be reused.
  • the base station uses a high layer signaling to configure an offset value v of MCS table for UE, and UE extracts 32 MCS items from the above long MCS table according to the offset value v so as to form a MCS table which actually configures UE.
  • MCS values 28, 29, 30 and 31 in DCI indicate modulation orders 2, 4, 6 and 8, respectively (i.e., corresponding to QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM and 256QAM, respectively); MCS value m (m is equal to 0 ⁇ 27) can be mapped in turn to MCS index m+v of the above long MCS table.
  • UE can be configured with different offset values v, thereby optimizing performance of downlink link.
  • MCS table which supports 256QAM The ways of generating MCS table which supports 256QAM are described above. For UE supporting 256QAM, adoption of MCS table of the existing LTE standard or MCS table which supports 256QAM can be configured. In some situations, MCS table of the existing version of LTE has already suitable for downlink transmission of UE; while in some other situations, MCS table which are newly defined for supporting 256QAM is more suitable for improving peak downlink transmission rate of UE.
  • MCS table of the existing LTE standard or MCS table which supports 256QAM is described below.
  • UE for each downlink transmission mode, UE simultaneously detects two kinds of DCI formats, i.e., normal format and fallback format.
  • the normal DCI format is to complete normal data transmission under this kind of transmission mode.
  • the normal DCI format is able to support 256QAM.
  • the fallback DCI format usually has fewer bits, has high reliability and supports switching between downlink transmission modes. So, the pursuit of peak downlink speed is not the main purpose of the fallback DCI format.
  • MCS field of normal DCI format can use MCS table which supports 256QAM, i.e., high layer signaling can be used to configure using one of MCS table of the existing LTE standard and MCS table supporting 256QAM; while MCS field of fallback DCI format is still consistent with the existing LTE standard, i.e., uses MCS table of the existing LTE standard.
  • the base station selects MCS table to configure MCS of DCI.
  • UE when UE detects (E)PDCCH in blind, if UE detects (E)PDCCH of normal DCI format in blind, assuming that the high layer signaling configures using MCS table supporting 256QAM, UE can parse MCS information of DCI according to new MCS table which supports 256QAM; otherwise, UE can parse MCS information of DCI according to MCS table of the existing LTE standard; if UE detects (E)PDCCH of fallback DCI format in blind, UE can parse MCS information of DCI according to MCS table of the existing LTE standard.
  • the system can configure 4 different kinds of configuration information of RE mapping and quasi-co-location?(QCL) of PDSCH, and uses 2 bits of DCI format to indicate current PPDSCH transmission is which kind of RE mapping and QCL configuration.
  • its target physical layer transmission technology may be different, for example, joint transmission (?JT) or Coordinated scheduling/beamforming?(CS/CB).
  • link statuses are also different.
  • SINR may be higher than CS/CB, so that it may be possible to use MCS table supporting 256QAM when using JT; while using CS/CB, it is only suitable to using the existing MCS table.
  • the present application provides that, when configuring Remapping and QCI configuration of PDSCH for UE, MCS tables used corresponding to each RE mapping and QCL configuration are simultaneously configured, respectively.
  • MCS tables used corresponding to each RE mapping and QCL configuration are simultaneously configured, respectively.
  • the base station schedules downlink data transmission, after selecting RE mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH to be used by UE, configures MCS field of DCI according to MCS table which configures this RE mapping and QCL configuration. Accordingly, after UE detects one (E)PDCCH in blind, determines MCS table according to RE mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH indicated by (E)PDCCH, and parses MCS information of DCI.
  • E blind
  • USS common search space
  • USS UE-specific search space
  • E)PDCCH transmitted in USS is usually to trigger UE specific PDSCH transmission; while CSS is to send some cell-common (E)PDCCHs.
  • E)PDCCH of CSS can also trigger UE specific PDSCH transmission.
  • E)PDCCH of USS is required to be able to support 256QAM; while (E)PDCCH of CSS is not required to use MCS table supporting 256QAM.
  • E)PDCCH of USS is required to be able to support 256QAM; for CSS, it can be configured by different MCS tables according to purpose of (E)PDCCH sent by the CSS.
  • MCS table to be used can be determined according to whether (E)PDCCH detected by UE is in USS or CSS. Specifically, for UE configured to supporting 256QAM, MCS table supporting 256QAM can be used for (E)PDCCH in USS, i.e., high layer signaling can be used to configure using one of MCS table of the existing LTE standard and MCS table supporting 256QAM; MCS table of the existing LTE standard can be fixed used for (E)PDCCH in CSS. When the base station schedules downlink data transmission, for (E)PDCCH in USS and CSS, MCS table selected according to the method of the present application can be used to configure MCS field of DCI.
  • MCS information of DCI can be parsed according to MCS table supporting 256QAM, otherwise, MCS information of DCI can be parsed according to MCS table of the existing LTE standard; for (E)PDCCH in CSS, MCS information of DCI can be parsed according to MCS table of the existing LTE standard.
  • MCS table supporting 256QAM can be used for (E)PDCCH in USS, i.e., high layer signaling can be used to configure using one of MCS table of the existing LTE standard and MCS table supporting 256QAM; for (E)PDCCH in CSS, if its DCI is cell specific, such as scheduling broadcast information, paging information or RACH response message (RAR), then (E)PDCCH uses MCS table of the existing LTE standard. For (E)PDCCH in CSS, if its DCI is UE specific, then (E)PDCCH can use MCS table supporting 256QAM.
  • one (E)PDCCH is an aggregation of one or more (E)CCE.
  • E E
  • a smaller aggregation level can be adopted; while downlink channel quality of UE is poor, a larger aggregation level can be used.
  • 256QAM modulation mode may be adopted; while when downlink link quality is poor, 256QAM modulation mode usually cannot be adopted.
  • MCS table used by DCI can be determined according to aggregation level of (E)PDCCH.
  • E)PDCCH with an aggregation level smaller than K can use new MCS table which supports 256QAM;
  • (E)PDCCH with an aggregation level greater than K uses the existing MCS table.
  • the base station schedules downlink data transmission, determines an aggregation level of (E)PDCCH according to downlink link status of UE, and selects MCS table according to the method of the present application to configure MCS field of DCI. Accordingly, after UE detects (E)PDCCH in blind, UE can parse MCS field of DCI according to the aggregation level of (E)PDCCH to obtain modulation mode and TBS of base station scheduling.
  • localized EPDCCH is suitable for situations in which the base station can obtain precise channel state indication (CSI) information of different frequency subbands of UE, so as to obtain frequency scheduling gain; correspondingly, when the base station does not have precise CSI information of UE, the base station has to distribute EPDCCH in multiple PRB pairs for sending, so as to obtain frequency diversity gain, i.e., distributed EPDCCH.
  • CSI channel state indication
  • the base station sending localized EPDCCH since CSI information is precise, thus, 256QAM can be used to further improve downlink peak rate. While in case of the base station sending distributed EPDCCH, CSI information is usually not precise, MCS table of the existing LTE standard can provide good performance.
  • MCS table used by DCI can be determined according to types (localized or?distributed) of EPDCCH.
  • EPDCCH candidates in a localized EPDCCH set can be configured to use new MCS table supporting 256QAM, i.e., high layer signaling can be used to configure using one of MCS table of the existing LTE standard and MCS table supporting 256QAM; while EPDCCH candidates in a distributed EPDCCH set can be configured to use existing MCS table.
  • types (localized or?distributed) of EPDCCH can be selected according to downlink link status of UE, and MCS table can be selected according to the method of the present application to configure MCS field of DCI.
  • UE can parse MCS field of DCI according to types (localized or?distributed) of EPDCCH in accordance with the method of the present application to obtain modulation mode and TBS of base station scheduling.
  • each EPDCCH set is consistent with one RE mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH.
  • its target physical layer transmission technology may be different, accordingly, its link statuses are also different.
  • SINR may be higher than CS/CB, so that it may be possible to use MCS table supporting 256QAM when using JT. In this way, there can be a certain corresponding relationship between EPDCCH set and link status when transmitting PDSCH.
  • each EPDCCH set of UE can be configured to use different MCS tables, respectively, i.e., when configuring parameters of the each EPDCCH set, the each EPDCCH set can be further configured to use one of MCS table of the existing LTE standard and MCS table supporting 256QAM.
  • DCI information can be transmitted in an EPDCCH candidate of one EPDCCH set of UE, MCS field of DCI can be configured according to MCS table configured by selected EPDCCH set. Accordingly, after UE detects (E)PDCCH in blind, UE can determine MCS table according to the EPDCCH set to which the EPDCCH belongs, and parse MCS field of DCI.
  • downlink subframes of a cell can be divided into two sets, and channel statuses of the two are different.
  • a subframe set configured with ABSF corresponds to macro base station, that is, interference on a smaller cell from the macro base station is smaller, thus, SINR of UE can be very high and may be suitable for using the modulation mode of 256QAM.
  • SINR of UE is smaller and may not support the modulation mode of 256QAM.
  • the network can divide downlink subframes into multiple sets, for example, different downlink subframe sets have different degrees of interference; for each downlink subframe set, configures MCS table used by DCI which schedules downlink data transmission of each downlink subframe set. If defining new table for 256QAM, then, in the present application, UE is configured to use MCS table of the existing version of LTE or new MCS table which supports 256QAM, according to SINR situation of each downlink subframe set. If defining the above long MCS table, then, in the present application, UE is configured to select an offset value v of MCS index from the long MCS table, according to SINR situation of each downlink subframe set.
  • UE After UE receives the above configuration information of MCS table for different downlink subframe sets, when detecting DCI format scheduling downlink transmission of one downlink subframe set, UE can parse modulation mode and TBS of base station scheduling according to MCS table configured for downlink subframe set by network.
  • Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a user terminal equipment of the present application. As shown in Fig. 5, the equipment includes: a CQI information measuring and reporting unit, a downlink scheduling information receiving unit and a downlink data receiving and processing unit.
  • the CQI information measuring and reporting unit is configured to measure and report downlink channel quality indicator (CQI) information to a base station.
  • CQI downlink channel quality indicator
  • UE can report the above CQI information according to a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation.
  • the downlink scheduling information receiving unit is configured to receive downlink scheduling information sent from the base station.
  • the downlink data receiving and processing unit is configured to, according to MCS information of DCI included in the downlink scheduling information, receive and process accordingly downlink data sent from the base station.
  • UE can process MCS information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation.
  • application of the method and equipment of the present application can generate CQI table and MCS table which support 256 QAM transmission, and supports selecting utilization of CQI/MCS tables of the existing LTE standard or selecting utilization of CQI/MCS tables which support 256 QAM transmission according to link status of UE, thereby optimizing performance of downlink transmission.

Abstract

The present application discloses a downlink transmission method including: UE receiving configuration information sent form base station and accordingly adjusting CQI table and MCS table; UE measuring and reporting downlink channel quality indicator information to the base station; here, the UE reports the CQI information according to a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation; the UE receiving downlink scheduling information sent from the base station, receiving accordingly downlink data sent from the base station, here, the UE processes the MCS information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation.

Description

DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION METHOD AND USER TERMINAL EQUIPMENT
The present invention relates to wireless communication system, and more particularly to a downlink transmission method and a user terminal equipment.
In 3GPP LTE system, each wireless frame has a length of 10ms, and is divided into ten equally sized subframes. A downlink transmission time interval (TTI) is defined in one subframe. As shown in Fig. 1, each downlink subframe includes two slots. For a normal cyclic prefix (CP) length, each slot contains 7 OFDM symbols; for an extended cyclic-prefix length, each slot contains 6 OFDM symbols. In each subframe, the front n (n is equal to 1, 2 or 3) OFDM symbols are to transmit downlink control information including a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and other control information; the remaining OFDM symbols are to transmit Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) or enhanced PDCCH (E PDCCH). The resource allocation granularity is a physical resource block (PRB). One PRB contains 12 consecutive subcarriers in frequency and corresponds to a time slot in time. In one subframe, two PRBs respectively located in two slots of the subframe while occupying same subcarriers are referred to as a PRB pair.?In each PRB pair, each resource elements (RE) is the smallest unit of time-frequency resources, i.e., a subcarrier in frequency and an OFDM symbol in time. RE can be used for different functions, respectively. For example, some RE can be used to transmit cell-specific reference signal (CRS), user-specific demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and channel quality indicator reference signal (CSI-RS), etc.
In LTE system, multiple transmission modes are defined for transmitting data. For example, for downlink direction, there are closed loop multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission mode, open loop MIMO transmission mode, transmit diversity transmission, and so on. For one transmission mode, the system configures a normal downlink control informal (DCI) format which is to complete normal data transmission under this kind of transmission mode. Meanwhile, the base station also configures UE to detect one kind of fallback DCI format. The fallback DCI format usually has fewer bits, adopts a more conservative way to schedule data, such as transmit diversity or single-antenna sending data, and thus has high reliability.
In LTE system, DCIs which are sent to different UEs or have different functions can be independently coded and transmitted. When performing physical resource mapping on PDCCH, taking control channel Element (CCE) as a unit; when performing physical resource mapping on EPDCCH, taking enhanced CCE (ECCE) as a unit. In following description, when it is not needed to specifically distinguish PDCCH and EPDCCH, they can be collectively referred to as (E)PDCCH; accordingly, CCE and ECCE can be collectively referred to as (E)CCE. Specifically, modulation symbols of one (E)PDCCH can be mapped to L (E)CCE, where L can be equal to 1, 2, 4, 16 or 32, and L can also be known as aggregation level of (E)PDCCH. (E)PDCCH fixed adopts QPSK modulation method; according to bit number of control information and link condition of UE, the base station can select aggregation level of (E)CCE for sending (E)PDCCH.
In the existing LTE versions, downlink data transmission based on QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM can be supported. Table 1 shows indexes of modulation coding scheme (MCS) and transport block size (TBS) which are used for downlink transmission. Specifically, in the existing LTE versions, in DCI information, 5 bits are used to indicate MCS and TBS information, in which 29 code words simultaneously indicate modulation mode and TBS, the last 3 code words only indicate modulation mode, while TBS information can be obtained according to previous DCI information and be used for retransmission of PDSCH.
Table 1 MCS and TBS for PDSCH transmission
Table 1
MCS indexI MCS modulation orderQ m TBS indexI TBS
0 2 0
1 2 1
2 2 2
3 2 3
4 2 4
5 2 5
6 2 6
7 2 7
8 2 8
9 2 9
10 4 9
11 4 10
12 4 11
13 4 12
14 4 13
15 4 14
16 4 15
17 6 15
18 6 16
19 6 17
20 6 18
21 6 19
22 6 20
23 6 21
24 6 22
25 6 23
26 6 24
27 6 25
28 6 26
29 2 reserved
30 4
31 6
Accordingly, in order to support the base station scheduling downlink PRB resource, UE needs to report channel status indication (CSI) information including channel quality indicator (CQI) information. Table 2 shows modulation mode and code rate, etc. of each CQI index. Specifically, in the existing LTE version, 4 bits are used to report CQI information. Consistent with MCS configuration in the existing LTE version, in CQI measurement, only situations in which downlink data transmissions based on QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM can be currently supported.
Table 2 CQI information
Table 2
CQI index coding code rate x 1024 efficiency
0 invalid value
1 QPSK 78 0.1523
2 QPSK 120 0.2344
3 QPSK 193 0.3770
4 QPSK 308 0.6016
5 QPSK 449 0.8770
6 QPSK 602 1.1758
7 16QAM 378 1.4766
8 16QAM 490 1.9141
9 16QAM 616 2.4063
10 64QAM 466 2.7305
11 64QAM 567 3.3223
12 64QAM 666 3.9023
13 64QAM 772 4.5234
14 64QAM 873 5.1152
15 64QAM 948 5.5547
In LTE version 12, in order to add a peak downlink transmission rate of a small cell, one possible candidate technique is to support PDSCH transmission based on 256QAM modulation. In a typical network configuration, for example, uses a macro base station on lower frequencies to achieve large coverage; and sets some small base stations on higher frequencies to achieve hotspot coverage. Since the small base station uses high frequency point, its propagation characteristics determine inter-cell interference is small and there is not interference from the macro base station, thus, signal to interference and noise ratio of UE in smaller cell can be very high and can sufficiently support downlink transmission based on 256QAM. In order to introduce the support for 256QAM, it is needed to modify processing way of MCS and CQI in the existing LTE specifications and solve a series of resulting problems.
The present application discloses a downlink transmission method and user terminal equipment, which can support 256QAM modulation and optimize performance of downlink transmission.
In order to achieve the above object, the present application adopts following technical solutions:
A downlink transmission method includes:
UE measuring and reporting downlink channel quality indicator (CQI) information to a base station; wherein the UE reports the CQI information according to a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation;
the UE receiving downlink scheduling information sent from the base station, receiving and processing accordingly downlink data sent from the base station according to modulation coding scheme (MCS) information of downlink control informal (DCI) included in the CQI information; wherein the UE processes the MCS information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation.
Preferably, the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is:
in the backward compatible CQI table, removing some CQI items having a lowest spectrum efficiency, and adding correspondingly CQI items of 256QAM modulation;
or, in the backward compatible CQI table, keeping some CQI items having a lowest coding rate unchanged, removing some items of QPSK modulation or 16QAM modulation, and adding correspondingly CQI items of 256QAM modulation;
or, in the backward compatible CQI table, adding feedback granularity of CQI?items having a spectrum efficiency within a determined range and adding correspondingly CQI items of 256QAM modulation;
and/or, in the backward compatible CQI table, removing some CQI items of 64QAM modulation having a highest coding rate, and adding correspondingly CQI items of 256QAM modulation.
Preferably, the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is:
in the backward compatible CQI table, removing some CQI items having a lowest spectrum efficiency, and replacing the removed CQI items with CQI items of 256QAM modulation;
or, in the backward compatible CQI table, keeping some CQI items having a lowest coding rate unchanged, replacing some CQI items of QPSK modulation or 16QAM modulation with CQI items of 256QAM modulation;
or, in the backward compatible CQI table, replacing some CQI?items having a spectrum efficiency within a determined range with CQI items of 256QAM modulation;
and/or, in the backward compatible CQI table, replacing one or some CQI items of 64QAM modulation having a highest coding rate with CQI items of 256QAM modulation.
Preferably, the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is: in the backward compatible CQI table, adding CQI items of 256QAM modulation.
Preferably, when the UE reports the CQI information according to the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation, the method further comprises:
adding a number of bits occupied by the CQI information for indicating CQI index of the reported CQI information in the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation; or,
the UE reporting an offset value to the base station when the UE reports the CQI information, for indicating an actual index of the CQI information in the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation to the base station; or,
the UE receiving an offset value sent from the base station, extracting some CQI items from the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation according to The offset value to form an actually used CQI table when reporting the CQI information.
Preferably, the method further comprises: the base station configuring CQI table used by each subframe set of the UE, respectively;
the UE reporting the CQI information according to CQI table used by a subframe set to which the CQI information belongs.
Preferably, the method further comprises: the base station configuring CQI table used in each CSI process of the UE, respectively; the UE reporting the CQI information according to CQI table used by a CSI process to which the CQI information belongs.
Preferably, the method further comprises: the base station configuring CQI table used in each CSI process and by each subframe set of the UE, respectively;
the UE reporting the CQI information according to CQI table used by a CSI process and a subframe set to which the CQI information belongs.
Preferably, the method further comprises: the UE receiving configuration information sent from the base station for configuring the UE to use the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation or the backward compatible CQI table to report the CQI information.
Preferably, the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation is:
in the backward compatible MCS table, removing some MCS items of QPSK modulation having a lowest coding rate, and adding MCS items of 256QAM modulation;
or, in the backward compatible MCS table, keeping some MCS items of QPSK modulation having a lowest coding rate unchanged, removing some MCS items of QPSK modulation or 16QAM modulation, and adding correspondingly MCS items of 256QAM modulation;
or, in the backward compatible MCS table, removing MCS items obtained through interpolation and whose spectrum efficiencies are within a determined range, and adding MCS items of 256QAM modulation;
or, when the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is: removing some CQI items from the backward compatible CQI table and adding CQI items of 256QAM modulation, in the backward compatible MCS table, removing MCS items corresponding to the removed CQI items and adding MCS items of 256QAM modulation;
and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, removing some MCS items of 64QAM modulation having a highest coding rate, and adding correspondingly MCS items of 256QAM modulation;
and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, removing one of multiple MCS items having equal spectrum efficiencies and adding correspondingly MCS items of 256QAM modulation.
Preferably, the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation is:
in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing some MCS items of QPSK modulation having a lowest coding rate with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;
or, in the backward compatible MCS table, keeping some MCS items of QPSK modulation having a lowest coding rate unchanged, replacing some MCS items of QPSK modulation or 16QAM modulation with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;
or, in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing some MCS?items obtained through interpolation and whose spectrum efficiencies are within a determined range with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;
or, when the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is: removing some CQI items from the backward compatible CQI table and adding CQI items of 256QAM modulation, in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing MCS items corresponding to the removed CQI items with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;
and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing one or some MCS items of 64QAM modulation having a highest coding rate with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;
and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing one of multiple MCS items having equal spectrum efficiencies with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;
and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, retaining an MCS item with I MCS=0, and replacing one or more MCS items with I MCS > 0 with MCS items of 256QAM modulation; wherein I MCSrepresents MCS index value.
Preferably, the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation is: in the backward compatible MCS table, adding MCS items of 256QAM modulation.
Preferably, when the UE processes the MCS information according to the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation, the method further comprises:
adding a number of bits occupied by the MCS information for indicating MCS index of the reported MCS information in the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation; or,
the UE receiving an offset value sent from the base station, extracting some MCS items from the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation according to The offset value to form an actually used MCS table when processing the MCS information.
Preferably, when the UE supports 256QAM, if a detected DCI format is a normal DCI format, using the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation when processing the MCS information; if a detected DCI format is a fallback DCI format, using the backward compatible MCS table when processing the MCS information.
Preferably, after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprising: configuring MCS table corresponding to RE mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH indicated by the downlink scheduling information as a MCS table when processing the MCS information; wherein the MCS table corresponding to each RE mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH is preconfigured by the base station.
Preferably, after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprising: determining a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information according to whether (E)PDCCH which carries the downlink scheduling information is in USS or CSS detected by the UE.
Preferably, after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprising: taking a MCS table corresponding to an aggregation level of (E)PDCCH which carries the downlink scheduling information as a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information.
Preferably, determining a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information according to whether a type of (E)PDCCH is localized or?distributed.
Preferably, after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprising: taking a MCS table corresponding to a EPDCCH set in which (E)PDCCH carrying the downlink scheduling information is, as a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information; wherein the MCS table corresponding to each EPDCCH set of the UE is preconfigured by the base station.
Preferably, the method further comprises: dividing downlink subframes into a plurality of sets, for each downlink subframe set, configuring MCS table used by DCI which schedules downlink data transmission of each downlink subframe set;
after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprises: taking the MCS table used by DCI information as a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information.
A user terminal equipment includes a channel quality indicator (CQI) information measuring and reporting unit, a downlink scheduling information receiving unit and a downlink data receiving and processing unit; wherein
the CQI information measuring and reporting unit is configured to measure and report downlink channel quality indicator (CQI) information to a base station; wherein UE reports the CQI information according to a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation;
the downlink scheduling information receiving unit is configured to receive downlink scheduling information sent from the base station;
the downlink data receiving and processing unit is configured to, according to modulation coding scheme (MCS) information of downlink control informal (DCI) included in the downlink scheduling information, receive and process accordingly downlink data sent from the base station; wherein the UE processes the MCS information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation.
Application of the method and equipment of the present application can generate CQI table and MCS table which support 256 QAM transmission, and supports selecting utilization of CQI/MCS tables of the existing LTE standard or selecting utilization of CQI/MCS tables which support 256 QAM transmission according to link status of UE, thereby optimizing performance of downlink transmission.
Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a subframe;
Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a downlink transmission method of the present application;
Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram showing different CSI processes uses different CQI tables;
Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram showing different downlink subframe sets corresponding to different MCS tables; and
Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a user terminal equipment of the present application.
In order to make the objective, technical solution and advantage of the present application clearer, the present application will be described in further detail hereinafter with reference to accompanying drawings.
The existing version of LTE only supports three kinds of modulation modes including QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM. These 3 kinds of modulation modes cover transmission requirements under a variety of typical situations. That is, supporting transmissions based on QPSK when channel conditions are very poor, and supporting transmissions based on 64QAM when the channel conditions are very good. Only for some scenes of particularly high SINR, downlink transmission can be performed based on 256QAM, thereby improving downlink peak rate. In fact, even in case of good channel conditions, considering dynamic changes of interference, fast fading and slow fading of links, corner effects, etc., link status of UE is not always capable of performing downlink transmission based on 256QAM; that is to say, it is needed to support switching between modulation modes such as 256QAM, 64QAM, 16QAM and QPSK. In some situations, MCS table or CQI table of the existing version of LTE is already suitable for downlink transmission of UE; while in some other situations, MCS table or CQI table which are newly defined for supporting 256QAM is more suitable for processing downlink transmission of UE.
Fig. 2 is specific flowchart of a downlink transmission method of the present application. As shown in Fig. 2, the method includes:
Block 201: UE receiving configuration information sent from a base station, and accordingly adjusting CQI table and MCS table.
In the block 201, in default situation, UE uses CQI table and MCS table of the existing version of LTE, this ensures that UE can successfully access a base station of the existing version of LTE and a base station of the new version of LTE. In fact, since a base station does not know whether UE supports transmissions of 256QAM before UE reports its capabilities, thus, the system must work according to the existing version of LTE at this moment. For UE supporting 256QAM, when the base station knows that link status of UE can support transmissions of 256QAM, a high layer signaling can be adopted to configure UE to work in a mode of supporting 256QAM. At this moment, both of MCS table and CQI table will be changed relative to the existing LTE standard, so as to provide support for 256QAM, and related parameters needs to be set. In following block 202 and block 203, the related parameters which may need to be set will be described in details.
Block 202: UE measuring and reporting downlink channel quality information to the base station; here, UE can report the CQI information according to a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation;
In the block 202, a CQI table of the existing LTE version can be extended to add support for 256QAM. Two prefer ways of configuring CQI table are described as follows.
A first way is to define one or more new CQI tables which support 256QAM, based on CQI table of the existing LTE version. Recording a number of the new CQI tables is N, then, N+1 CQI tables can be supported in the new version of LTE system. When it is needed to configure UE to use 256QAM, the base station uses a high layer signaling to configure UE to use CQI tables supporting 256QAM. For example, if defining only one new CQI table which supports 256QAM, 1 bit signaling can be used to configure UE to use CQI table of the existing LTE standard or the CQI table which supports 256QAM.
Assuming that average channel status of one UE is very good and can support 256QAM, then, the possibility that the same UE is in a very bad channel status in short time is usually small. Therefore, one way of generating CQI table which supports 256QAM can be to remove some CQI item having lower modulation order from the existing CQI table and add items which uses 256QAM. A preferred way of the present application is described as follows. Here, consistent with the existing CQI table, CQI index 0 can be used to indicate invalid CQI value; or, in a table supporting 256QAM, all 16 values indicate valid CQI information.
In the first kind of ways, one way of generating CQI table which supports 256QAM can be to remove some CQI item having the lowest spectrum efficiency from the existing CQI table, renumber the remaining CQI items for QPSK/16QAM/64QAM in return, and then add items for 256QAM. For example, removing 5 items having the lowest index from the existing CQI table, 5 items which support 256QAM can be added accordingly. Here, some CQI items refer to one or more CQI items.
For situations in which channels of UE can support 256QAM, in order to deal with the case of deep fading occurring on the channels of UE, it may be necessary to retain some QPSK items having lower coding rate. In this way, when configuring CQI table of 256QAM, another way of generating CQI table which supports 256QAM can be to, on the premise of keeping some QPSK items having lowest or lower coding rate in the existing CQI table unchanged, remove some QPSK, even 16QAM items, renumber the remaining CQI items for QPSK/16QAM/64QAM in return, and then add items for 256QAM. For example, removing indexes 2~6 from the existing CQI table, 5 items which support 256QAM can be added accordingly.
Still another way of generating CQI table which supports 256QAM can be to, based on the existing CQI table, increase feedback granularity of CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency; for example, for CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency, retaining only one of every two CQI items, i.e., removing CQI items 2, 4, 6 and 8; renumber the remaining CQI items for QPSK/16QAM/64QAM in return and then add items for 256QAM. Application of this way, the CQI table which supports 256QAM, still can cover all channel statuses, just increasing granularity of CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency.
All the above ways are to remove some items from the existing CQI table and renumber the remaining CQI items; when defining new CQI table which supports 256QAM, some items to be removed from CQI table can also be directly replaced with items of 256QAM, without changing modulation orders and spectrum efficiencies represented by other CQI items of CQI table. Specifically, corresponding to the above ways of removing CQI table items, some CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency of the existing CQI table can be replaced with items of 256QAM; or, on the premise of keeping some QPSK items having lowest or lower coding rate in the existing MCS table unchanged, some QPSK even 16QAM items can be replaced with items of 256QAM; or, based on the existing CQI table, increasing feedback granularity of CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency, for example, for CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency, one of every two CQI items can be replaced with items of 256QAM.
In the above ways of generating CQI table which supports 256QAM, CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency can be reduced to indicate 256QAM. In fact, CQI table in the existing standard can support 64QAM and coding rate as high as 0.92, on the premise that UE can support 256QAM, the performance of using 64QAM and coding rate as high as 0.92 may be not optimized, and they may be replaced with some CQI items which based on 256QAM transmission. That is to say, in addition to the above mentioned reducing some CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency to indicate 256QAM, one or more items of 64QAM having highest coding rate can be removed to indicate 256QAM. Specifically, one manner of removing one or more items of 64QAM to indicate 256QAM, can be used separately to generate new CQI table, and can also be combined with the above mentioned manner of reducing some CQI?items having lower spectrum efficiency to indicate 256QAM to generate new CQI table.
A second kind of ways is to add items corresponding to 256QAM in CQI table of the existing version of LTE, thereby obtaining a long CQI table of a length more than 16 items, i.e., the long CQI table contains information of more than 16 items of CQI indexes. At this moment, since the length of the CQI table is more than 16 items, thus, it is needed to reconsider reporting manner of CQI information.
One reporting manner can be to add number of bits through which UE reports CQI information; for example, using 5 bits to feedback CQI.
Or, a bit number of 4 bit CQI information can also remain unchanged, and thus CQI reporting mechanism of the existing version of LTE can be directly be reused. Further, at the time feeding back 4 bit CQI information, UE can feed back an offset value for indicating an actual index of CQI information reported by the base station in the long CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation. For example, recoding a value of 4 bit CQI is c and an offset value is v, CQI value c which is equal to 0 can still represent invalid CQI value; while for CQI value c is equal to 1~15, an actual index of CQI fed back by UE is CQI index c+v of the above long CQI table. The offset value v and rank indication (RI) information of CSI feedback information of UE can be joint coded and feed back at a same timing position.
Or, 4 bit CQI can also remain unchanged, and thus the CQI reporting mechanism of the existing version of LTE can be directly be reused. When it is needed to configure UE to use 256QAM, the base station uses a high layer signaling to configure an offset value v of CQI table for UE, and UE extracts 16 CQI items from the above long CQI table according to the offset value v so as to form a CQI table which actually configures UE. In the actual configuration CQI table, CQI value 0 can still represent invalid CQI value; while CQI value c (c is equal to 1~15) can be mapped in turn to CQI index c+v of the above long CQI table.
In the existing version 10 of LTE, in order to support eICIC technique, downlink subframes of a cell can be divided into two sets, and channel statuses of the two are different. Accordingly, CSI information can be fed back for the two subframe sets, respectively. That is, the base station can configure UE to report feedback information of the two subframe sets, respectively. Average SINR levels of the above multiple subframe sets are usually different. As shown in Fig. 3, taking eICIC as example, one subframe set configured with ABSF corresponding to macro base station, that is, interference on a smaller cell from the macro base station is smaller, thus, SINR of UE in smaller cell can be very high and may be suitable for using the modulation mode of 256QAM. For the other subframe set, since the macro base station sends downlink control and downlink data, thus, SINR of UE is smaller and may not be suitable for using the modulation mode of 256QAM.
The present application provides, when the base station configures multiple subframe sets of UE, configuring information of CQI table used by each subframe set, respectively. If defining new table for 256QAM, then, in the present application, UE is configured to use CQI table of the existing version of LTE or new CQI table which supports 256QAM, according to SINR situation of this subframe set. If defining the above long CQI table, then, in the present application, UE is configured to select an offset value v of CQI index from the long CQI table, according to SINR situation of this subframe set. For example, CQI value 0 can still represent invalid CQI value; while CQI value c (c is equal to 1~15) can be mapped in turn to CQI index c+v of the above long CQI table. In this way, when the base station configures CSI reporting manner for UE, the base station can configure information of CQI table used in each subframe set, respectively. Accordingly, UE receives information of CQI table configured by the base station for each subframe set, respectively, measures channel status for each subframe set, and feeds back CQI information according to CQI table configured by the base station for this subframe set.
In the version 11 of LTE, in order to support data transmission of CoMP, the base station further supports configuring UE to report feedback information of multiple CSI processes, and each CSI process can further be divided into two subframe sets. In conclusion, the existing LTE system already supports configuring UE to feed back feedback information of multiple CSI processes and multiple subframe sets. Average SINR levels of the above multiple CSI processes and multiple subframe sets are usually different. In some CSI processes and subframe sets, SINR of UE can be very high and may be suitable for using the modulation mode of 256QAM; while in other CSI processes and subframe sets, SINR of UE is smaller and may not be suitable for using the modulation mode of 256QAM.
The present application provides, when the base station configures multiple CSI processes of UE, configuring information of CQI table used in each CSI process, respectively. If defining new table for 256QAM, then, in the present application, UE is configured to use CQI table of the existing version of LTE or new CQI table which supports 256QAM, according to SINR situation of this CSI process. If defining the above long CQI table, then, in the present application, UE is configured to select an offset value v of CQI index from the long CQI table, according to SINR situation of this CSI process. For example, CQI value 0 can still represent invalid CQI value; while CQI value c (c is equal to 1~15) can be mapped in turn to CQI index c+v of the above long CQI table. In this way, when the base station configures CSI reporting manner for UE, the base station can configure information of CQI table used in each CSI process, respectively. Accordingly, UE receives information of CQI table configured by the base station for each CSI process, respectively, measures channel status for each CSI process, and feeds back CQI information according to CQI table configured by the base station for this CSI process.
The present application further provides, when the base station configures multiple CSI processes and multiple subframe sets of UE, configuring information of CQI table used in each CSI process and by each subframe set, respectively. If defining new table for 256QAM, then, in the present application, UE is configured to use CQI table of the existing version of LTE or new CQI table which supports 256QAM, according to SINR situation of one CSI process and one subframe set. If defining the above long CQI table, then, in the present application, UE is configured to select an offset value v of CQI index from the long CQI table, according to SINR situation of one CSI process and one subframe set. For example, CQI value 0 can still represent invalid CQI value; while CQI value c (c is equal to 1~15) can be mapped in turn to CQI index c+v of the above long CQI table. In this way, when the base station configures CSI reporting manner for UE, the base station can configure information of CQI table used in each CSI process and by each subfrane set, respectively. Accordingly, UE receives information of CQI table configured by the base station for each CSI process and each subframe set, respectively, measures channel status for each CSI process and each subframe set, and feeds back CQI information according to CQI table configured by the base station for this CSI process and this subframe set.
Block 203: UE receiving downlink scheduling information sent from the base station, receiving and processing accordingly downlink data sent from the base station according to MCS information of DCI included in the downlink scheduling information. Here, UE can process MCS information of DCI information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation.
In the block 203, an MCS table of the existing LTE version can be extended to add support for 256QAM. Two prefer ways of configuring MCS table are described as follows.
A first kind of ways is to define one or more new MCS tables which support 256QAM based on MCS table of the existing version of LTE. Recording a number of the new MCS tables is N, then, N+1 MCS tables can be supported in the new version of LTE system. Here, base stations supporting 256QAM can be divided into different levels. For example, a simple device only supports using 256QAM in a not high encoding rate; while a complex device supports using 256QAM in high encoding rate. Different MCS tables of 256QAM can be configured for base stations which are of different levels and supports 256QAM, respectively. This is one reason why defines multiple MCS tables which supports 256QAM in above. Or, in order to simplify the design, only one general new MCS table can be defined for all the base stations which support 256QAM. When it is needed to configure UE to use 256QAM, the base station uses a high layer signaling to configure UE to use MCS table which supports 256QAM.
Assuming that average channel status of one UE is very good and can support 256QAM, then, the possibility that the same UE needs to adopt a modulation mode of lower modulation order is usually small. Therefore, one way of generating MCS table which supports 256QAM can be to remove some MCS items having lower modulation order from the existing MCS table and add items which uses 256QAM. A preferred way of the present application is described as follows. Here, consistent with the existing MCS table, the largest MCS values can only indicate modulation order while not contain TBS information. The following description mainly refers to other MCS items which simultaneously indicate modulation order and TBS.
In the first kind of ways, one way of generating MCS table which supports 256QAM can be to remove some QPSK items having the lowest coding rate from the existing MCS table, renumber the remaining MCS items for QPSK/16QAM/64QAM in return starting from 0, and then add items for 256QAM. For example, removing 5 items having the lowest index from the existing MCS table, 5 items which support 256QAM can be added accordingly.
For situations in which channels of UE can support 256QAM, in order to deal with the case of deep fading occurring on the channels of UE, it may be necessary to retain some QPSK items having lower coding rate. In this way, when configuring MCS table of 256QAM, another way of generating MCS table which supports 256QAM can be to, on the premise of keeping some QPSK items having lowest or lower coding rate in the existing MCS table unchanged, remove some QPSK, even 16QAM items, renumber the remaining MCS items for QPSK/16QAM/64QAM in return, and then add items for 256QAM. For example, removing indexes 2~6 from the existing MCS table, 5 items which support 256QAM can be added accordingly. Here, some MCS items refer to one or more MCS items.
Moreover, in existing MCS table, some MCS items are actually directly corresponding to CQI items in CQI table, while other MCS items can be obtained through interpolation, thus, still another way of generating MCS table which supports 256QAM can be to remove MCS items obtained through interpolation and whose spectrum efficiencies are within a specified range (such as MCS?items having lower spectrum efficiency) from the existing MCS table, renumber the remaining MCS items for QPSK/16QAM/64QAM in return starting from 0, and then add items for 256QAM. For example, removing indexes 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 from the existing MCS table, 5 items which support 256QAM can be added accordingly.
In fact, there is a corresponding relationship between CQI items of CQI table and MCS items of MCS table, thus, if removing some CQI items from the existing CQI tale when generating CQI table which supports 256QAM, then accordingly, removing MCS items corresponding to the removed CQI items from the existing MCS table, renumber the remaining MCS items for QPSK/16QAM/64QAM in return, and then add items for 256QAM.
All the above ways are to remove some items from the existing MCS table and renumber the remaining MCS items; when defining new MCS table which supports 256QAM, some items to be removed from MCS table can also be directly replaced with items of 256QAM, without changing modulation orders and TBS represented by other MCS items of MCS table. Specifically, corresponding to the above ways of removing MCS table items, QPSK items having lower coding rate of the existing MCS table can be replaced with items of 256QAM; or, on the premise of keeping some QPSK items having lowest or lower coding rate in the existing MCS table, some QPSK even 16QAM items can be replaced with items of 256QAM; or, MCS items obtained through interpolation and having lower spectrum efficiencies in the existing MCS table can be replaced with items of 256QAM; or, consistent with the way of generating CQI table which supports 256QAM, MCS items in the existing MCS table corresponding to the removed CQI items can be replaced with items of 256QAM; or, since MCS index 0, i.e., I MCS = 0, has other special purpose, thus, redefining I MCS = 0 as indicating 256QAM modulation mode can be avoided and one or more other MCS items with I MCS > 0 can be replaced with items indicating 256QAM. The present invention does not specifically limit using which MCS items with I MCS > 0 to indicate 256QAM modulation mode. Here, when using the transmission mode of dual transmission block (TB), for example, in DCI formats 2, 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D, I MCS = 0 and rv idx=1 can be set for one corresponding TB to indicate that this TB is not currently transmitted. If I MCS = 0 is reused to indicate 256QAM modulation mode, it will result in that rv idx=1 cannot be used for HARQ retransmission, thereby affecting performance of 256QAM data transmission, thus, the MCS index with I MCS = 0 cannot be used to indicate 256QAM modulation mode.
This way can ensure that confusion of MCS information in DCI will not occur when configuring or reconfiguring downlink transmission mode. According to LTE system design, for each downlink transmission mode, UE simultaneously detects two kinds of DCI formats, i.e., normal format and fallback format. In this method, when the network configures UE to use MCS table supporting 256QAM, the two kinds of DCI formats can simultaneously use MCS table supporting 256QAM. For some MCS items contained in new MCS table supporting 256QAM, the represented modulation orders and TBS have the same definition as that of corresponding MCS indexes in the existing MCS table, thus, when configuring or reconfiguring downlink transmission mode, so long as using fallback DCI format and consistent MCS items of the two tables, confusion of MCS information in DCI can be avoided.
In the above ways of generating MCS table which supports 256QAM, MCS?items having lower modulation order can be reduced to indicate 256QAM modulation mode. In fact, MCS table in the existing standard can support 64QAM and coding rate as high as 0.92, on the premise that UE can support 256QAM, the performance of using 64QAM and coding rate as high as 0.92 may be not optimized, and they may be replaced with some MCS items which based on 256QAM transmission. That is to say, in the present application, in addition to the above mentioned reducing some MCS?items having lower modulation order to indicate 256QAM, one or more items of 64QAM having highest coding rate can be removed to indicate 256QAM modulation mode and corresponding TBS. Specifically, one manner of removing one or more items of 64QAM to indicate 256QAM, can be used separately to generate new MCS table, and can also be combined with the above mentioned manner of reducing some MCS?items having lower modulation order to indicate 256QAM to generate new MCS table.
Further, in existing MCS table, there are some MCS items which have equal spectrum efficiencies and different modulation modes. That is, MCS indexes 10 and 11 have equal spectrum efficiencies, but they adopt QPSK and 16QAM, respectively; MCS indexes 16 and 17 have equal spectrum efficiencies, but they adopt 16QAM and 64QAM, respectively. One of the two MCS having equal spectrum efficiencies can be removed, thereby obtaining one code word for indicating 256QAM transmission. For example, one of two MCS having equal spectrum efficiencies, which has lower modulation order, can be removed. Adoption of this method, two code words can be obtained for indicating 256QAM transmission.
A second kind of ways is to add items corresponding to 256QAM in MCS table of the existing version of LTE, thereby obtaining a long MCS table of a length more than 32 items, i.e., the long MCS table contains information of more than 32 items of MCS indexes. At this moment, since the length of the MCS table is more than 32 items, thus, it is needed to reconsider reporting manner of MCS information.
One reporting manner can be to add number of bits occupied by CQI information in DCI format; for example, using 6 bits to support MCS information.
Or, 5 bit MCS can also remain unchanged, and thus the DCI format of the existing version of LTE can be directly be reused. When it is needed to configure UE to use 256QAM, the base station uses a high layer signaling to configure an offset value v of MCS table for UE, and UE extracts 32 MCS items from the above long MCS table according to the offset value v so as to form a MCS table which actually configures UE. For example, in the actual configuration CQI table, consistent with structure of the existing MCS table, MCS values 28, 29, 30 and 31 in DCI indicate modulation orders 2, 4, 6 and 8, respectively (i.e., corresponding to QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM and 256QAM, respectively); MCS value m (m is equal to 0~27) can be mapped in turn to MCS index m+v of the above long MCS table. Corresponding to base stations which are of different levels and support using 256QAM, UE can be configured with different offset values v, thereby optimizing performance of downlink link.
The ways of generating MCS table which supports 256QAM are described above. For UE supporting 256QAM, adoption of MCS table of the existing LTE standard or MCS table which supports 256QAM can be configured. In some situations, MCS table of the existing version of LTE has already suitable for downlink transmission of UE; while in some other situations, MCS table which are newly defined for supporting 256QAM is more suitable for improving peak downlink transmission rate of UE. One way of configuring MCS table of the existing LTE standard or MCS table which supports 256QAM according to the present application is described below.
According to LTE system design, for each downlink transmission mode, UE simultaneously detects two kinds of DCI formats, i.e., normal format and fallback format. The normal DCI format is to complete normal data transmission under this kind of transmission mode. For situations of needing to configure UE to use 256QAM, obviously, the normal DCI format is able to support 256QAM. The fallback DCI format usually has fewer bits, has high reliability and supports switching between downlink transmission modes. So, the pursuit of peak downlink speed is not the main purpose of the fallback DCI format.
In the present application, for normal DCI format and fallback DCI format detected by UE, different MCS tables can be respectively used. Specifically, for UE configured to support 256QAM, MCS field of normal DCI format can use MCS table which supports 256QAM, i.e., high layer signaling can be used to configure using one of MCS table of the existing LTE standard and MCS table supporting 256QAM; while MCS field of fallback DCI format is still consistent with the existing LTE standard, i.e., uses MCS table of the existing LTE standard. When the base station schedules downlink data transmission, according to selected normal DCI format or fallback DCI format, according to the method of the present application, the base station selects MCS table to configure MCS of DCI. Accordingly, when UE detects (E)PDCCH in blind, if UE detects (E)PDCCH of normal DCI format in blind, assuming that the high layer signaling configures using MCS table supporting 256QAM, UE can parse MCS information of DCI according to new MCS table which supports 256QAM; otherwise, UE can parse MCS information of DCI according to MCS table of the existing LTE standard; if UE detects (E)PDCCH of fallback DCI format in blind, UE can parse MCS information of DCI according to MCS table of the existing LTE standard.
Adoption this way, no matter whether UE is configured with downlink transmission of 256QAM, fallback DCI format of UE is consistent with the existing LTE standard, thereby ensuring that confusion of MCS information in DCI will not occur when configuring or reconfiguring downlink transmission mode.
According to specification of version 11 of LTE, for transmission mode 10, the system can configure 4 different kinds of configuration information of RE mapping and quasi-co-location?(QCL) of PDSCH, and uses 2 bits of DCI format to indicate current PPDSCH transmission is which kind of RE mapping and QCL configuration. For each of the different RE mapping and QCL configuration, its target physical layer transmission technology may be different, for example, joint transmission (?JT) or Coordinated scheduling/beamforming?(CS/CB). Using different transmission technologies, link statuses are also different. For example, when using JT, SINR may be higher than CS/CB, so that it may be possible to use MCS table supporting 256QAM when using JT; while using CS/CB, it is only suitable to using the existing MCS table.
The present application provides that, when configuring Remapping and QCI configuration of PDSCH for UE, MCS tables used corresponding to each RE mapping and QCL configuration are simultaneously configured, respectively. When the base station schedules downlink data transmission, after selecting RE mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH to be used by UE, configures MCS field of DCI according to MCS table which configures this RE mapping and QCL configuration. Accordingly, after UE detects one (E)PDCCH in blind, determines MCS table according to RE mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH indicated by (E)PDCCH, and parses MCS information of DCI.
According to LTE system design, UE needs to detect in blind (E)PDCCH sent form the base station within two search space, i.e., common search space (CSS) and UE-specific search space (USS). (E)PDCCH transmitted in USS is usually to trigger UE specific PDSCH transmission; while CSS is to send some cell-common (E)PDCCHs. Further, for DCI formats having equal bit numbers in USS and CSS, (E)PDCCH of CSS can also trigger UE specific PDSCH transmission. For UE configured to support 256QAM, (E)PDCCH of USS is required to be able to support 256QAM; while (E)PDCCH of CSS is not required to use MCS table supporting 256QAM. Or, for UE configured to support 256QAM, (E)PDCCH of USS is required to be able to support 256QAM; for CSS, it can be configured by different MCS tables according to purpose of (E)PDCCH sent by the CSS.
In the present application, MCS table to be used can be determined according to whether (E)PDCCH detected by UE is in USS or CSS. Specifically, for UE configured to supporting 256QAM, MCS table supporting 256QAM can be used for (E)PDCCH in USS, i.e., high layer signaling can be used to configure using one of MCS table of the existing LTE standard and MCS table supporting 256QAM; MCS table of the existing LTE standard can be fixed used for (E)PDCCH in CSS. When the base station schedules downlink data transmission, for (E)PDCCH in USS and CSS, MCS table selected according to the method of the present application can be used to configure MCS field of DCI. Accordingly, when UE detects in blind (E)PDCCH, for (E)PDCCH in USS, assuming that the high layer signaling configures using MCS table supporting 256QAM, MCS information of DCI can be parsed according to MCS table supporting 256QAM, otherwise, MCS information of DCI can be parsed according to MCS table of the existing LTE standard; for (E)PDCCH in CSS, MCS information of DCI can be parsed according to MCS table of the existing LTE standard.
Or, for UE configured to supporting 256QAM, MCS table supporting 256QAM can be used for (E)PDCCH in USS, i.e., high layer signaling can be used to configure using one of MCS table of the existing LTE standard and MCS table supporting 256QAM; for (E)PDCCH in CSS, if its DCI is cell specific, such as scheduling broadcast information, paging information or RACH response message (RAR), then (E)PDCCH uses MCS table of the existing LTE standard. For (E)PDCCH in CSS, if its DCI is UE specific, then (E)PDCCH can use MCS table supporting 256QAM. When the base station schedules downlink data transmission, for (E)PDCCH in USS and CSS, using MCS table selected according to the method of the present application to configure MCS field of DCI. Accordingly, when UE detects in blind (E)PDCCH, for (E)PDCCH in USS, assuming that the high layer signaling configures using MCS table supporting 256QAM, MCS information of DCI can be parsed according to MCS table supporting 256QAM; for (E)PDCCH in CSS, if its DCI is cell specific, then MCS information of DCI can be parsed according to MCS table of the existing LTE standard; for (E)PDCCH in CSS, if its DCI is UE specific, assuming that the high layer signaling configures using MCS table supporting 256QAM, then MCS information of DCI can be parsed according to MCS table supporting 256QAM; otherwise, MCS information of DCI can be parsed according to MCS table of the existing LTE standard.
In LTE system, one (E)PDCCH is an aggregation of one or more (E)CCE. Generally, when downlink channel quality of UE is good, a smaller aggregation level can be adopted; while downlink channel quality of UE is poor, a larger aggregation level can be used. Accordingly, for downlink data transmission, when downlink link quality is good, 256QAM modulation mode may be adopted; while when downlink link quality is poor, 256QAM modulation mode usually cannot be adopted.
In the present application, MCS table used by DCI can be determined according to aggregation level of (E)PDCCH. For example, (E)PDCCH with an aggregation level smaller than K can use new MCS table which supports 256QAM; (E)PDCCH with an aggregation level greater than K uses the existing MCS table. When the base station schedules downlink data transmission, determines an aggregation level of (E)PDCCH according to downlink link status of UE, and selects MCS table according to the method of the present application to configure MCS field of DCI. Accordingly, after UE detects (E)PDCCH in blind, UE can parse MCS field of DCI according to the aggregation level of (E)PDCCH to obtain modulation mode and TBS of base station scheduling.
In LTE system, two types of EPDCCH are defined, i.e., localized EPDCCH and?distributed EPDCCH. Generally, localized EPDCCH is suitable for situations in which the base station can obtain precise channel state indication (CSI) information of different frequency subbands of UE, so as to obtain frequency scheduling gain; correspondingly, when the base station does not have precise CSI information of UE, the base station has to distribute EPDCCH in multiple PRB pairs for sending, so as to obtain frequency diversity gain, i.e., distributed EPDCCH. In case of the base station sending localized EPDCCH, since CSI information is precise, thus, 256QAM can be used to further improve downlink peak rate. While in case of the base station sending distributed EPDCCH, CSI information is usually not precise, MCS table of the existing LTE standard can provide good performance.
In the present application, MCS table used by DCI can be determined according to types (localized or?distributed) of EPDCCH. Specifically, EPDCCH candidates in a localized EPDCCH set can be configured to use new MCS table supporting 256QAM, i.e., high layer signaling can be used to configure using one of MCS table of the existing LTE standard and MCS table supporting 256QAM; while EPDCCH candidates in a distributed EPDCCH set can be configured to use existing MCS table. When the base station schedules downlink data transmission, types (localized or?distributed) of EPDCCH can be selected according to downlink link status of UE, and MCS table can be selected according to the method of the present application to configure MCS field of DCI. Accordingly, after UE detects EPDCCH in blind, UE can parse MCS field of DCI according to types (localized or?distributed) of EPDCCH in accordance with the method of the present application to obtain modulation mode and TBS of base station scheduling.
In version 11 of LTE, supporting configuring UE with 2 EPDCCH sets. For downlink transmission mode 10, RE mapping and QCL configuration of each EPDCCH set is consistent with one RE mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH. For each RE mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH, its target physical layer transmission technology may be different, accordingly, its link statuses are also different. For example, when using JT, SINR may be higher than CS/CB, so that it may be possible to use MCS table supporting 256QAM when using JT. In this way, there can be a certain corresponding relationship between EPDCCH set and link status when transmitting PDSCH.
In the present application, each EPDCCH set of UE can be configured to use different MCS tables, respectively, i.e., when configuring parameters of the each EPDCCH set, the each EPDCCH set can be further configured to use one of MCS table of the existing LTE standard and MCS table supporting 256QAM. When the base station schedules downlink data transmission, DCI information can be transmitted in an EPDCCH candidate of one EPDCCH set of UE, MCS field of DCI can be configured according to MCS table configured by selected EPDCCH set. Accordingly, after UE detects (E)PDCCH in blind, UE can determine MCS table according to the EPDCCH set to which the EPDCCH belongs, and parse MCS field of DCI.
In the version 10 of LTE, in order to support eICIC technique, downlink subframes of a cell can be divided into two sets, and channel statuses of the two are different. As shown in Fig. 4, a subframe set configured with ABSF corresponds to macro base station, that is, interference on a smaller cell from the macro base station is smaller, thus, SINR of UE can be very high and may be suitable for using the modulation mode of 256QAM. For the set of other subframes, since the macro base station sends downlink control and downlink data, thus, SINR of UE is smaller and may not support the modulation mode of 256QAM.
In the present application, the network can divide downlink subframes into multiple sets, for example, different downlink subframe sets have different degrees of interference; for each downlink subframe set, configures MCS table used by DCI which schedules downlink data transmission of each downlink subframe set. If defining new table for 256QAM, then, in the present application, UE is configured to use MCS table of the existing version of LTE or new MCS table which supports 256QAM, according to SINR situation of each downlink subframe set. If defining the above long MCS table, then, in the present application, UE is configured to select an offset value v of MCS index from the long MCS table, according to SINR situation of each downlink subframe set. After UE receives the above configuration information of MCS table for different downlink subframe sets, when detecting DCI format scheduling downlink transmission of one downlink subframe set, UE can parse modulation mode and TBS of base station scheduling according to MCS table configured for downlink subframe set by network.
The present application also provides a user terminal equipment which can be used to implement the above downlink transmission method. Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a user terminal equipment of the present application. As shown in Fig. 5, the equipment includes: a CQI information measuring and reporting unit, a downlink scheduling information receiving unit and a downlink data receiving and processing unit.
The CQI information measuring and reporting unit is configured to measure and report downlink channel quality indicator (CQI) information to a base station. Here, UE can report the above CQI information according to a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation.
The downlink scheduling information receiving unit is configured to receive downlink scheduling information sent from the base station.
The downlink data receiving and processing unit is configured to, according to MCS information of DCI included in the downlink scheduling information, receive and process accordingly downlink data sent from the base station. Here, UE can process MCS information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation.
It can be seen from the above specific implementations of the present application, application of the method and equipment of the present application can generate CQI table and MCS table which support 256 QAM transmission, and supports selecting utilization of CQI/MCS tables of the existing LTE standard or selecting utilization of CQI/MCS tables which support 256 QAM transmission according to link status of UE, thereby optimizing performance of downlink transmission.
The foregoing are only preferred embodiments of the present invention and are not for use in limiting the protection scope thereof. All modifications, equivalent replacements or improvements in accordance with the spirit and principles of the present invention shall be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

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  1. A downlink transmission method, comprising:UE measuring and reporting downlink channel quality indicator (CQI) information to a base station; wherein the UE reports the CQI information according to a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation;the UE receiving downlink scheduling information sent from the base station, receiving and processing accordingly downlink data sent from the base station according to modulation coding scheme (MCS) information of downlink control informal (DCI) included in the CQI information; wherein the UE processes the MCS information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation.
  2. The method of claim 1, wherein the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is:in the backward compatible CQI table, removing some CQI items having a lowest spectrum efficiency, and adding correspondingly CQI items of 256QAM modulation;or, in the backward compatible CQI table, keeping some CQI items having a lowest coding rate unchanged, removing some items of QPSK modulation or 16QAM modulation, and adding correspondingly CQI items of 256QAM modulation;or, in the backward compatible CQI table, adding feedback granularity of CQI?items having a spectrum efficiency within a determined range and adding correspondingly CQI items of 256QAM modulation; and/or, in the backward compatible CQI table, removing some CQI items of 64QAM modulation having a highest coding rate, and adding correspondingly CQI items of 256QAM modulation.
  3. The method of claim 1, wherein the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is:in the backward compatible CQI table, removing some CQI items having a lowest spectrum efficiency, and replacing the removed CQI items with CQI items of 256QAM modulation;or, in the backward compatible CQI table, keeping some CQI items having a lowest coding rate unchanged, replacing some CQI items of QPSK modulation or 16QAM modulation with CQI items of 256QAM modulation;or, in the backward compatible CQI table, replacing some CQI?items having a spectrum efficiency within a determined range with CQI items of 256QAM modulation;and/or, in the backward compatible CQI table, replacing one or some CQI items of 64QAM modulation having a highest coding rate with CQI items of 256QAM modulation.
  4. The method of claim 1, wherein the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is: in the backward compatible CQI table, adding CQI items of 256QAM modulation.
  5. The method of claim 4, wherein when the UE reports the CQI information according to the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation, the method further comprises:adding a number of bits occupied by the CQI information for indicating CQI index of the reported CQI information in the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation; or,the UE reporting an offset value to the base station when the UE reports the CQI information, for indicating an actual index of the CQI information in the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation to the base station; or,the UE receiving an offset value sent from the base station, extracting some CQI items from the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation according to The offset value to form an actually used CQI table when reporting the CQI information.
  6. The method of any one of claims from 1 to 5, wherein the method further comprises: the base station configuring CQI table used by each subframe set of the UE, respectively;the UE reporting the CQI information according to CQI table used by a subframe set to which the CQI information belongs.
  7. The method of any one of claims from 1 to 5, wherein the method further comprises: the base station configuring CQI table used in each CSI process of the UE, respectively; the UE reporting the CQI information according to CQI table used by a CSI process to which the CQI information belongs.
  8. The method of any one of claims from 1 to 5, wherein the method further comprises: the base station configuring CQI table used in each CSI process and by each subframe set of the UE, respectively; the UE reporting the CQI information according to CQI table used by a CSI process and a subframe set to which the CQI information belongs.
  9. The method of any one of claims from 1 to 5, wherein the method further comprises: the UE receiving configuration information sent from the base station for configuring the UE to use the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation or the backward compatible CQI table to report the CQI information.
  10. The method of claim 1, wherein the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation is:in the backward compatible MCS table, removing some MCS items of QPSK modulation having a lowest coding rate, and adding MCS items of 256QAM modulation;or, in the backward compatible MCS table, keeping some MCS items of QPSK modulation having a lowest coding rate unchanged, removing some MCS items of QPSK modulation or 16QAM modulation, and adding correspondingly MCS items of 256QAM modulation;or, in the backward compatible MCS table, removing MCS items obtained through interpolation and whose spectrum efficiencies are within a determined range, and adding MCS items of 256QAM modulation;or, when the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is: removing some CQI items from the backward compatible CQI table and adding CQI items of 256QAM modulation, in the backward compatible MCS table, removing MCS items corresponding to the removed CQI items and adding MCS items of 256QAM modulation;and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, removing some MCS items of 64QAM modulation having a highest coding rate, and adding correspondingly MCS items of 256QAM modulation;and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, removing one of multiple MCS items having equal spectrum efficiencies and adding correspondingly MCS items of 256QAM modulation.
  11. The method of claim 1, wherein the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation is:in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing some MCS items of QPSK modulation having a lowest coding rate with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;or, in the backward compatible MCS table, keeping some MCS items of QPSK modulation having a lowest coding rate unchanged, replacing some MCS items of QPSK modulation or 16QAM modulation with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;or, in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing some MCS?items obtained through interpolation and whose spectrum efficiencies are within a determined range with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;or, when the CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation is: removing some CQI items from the backward compatible CQI table and adding CQI items of 256QAM modulation, in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing MCS items corresponding to the removed CQI items with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing one or some MCS items of 64QAM modulation having a highest coding rate with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, replacing one of multiple MCS items having equal spectrum efficiencies with MCS items of 256QAM modulation;and/or, in the backward compatible MCS table, retaining an MCS item with I MCS = 0, and replacing one or more MCS items with I MCS > 0 with MCS items of 256QAM modulation; wherein I MCS represents MCS index value.
  12. The method of claim 1, wherein the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation is: in the backward compatible MCS table, adding MCS items of 256QAM modulation.
  13. The method of claim 12, wherein when the UE processes the MCS information according to the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation, the method further comprises:adding a number of bits occupied by the MCS information for indicating MCS index of the reported MCS information in the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation; or,the UE receiving an offset value sent from the base station, extracting some MCS items from the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation according to The offset value to form an actually used MCS table when processing the MCS information.
  14. The method of any one of claims from 10 to 13, wherein when the UE supports 256QAM, if a detected DCI format is a normal DCI format, using the MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation when processing the MCS information; if a detected DCI format is a fallback DCI format, using the backward compatible MCS table when processing the MCS information.
  15. The method of any one of claims from 10 to 13, wherein after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprising: configuring MCS table corresponding to RE mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH indicated by the downlink scheduling information as a MCS table when processing the MCS information; wherein the MCS table corresponding to each RE mapping and QCL configuration of PDSCH is preconfigured by the base station.
  16. The method of any one of claims from 10 to 13, wherein after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprising: determining a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information according to whether (E)PDCCH which carries the downlink scheduling information is in USS or CSS detected by the UE.
  17. The method of any one of claims from 10 to 13, wherein after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprising: taking a MCS table corresponding to an aggregation level of (E)PDCCH which carries the downlink scheduling information as a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information.
  18. The method of any one of claims from 10 to 13, wherein determining a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information according to whether a type of (E)PDCCH is localized or?distributed.
  19. The method of any one of claims from 10 to 13, wherein after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprising: taking a MCS table corresponding to a EPDCCH set in which (E)PDCCH carrying the downlink scheduling information is, as a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information; wherein the MCS table corresponding to each EPDCCH set of the UE is preconfigured by the base station.
  20. The method of any one of claims from 10 to 13, wherein the method further comprises: dividing downlink subframes into a plurality of sets, for each downlink subframe set, configuring MCS table used by DCI which schedules downlink data transmission of each downlink subframe set;after the UE receives the downlink scheduling information, the method further comprises: taking the MCS table used by DCI information as a MCS table to be used when processing the MCS information.
  21. A user terminal equipment, comprising a channel quality indicator (CQI) information measuring and reporting unit, a downlink scheduling information receiving unit and a downlink data receiving and processing unit; whereinthe CQI information measuring and reporting unit is configured to measure and report downlink channel quality indicator (CQI) information to a base station; wherein UE reports the CQI information according to a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation;the downlink scheduling information receiving unit is configured to receive downlink scheduling information sent from the base station;the downlink data receiving and processing unit is configured to, according to modulation coding scheme (MCS) information of downlink control informal (DCI) included in the downlink scheduling information, receive and process accordingly downlink data sent from the base station; wherein the UE processes the MCS information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation.
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