WO2016044994A1 - 波束配置方法、基站及用户设备 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a beam configuration method, a base station, and a user equipment.
- LTE Long Term Evolution
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- the IEEE 802.11ad standard uses the 60 GHz band for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), which is generally used for short-distance indoor communication of about 10 meters.
- WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
- the 60 GHz band belongs to the millimeter wave band.
- the millimeter wave band includes the spectrum from 3 GHz to 300 GHz.
- the millimeter wave communication mainly studies the frequency band between 6 GHz and 100 GHz.
- the embodiment of the present invention provides a beam configuration method, a base station, and a user equipment.
- the technical solution is as follows:
- an embodiment of the present invention provides a base station, where the base station includes:
- a sending module configured to send initial beam index information of an initial beam of a millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the user equipment;
- a receiving module configured to receive a radio resource management RRM measurement report originating from the user equipment,
- the RRM measurement report is obtained by performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information sent by the sending module by the user equipment;
- a determining module configured to determine, according to the RRM measurement report received by the receiving module, the initial beam index information that is in communication with the user equipment.
- the determining module is configured to determine, from the reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report, that the reference signal information is greater than a first threshold, the first initial beam index information, where the reference The signal information includes at least one of a reference signal received power RSRP and a reference signal received quality RSRQ;
- the sending module is further configured to send, by using the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information determined by the determining module, control information to the user equipment on a control channel, where the user equipment is used to perform a sleep state. After switching to the active state, the control information is monitored by the initial beam corresponding to the determined first initial beam index information.
- the determining module is specifically configured to: at least one of the MME signaling and the medium access control layer control meta MAC CE, by the RRM measurement
- the second initial beam index information is specified in each initial beam index information in the report, and the initial beam corresponding to the specified second initial beam index information is used to send the control information to the user equipment on the control channel.
- the sending module is further configured to send, to the user equipment, candidate beam index information of an candidate beam of a millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment;
- the receiving module is further configured to receive first candidate beam index information that is selected and sent by the user equipment from the candidate beam index information sent by the sending module, where the first candidate beam index information is After the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than the second threshold, and the RRM measurement is performed on the candidate beam indicated by each candidate beam index information, the determined reference signal information is greater than the third threshold candidate beam index information,
- the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ;
- the base station further includes a communication module, configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the first candidate beam index information received by the receiving module.
- the receiving module is configured to receive a first random access request sent by the user equipment
- the base station further includes a generating module, configured to generate an uplink time advance TA according to the first random access request;
- the communication module is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the received candidate beam corresponding to the first candidate beam index information and the uplink TA generated by the generating module.
- the determining module is configured to determine, by using beam tracking, that the candidate beam to be allocated for the user equipment is used to communicate with the user equipment;
- the sending module is further configured to send a random access instruction to the user equipment on a control channel;
- the receiving module is further configured to receive a second random access request that is sent by the user equipment according to the random access command sent by the sending module;
- the base station further includes a generating module, configured to generate an uplink TA according to the second random access request;
- the communication module is further configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the allocated second candidate beam index information and the uplink TA generated by the generating module.
- the determining module is further configured to determine, in a beam that communicates with the user equipment, a beam with the same uplink TA as one packet, where the beam includes at least one of the initial beam and the candidate beam. ;
- the generating module is further configured to generate, according to each group obtained by the determining module, a TA group, where the TA group includes a TA group identifier, beam index information of each beam in the packet, and each beam in the packet.
- a TA group includes a TA group identifier, beam index information of each beam in the packet, and each beam in the packet.
- TAT Corresponding cell identification and time adjustment timer
- the sending module is further configured to send the TA group generated by the generating module to the user equipment.
- the receiving module is further configured to: after determining, by using the RRM measurement report, the initial beam index information that is in communication with the user equipment, receive a power headroom report PHR derived from the user equipment, where The PHR includes a power headroom PH, where the PH is measured by measuring the RSRP of each initial beam, and is generated according to the minimum path loss information;
- the base station further includes an allocating module, configured to allocate an uplink resource to the user equipment according to the PH received by the receiving module and an initial beam corresponding to the PH;
- the communication module is specifically configured to communicate with the user equipment on a corresponding uplink resource allocated by the allocation module by using an initial beam corresponding to the PH.
- the sending module is further configured to: before the receiving module receives the power headroom report PHR from the user equipment, send, to the user equipment, a first beam of a first beam in a range of a beam carrying a single initial beam a first indication of the index information, where the first indication is used to instruct the user equipment to measure the RSRP of the first beam.
- the receiving module after the determining module determines the initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, receiving a channel state indication CSI measurement report originating from the user equipment, where
- the CSI measurement report includes CSI information, which is performed by performing CSI measurement on each initial beam to obtain a channel quality indicator CQI, which is generated according to the highest CQI;
- the communication module is specifically configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the CSI information received by the receiving module and an initial beam corresponding to the CSI information.
- the sending module is further configured to: before the receiving module receives a channel state indication CSI measurement report originating from the user equipment, send, to the user equipment, a second beam in a range of a beam carrying a single initial beam And a second indication of the beam index information, where the second indication is used to instruct the user equipment to perform CSI measurement on the second beam.
- the base station further includes an adjustment module, after the determining module determines the initial beam index information that is in communication with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, and adjusts a cell bandwidth according to the traffic volume of the at least one user equipment, where The cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume;
- the sending module is further configured to broadcast the information of the adjusted cell bandwidth and the center frequency point information to each user equipment, or adjust the adjusted cell bandwidth information and the center frequency point by using RRC signaling.
- the information is sent to each user equipment, and the central frequency point is a center frequency of a frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth or a specified frequency within the frequency range.
- the twelfth possible aspect of the first aspect In an implementation manner, if the adjusted cell is composed of channels with the same bandwidth,
- the sending module is further configured to send public information to each user equipment on a channel located at the central frequency point, or send public information to each user equipment on a center frequency of each channel.
- the base station further includes an adjustment module, after the determining module determines the initial beam index information that is in communication with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, and adjusts the user equipment according to the service volume of the user equipment.
- User bandwidth the user bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic;
- the sending module is further configured to send information about the adjusted user bandwidth of the adjustment module to the user equipment by using at least one of RRC signaling, a MAC CE, and a control channel.
- the adjusting module is specifically configured to adjust to the user according to the service volume of the user equipment.
- the channel allocated by the device obtains the bandwidth of the user.
- an embodiment of the present invention provides a user equipment, where the user equipment includes:
- a receiving module configured to receive initial beam index information sent by the base station, where the initial beam index information is used to indicate an initial beam of a millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment;
- a sending module configured to send a radio resource management RRM measurement report, where the RRM measurement report is obtained by performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information by the user equipment, where the RRM measurement report is used And determining, by the base station, the initial beam index information that is in communication with the user equipment.
- the reference signal information includes a reference signal received power RSRP and a reference signal received quality.
- the user equipment further includes:
- a determining module after the sending, by the sending module, the radio resource management RRM measurement report, after the user equipment is switched from the dormant state to the active state, determining that the reference signal information is greater than the first threshold of the first initial beam index information;
- the monitoring module is configured to monitor the control information on the control channel by using the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information determined by the determining module.
- the receiving module is further configured to receive, by the base station, RRC signaling and media by using radio resources.
- the access control layer controls at least one of the second MAC index information specified in each of the initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report;
- the user equipment further includes a monitoring module, configured to monitor control information on the control channel by using an initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information received by the receiving module.
- the monitoring module is configured to receive the control information in an omnidirectional manner, or receive the control information by using a beam range that is greater than or equal to an initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information, or The beam range of the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information receives the control information; or
- the monitoring module is configured to receive the control information in an omnidirectional manner, or receive the control information by using a beam range that is greater than or equal to an initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information, or The beam range of the initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information receives the control information.
- the receiving module is further configured to receive candidate beam index information sent by the base station, where the candidate beam index information is used to indicate an candidate beam of a millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment;
- the user equipment further includes:
- a measuring module configured to perform RRM measurement on the candidate beam indicated by each candidate beam index information when the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than a second threshold, where the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ Species
- a determining module configured to determine, according to the RRM measurement performed by the measurement module, first candidate beam index information that is greater than a third threshold by reference signal information
- the sending module is further configured to send the first candidate beam index information that is determined by the determining module to the base station, where the base station is configured to use, according to the first candidate beam index information
- the selected beam communicates with the user equipment.
- the sending module is further configured to automatically send a first random access request to the base station, where the first random access request is used to instruct the base station to generate an uplink time advance TA, and according to the allocated second standby Selecting an alternate beam corresponding to the beam index information and the uplink TA to communicate with the user equipment; or
- the receiving module is further configured to receive, on a control channel, a random access command sent by the base station, where the random access command is that the base station uses beam tracking to determine the candidate to be used for the user equipment
- the second random access request is sent to the base station according to the random access command, where the second random access request is used to instruct the base station to generate an uplink TA, and And communicating with the user equipment according to the received candidate beam corresponding to the first candidate beam index information and the uplink TA.
- the receiving module is further configured to receive a TA group that is sent by the base station, where the TA group is a beam in which the base station communicates with the user equipment, and determines a beam with the same uplink TA as a packet, according to each Generated by the group, the TA group includes a TA group identifier, beam index information of each beam in the packet, a cell identifier corresponding to each beam in the packet, and a time adjustment timer TAT, where the beam includes the initial At least one of a beam and the candidate beam;
- the measuring module is further configured to: when the TAT timeout in the TA group received by the receiving module, detect whether the cell identifier in the TA group corresponds to beam index information located in another TA group, and The TAT of the other TA group does not time out;
- the user equipment further includes:
- a maintenance module configured to determine, when the measurement module detects that the cell identifier in the TA group corresponds to beam index information in another TA group, and the TAT of the other TA group does not time out, determining the beam index
- the cell corresponding to the information maintains a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ buffer and a sounding reference signal SRS resource corresponding to the cell;
- a release module configured to determine, when the measurement module detects that the cell identifier in the TA group corresponds to beam index information in another TA group and the TAT of the other TA group times out, determining the beam index information
- the corresponding cell releases the HARQ buffer and the SRS resource corresponding to the cell.
- the user equipment further includes:
- a measurement module configured to: after the sending module sends the radio resource management RRM measurement report, measure the RSRP of the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information, to obtain path loss information of each initial beam;
- a generating module configured to generate at least one power headroom PH according to the minimum path loss information measured by the measurement module, to obtain a power headroom report PHR;
- the sending module is configured to send the PHR generated by the generating module, where the PHR is used to instruct the base station to allocate an uplink resource to the user equipment according to the PH and an initial beam corresponding to the PH. Communicating with the user equipment on the corresponding uplink resource by using an initial beam corresponding to the PH.
- the receiving module is further configured to receive, by the base station, a first indication of first beam index information of a first beam in a range of a beam carrying a single initial beam;
- the generating module is further configured to measure the RSRP of each first beam indicated by the first indication received by the receiving module, to obtain path loss information of each first beam.
- the user equipment further includes:
- a measurement module after the sending module sends a radio resource management RRM measurement report, performing channel state indication CSI measurement on the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information, to obtain a channel quality indicator CQI of each initial beam;
- a generating module configured to generate at least one channel state indication CSI information according to the highest CQI measured by the measurement module, to obtain a CSI measurement report;
- the sending module is configured to send the CSI measurement report generated by the generating module, where the CSI measurement report is used to indicate that the base station and the user according to the CSI information and an initial beam corresponding to the CSI information
- the device communicates.
- the receiving module is further configured to receive, by the base station, a second indication of second beam index information of a second beam in a range of a beam carrying a single initial beam;
- the generating module is further configured to perform CSI measurement on each second beam indicated by the second indication received by the receiving module, to obtain CQI of each second beam.
- the receiving module is configured to receive, by using a broadcast, information about the adjusted cell bandwidth and information of a center frequency point, or receive RRC signaling sent by the base station, where the RRC signaling carries an adjustment Information of the cell bandwidth and information of the center frequency point;
- the adjusted cell bandwidth is The base station is adjusted according to the traffic volume of the at least one user equipment, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume, where the central frequency point is a center frequency or a frequency range of the frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth. a specified frequency within the frequency range;
- the receiving module is further configured to receive, by using at least one of RRC signaling, a MAC CE, and a control channel, information about the adjusted user bandwidth sent by the base station, where the adjusted user bandwidth is Determining the traffic volume of the user equipment, and the user bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume;
- the user equipment further includes a monitoring module, configured to monitor a control channel of a channel that constitutes the user bandwidth received by the receiving module.
- an embodiment of the present invention provides a base station, where the base station includes:
- a transmitter configured to send initial beam index information of an initial beam of a millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the user equipment;
- a receiver configured to receive a radio resource management RRM measurement report originating from the user equipment, where the RRM measurement report is the indication indicated by the user equipment to the initial beam index information sent by the transmitter The initial beam is obtained after RRM measurement;
- a processor configured to determine, according to the RRM measurement report received by the receiver, the initial beam index information that is in communication with the user equipment.
- the processor is specifically configured to determine, from the reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report, the first initial beam index information that is greater than a first threshold, where the reference information is
- the signal information includes at least one of a reference signal received power RSRP and a reference signal received quality RSRQ;
- the transmitter configured to send, by using the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information determined by the processor, control information to the user equipment on a control channel, where the user equipment is used to switch from a sleep state. After the activation state, the control information is monitored by the initial beam corresponding to the determined first initial beam index information.
- the transmitter is further configured to use wireless resources At least one of source control RRC signaling and medium access control layer control meta MAC CE, specifying second initial beam index information from each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report, the specified second initial The initial beam corresponding to the beam index information is used to send the control information to the user equipment on a control channel.
- the transmitter is further configured to send, to the user equipment, candidate beam index information of an candidate beam of a millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment;
- the receiver is further configured to receive first candidate beam index information that is selected and sent by the user equipment from each candidate beam index information sent by the transmitter, where the first candidate beam index information is After the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than the second threshold, and the RRM measurement is performed on the candidate beam indicated by each candidate beam index information, the determined reference signal information is greater than the third threshold candidate beam index information,
- the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ;
- the processor is further configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the first candidate beam index information received by the receiver.
- the transmitter is further configured to receive a first random access request sent by the user equipment,
- the processor is configured to generate an uplink time advance TA according to the first random access request, and the candidate beam corresponding to the received first candidate beam index information, and the uplink TA and the User equipment communicates.
- the processor is further configured to determine, by using beam tracking, that the candidate beam to be allocated for the user equipment is used to communicate with the user equipment;
- the transmitter is further configured to send a random access instruction to the user equipment on a control channel;
- the receiver is further configured to receive a second random access request that is sent by the user equipment according to the random access command sent by the transmitter;
- the processor is specifically configured to generate an uplink TA according to the second random access request received by the receiver; an candidate beam corresponding to the allocated second candidate beam index information, and the uplink TA and The user equipment communicates.
- the processor is further configured to determine, in a beam that communicates with the user equipment, a beam with the same uplink TA as a packet, where the beam includes at least one of the initial beam and the candidate beam. Generating a TA group according to each group, the TA group including a TA group identifier, beam index information of each beam in the packet, a cell identifier corresponding to each beam in the packet, and a time adjustment timer TAT;
- the transmitter is further configured to send the TA group generated by the processor to the user equipment.
- the receiver after the determining, by the processor, the initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, receiving a power headroom report PHR derived from the user equipment,
- the PHR includes a power headroom PH, where the PH is measured by measuring the RSRP of each initial beam, and is generated according to the minimum path loss information;
- the processor is configured to allocate an uplink resource to the user equipment according to the PH received by the receiver and an initial beam corresponding to the PH, and the corresponding uplink resource corresponding to the PH by using an initial beam corresponding to the PH Communicate with the user equipment.
- the transmitter is further configured to receive, by the receiver, a power headroom derived from the user equipment Before the PHR is reported, a first indication of the first beam index information of the first beam in the range of the beam carrying the single initial beam is sent to the user equipment, where the first indication is used to indicate the user equipment to the The RSRP of a beam is measured.
- the receiver after the determining, by the processor, the initial beam index information that is in communication with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, receiving a channel state indication CSI measurement report originating from the user equipment, where
- the CSI measurement report includes CSI information, which is performed by performing CSI measurement on each initial beam to obtain a channel quality indicator CQI, which is generated according to the highest CQI;
- the processor is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the CSI information received by the receiver and an initial beam corresponding to the CSI information.
- the transmitter is further configured to receive, by the receiver, a channel status indication that is derived from the user equipment Sending a beam range carrying a single initial beam to the user equipment before the CSI measurement report a second indication of the second beam index information of the second beam, the second indication is used to indicate that the user equipment performs CSI measurement on the second beam.
- the processor is further configured to: after determining the initial beam index information that is in communication with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, adjust a cell bandwidth according to traffic volume of the at least one user equipment, where the cell bandwidth is The business volume is positively correlated;
- the transmitter is further configured to broadcast the adjusted cell bandwidth information and the center frequency information of the processor to each user equipment, or adjust the adjusted cell bandwidth information and the center frequency point by using RRC signaling.
- the information is sent to each user equipment, and the central frequency point is a center frequency of a frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth or a specified frequency within the frequency range.
- the transmitter further And transmitting common information to each user equipment on a channel located at the central frequency point, or transmitting public information to each user equipment on a center frequency of each channel.
- the processor is further configured to: after determining, according to the RRM measurement report, the initial beam index information that is in communication with the user equipment, adjust a user bandwidth of the user equipment according to the service volume of the user equipment, User bandwidth is positively correlated with the amount of traffic;
- the transmitter is further configured to send information about the adjusted user bandwidth of the processor to the user equipment by using at least one of RRC signaling, a MAC CE, and a control channel.
- the processor is specifically configured to adjust to the user according to the service volume of the user equipment.
- the channel allocated by the device obtains the bandwidth of the user.
- an embodiment of the present invention provides a user equipment, where the user equipment includes:
- a receiver configured to receive initial beam index information sent by the base station, where the initial beam index information is used to indicate an initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment user equipment;
- a transmitter configured to send a radio resource management RRM measurement report, where the RRM measurement report is obtained by performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information by the user equipment, where the RRM measurement report is used And instructing the base station to determine the initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment.
- the RRM measurement report includes each Reference signal information corresponding to the initial beam index information, the reference signal information including at least one of a reference signal received power RSRP and a reference signal received quality RSRQ,
- the user equipment further includes a processor, after the transmitter sends the radio resource management RRM measurement report, after the user equipment switches from the sleep state to the active state, determining that the reference signal information is greater than the first threshold.
- An initial beam index information after the transmitter sends the radio resource management RRM measurement report, after the user equipment switches from the sleep state to the active state, determining that the reference signal information is greater than the first threshold.
- the receiver is further configured to monitor control information on the control channel by using an initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information determined by the processor.
- the receiver is further configured to receive, by the base station, at least one of a radio resource control RRC signaling and a medium access control layer control meta MAC CE
- the second initial beam index information specified in each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report; the initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information is used to monitor the control information on the control channel.
- the receiver is configured to receive the control information in an omnidirectional manner, or receive the control information by using a beam range that is greater than or equal to an initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information, or The beam range of the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information receives the control information; or
- the receiver is configured to receive the control information in an omnidirectional manner, or receive the control information by using a beam range that is greater than or equal to an initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information, or The beam range of the initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information receives the control information.
- the receiver is further configured to receive candidate beam index information sent by the base station, where the candidate beam index information is used to indicate an candidate beam of a millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment;
- the user equipment further includes a processor, configured to perform RRM measurement on the candidate beam indicated by each candidate beam index information received by the receiver when the reference signal information of the initial beam is less than a second threshold,
- the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ; determining, according to the RRM measurement, first candidate beam index information that the reference signal information is greater than a third threshold;
- the transmitter is further configured to send the first candidate beam index information determined by the processor to the base station, where the base station is configured to select and match according to the first candidate beam index information.
- Beam The user equipment communicates.
- the transmitter is further configured to automatically send a first random access request to the base station,
- the first random access request is used to indicate that the base station generates an uplink time advance TA, and communicates with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the allocated second candidate beam index information and the uplink TA, or Receiving, on a control channel, a random access command sent by the base station, where the random access command is that the base station determines, by using beam tracking, that the candidate beam to be allocated for the user equipment is used to communicate with the user equipment.
- the second random access request is used to instruct the base station to generate an uplink TA, and according to the received first
- the candidate beam corresponding to the candidate beam index information and the uplink TA communicate with the user equipment.
- the receiver is further configured to receive a TA group sent by the base station, where the TA group is a beam in which the base station communicates with the user equipment, and determines a beam with the same uplink TA as one packet, according to each Generated by the group, the TA group includes a TA group identifier, beam index information of each beam in the packet, a cell identifier corresponding to each beam in the packet, and a time adjustment timer TAT, where the beam includes the initial At least one of a beam and the candidate beam;
- the processor is further configured to: when the TAT timeout in the TA group received by the receiver, detect whether the cell identifier in the TA group corresponds to beam index information located in another TA group, and The TAT of the other TA group does not time out; determining the beam when it is detected that the cell identifier in the TA group corresponds to beam index information located in another TA group and the TAT of the other TA group does not time out.
- the cell corresponding to the index information, the hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ buffer and the sounding reference signal SRS resource corresponding to the cell are maintained; and the cell identifier in the TA group is detected to be located in another TA group.
- the beam index information and the TAT of the other TA group are timed out, the cell corresponding to the beam index information is determined, and the HARQ buffer and the SRS resource corresponding to the cell are released.
- the user equipment further includes a processor, configured to send, by the transmitter, a radio resource management RRM test After the quantity report, the RSRP of the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information is measured to obtain path loss information of each initial beam; and at least one power headroom PH is generated according to the minimum path loss information to obtain a power headroom report PHR;
- the transmitter is further configured to send the PHR generated by the processor, where the PHR is used to indicate that the base station allocates uplink resources to the user equipment according to the PH and an initial beam corresponding to the PH, Communicating with the user equipment on a corresponding uplink resource by using a beam corresponding to the PH.
- the receiver is further configured to receive, by the base station, a first indication of first beam index information of a first beam in a range of a beam carrying a single initial beam;
- the processor is further configured to measure, according to the RSRP of each first beam indicated by the first indication received by the receiver, to obtain path loss information of each first beam.
- the user equipment further includes a processor, after the transmitter sends the radio resource management RRM measurement report, performs channel state indication CSI measurement on the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information, and obtains a channel quality indicator of each initial beam. CQI; generating at least one channel state indication CSI information according to the highest CQI, and obtaining a CSI measurement report;
- the transmitter is further configured to send the CSI measurement report generated by the processor, where the CSI measurement report is used to indicate, according to the CSI information, an initial beam corresponding to the CSI information, and the User equipment communicates.
- the receiver is further configured to receive, by the base station, a second indication of second beam index information of a second beam in a range of a beam carrying a single initial beam;
- the processor is further configured to perform CSI measurement on each second beam indicated by the second indication received by the receiver, to obtain CQI of each second beam.
- the receiver is further configured to receive, by using a broadcast, information about the adjusted cell bandwidth sent by the base station, and information about a center frequency point, or receive the RRC signaling sent by the base station, where the RRC signaling carries information of the adjusted cell bandwidth and information of a central frequency point;
- the adjusted cell bandwidth is determined by the base station according to at least one user equipment
- the traffic is adjusted, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume, where the center frequency is the center frequency of the frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth or a specified frequency within the frequency range;
- the adjusted cell is composed of channels with the same bandwidth, and receives public information sent by the base station on a channel located at the center frequency point, or receives a transmission sent by the base station on a center frequency of each channel. Public information.
- the receiver is further configured to receive, by using at least one of RRC signaling, a MAC CE, and a control channel, information about the adjusted user bandwidth sent by the base station, where the adjusted user bandwidth is The traffic of the user equipment is adjusted, and the user bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic; and the control channel of the channel that constitutes the user bandwidth is monitored.
- an embodiment of the present invention provides a beam configuration method, where the method includes:
- the base station sends initial beam index information of the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the user equipment;
- Radio resource management RRM measurement report that is obtained by the user equipment, where the RRM measurement report is obtained by performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information by the user equipment;
- the base station determines the initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report.
- the determining, by the base station, the initial beam index information that is in communication with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report includes:
- the base station Determining, by the base station, the first initial beam index information that is greater than the first threshold by using the reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report, where the reference signal information includes a reference signal At least one of a received power RSRP and a reference signal received quality RSRQ;
- the base station sends control information to the user equipment on the control channel by using the determined initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information, where the user equipment is configured to switch from the sleep state to the active state, and then determine The initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information is used to monitor the control information.
- the method further includes:
- the base station by using at least one of radio resource control RRC signaling and media access control layer control meta MAC CE, specifies a second initial from each beam index information in the RRM measurement report
- the beam index information, the initial beam corresponding to the specified second initial beam index information is used to send the control information to the user equipment on a control channel.
- the method further includes:
- first candidate beam index information that is selected and sent by the user equipment from each candidate beam index information, where the first candidate beam index information is that the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than a second threshold.
- the determined reference signal information is greater than a third threshold of at least one candidate beam index information, where the reference signal information includes RSRP and RSRQ At least one
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the received candidate beam corresponding to the first candidate beam index information.
- the base station is configured according to the candidate beam corresponding to the received candidate beam index information User equipment communicates, including:
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the received candidate beam corresponding to the first candidate beam index information and the uplink TA.
- the method further includes:
- the base station determines, by using beam tracking, that the candidate beam to be allocated for the user equipment is to communicate with the user equipment;
- the base station receives a second random access request sent by the user equipment according to the random access command, and generates an uplink TA according to the second random access request;
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the allocated second candidate beam index information and the uplink TA.
- the method further includes:
- the base station determines a beam having the same uplink TA as one packet, the beam including at least one of the initial beam and the candidate beam;
- the base station generates a TA group according to each packet, where the TA group includes a TA group identifier, beam index information of each beam in the packet, a cell identifier corresponding to each beam in the packet, and a time adjustment timer TAT;
- the base station sends the generated TA group to the user equipment.
- the base station after the determining, by the base station, the initial beam index information that is in communication with the user equipment, the base station further includes:
- the base station receives a power headroom report PHR from the user equipment, where the PHR includes a power headroom PH, and the PH is to measure the RSRP of each initial beam to obtain path loss information according to the minimum path loss information. Generated;
- the base station allocates an uplink resource to the user equipment according to the PH and an initial beam corresponding to the PH;
- the base station communicates with the user equipment on a corresponding uplink resource by using an initial beam corresponding to the PH.
- the method before the receiving, by the base station, the power headroom report PHR from the user equipment, the method further includes:
- the base station after the determining, by the base station, the initial beam index information that is in communication with the user equipment, the base station further includes:
- the base station receives a channel state indication CSI measurement report from the user equipment, where the CSI measurement report includes CSI information, where the CSI information is obtained by performing CSI measurement on each initial beam, and the channel quality indicator CQI is obtained according to the highest CQI. Generated;
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the CSI information and an initial beam corresponding to the CSI information.
- the method before the receiving, by the base station, the channel state indication CSI measurement report that is derived from the user equipment, the method further includes:
- the beam performs CSI measurements.
- the method further includes:
- the base station adjusts a cell bandwidth according to the traffic volume of the at least one user equipment, where the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume;
- the base station broadcasts the information of the adjusted cell bandwidth and the information of the central frequency point to each user equipment, or sends the information of the adjusted cell bandwidth and the information of the central frequency point to each user equipment through RRC signaling.
- the center frequency point is a center frequency of a frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth or a specified frequency within the frequency range.
- the method further includes :
- the base station transmits public information to each user equipment on a channel located at the center frequency point, or transmits public information to each user equipment on a center frequency of each channel.
- the method further includes:
- the base station adjusts a user bandwidth of the user equipment according to the service volume of the user equipment, where the user bandwidth is positively correlated with the service volume;
- the base station sends the adjusted user bandwidth information to the user equipment by using at least one of RRC signaling, a MAC CE, and a control channel.
- the base station adjusts user bandwidth of the user equipment according to the service volume of the user equipment, including :
- the base station adjusts a channel allocated to the user equipment according to the service volume of the user equipment, to obtain the user bandwidth.
- an embodiment of the present invention provides a beam configuration method, where the method includes:
- the user equipment receives the initial beam index information sent by the base station, where the initial beam index information is used to indicate an initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment user equipment;
- the user equipment sends a radio resource management RRM measurement report, where the RRM measurement report is The RRM measurement report is used by the user equipment to perform the RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information, where the RRM measurement report is used to indicate that the base station determines the initial beam index that is in communication with the user equipment. information.
- the method further includes:
- the user equipment After the user equipment is switched from the dormant state to the activated state, the user equipment determines that the reference signal information is greater than a first threshold of first initial beam index information;
- the user equipment listens to control information on the control channel by using an initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information.
- the method further includes:
- the user equipment listens to control information on the control channel by using an initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information.
- the user equipment is configured to monitor the control information on the control channel by using the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information, where the user equipment receives the control information in an omnidirectional manner, or is greater than or equal to the first Receiving, by the beam range of the initial beam corresponding to the initial beam index information, the control information, or receiving the control information by a beam range smaller than an initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information;
- the user equipment is configured to monitor the control information on the control channel by using the initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information, where the user equipment receives the control information in an omnidirectional manner, or is greater than or equal to the first
- the beam range of the initial beam corresponding to the initial beam index information receives the control information, or receives the control information with a beam range smaller than an initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information.
- the method further includes:
- candidate beam index information sent by the base station where the candidate beam index is The information is used to indicate an candidate beam of the millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment;
- the user equipment performs RRM measurement on the candidate beam indicated by each candidate beam index information, where the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ ;
- the method further includes:
- the user equipment automatically sends a first random access request to the base station, where the first random access request is used to instruct the base station to generate an uplink time advance TA, and corresponding to the allocated second candidate beam index information.
- An alternate beam and the uplink TA are in communication with the user equipment; or
- a TA group sent by the base station, where the TA group is a beam in which the base station communicates with the user equipment, determining a beam with the same uplink TA as one packet, and generating according to each group
- the TA group includes a TA group identifier, beam index information of each beam in the packet, a cell identifier corresponding to each beam in the packet, and a time adjustment timer TAT, where the beam includes the initial beam and the At least one of the alternative beams;
- the user equipment detects whether the cell identifier in the TA group corresponds to beam index information located in another TA group and the TAT of the other TA group Not timed out;
- the user equipment determines the cell corresponding to the beam index information. Maintaining a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ buffer and a sounding reference signal SRS resource corresponding to the cell;
- the user equipment determines a cell corresponding to the beam index information, Release the HARQ buffer and SRS resources corresponding to the cell.
- the method further includes:
- the user equipment measures the RSRP of the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information, and obtains path loss information of each initial beam.
- the user equipment generates a power headroom PH according to the minimum path loss information, and obtains a power headroom report PHR;
- the user equipment sends the PHR, where the PHR is used to instruct the base station to allocate an uplink resource to the user equipment according to the PH and an initial beam corresponding to the PH, by using an initial beam corresponding to the PH. Communicating with the user equipment on the corresponding uplink resource.
- the user equipment measures an RSRP of an initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information, to obtain each beam.
- Road loss information including:
- the user equipment measures the RSRP of each first beam indicated by the first indication to obtain path loss information of each first beam.
- the method further includes:
- the user equipment performs channel state indication CSI measurement on the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information, and obtains a channel quality indicator CQI of each initial beam;
- the user equipment sends the CSI measurement report, where the CSI measurement report is used to indicate the base
- the station communicates with the user equipment according to the CSI information and an initial beam corresponding to the CSI information.
- the user equipment performs channel state indication CSI measurement on an initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information, to obtain The channel quality of each initial beam indicates CQI, including:
- the user equipment performs CSI measurement on each second beam indicated by the second indication to obtain CQI of each second beam.
- the method further includes:
- the adjusted cell bandwidth is adjusted by the base station according to the traffic volume of the at least one user equipment, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume, the central frequency a point is a center frequency of a frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth or a specified frequency within the frequency range;
- the user equipment receives the public information sent by the base station on a channel located at the center frequency point, or receives the center frequency on each channel.
- the sending public information sent by the base station is not limited to, but not limited to, but not limited to, but not limited to, but not limited to, but not limited to, but not limited to, but not limited to, but not limited to, but not limited to, but not limited to, but not limited to, but not limited to, but not limited to the base station.
- the method further includes:
- the user equipment monitors a control channel of a channel that constitutes the user bandwidth.
- the letter beamforming technology solves the problem that the transmission distance of the existing millimeter wave band is short, and the data communication requirement of the user equipment in the cellular communication environment cannot be met, and the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band is extended.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a beam configuration system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram of a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a structural structural diagram of a base station according to still another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a structural structural diagram of a user equipment according to still another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 is a structural structural diagram of a user equipment according to still another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a structural structural diagram of a base station according to still another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a structural structural diagram of a user equipment according to still another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a structural structural diagram of a user equipment according to still another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a method for configuring a beam according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a method of a beam configuration method according to still another embodiment of the present invention.
- the embodiment of the invention relates to a beam configuration method, which uses the existing LTE-A carrier aggregation as a background to aggregate the lower frequency carrier and the millimeter wave frequency carrier of the LTE-A technology to provide users with greater bandwidth and Higher capacity.
- the lower frequency band carrier is used as the primary carrier PCell
- the millimeter wave frequency band carrier is used as the secondary carrier SCell as an example, and is also applicable to the case where the millimeter wave frequency band carrier is used as the primary carrier.
- the beamforming techniques involved in various embodiments of the present invention may refer to either a horizontal plane beam or a vertical plane beam.
- PCell and SCell can be co-site or non-co-site, SCell is located in the coverage of PCell There are overlapping areas within the perimeter or PCell and SCell coverage.
- the LTE-A base station of the PCell and one or more millimeter-wave small base stations or remote radio heads (English, Remote Radio Head; RRH) providing one or more SCells are provided.
- the wireless backhaul can use microwave or millimeter wave.
- the frequency band of the millimeter wave used by the wireless backhaul can be the same as or different from the frequency band where the SCell is located.
- FIG. 1 includes an LTE evolved base station (English: evolved Node B; eNB for short), and three millimeter wave cellular communication evolved base stations (English: millimeter wave eNB) eNB1 eNB2, eNB3, and one user equipment (English: User Equipment; UE): eNBs 1-3 provide millimeter-wave band coverage.
- eNB1 to eNB3 may be one eNB or multiple eNBs, which may not be co-sited or co-sited with the LTE eNB.
- the eNB1 to the eNB3 may also be remote radio units RRH that have a backhaul connection with the LTE eNB.
- FIG. 2 is a structural diagram of a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the base station may be the LTE eNB, the millimeter wave eNB1, the eNB2, and the eNB3 shown in FIG. 1.
- the LTE eNB and one of the millimeter wave eNBs, such as the eNB1, are described as an example in the embodiments of the present invention; Both refer to millimeter wave eNB.
- the base station may include a transmitting module 201, a receiving module 202, and a determining module 203.
- the sending module 201 is configured to send initial beam index information of the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is used to indicate an initial beam used by the base station to send downlink information to the user equipment, and is pre-configured by the base station to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is associated with antenna weights or codebook information used by the base station to transmit downlink information to determine information such as the direction and width of the initial beam.
- the direction of the initial beam refers to the angle information of the initial beam with respect to the horizontal direction and/or the vertical direction.
- the initial beam index information is also associated with the feature information of the initial beam, and the base station transmits the initial beam-specific feature information on different initial beams, so that the user equipment identifies different initial beams according to different feature information.
- the base station uses different reference signal sequences in different initial beams or broadcasts initial beam index information of the initial beam in different initial beams, and the user equipment can uniquely determine a specific initial beam according to the initial beam index information and the characteristic information of the initial beam.
- the initial beam index information may also be used as a virtual cell identifier, that is, the same cell is further divided into different sectors or sub-sectors according to a plurality of wider initial beams.
- the functions and usage methods of the initial beam index information in the following embodiments of the present invention are the same as those in the present embodiment, and are not described herein again.
- the LTE eNB and the millimeter wave eNB can configure initial beam index information measured by Radio Resource Management (RRM) for the user equipment.
- RRM Radio Resource Management
- the millimeter wave eNB sends the configuration of the initial beam index information to the LTE eNB, and the LTE eNB sends the configuration to the user equipment.
- the method for configuring the initial beam index information in the following embodiments of the present invention is the same as the description of the embodiment, and details are not described herein again.
- the RRM measurement may refer to a measurement for mobility management in a normal sense, and is a filtered measurement method through a radio resource control (English: Radio Resource Control; RRC) layer.
- RRC Radio Resource Control
- F n is the latest measurement results of the filter, for evaluating the measurement report triggering criteria
- F n-1 is the measurement result of the previous calculation of the filter
- M n is the latest measurement results of the physical layer
- a is based on different The coefficient determined by the demand is measured.
- RRM measurement requirements for beam update may be more stringent than in existing LTE systems, for example, every tens of milliseconds to evaluate Whether the criteria for measurement reporting are met.
- RRM measurement can also refer to measurements made by means of beam training.
- the base station and the user equipment respectively transmit and receive multiple beams in the cell range to find the best matching beam pair, and when such a pair of transmitting beams and receiving beams are communicated, the receiving efficiency is the highest and the transmitted data is the most reliable.
- Measurements in this case can be filtered through the RRC layer but the measurement requirements are more stringent, or the RRC layer filtering is not required, but the current measurement results are used directly. For example, a smaller transmission power can be achieved between the base station and the user equipment to achieve a better transmission effect.
- the meanings of the RRM measurement in the following embodiments of the present invention are the same as those of the present embodiment, and will not be described below.
- the UE may further determine an initial beam allocated by the base station according to the initial beam index information, and perform RRM measurement on the initial beam allocated by the base station. Generate an RRM measurement report based on the measurement results.
- the receiving module 202 is configured to receive an RRM measurement report that is obtained by the user equipment, and the RRM measurement report is obtained by performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information sent by the sending module 201 by the user equipment.
- the millimeter wave eNB may directly receive the RRM measurement report; when the user equipment sends the RRM measurement report to the LTE eNB, the LTE eNB receives the received RRM measurement report and beam index information. Forward to the millimeter wave eNB.
- the method for receiving the RRM measurement report by the millimeter wave eNB in the following embodiments of the present invention is the same as that of the embodiment, and will not be described below.
- the determining module 203 is configured to determine initial beam index information for communicating with the UE according to the RRM measurement report received by the receiving module 202.
- the base station determines the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then selects the initial beam with good signal quality to communicate with the UE, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the user equipment in the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements can extend the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the base station provided by the embodiment of the present invention sends the initial beam index information of the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the user equipment; and receives the RRM measurement report originating from the user equipment, the RRM measurement report. It is obtained by the user equipment performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information; determining initial beam index information for communicating with the UE according to the RRM measurement report, and determining the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then selecting the signal.
- the better quality initial beam communicates with the user equipment, and the beamforming technology solves the problem that the existing millimeter wave band has a short transmission distance and cannot meet the data communication requirement of the user equipment in the cellular communication environment, and the extended millimeter wave is achieved. The effect of the transmission distance of the frequency band.
- FIG. 3 is a structural diagram of a base station according to still another embodiment of the present invention.
- the base station may include the base station shown in FIG. 1; the base station may include a sending module 301, a receiving module 302, and a determining module 303.
- the sending module 301 is configured to send initial beam index information of the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is used to indicate a beam used by the base station to send downlink information to the user equipment, and is configured by the base station to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is associated with antenna weights or codebook information used by the base station to transmit downlink information to determine information such as the direction and width of the initial beam.
- the direction of the initial beam refers to the angle information of the initial beam with respect to the horizontal direction and/or the vertical direction.
- the beam direction of an initial beam is a direction of 30°-60° with respect to the horizontal direction, or, relative to the vertical direction. 20°-40° direction, etc.
- the initial beam index information is also associated with the feature information of the initial beam, and the base station transmits the initial beam-specific feature information on different initial beams, so that the user equipment identifies different initial beams according to different feature information, as shown in FIG. 2 .
- the description in the embodiment is not described here.
- the base station may configure at least one initial beam for the user equipment, and send initial beam index information of each initial beam in the at least one initial beam to the user equipment, so that the user sets It is clear on which initial beam the downlink information sent by the base station is received.
- the RRM measurement may refer to a measurement for mobility management in a normal sense, a measurement method filtered by the RRC layer, or a measurement performed by means of beam training, as shown in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 . The description is not repeated here.
- the receiving module 302 is configured to receive an RRM measurement report that is obtained by the user equipment, and the RRM measurement report is obtained by performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information sent by the sending module 301 by the user equipment.
- the determining module 303 is configured to determine initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report received by the receiving module 302.
- the base station determines the signal quality of the beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then selects the beam with better signal quality to communicate with the user equipment, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the existing millimeter wave band, and cannot satisfy the user in the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements of the device has reached the effect of extending the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the beam configuration method is described in detail in the following different application scenarios, as follows:
- the first application scenario is described by using a base station in a scenario of discontinuous reception as an example:
- the user equipment has a dormant state and an activated state, and the user equipment in the active state needs to receive the control information transmitted by the base station through the beamforming technology on the control channel, and the control information includes resource allocation control.
- the resource allocation control instruction is used to indicate an uplink/downlink resource allocated by the base station to the user equipment.
- the control channel includes at least one of a physical downlink control channel (English: Physical Downlink Control Channel; PDCCH) and an enhanced physical downlink control channel (English: Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel; EPDCCH).
- This embodiment provides two methods for determining the beam of the control channel to be monitored. The following two methods are specifically described:
- the determining module 303 is specifically configured to: determine, by using the reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report, the first initial beam index information that is greater than the first threshold, where the reference signal is
- the information includes reference signal receiving power (English: Reference Signal Receiving Power; referred to as: RSRP) and reference signal receiving quality (English: Reference) At least one of Signal Receiving Quality; referred to as: RSRQ);
- the sending module 301 is further configured to send, by using the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information determined by the determining module 302, control information to the user equipment on the control channel, where the user equipment is used to switch from the sleep state to the active state, The initial beam monitoring control information corresponding to the determined first initial beam index information.
- the base station can agree with the user equipment to use the initial beam with better signal quality in the RRM measurement report. Specifically, the base station reads the reference signal information from the RRM measurement report, and determines an initial beam indicated by the first initial beam index information whose reference signal information is greater than the first threshold as a beam that needs to transmit control information on the control channel.
- the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ.
- the first threshold may be an RSRP threshold; when the reference signal information is RSRQ, the first threshold may be an RSRQ threshold; when the reference signal information is RSRP and RSRQ, the first threshold may include an RSRP threshold and RSRQ threshold.
- the base station may select at least one RSRP that is greater than the RSRP threshold from the RRM measurement report, and determine at least one initial beam index information corresponding to the at least one RSRP, and determine, according to the at least one initial beam index information. At least one initial beam.
- the base station may select at least one RSRP greater than the RSRP threshold and at least one RSRQ greater than the RSRQ threshold from the RRM measurement report, and determine that the at least one RSRP and the at least one RSRQ belong to the same
- the RSRP and the RSRQ of an initial beam determine corresponding at least one initial beam index information, and determine at least one initial beam according to the at least one initial beam index information.
- the second method is further configured to perform at least one of RRC signaling and media access control (English: Media Access Control; MAC) control element (English: Control Element; abbreviated as: CE)
- RRC signaling and media access control English: Media Access Control; MAC
- control element English: Control Element; abbreviated as: CE
- the second initial beam index information is specified in each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report, and the initial beam corresponding to the specified second initial beam index information is used to send control information to the user equipment on the control channel.
- the base station may specify an initial beam for transmitting resource allocation control signaling on the control channel from the allocated initial beam, and then pass the second initial beam index information of the specified initial beam through the RRC. Signaling or MAC CE is sent to the user equipment.
- the beam index information can also be jointly determined by the first method and the second method described above.
- the base station first specifies the second initial beam index information by using at least one of RRC signaling and the MAC CE, and after a certain period of time interval, the base station further uses the reference signal information according to the reference signal information.
- the first initial beam index information is selected in the RRM measurement report; or the base station first selects the first initial beam index information from the RRM measurement report according to the reference signal information, and after passing the RRC signaling and the MAC CE, after a certain period of time interval At least one of the second initial beam index information is specified.
- the beam index information may be determined by other methods, which is not limited in this embodiment.
- the first initial beam index information whose reference signal information is greater than the first threshold is determined from the reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report, and the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information is controlled.
- the control information is sent to the user equipment on the channel, and the initial information of the signal quality in the RRM measurement report can be used to transmit the control information, thereby improving communication efficiency.
- the second application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is used in Time Advance (TA):
- TA Time Advance
- the base station can configure the candidate beam for the user equipment in advance to improve the communication quality by avoiding the obstacle. Therefore, the sending module 301 is further configured to send the candidate beam index information of the candidate beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the user equipment;
- the receiving module 302 is further configured to receive first candidate beam index information selected and sent by the user equipment from the candidate beam index information sent by the sending module 301, where the first candidate beam index information is that the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than a second threshold value, and after performing RRM measurement on the candidate beam indicated by each candidate beam index information, the determined reference signal information is greater than the third threshold candidate beam index information, and the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ One type;
- the base station further includes a communication module 304, configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the first candidate beam index information received by the receiving module 302.
- the base station may separately send the candidate beam index information to the user equipment, or may send the candidate beam index information and the initial beam index information together to the user equipment when the initial beam index information is sent to the user equipment, to save transmission overhead.
- the method for transmitting the candidate beam index information in the following embodiments is the same as the method for sending the candidate beam index information in this embodiment, and details are not described herein again.
- the user equipment When the user equipment communicates with the base station by using the initial beam allocated by the base station, the user equipment may periodically or periodically measure the reference signal information of the initial beam. When the user equipment measures that the reference signal information is less than the second threshold, the user equipment determines the initial. The quality of the beam is poor. In this case, the pre-stored candidate beam index information can be read, and the candidate beam indicated by each candidate beam index information is used to communicate with the base station. letter.
- the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ.
- the second threshold is an RSRP threshold; when the reference signal information is RSRQ, the reference signal information is an RSRQ threshold; when the reference signal information includes RSRP and RSRQ, the second threshold includes an RSRP threshold and an RSRQ threshold.
- the user equipment Before the at least one candidate beam is used to communicate with the base station, the user equipment further needs to perform RRM measurement on the at least one candidate beam, and selects reference signal information that is greater than the third threshold from the obtained reference signal information of each candidate beam, thereby Corresponding candidate beams are determined according to the filtered reference signal information.
- the RRM measurement of the candidate beam may be triggered after the user equipment detects that the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than the second threshold, or may be triggered periodically. This embodiment is not limited.
- the reference signal information When the reference signal information is greater than the third threshold, it may be determined that the quality of the candidate beam corresponding to the reference signal information is good, and may be used to communicate with the base station.
- the method for detecting whether the reference signal information is greater than the third threshold is the same as the method for detecting whether the reference signal information is greater than the second threshold, and is not described herein.
- the third threshold may be the same as the second threshold or may be different from the second threshold.
- the first candidate beam index information of the at least one candidate beam is sent to the base station.
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the received at least one candidate beam index information.
- the base station may also use the beam tracking technology to detect whether the user equipment is about to enter the obstacle area, when the base station detects When the user equipment is about to enter the obstacle area, the user equipment is triggered to perform RRM measurement on the candidate beam.
- the base station needs to configure different TAs according to different user equipments between the user equipment and the base station. For example, when the user equipment is far away from the base station, the user equipment may be configured with a smaller uplink TA. When the user equipment is closer to the base station, the user equipment may be configured with a smaller uplink TA.
- the candidate beam has a longer propagation path than the initial beam allocated by the base station, resulting in a large propagation delay.
- the uplink TA is abruptly changed. Therefore, the user equipment needs to re-determine the uplink TA.
- the determination of the uplink TA needs to be implemented through a random access procedure.
- the user equipment When the user equipment actively triggers the random access procedure, the user equipment actively sends a first random access request to the base station.
- the receiving module 302 is further configured to receive the first random access that is sent by the user equipment. begging;
- the base station further includes a generating module 305, configured to generate an uplink TA according to the first random access request;
- the communication module 304 is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the received first candidate beam index information and the uplink TA generated by the generating module 304.
- the user equipment When the user equipment triggers the random access procedure under the instruction of the random access command, the user equipment sends a second random access request to the base station.
- the determining module 303 is further configured to use beam tracking to determine that the user equipment is to be used for allocation.
- the alternate beam communicates with the user equipment;
- the sending module 301 is configured to send a random access instruction to the user equipment on the control channel;
- the receiving module 302 is further configured to receive a second random access request that is sent by the user equipment according to the random access command sent by the sending module 301.
- the base station further includes a generating module 305, configured to generate an uplink TA according to the second random access request;
- the communication module 304 is further configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the allocated second candidate beam index information and the uplink TA generated by the generating module 305.
- the random access command may be applied to a non-contention based random access procedure, and the base station indicates a dedicated random access preamble and a physical random access channel resource (PRACH resource) by using the random access instruction.
- the second random access request sent by the device means that the user equipment sends a random access preamble to the base station on the PRACH resource indicated by the base station.
- the user equipment selects the random access preamble and the PRACH resource, and the user equipment sends a random access preamble to the base station on the PRACH resource selected by the user equipment.
- the random access procedure in the following embodiments of the present invention is the same as that in the present embodiment, and details are not described herein again.
- the user equipment when the user equipment detects that the reference signal information of each candidate beam is smaller than the third threshold and detects that the reference signal information of the at least one initial beam is greater than the second threshold, determining that the quality of the initial beam is better, at least one The initial beam index information of the initial beam is transmitted to the base station, and the base station communicates with the base station using at least one initial beam. Or, the base station determines, by using the beam waveform technology, that the user equipment is about to leave the obstacle area and detects that the reference signal information of the at least one initial beam is greater than the second threshold, determining to communicate with the base station by using the at least one initial beam. At this time, the user equipment may re-determine the uplink TA, or may not be sure of the uplink TA.
- the beams used by the user equipment may have different TAs, and these TAs may be for the same millimeter wave base station or for different millimeter wave base stations. Therefore, the base station may further set at least one TA group for each user equipment, each TA group includes at least one beam index information, and the uplink TA corresponding to each beam index information is the same.
- the beam index information may be an initial wave of the initial beam
- the bundle index information may also be candidate beam index information of the candidate beam.
- the beams indicated by the beam index information in one TA group may belong to the same cell or belong to different cells. Therefore, the cell identifier of the cell associated with each beam may also be identified in the TA group.
- the determining module 303 is further configured to: determine, in a beam that communicates with the user equipment, the same beam of the uplink TA as a packet, where the beam includes at least one of an initial beam and an alternate beam;
- the generating module 305 is configured to generate, according to each packet obtained by the determining module 303, a TA group, where the TA group includes a TA group identifier, beam index information of each beam in the packet, a cell identifier corresponding to each beam in the packet, and a time adjustment timer. TAT;
- the sending module 301 is configured to send the TA group generated by the generating module 305 to the user equipment.
- the base station may reconfigure the TA group for the user equipment according to the new uplink TA and allocate the cell associated with the beam index information and the beam index information of the TA group.
- the base station can adjust the uplink TA and the TA group by using TA cmd.
- the first candidate beam index information is that the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than a second threshold, and each candidate is selected After the candidate beam indicated by the beam index information is subjected to the RRM measurement, the determined reference signal information is greater than the third threshold candidate beam index information; and the candidate beam corresponding to the first candidate beam index information is used to communicate with the user equipment.
- the quality of the allocated initial beam is poor, the candidate beam with better quality can be used to communicate with the user equipment, thereby improving the communication efficiency.
- the third application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to the power control.
- the path loss in different beam directions may be different. Therefore, at least one initial beam with the smallest path loss needs to be selected from the allocated initial beams, and communication is performed on the selected at least one initial beam. .
- the receiving module 302 is configured to: after determining the initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, receive the PHR from the user equipment, where the PHR includes the PH, and the PH is performed on the RSRP of each initial beam. Measure the path loss information and generate it based on the minimum path loss information;
- the base station further includes an allocation module 306 for receiving the PH and the PH according to the receiving module 302.
- the corresponding initial beam allocates uplink resources to the user equipment;
- the communication module 304 is specifically configured to communicate with the user equipment on the corresponding uplink resource allocated by the allocation module 306 by using the initial beam corresponding to the PH.
- the millimeter wave eNB may directly receive the PHR; when the user equipment sends the PHR to the LTE eNB, the LTE eNB forwards the received PHR to the millimeter wave eNB.
- the method for receiving the PHR by the millimeter wave eNB in the following embodiments of the present invention is the same as that of the embodiment, and details are not described herein again.
- the base station After receiving the PHR, the base station allocates uplink resources to the user equipment according to the initial beam index information and the PH in the PHR, so that the user equipment sends uplink information on the corresponding initial beam using power that is suitable and does not exceed the maximum allowed transmit power of the user equipment.
- the scheduled at least two initial beams may be determined by measuring the SRS of the user equipment.
- the MAC CE can be dynamically indicated by the MAC CE to cause the user equipment to report the path loss among the least.
- the sending module 301 is configured to: before the receiving module 302 receives the power headroom report PHR from the user equipment, send the first beam index information of the first beam in the beam range carrying the single initial beam to the user equipment.
- An indication is that the first indication is used to indicate that the user equipment measures the RSRP of the first beam.
- the first beam in the beam range of a single initial beam refers to a refinement beam in an initial beam.
- the first beam refers to a beam between 30°-60°, for example, a first beam of 30° to 40°, or 35°-55.
- the base station may separately perform power control for each beam direction, for example, allocate different uplink resources for beams that need to consume different uplink powers.
- the PHR By receiving the PHR from the user equipment, the PHR includes a PH, and the PH is a measurement of the RSRP of each initial beam to obtain path loss information, which is generated according to the minimum path loss information; and the user is based on the PH and the initial beam corresponding to the PH.
- the device allocates an uplink resource; and the initial beam corresponding to the PH communicates with the user equipment on the corresponding uplink resource, and the initial beam with the smallest path loss can be selected.
- the corresponding uplink resource communicates with the user equipment, which saves the transmission power.
- the fourth application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to the channel state information (CSI).
- CSI channel state information
- the user equipment also needs to perform CSI measurement on the initial beam to obtain CSI information to determine the quality of the initial beam according to the CSI information.
- the CSI information includes a Channel Quality Indication (CQI), a Precoding Matrix Index (PMI), and a Rank Indicator (English: Rank Indication; RI).
- the receiving module 302 is configured to: after determining the initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, receive the CSI measurement report from the user equipment, where the CSI measurement report includes CSI information, where the CSI information is Each initial beam performs CSI measurement to obtain CQI, which is generated according to the highest CQI;
- the communication module 304 is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the CSI information received by the receiving module 302 and the initial beam corresponding to the CSI information.
- the millimeter wave eNB may directly receive the CSI measurement report; when the user equipment sends the CSI measurement report to the LTE eNB, the LTE eNB forwards the received CSI measurement report to the millimeter wave. eNB.
- the method for receiving the CSI measurement report by the millimeter wave eNB in the following embodiments of the present invention is the same as that of the embodiment, and will not be described below.
- the base station After receiving the CSI measurement report, the base station selects a good quality initial beam according to the CSI information in the CSI measurement report, and communicates with the user equipment by using the selected initial beam.
- the MAC CE can be dynamically indicated by the MAC CE to enable the user equipment to report the CSI information with the highest CQI.
- the sending module 301 is configured to send, by the receiving module 302, a second indication of the second beam index information of the second beam in the beam range carrying the single initial beam to the user equipment before receiving the CSI measurement report originating from the user equipment.
- the second indication is used to indicate that the user equipment performs CSI measurement on the second beam.
- the second beam in the beam range of a single initial beam refers to a refinement beam in an initial beam.
- the second beam in the beam range of a single initial beam refers to a beam between 30°-60°, for example, a second of 30° to 40°. Beam, or a second beam of 35°-55°, etc.
- the CSI measurement report includes a CSI measurement report, where the CSI measurement report includes CSI measurement for each initial beam to obtain a CQI, which is generated according to the highest CQI, and an initial corresponding to the CSI information according to the CSI information.
- the beam communicates with the user equipment, and the initial beam with the highest CQI can be selected to communicate with the user equipment to improve communication efficiency.
- the fifth application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is used to adjust the bandwidth of the cell.
- the base station when the traffic of each user equipment that is accessed by the cell changes, and the load of the cell changes, the base station needs to adjust the cell bandwidth of the cell. For example, when the load is reduced, the maximum bandwidth of 500 MHz may no longer be needed, and the cell bandwidth may be reduced to, for example, 200 MHz; when the load is increased, it may be necessary to increase the cell bandwidth, for example, to 400 MHz or 500 MHz. If the original cell needs to be deleted every time the radio resource is adjusted, and then a new cell is added, the signaling overhead and delay are large, and in fact, only the cell bandwidth information may change, and other radio resource configuration parameters are not. Need to change. Therefore, the base station can adjust the cell bandwidth when the traffic of the user equipment changes.
- the base station further includes:
- the adjusting module 307 is configured to determine, after determining, according to the RRM measurement report, the initial beam index information that is communicated with the user equipment, adjusting the cell bandwidth according to the traffic volume of the at least one user equipment, where the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume;
- the sending module 301 is configured to broadcast the information about the cell bandwidth adjusted by the adjustment module 307 and the information of the central frequency point to each user equipment, or send the information of the adjusted cell bandwidth and the information of the central frequency point by using RRC signaling.
- the center frequency is the center frequency of the frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth or the specified frequency within the frequency range.
- the base station can use one of the following methods when adjusting the cell bandwidth: keep the center frequency point unchanged, and reduce or increase symmetrically from both sides.
- the cell bandwidth is 100 MHz to 300 MHz, and the center frequency point is 200 MHz, then it can be from two.
- the side is increased by 50MHz, and the adjusted cell bandwidth is 50MHz to 350MHz; or, it is reduced or increased from one side, for example, the cell bandwidth is 200MHz to 300MHz, and the 100MHz is reduced from one side, and the adjusted cell bandwidth is 100MHz to 300MHz.
- dynamically intercept a certain continuous frequency range for example, the cell bandwidth is 100 MHz to 300 MHz, and 200 MHz to 300 MHz is intercepted therefrom as the adjusted cell bandwidth.
- the adjusted cell bandwidth is a continuous frequency range.
- the base station can adjust the cell bandwidth multiple times, and can also be set each time.
- the granularity or unit information of the adjustment for example, a reduction or increase of 20 MHz at a time.
- the granularity or unit information may be specified in advance or configured by Operation Administration and Maintenance (OAM).
- OAM Operation Administration and Maintenance
- the base station may directly notify all user equipments of the adjusted cell bandwidth and the center frequency point, or the base station notifies all user equipments of the new cell bandwidth and the center frequency point through the LTE-A base station. For example, the base station notifies all user equipments in the BCH or System Information Broadcast (SIB) or through RRC signaling.
- SIB System Information Broadcast
- the adjusted cell can use multiple channels such that multiple channels share the same HARQ entity.
- the entire cell may be composed of a plurality of channels of the same bandwidth
- the base station may transmit the common information on the channel located at the central frequency point, or the base station may transmit the common information on the center frequency of each channel. That is, if the adjusted cell is composed of channels having the same bandwidth, the sending module 301 is configured to send public information to each user equipment on a channel located at the central frequency point, or to each user on the center frequency of each channel. The device sends public information.
- the public information may be PSS and SSS, a broadcast channel (English: Broadcast Channel; BCH for short), and a physical random access channel (English: Physical Random Access Channel; PRACH).
- BCH Broadcast Channel
- PRACH Physical Random Access Channel
- the base station needs to send the public information transmitted only in the frequency range near the center frequency. Make adjustments. For example, for PSS and SSS, BCH, PRACH, etc., the base station can transmit public information at the center frequency of the adjusted cell bandwidth.
- the center frequency of the adjusted cell bandwidth is the center position of the frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth.
- the cell bandwidth is adjusted according to the traffic volume of the at least one user equipment, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume; the adjusted cell bandwidth information and the central frequency point information are broadcast to each user equipment, or adjusted by RRC signaling.
- the information of the cell bandwidth and the information of the center frequency are sent to the user equipments, and only the cell bandwidth can be adjusted, and other radio resource configuration parameters need not be configured, which saves the communication overhead in the process of configuring the cell bandwidth.
- the sixth application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is used to adjust the user bandwidth.
- the overall load of the cell does not change much, but the traffic of some user equipments varies greatly.
- the demand for the cell bandwidth of the user equipment changes.
- only the cell bandwidth required by the user equipment needs to be adjusted. From the perspective of the user equipment, its user bandwidth can be adaptively reduced or Increase; but from the perspective of the base station, the base station still transmits information based on the originally used cell bandwidth, but the frequency range used by different user equipments may be different.
- the base station further includes:
- the adjusting module 307 is configured to determine, after the determining, by the module 303, the initial beam index information that is used to communicate with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, adjust the user bandwidth of the user equipment according to the service volume of the user equipment, and the user bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume;
- the sending module 301 is configured to send information about the adjusted user bandwidth of the adjustment module 307 to the user equipment by using at least one of RRC signaling, a MAC CE, and a control channel.
- the base station when the base station adjusts the user bandwidth, the base station can adjust the user bandwidth by adjusting the channel allocated to the user equipment according to the traffic volume.
- the adjusting module 307 is specifically configured to adjust a channel allocated to the user equipment according to the service volume of the user equipment, to obtain a user bandwidth.
- the channel in the deactivated state or the dormant state may be activated to allocate the channel to the user equipment; when the traffic volume decreases, the user bandwidth needs to be reduced, and the active state may be activated.
- the channel is modified to a deactivated state or a dormant state, at which time the user equipment cannot use the channel.
- the base station may indicate the adjusted user bandwidth to the user equipment by using RRC signaling or a MAC CE or a control channel.
- the user bandwidth of the user equipment is adjusted according to the traffic volume of the user equipment, and the user bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume; the adjusted user bandwidth information is sent to the user equipment by using at least one of RRC signaling, the MAC CE, and the control channel.
- the user bandwidth can be adjusted in real time according to the service volume of the user equipment, and the normal operation of the user equipment is ensured.
- the seventh application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to semi-persistent scheduling (English: Semi-Sersistent Scheduling; SPS for short):
- the sending module 301 is configured to send the SPS resource information to the user equipment, where the SPS resource information is used to indicate resource information and beam index information allocated by the base station to the user equipment;
- the user equipment may determine the initial beam according to the initial beam index information; when the SPS resource information does not include the initial beam index information, the user equipment may determine, according to the initial beam index information carried by the RRM measurement report.
- the initial beam which may be a transmit beam or a receive beam.
- the base station can be configured by using RRC signaling
- the user equipment is set or indicates initial beam index information when the SPS resource is activated using the control channel.
- the communication module 304 is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to a beam corresponding to the beam index information indicated by the SPS information.
- the base station may agree with the user equipment to use a better quality beam or use a preset beam according to the measurement result. At this time, the user equipment can transmit/receive information on a beam with better quality. Correspondingly, the base station receives/transmits information on the beam. Or, the user equipment simultaneously transmits/receives information on the preset at least one beam, and correspondingly, the base station simultaneously receives/transmits information on the at least one beam.
- the user equipment selects a beam with better signal condition when transmitting/receiving information in the SPS manner, or simultaneously transmits and/or receives on one or more predetermined beams.
- the base station can receive/transmit information in SPS mode on one or more predetermined beams.
- the base station and the user equipment can preferentially select one or more beams with good signal conditions in a plurality of predetermined beam ranges according to the measurement result.
- the base station when the base station re-instructs the beam index information according to the measurement result or the recommended beam index information of the user equipment, only the beam index information in the SPS resource information needs to be modified, and the resource information does not need to be modified. At this time, the base station may re-instruct the user equipment to the beam index information through RRC signaling or a MAC CE or a control channel.
- the SPS resource information is used to indicate resource information and beam index information allocated by the base station for the user equipment; and the beam corresponding to the beam index information indicated by the SPS information is used to communicate with the user equipment, and may be sent by
- the SPS resource information is configured to allocate resources and beams to the user equipment, and can solve the problem of wasteful communication overhead caused by dynamically configuring resources and beams for the user equipment, thereby achieving the effect of saving communication overhead.
- the eighth application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to the device (Device: Device to Device: D2D).
- the base station allocates initial beam index information of the initial beam of the D2D communication to the user equipment.
- the allocation module 306 is configured to send the resource indication information used in the D2D communication to the user equipment, where the resource indication information includes D2D resource information and initial beam index information, and is used to indicate that the user equipment uses D2D communication with other user equipments. Resources and initial beams.
- the beam index information allocated by the base station may be set by the base station, or may be a user equipment root. After the beam index information of the beam with better quality is determined according to the measurement result, the allocated initial beam index information is requested to the base station for D2D communication between the user equipment and other user equipments.
- the D2D resource information includes time domain resource information and frequency domain resource information.
- the cellular communication used between the base station and the user equipment and the D2D communication used between the user equipment and other user equipment can reuse time domain resources and frequency domain resources on different initial beams.
- the resource indication information used in the D2D communication is sent to the user equipment, where the resource indication information includes D2D resource information and beam index information, and is used to indicate resources and beams used when the user equipment and the other user equipment adopt D2D communication, and may be
- the initial beam allocated by the base station communicates with other user equipments to solve the problem of mutual interference between D2D communications, and the effect of improving communication quality is achieved.
- the base station provided by the embodiment of the present invention sends the initial beam index information of the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the UE, and receives the RRM measurement report originating from the user equipment, where the RRM measurement report is Obtaining, after the user equipment performs RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information; determining initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, determining the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and selecting the signal
- the better quality initial beam communicates with the user equipment, and the beamforming technology solves the problem that the existing millimeter wave band has a short transmission distance and cannot meet the data communication requirement of the user equipment in the cellular communication environment, and the extended millimeter wave is achieved. The effect of the transmission distance of the frequency band. .
- FIG. 4 is a structural diagram of a user equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the user equipment may be the UE shown in FIG. 1, and the UE may include: a receiving module 401 and a sending module 402.
- the receiving module 401 is configured to receive initial beam index information sent by the base station, where the initial beam index information is used to indicate an initial beam of a millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is detailed in the description in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and details are not described herein.
- the sending module 402 is configured to send an RRM measurement report, where the RRM measurement report is used by the user equipment to perform RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information, where the RRM measurement report is used to indicate that the base station determines to communicate with the user equipment. Initial beam index information.
- the user equipment may also perform the initial beam allocated by the determined base station.
- the RRM measurement generates an RRM measurement report based on the measurement result.
- the user equipment may send the RRM measurement report to the LTE eNB, and the LTE eNB forwards the RRM measurement report to the millimeter wave eNB.
- the RRM measurement report may also be sent to the millimeter wave eNB.
- the embodiment does not limit the user equipment to the RRM measurement report. sending method.
- the method for the user equipment to send the RRM measurement report in the following embodiments of the present invention is the same as the description of the embodiment, and details are not described herein again.
- the RRM measurement may refer to a measurement for mobility management in a normal sense, a measurement method filtered by the RRC layer, or a measurement performed by means of beam training, as shown in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 . The description is not repeated here.
- the base station determines the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then selects the initial beam with good signal quality to communicate with the UE, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the user equipment in the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements can extend the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the user equipment receives the initial beam index information sent by the base station, where the initial beam index information is used to indicate the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated by the base station for the user equipment; and the radio resource management RRM is sent.
- a measurement report the RRM measurement report is obtained by the user equipment performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information, where the RRM measurement report is used to indicate that the base station determines initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment, and may pass the RRM.
- the measurement report reports the signal quality of the initial beam to the base station, so that the base station selects a beam with better signal quality to communicate with the user equipment, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the existing millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements of the user equipment achieves the effect of extending the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- FIG. 5 is a structural diagram of a user equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the user equipment may be the UE shown in FIG. 1, and the UE may include: a receiving module 501 and a sending module 502.
- the receiving module 501 is configured to receive initial beam index information sent by the base station, where the initial beam index information is used to indicate an initial beam of a millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is detailed in the description in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and details are not described herein.
- the sending module 502 is configured to send an RRM measurement report, where the RRM measurement report is obtained by performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information by the user equipment, where the RRM measurement is performed.
- the report is used to instruct the base station to determine initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment.
- the user equipment may perform RRM measurement on the determined initial beam allocated by the base station, and generate an RRM measurement report according to the measurement result.
- the RRM measurement may refer to a measurement for mobility management in a normal sense, a measurement method filtered by the RRC layer, or a measurement performed by means of beam training, as shown in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 . The description is not repeated here.
- the method for the user equipment to send the RRM measurement report is detailed in the description in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and details are not described herein again.
- the base station determines the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then selects the initial beam with good signal quality to communicate with the UE, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the user equipment in the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements can extend the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the beam configuration method is described in detail in the following different application scenarios, as follows:
- the first application scenario is described by using a user equipment in a scenario that is discontinuously received.
- the application scenario corresponds to the first application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the user equipment has a dormant state and an activated state, and the user equipment in the active state needs to receive the control information transmitted by the base station through the beamforming technology on the control channel, and the control information includes resource allocation control.
- the resource allocation control instruction is used to indicate an uplink/downlink resource allocated by the base station to the user equipment.
- the user equipment needs to determine the beam that needs to monitor the control channel according to the RRM measurement report. Therefore, if the RRM measurement report includes reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information, the reference signal information includes the reference signal received power. At least one of the RSRP and the reference signal receiving quality RSRQ, the user equipment, further includes:
- the determining module 403 is configured to send, after the sending module 402 sends the RRM measurement report, the user equipment After switching from the dormant state to the activated state, determining first reference beam index information that the reference signal information is greater than the first threshold;
- the monitoring module 404 is configured to monitor the control information on the control channel by using the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information determined by the determining module 403.
- At least one initial beam may be determined from the RRM measurement report according to the foregoing method, and monitored by the determined at least one initial beam on the control channel. Control information.
- the process of determining the first initial beam index information by the user equipment is the same as the process of determining the first initial beam index information by the base station.
- the process of determining the first initial beam index information by the base station is the same as the process of determining the first initial beam index information by the base station.
- the second method the user equipment needs to receive the specified beam index information
- the receiving module 401 is further configured to receive, by the base station, the initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report by using at least one of RRC signaling and MAC CE. Second initial beam index information;
- the user equipment further includes a monitoring module 404, configured to monitor the control information on the control channel by using the initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information received by the receiving module 401.
- the beam index information can also be jointly determined by the first method and the second method described above.
- the base station first specifies the second initial beam index information by using at least one of RRC signaling and the MAC CE. After a certain period of time, the base station selects the first initial beam index information from the RRM measurement report according to the reference signal information. Or, the base station first selects the first initial beam index information from the RRM measurement report according to the reference signal information, and after the interval is a certain period of time, specifies the second initial beam index information by using at least one of the RRC signaling and the MAC CE.
- the beam index information may be determined by other methods, which is not limited in this embodiment.
- the user equipment can also monitor the control channel in at least one of the following manners.
- the monitoring module 404 is configured to receive control information in an omnidirectional manner, or receive control information in a beam range equal to or greater than an initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information, or to be smaller than the first initial beam index information.
- the beam range of the corresponding initial beam receives the control information; or the monitoring module 404 is specifically configured to receive the control information in an omnidirectional manner, or to receive and control the beam range of the initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information.
- the information, or the control information is received with a beam range smaller than the initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information.
- the user equipment may receive the control information in an omnidirectional manner. At this time, it is not necessary to determine the initial beam of the control channel. Since the smaller the beam range, the greater the gain, therefore, in an omnidirectional manner Receiving the received control information may result in a small gain. Therefore, the user equipment may further determine a beam range according to the first initial beam index information or the second initial beam index information, and receive the control information according to the beam range.
- the user equipment may receive the control information with a beam range greater than or equal to the initial beam. For example, if the beam range indicated by the first initial beam index information is 20°-30°, the user equipment may receive the control information in a beam range of 15°-35°. Alternatively, the user equipment may receive control information in a beam range that is less than the beam range. For example, if the beam range indicated by the first initial beam index information is 10°-30°, the user equipment may receive the control information in a beam range of 15°-25°.
- the method for determining the beam range according to the second initial beam index information is the same as the method for determining the beam range according to the first initial index information, and details are not described herein.
- the reference signal information includes at least one of a reference signal received power RSRP and a reference signal received quality RSRQ
- the RRM measurement report includes reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information
- the user equipment switches from the sleep state to the active state. After the state, the user equipment determines the first initial beam index information that the reference signal information is greater than the first threshold; and the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information is used to monitor the control information on the control channel, and the signal quality in the RRM measurement report may be used.
- the second application scenario is described in the scenario where the user equipment is applied to the TA.
- the application scenario corresponds to the second application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the base station can configure the candidate beam for the user equipment in advance to improve the communication quality by avoiding the obstacle. Therefore, the receiving module 401 is further configured to receive candidate beam index information sent by the base station, where the candidate beam index information is used to indicate an candidate beam of the millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment;
- the user equipment further includes a measurement module 405, configured to perform RRM measurement on the candidate beam indicated by each candidate beam index information when the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than the second threshold, where the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ.
- a measurement module 405 configured to perform RRM measurement on the candidate beam indicated by each candidate beam index information when the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than the second threshold, where the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ.
- a determining module 403 configured to determine, according to the RRM measurement performed by the measurement module 405, first candidate beam index information that the reference signal information is greater than a third threshold;
- the sending module 402 is configured to send the first candidate beam index information determined by the determining module 403 to the base station, where the base station is configured to enter, according to the candidate beam corresponding to the first candidate beam index information, the user equipment. Line communication.
- the base station may separately send the candidate beam index information to the user equipment, or may send the candidate beam index information and the initial beam index information together to the user equipment when the initial beam index information is sent to the user equipment, to save transmission overhead.
- the method for transmitting the candidate beam index information in the following embodiments is the same as the method for sending the candidate beam index information in this embodiment, and details are not described herein again.
- the method for determining the first candidate beam index information by the user equipment is detailed in the description in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, and details are not described herein.
- the base station may also use the beam tracking technology to detect whether the user equipment is about to enter the obstacle area, when the base station detects When the user equipment is about to enter the obstacle area, the user equipment is triggered to perform RRM measurement on the candidate beam.
- the base station needs to configure different TAs according to different user equipments between the user equipment and the base station.
- the candidate beam has a longer propagation path than the initial beam allocated by the base station, resulting in a large propagation delay.
- the uplink TA is abruptly changed. Therefore, the user equipment needs to re-determine the uplink TA.
- the determination of the uplink TA needs to be implemented through a random access procedure.
- the user equipment may receive the random access command sent by the base station, trigger a random access procedure under the instruction of the random access command, and re-acquire the uplink TA, or actively trigger the random access process to reacquire the uplink.
- the sending module 402 is further configured to automatically send a first random access request to the base station, where the first random access request is used to instruct the base station to generate an uplink TA, and according to the allocated second candidate beam index information Selecting a beam and an uplink TA to communicate with the user equipment; or,
- the receiving module 401 is further configured to receive, on the control channel, a random access command sent by the base station, where the base station uses the beam tracking to determine that the candidate beam to be allocated for the user equipment is used to communicate with the user equipment, according to the The random access command sends a second random access request to the base station, where the second random access request is used to instruct the base station to generate an uplink TA, and according to the received candidate beam and the uplink TA corresponding to the first candidate beam index information.
- User equipment communicates.
- the user equipment when the user equipment detects that the reference signal information of each candidate beam is smaller than the third threshold and detects that the reference signal information of the at least one initial beam is greater than the second threshold, determining that the quality of the initial beam is better, at least one The initial beam index information of the initial beam is sent to the base station, and the base station uses One less initial beam communicates with the base station. Or, the base station determines, by using the beam waveform technology, that the user equipment is about to leave the obstacle area and detects that the reference signal information of the at least one initial beam is greater than the second threshold, determining to communicate with the base station by using the at least one initial beam. At this time, the user equipment may re-determine the uplink TA, or may not be sure of the uplink TA.
- the beams used by the user equipment may have different TAs, and these TAs may be for the same millimeter wave base station or for different millimeter wave base stations. Therefore, the base station may further set at least one TA group for each user equipment, each TA group includes at least one beam index information, and the uplink TA corresponding to each beam index information is the same.
- the beam index information may be initial beam index information of the initial beam, or may be candidate beam index information of the candidate beam.
- the beams indicated by the beam index information in one TA group may belong to the same cell or belong to different cells. Therefore, the cell identifier of the cell associated with each beam may also be identified in the TA group.
- the receiving module 401 is configured to receive the TA group sent by the base station, and the TA group is the base station that determines the same uplink beam of the uplink TA as a packet in the beam that communicates with the user equipment, and generates the TA group according to each group. And including a TA group identifier, beam index information of each beam in the packet, a cell identifier corresponding to each beam in the packet, and a time adjustment timer TAT, where the beam includes at least one of an initial beam and an alternate beam;
- the measuring module 405 is configured to: when the TAT in the TA group received by the receiving module 401 times out, detect whether the cell identifier in the TA group corresponds to the beam index information in the other TA group and the TAT of the other TA group does not time out;
- the user equipment further includes: a maintenance module 406, configured to determine, according to the beam index information, when the measurement module 405 detects that the cell identifier in the TA group corresponds to the beam index information in the other TA group and the TAT of the other TA group does not time out.
- the cell the hybrid automatic repeat request (English: Hybrid Automatic Repeat Req user equipment st; abbreviation: HARQ) buffer and sounding reference signal (English: Sounding Reference Signal; SRS) resources;
- the release module 407 is configured to: when the measurement module 405 detects that the cell identifier in the TA group corresponds to the beam index information in the other TA group and the TAT of the other TA group times out, determine the cell corresponding to the beam index information, and release the cell Corresponding HARQ buffer and SRS resources.
- the TA group 1 includes the beam 1 and the beam 2 and the beam 1 corresponds to the cell 1.
- the user equipment detects that the beam 3 associated with the cell 1 still exists in the TA group 2 and the TAT in the TA group 2 If the device does not time out, the user equipment maintains the HARQ buffer and SRS resources corresponding to the cell and does not send SRS and HARQ ACK/NACK in beam 1. If the beam 3 associated with cell 1 is detected, When the TAT in the TA group 2 and the TA group 2 times out, the user equipment releases the HARQ buffer and the SRS resource corresponding to the cell.
- the candidate beam index information is used to receive the candidate beam index information of the millimeter wave band allocated by the base station for the user equipment; if the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than the second threshold, The candidate beam indicated by the beam index information is subjected to the RRM measurement; the first candidate beam index information whose reference signal information is greater than the third threshold is determined according to the RRM measurement; and the determined first candidate beam index information is sent to the base station, where When the quality of the allocated initial beam is poor, the better-quality candidate beam is used to communicate with the base station, thereby achieving an effect of improving communication efficiency.
- the third application scenario is described in the example in which the user equipment is applied to the power control.
- the application scenario corresponds to the third application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the path loss in different beam directions may be different. Therefore, at least one initial beam with the smallest path loss needs to be selected from the allocated initial beams, and communication is performed on the selected at least one initial beam. .
- the user equipment further includes:
- the measurement module 405 is configured to: after the sending module 402 sends the RRM measurement report, measure the RSRP of the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information, and obtain path loss information of each initial beam;
- the generating module 408 is configured to generate a power headroom according to the minimum path loss information measured by the measuring module 407 (English: Power Headroom; abbreviation: PH), and obtain a power headroom report (English: Power Headroom Report; abbreviated as: PHR);
- the sending module 402 is configured to send the PHR generated by the generating module 408, where the PHR is used to indicate that the base station allocates an uplink resource to the user equipment according to the PH and the initial beam corresponding to the PH, and the beam corresponding to the PH is on the corresponding uplink resource.
- User equipment communicates.
- the beam index information sent by the base station may correspond to a beam located outside the beam range corresponding to the RRM measurement report, or may correspond to an initial beam located in a beam range corresponding to the RRM measurement report, or may be an adaptively determined beam. This embodiment is not limited.
- the user equipment may select at least two PHs satisfying a predetermined condition from the PHs of the at least two initial beams, the at least two The PH of the initial beam is added to the PHR.
- the predetermined condition may be that the PH is greater than a fixed threshold, or the PH and one of the at least two initial beams are initial waves. The difference in the PH of the beam is greater than a fixed threshold or the like.
- the user equipment may send the PHR to the LTE eNB, and the LTE eNB forwards the PHR to the millimeter wave eNB.
- the PHR may also be sent to the millimeter wave eNB.
- This embodiment does not limit the manner in which the user equipment sends the PHR.
- the method for transmitting the PHR by the user equipment in the following embodiments of the present invention is the same as the description of the embodiment, and details are not described herein again.
- the MAC CE can be dynamically indicated by the MAC CE to cause the user equipment to report the path loss among the least.
- the PH of the beam is the PH of the beam.
- the receiving module 401 is further configured to receive, by the base station, a first indication of the first beam index information of the first beam in the range of the beam carrying the single initial beam;
- the generating module 408 is further configured to measure the RSRP of each first beam indicated by the first indication received by the receiving module 401, to obtain path loss information of each first beam.
- the user equipment After detecting the PH of each initial beam index information, the user equipment detects that the difference between the path loss information of the measured initial beam index information and the path loss information of the initial beam index information included in the RRM measurement report is less than a predetermined threshold. Then, the user equipment may add the PH of the initial beam index information included in the RRM measurement report to the PHR for transmission.
- the user equipment can support multi-beam transmission on the uplink to improve air interface efficiency.
- the user equipment may send the same or different information on multiple beams, send the same or different HARQ redundancy version (English: Redundancy Version; RV for short), send control information on part of the beam, and send on part of the beam. Data information, etc.
- the user equipment uses multi-beam communication, it is also necessary to allocate uplink transmit power between the beams. For example, when the path loss between multiple beams is not large, the user equipment can evenly distribute the total transmit power among multiple beams.
- the transmit power of at least one beam needs to be down-regulated.
- the user equipment may averagely adjust the transmit power of each beam according to the same factor or coefficient; or, the user equipment may set different factors or coefficients for different beams, and reduce the transmit power of the beam according to the respective factors or coefficients; or
- the user equipment can prioritize according to the information content carried on different beams, and adjust the transmit power of each beam according to the priority.
- the beam priority of the bearer control information is higher than the beam priority of the bearer data information.
- the path loss information of each initial beam is obtained by measuring the RSRP of the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information; the PH is generated according to the minimum path loss information to obtain the PHR; and the PHR is transmitted, and the PHR is used to indicate the base station according to the PH and
- the initial beam corresponding to the PH allocates an uplink resource to the user equipment, and communicates with the user equipment on the corresponding uplink resource by using the initial beam corresponding to the PH, and can select to communicate with the base station on the uplink resource corresponding to the initial beam with the smallest path loss, thereby saving The transmission power.
- the fourth application scenario is described in the scenario where the user equipment is applied to the CSI measurement.
- the application scenario corresponds to the fourth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the user equipment also needs to perform CSI measurement on the initial beam to obtain CSI information to determine the quality of the initial beam according to the CSI information.
- the user equipment further includes:
- the measurement module 405 is configured to: after the sending module 403 sends the RRM measurement report, perform CSI measurement on the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information, to obtain a channel quality indicator of each initial beam (English: Channel Quality Information; referred to as CQI);
- the generating module 408 is configured to generate at least one channel state indication CSI information according to the highest CQI measured by the measurement module 405, to obtain a CSI measurement report;
- the sending module 402 is configured to send a CSI measurement report generated by the generating module 408, where the CSI measurement report is used to instruct the base station to communicate with the user equipment according to the CSI information and the initial beam corresponding to the CSI information.
- the user equipment needs to obtain the initial beam corresponding to the RRM measurement report.
- the RRM measurement defaults to a beam corresponding to a primary synchronization signal (English: Primary Synchronization Signal; PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (English: Secondary Synchronization Signal; SSS) when the user equipment accesses the base station; or, the user
- PSS Primary Synchronization Signal
- SSS Secondary Synchronization Signal
- the device includes the identifier information of the initial beam in the RRM measurement report, and the user equipment determines the beam according to the identifier information; or the user equipment determines the initial beam index information according to the measurement result of the downlink reference signal, and includes the initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report.
- the user equipment may filter the CSI information including the highest CQI from each CSI information, and generate a CSI measurement report according to the selected at least one CSI information.
- the CSI information includes at least one of CQI, PMI, and RI, and the user equipment may send at least one of CQI, PMI, and RI at the same time or at different times.
- the user equipment may send the CSI measurement report to the LTE eNB, and the LTE eNB forwards the CSI measurement report to the millimeter wave eNB.
- the CSI measurement report may also be sent to the millimeter wave eNB. How to send.
- the method for transmitting the CSI measurement report by the user equipment in the following embodiments of the present invention is the same as that of the embodiment, and is not described here.
- the MAC CE can be dynamically indicated by the MAC CE to enable the user equipment to report the CSI information with the highest CQI. specifically,
- the receiving module 401 is further configured to receive, by the base station, a second indication of the second beam index information of the second beam in the range of the beam carrying the single initial beam;
- the generating module 408 is further configured to perform CSI measurement on each of the second beams indicated by the second indication received by the receiving module 401, to obtain CQIs of the respective second beams.
- the CSI measurement of each initial beam is performed by performing channel state indication CSI measurement on the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information; the CSI measurement report is generated according to the highest CQI, and the CSI measurement report is sent; the CSI measurement report is used to indicate
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the CSI information and the initial beam corresponding to the CSI information, and can select the initial beam with the highest CQI to communicate with the base station, thereby improving communication efficiency.
- the fifth application scenario is described in the scenario where the user equipment is used to adjust the bandwidth of the cell.
- the application scenario corresponds to the fifth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the base station when the traffic of each user equipment that is accessed by the cell changes, and the load of the cell changes, the base station needs to adjust the cell bandwidth of the cell.
- the manner in which the base station adjusts the cell bandwidth is described in detail in the fifth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, and details are not described herein.
- the receiving module 401 is further configured to receive, by using a broadcast, the adjusted information of the cell bandwidth and the information of the center frequency point, or receive the RRC signaling sent by the base station, where the RRC signaling carries the adjusted cell bandwidth.
- the information and the information of the central frequency point the adjusted cell bandwidth is adjusted by the base station according to the traffic volume of the at least one user equipment, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume, and the central frequency point is the frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth.
- the public information transmitted by the base station is received on the channel located at the central frequency point, or the transmitting publicity sent by the base station is received on the center frequency of each channel. information.
- the user equipment may receive the adjusted information of the cell bandwidth and the information of the center frequency point in a manner corresponding to the manner in which the base station sends the information of the adjusted cell bandwidth and the information of the center frequency point, and the information according to the center frequency point is located at the center frequency.
- the public information is received on the channel of the point, or the public information is received on the center frequency of each channel.
- the adjusted cell bandwidth is adjusted by the base station according to the service volume of the user equipment, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume.
- the center frequency point is the center frequency or the specified frequency within the frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth.
- the cell bandwidth can be adjusted only without configuring other radio resource configuration parameters, which saves communication overhead in the process of configuring cell bandwidth.
- the sixth application scenario is described in the example that the user equipment is used to adjust the bandwidth of the user.
- the application scenario corresponds to the sixth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the overall load of the cell does not change much, but the traffic of some user equipments varies greatly.
- the demand for the cell bandwidth of the user equipment changes.
- the user bandwidth can be adaptively reduced or increased; but from the perspective of the base station, the base station still transmits information according to the originally used cell bandwidth, but the frequency range used by different user equipments can be different.
- the base station when the base station adjusts the user bandwidth, the base station can adjust the user bandwidth by adjusting the channel allocated to the user equipment according to the traffic volume.
- the receiving module 401 is configured to receive, by using at least one of the RRC signaling, the MAC CE, and the control channel, information about the adjusted user bandwidth sent by the base station, where the adjusted user bandwidth is adjusted by the base station according to the service volume of the user equipment. And the user bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume;
- the user equipment further includes a listening module 404 for monitoring the control channel of the channel that constitutes the user bandwidth received by the receiving module 401.
- the user equipment may receive the adjusted user bandwidth information in a manner corresponding to the manner in which the base station sends the adjusted user bandwidth information, and listen to the channel that constitutes the user bandwidth.
- the remaining bandwidth after adjusting the user bandwidth adjustment may be continuous or discontinuous in the frequency domain.
- the adjusted user bandwidth information sent by the base station by using at least one of the RRC signaling, the MAC CE, and the control channel, where the adjusted user bandwidth is adjusted by the base station according to the service volume of the user equipment.
- the user bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume, and the user bandwidth can be adjusted in real time according to the service volume of the user equipment, thereby ensuring the normal operation of the user equipment.
- the seventh application scenario is described in the scenario where the user equipment is applied to the SPS.
- the application scenario corresponds to the seventh application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the receiving module 401 is configured to receive SPS resource information sent by the base station;
- the determining module 403 is configured to determine resource information and beam index information allocated by the base station for the user equipment according to the SPS resource information.
- the user equipment may determine the initial beam according to the initial beam index information; when the SPS resource information does not include the initial beam index information, the user equipment may determine, according to the initial beam index information carried by the RRM measurement report.
- the initial beam which may be a transmit beam or a receive beam.
- the base station may indicate initial beam index information when the user equipment is configured through RRC signaling or when the SPS resource is activated by using the control channel.
- the base station may agree with the user equipment to use a better quality beam or use a preset beam according to the measurement result. At this time, the user equipment can transmit/receive information on a beam with better quality. Correspondingly, the base station receives/transmits information on the beam. Or, the user equipment simultaneously transmits/receives information on the preset at least one beam, and correspondingly, the base station simultaneously receives/transmits information on the at least one beam.
- the user equipment selects a beam with better signal condition when transmitting/receiving information in the SPS manner, or simultaneously transmits and/or receives on one or more predetermined beams.
- the base station can receive/transmit information in SPS mode on one or more predetermined beams.
- the base station and the user equipment can preferentially select one or more beams with good signal conditions in a plurality of predetermined beam ranges according to the measurement result.
- the resource information and the beam index information allocated by the base station for the user equipment are determined according to the SPS resource information, and the resource and the beam can be configured by receiving the SPS resource information, and the resource and the beam can be dynamically configured for the user equipment.
- the problem of wasted communication overhead is achieved, and the effect of saving communication overhead is achieved.
- An eighth application scenario is described in the example in which the user equipment is applied to the D2D.
- the application scenario corresponds to the eighth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the base station allocates initial beam index information of the initial beam of the D2D communication to the user equipment.
- the receiving module 401 is configured to receive resource indication information sent by the base station, where the resource indication information includes D2D resource information and initial beam index information;
- the user equipment further includes a communication module 409, configured to determine, according to the resource indication information received by the receiving module 401, resources and initial beams used when D2D communication is used with other user equipments.
- the initial beam index information allocated by the base station may be set by the base station, or the user equipment may request the allocated initial beam index information for the user equipment after determining the beam index information of the beam with good quality according to the measurement result.
- the D2D resource information includes time domain resource information and frequency domain resource information.
- the cellular communication used between the base station and the user equipment and the D2D communication used between the user equipment and other user equipment can reuse time domain resources and frequency domain resources on different initial beams.
- the resource indication information includes D2D resource information and beam index information; determining resources and beams used when using D2D communication with other user equipments according to the resource indication information, and Other user equipment communication solves the problem of mutual interference between D2D communication, and achieves the effect of improving communication quality.
- the user equipment receives the initial beam index information sent by the base station, where the initial beam index information is used to indicate the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated by the base station for the user equipment; and the radio resource management RRM is sent.
- a measurement report the RRM measurement report is obtained by the user equipment performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information, where the RRM measurement report is used to indicate that the base station determines initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment, and may pass the RRM.
- the measurement report reports the signal quality of the initial beam to the base station, so that the base station selects a beam with better signal quality to communicate with the user equipment, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the existing millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements of the user equipment achieves the effect of extending the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- FIG. 6 is a structural diagram of a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the base station may be the base station shown in FIG. 1; the base station may include a transmitter 601, a receiver 602, and a processor 603.
- the transmitter 601 is configured to send initial beam index information of the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is used to indicate an initial beam used by the base station to send downlink information to the user equipment, and is pre-configured by the base station to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is associated with antenna weights or codebook information used by the base station to transmit downlink information to determine information such as the direction and width of the initial beam.
- the direction of the initial beam refers to the angle information of the initial beam with respect to the horizontal direction and/or the vertical direction.
- the initial beam index information is also associated with the feature information of the initial beam, and the base station transmits the initial beam-specific feature information on different initial beams, so that the user equipment identifies different initial beams according to different feature information, as shown in FIG. 2 .
- the description in the embodiment is not described here.
- the receiver 602 is configured to receive an RRM measurement report that is obtained by the user equipment, where the RRM measurement report is obtained by performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information sent by the transmitter 601.
- the processor 603 is configured to determine initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report received by the receiver 602.
- the base station determines the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then selects the initial beam with good signal quality to communicate with the UE, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the user equipment in the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements can extend the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the base station provided by the embodiment of the present invention sends the initial beam index information of the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the UE, and receives the RRM measurement report originating from the user equipment, where the RRM measurement report is Obtaining, after the user equipment performs RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information; determining initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, determining the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and selecting the signal
- the better quality initial beam communicates with the user equipment, and the beamforming technology solves the problem that the existing millimeter wave band has a short transmission distance and cannot meet the data communication requirement of the user equipment in the cellular communication environment, and the extended millimeter wave is achieved. The effect of the transmission distance of the frequency band.
- the base station may be the base station shown in FIG. 1; the base station may include a transmitter 601, a receiver 602, and a processor 603.
- the transmitter 601 is configured to send initial beam index information of the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment user equipment to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is used to indicate a beam used by the base station to send downlink information to the user equipment, and is configured by the base station to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is associated with the base station to send the downlink.
- the antenna weight or codebook information used in the information to determine information such as the direction and width of the initial beam.
- the direction of the initial beam refers to the angle information of the initial beam with respect to the horizontal direction and/or the vertical direction.
- the beam direction of an initial beam is a direction of 30°-60° with respect to the horizontal direction, or, relative to the vertical direction. 20°-40° direction, etc.
- the initial beam index information is also associated with the feature information of the initial beam, and the base station transmits the initial beam-specific feature information on different initial beams, so that the user equipment identifies different initial beams according to different feature information, as shown in FIG. 2 .
- the description in the embodiment is not described here.
- the base station may configure at least one initial beam for the user equipment, and send initial beam index information of each initial beam in the at least one initial beam to the user equipment, so that the user equipment explicitly indicates on which initial beam the base station transmits. Downstream information.
- the receiver 602 is configured to receive a radio resource management RRM measurement report that is obtained by the user equipment, where the RRM measurement report is obtained by performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information sent by the transmitter 601.
- the processor 603 is configured to determine initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report received by the receiver 602.
- the base station determines the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then selects the initial beam with good signal quality to communicate with the UE, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the user equipment in the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements can extend the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the beam configuration method is described in detail in the following different application scenarios, as follows:
- the first application scenario is described by using a base station in a scenario of discontinuous reception.
- the application scenario corresponds to the first application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the user equipment has a dormant state and an activated state, and the user equipment in the active state needs to receive the control information transmitted by the base station through the beamforming technology on the control channel, and the control information includes resource allocation control.
- the resource allocation control instruction is used to indicate an uplink/downlink resource allocated by the base station to the user equipment.
- the processor 603 is specifically configured to determine, from the reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report, the first initial beam index information that is greater than the first threshold, and the reference signal information. Include at least one of a reference signal received power RSRP and a reference signal received quality RSRQ;
- the transmitter 601 is further configured to send, by using the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information determined by the processor 603, control information to the user equipment on the control channel, where the user equipment is configured to switch from the sleep state to the active state, and then determine The initial beam monitoring control information corresponding to the first initial beam index information.
- the base station can agree with the user equipment to use the initial beam with better signal quality in the RRM measurement report.
- the base station can agree with the user equipment to use the initial beam with better signal quality in the RRM measurement report.
- the second method, the transmitter 601 is further configured to: at least one of the RRC signaling and the medium access control layer control meta MAC CE, and specify the second from each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report.
- the initial beam index information, the initial beam corresponding to the specified second initial beam index information is used to send control information to the user equipment on the control channel.
- the base station may specify an initial beam for transmitting resource allocation control signaling on the control channel from the allocated initial beam, and then pass the second initial beam index information of the specified initial beam through the RRC. Signaling or MAC CE is sent to the user equipment.
- the beam index information may be jointly determined by the first method and the second method.
- the first method may be jointly determined by the first method and the second method.
- the first initial beam index information whose reference signal information is greater than the first threshold is determined from the reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report, and the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information is controlled.
- the control information is sent to the user equipment on the channel, and the initial information of the signal quality in the RRM measurement report can be used to transmit the control information, thereby improving communication efficiency.
- the second application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to the TA.
- the application scenario corresponds to the second application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the base station can configure the candidate beam for the user equipment in advance to improve the communication quality by avoiding the obstacle. Therefore, specifically, the transmitter 601 , also used to select alternate beams in the millimeter wave band for user equipment
- the candidate beam index information is sent to the user equipment;
- the receiver 602 is further configured to receive first candidate beam index information selected and sent by the user equipment from the candidate beam index information sent by the transmitter 601, where the first candidate beam index information is that the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than a second threshold value, and after performing RRM measurement on the candidate beam indicated by each candidate beam index information, the determined reference signal information is greater than the third threshold candidate beam index information, and the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ One type;
- the processor 603 is further configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the first candidate beam index information received by the receiver 602.
- the process of configuring the candidate beam for the user equipment is described in detail in the description of the second application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, and details are not described herein.
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the received at least one candidate beam index information.
- the base station may also use the beam tracking technology to detect whether the user equipment is about to enter the obstacle area, when the base station detects When the user equipment is about to enter the obstacle area, the user equipment is triggered to perform RRM measurement on the candidate beam.
- the base station needs to configure different TAs according to different user equipments between the user equipment and the base station.
- the candidate beam has a longer propagation path than the initial beam allocated by the base station, resulting in a large propagation delay.
- the uplink TA is abruptly changed. Therefore, the user equipment needs to re-determine the uplink TA.
- the determination of the uplink TA needs to be implemented through a random access procedure.
- the user equipment When the user equipment actively triggers the random access procedure, the user equipment sends a first random access request to the base station, and the transmitter 601 is further configured to receive the first random access request sent by the user equipment.
- the processor 603 is configured to generate an uplink time advance TA according to the first random access request, and communicate with the user equipment according to the received candidate beam and the uplink TA corresponding to the first candidate beam index information.
- the user equipment When the user equipment triggers the random access procedure under the instruction of the random access command, the user equipment sends a second random access request to the base station.
- the processor 603 is further configured to use beam tracking to determine that the user equipment is to be used for allocation. The alternate beam communicates with the user equipment;
- the transmitter 601 is further configured to send a random access instruction to the user equipment on the control channel;
- the receiver 602 is further configured to receive, by the user equipment, a random access command sent by the transmitter 601. Sending a second random access request;
- the processor 603 is further configured to generate an uplink TA according to the second random access request received by the receiver 602, and communicate with the user equipment according to the candidate beam and the uplink TA corresponding to the allocated second candidate beam index information.
- the beams used by the user equipment may have different TAs, and these TAs may be for the same millimeter wave base station or for different millimeter wave base stations. Therefore, the base station may further set at least one TA group for each user equipment, each TA group includes at least one beam index information, and the uplink TA corresponding to each beam index information is the same.
- the beam index information may be initial beam index information of the initial beam, or may be candidate beam index information of the candidate beam.
- the beams indicated by the beam index information in one TA group may belong to the same cell or belong to different cells. Therefore, the cell identifier of the cell associated with each beam may also be identified in the TA group.
- the processor 603 is further configured to: determine, in a beam that communicates with the user equipment, the same beam of the uplink TA as one packet, where the beam includes at least one of an initial beam and an candidate beam; Generating a TA group, where the TA group includes a TA group identifier, beam index information of each beam in the packet, a cell identifier corresponding to each beam in the packet, and a time adjustment timer TAT;
- the transmitter 601 is further configured to send the TA group generated by the processor 603 to the user equipment.
- the base station may reconfigure the TA group for the user equipment according to the new uplink TA and allocate the cell associated with the beam index information and the beam index information of the TA group.
- the base station can adjust the uplink TA and the TA group by using TA cmd.
- the first candidate beam index information is that the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than a second threshold, and each candidate is selected After the candidate beam indicated by the beam index information is subjected to the RRM measurement, the determined reference signal information is greater than the third threshold candidate beam index information; and the candidate beam corresponding to the first candidate beam index information is used to communicate with the user equipment.
- the quality of the allocated initial beam is poor, the candidate beam with better quality can be used to communicate with the user equipment, thereby improving the communication efficiency.
- the third application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to the power control.
- the application scenario corresponds to the third application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the path loss in different beam directions may be different, therefore, It is necessary to select an initial beam with the smallest path loss from the allocated initial beams, and perform communication on the selected initial beam.
- the receiver 602 is configured to: after determining, by the processor 603, the initial beam index information that is used to communicate with the user equipment, the processor 603 receives the power headroom report PHR from the user equipment, where the power headroom PH is included in the PHR.
- the PH is obtained by measuring the RSRP of each initial beam to obtain path loss information, which is generated according to the minimum path loss information;
- the processor 603 is configured to allocate an uplink resource to the user equipment according to the PH received by the receiver 602 and the initial beam corresponding to the PH, and communicate with the user equipment on the corresponding uplink resource by using the initial beam corresponding to the PH.
- the beam index information sent by the base station may correspond to a beam located outside the beam range corresponding to the RRM measurement report, or may correspond to an initial beam located in a beam range corresponding to the RRM measurement report, or may be an adaptively determined beam. This embodiment is not limited.
- the base station After receiving the PHR, the base station allocates uplink resources to the user equipment according to the beam index information and the PH in the PHR, so that the user equipment sends uplink information on the corresponding initial beam using power that is suitable and does not exceed the maximum allowed transmit power of the user equipment.
- the MAC CE can be dynamically indicated by the MAC CE to enable the user equipment to report the minimum path loss.
- the PH of the beam is the PH of the beam.
- the transmitter 601 is further configured to: before the receiver 602 receives the power headroom report PHR from the user equipment, send the first beam index information of the first beam in the range of the beam carrying the single initial beam to the user equipment.
- the first indication is used to indicate that the user equipment measures the RSRP of the first beam.
- the base station does not limit the uplink transmit power of the user equipment
- the user equipment can support multi-beam transmission on the uplink to improve air interface efficiency. If the user equipment supports multiple beams at the same time and the power is limited to a certain extent, the transmit power of the at least one beam needs to be down-converted. For details, refer to the description of the third application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. Do not repeat them.
- the PHR By receiving the PHR from the user equipment, the PHR includes a PH, and the PH is a measurement of the RSRP of each initial beam to obtain path loss information, which is generated according to the minimum path loss information; and the user is based on the PH and the initial beam corresponding to the PH.
- the device allocates an uplink resource, and communicates with the user equipment on the corresponding uplink resource by using the initial beam corresponding to the PH, and can select to communicate with the user equipment on the uplink resource corresponding to the initial beam with the smallest path loss, thereby saving the transmission power.
- the fourth application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to the CSI measurement.
- the application scenario corresponds to the fourth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the user equipment also needs to perform CSI measurement on the initial beam to obtain CSI information to determine the quality of the initial beam according to the CSI information.
- the user equipment needs to obtain the beam in the range of the RRM measurement report, and the user equipment first needs to obtain the initial beam corresponding to the RRM measurement report.
- the specific acquisition method is shown in the fourth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 . The description is not repeated here.
- the receiver 602 is configured to receive, by the processor 603, the channel state indication CSI measurement report that is derived from the user equipment, and the CSI measurement report includes the CSI information after determining the initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report.
- the CSI information is obtained by performing CSI measurement on each initial beam to obtain a channel quality indicator CQI, which is generated according to the highest CQI;
- the processor 603 is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the CSI information received by the receiver 602 and the initial beam corresponding to the CSI information.
- the MAC CE may be dynamically indicated by the MAC CE to cause the user equipment to report the CSI information with the highest CQI.
- the transmitter 601 is further configured to: before the receiver 602 receives the channel state indication CSI measurement report from the user equipment, send the second beam index information of the second beam in the range of the beam carrying the single initial beam to the user equipment.
- the second indication is used to indicate that the user equipment performs CSI measurement on the second beam.
- the CSI measurement report includes a CSI measurement report, where the CSI measurement report includes CSI measurement for each initial beam to obtain a CQI, which is generated according to the highest CQI, and an initial corresponding to the CSI information according to the CSI information.
- the beam communicates with the user equipment, and the initial beam with the highest CQI can be selected to communicate with the user equipment to improve communication efficiency.
- the fifth application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is used to adjust the bandwidth of the cell.
- the application scenario corresponds to the fifth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the base station when the traffic of each user equipment that is accessed by the cell changes, and the load of the cell changes, the base station needs to adjust the cell bandwidth of the cell, and the specific adjustment method is shown in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 .
- the description of the fifth application scenario is not described here.
- the processor 603 is further configured to determine, according to the RRM measurement report, to communicate with the user equipment. After the initial beam index information of the message, the cell bandwidth is adjusted according to the traffic volume of the at least one user equipment, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume;
- the transmitter 601 is further configured to broadcast the information about the cell bandwidth adjusted by the processor 603 and the information of the central frequency point to each user equipment, or use the RRC signaling to adjust the information of the cell bandwidth and the information of the center frequency point.
- the central frequency point is sent to each user equipment, and the central frequency point is a central frequency or a specified frequency within a frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth.
- the adjusted cell can use multiple channels such that multiple channels share the same HARQ entity.
- the entire cell may be composed of a plurality of channels of the same bandwidth
- the base station may transmit the common information on the channel located at the central frequency point, or the base station may transmit the common information on the center frequency of each channel. That is, if the adjusted cell is composed of channels having the same bandwidth, the transmitter 601 is further configured to send public information to each user equipment on a channel located at the center frequency point, or to each of the center frequencies of each channel. The user device sends public information.
- the cell bandwidth is adjusted according to the traffic volume of the at least one user equipment, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume; the adjusted cell bandwidth information and the central frequency point information are broadcast to each user equipment, or adjusted by RRC signaling.
- the information of the cell bandwidth and the information of the center frequency are sent to the user equipments, and only the cell bandwidth can be adjusted, and other radio resource configuration parameters need not be configured, which saves the communication overhead in the process of configuring the cell bandwidth.
- a sixth application scenario is described in the example in which the base station is used to adjust the bandwidth of the user.
- the application scenario corresponds to the sixth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the overall load of the cell does not change much, but the traffic of some user equipments varies greatly.
- the demand for the cell bandwidth of the user equipment changes.
- the user bandwidth can be adaptively reduced or increased; but from the perspective of the base station, the base station still transmits information according to the originally used cell bandwidth, but the frequency range used by different user equipments can be different.
- the processor 603 is further configured to: after determining the initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, adjusting the user bandwidth of the user equipment according to the service volume of the user equipment, where the user bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume;
- the transmitter 601 is further configured to send information about the adjusted user bandwidth of the processor 603 to the user equipment by using at least one of RRC signaling, a MAC CE, and a control channel.
- the base station can adjust the user bandwidth according to Traffic is adjusted by adjusting the channel allocated to the user equipment.
- the processor 603 is specifically configured to adjust at least one channel allocated to the user equipment according to the traffic volume of the user equipment, to obtain a user bandwidth.
- the user bandwidth of the user equipment is adjusted according to the traffic volume of the user equipment, and the user bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume; the adjusted user bandwidth information is sent to the user equipment by using at least one of RRC signaling, the MAC CE, and the control channel.
- the user bandwidth can be adjusted in real time according to the service volume of the user equipment, and the normal operation of the user equipment is ensured.
- the seventh application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to the SPS.
- the application scenario corresponds to the seventh application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the transmitter 601 is configured to send the SPS resource information to the user equipment, where the SPS resource information is used to indicate resource information and beam index information allocated by the base station for the user equipment;
- the user equipment may determine the beam according to the beam index information; when the SPS resource information does not include the beam index information, the user equipment may determine the beam according to the beam index information carried in the RRM measurement report, where the beam may be It is either a transmit beam or a receive beam.
- the base station may indicate beam index information when the user equipment is configured through RRC signaling or when the SPS resource is activated by using the control channel.
- the processor 603 is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to a beam corresponding to the beam index information indicated by the SPS information.
- the base station may agree with the user equipment to use a better quality beam or use a preset beam according to the measurement result. At this time, the user equipment can transmit/receive information on a beam with better quality. Correspondingly, the base station receives/transmits information on the beam. Or, the user equipment simultaneously transmits/receives information on the preset at least one beam, and correspondingly, the base station simultaneously receives/transmits information on the at least one beam.
- the user equipment selects a beam with better signal condition when transmitting/receiving information in the SPS manner, or simultaneously transmits and/or receives on one or more predetermined beams.
- the base station can receive/transmit information in SPS mode on one or more predetermined beams.
- the base station and the user equipment can preferentially select one or more beams with good signal conditions in a plurality of predetermined beam ranges according to the measurement result.
- the base station may re-instruct the user equipment of the beam index information through RRC signaling or a MAC CE or a control channel.
- the SPS resource information is used to indicate resource information and beam index information allocated by the base station for the user equipment; and the beam corresponding to the beam index information indicated by the SPS information is used to communicate with the user equipment, and may be sent by
- the SPS resource information is configured to allocate resources and beams to the user equipment, and can solve the problem of wasteful communication overhead caused by dynamically configuring resources and beams for the user equipment, thereby achieving the effect of saving communication overhead.
- An eighth application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to the D2D.
- the application scenario corresponds to the eighth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the base station allocates initial beam index information of the beam of the D2D communication to the user equipment.
- the transmitter 601 is configured to send the resource indication information used in the D2D communication to the user equipment, where the resource indication information includes D2D resource information and initial beam index information, and is used to indicate that the user equipment uses D2D communication with other user equipments. Resources and initial beams.
- the initial beam index information allocated by the base station may be set by the base station, or the user equipment may request the allocated initial beam index information for the user equipment after determining the beam index information of the beam with good quality according to the measurement result.
- the D2D resource information includes time domain resource information and frequency domain resource information.
- the cellular communication used between the base station and the user equipment and the D2D communication used between the user equipment and other user equipment can reuse time domain resources and frequency domain resources on different initial beams.
- Receiving resource indication information sent by the base station where the resource indication information includes D2D resource information and beam index information; determining resources and beams used when using D2D communication with other user equipments according to the resource indication information, and may be based on an initial beam allocated by the base station Communicate with other user equipments to solve the problem of mutual interference between D2D communication, and the effect of improving communication quality is obtained.
- the base station provided by the embodiment of the present invention sends the initial beam index information of the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the UE, and receives the RRM measurement report originating from the user equipment, where the RRM measurement report is Obtaining, after the user equipment performs RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information; determining, according to the RRM measurement report, communication with the user equipment
- the initial beam index information can determine the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then select the initial beam with better signal quality to communicate with the user equipment, and use the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the existing millimeter wave band.
- the problem of data communication requirements of user equipment in a cellular communication environment cannot be met, and the effect of extending the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band is achieved.
- FIG. 7 is a structural diagram of a user equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the user equipment may be the UE shown in FIG. 1, and the UE may include: a receiver 701 and a transmitter 702.
- the receiver 701 is configured to receive initial beam index information sent by the base station, where the initial beam index information is used to indicate an initial beam of a millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is detailed in the description in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and details are not described herein.
- the transmitter 702 is configured to send an RRM measurement report, where the RRM measurement report is used by the user equipment to perform RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information, where the RRM measurement report is used to indicate that the base station determines to communicate with the user equipment.
- Initial beam index information is used to indicate that the base station determines to communicate with the user equipment.
- the user equipment may perform RRM measurement on the determined initial beam allocated by the base station, and generate an RRM measurement report according to the measurement result.
- the user equipment may send the RRM measurement report to the LTE eNB, and the LTE eNB forwards the RRM measurement report to the millimeter wave eNB.
- the RRM measurement report may also be sent to the millimeter wave eNB.
- the embodiment does not limit the user equipment to the RRM measurement report. sending method.
- the method for the user equipment to send the RRM measurement report in the following embodiments of the present invention is the same as the description of the embodiment, and details are not described herein again.
- the RRM measurement may refer to a measurement for mobility management in a normal sense, a measurement method filtered by the RRC layer, or a measurement performed by means of beam training, as shown in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 . The description is not repeated here.
- the base station determines the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then selects the initial beam with good signal quality to communicate with the UE, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the user equipment in the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements can extend the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the user equipment receives the initial beam index information sent by the base station, where the initial beam index information is used to indicate the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated by the base station for the user equipment; and the radio resource management RRM is sent.
- Measurement report the RRM measurement report is a user equipment pair
- the RRM measurement report is used to indicate that the base station determines initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment, and may report the signal quality of the initial beam to the base station by using the RRM measurement report.
- the base station selects a beam with better signal quality to communicate with the user equipment, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the problem that the transmission distance of the existing millimeter wave band is short, and the data communication requirement of the user equipment in the cellular communication environment cannot be met, and the problem is reached.
- the effect of extending the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band is not limited.
- FIG. 8 is a structural diagram of a user equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the user equipment may be the UE shown in FIG. 1, and the UE may include: a receiver 801 and a transmitter 802.
- the receiver 801 is configured to receive initial beam index information sent by the base station, where the initial beam index information is used to indicate an initial beam of a millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is detailed in the description in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and details are not described herein.
- the transmitter 802 is configured to send an RRM measurement report, where the RRM measurement report is used by the user equipment to perform RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information, where the RRM measurement report is used to indicate that the base station determines to communicate with the user equipment.
- Initial beam index information is used to indicate that the base station determines to communicate with the user equipment.
- the user equipment may perform RRM measurement on the determined initial beam allocated by the base station, and generate an RRM measurement report according to the measurement result.
- the RRM measurement may refer to a measurement for mobility management in a normal sense, a measurement method filtered by the RRC layer, or a measurement performed by means of beam training, as shown in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 . The description is not repeated here.
- the method for the user equipment to send the RRM measurement report is detailed in the description in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and details are not described herein again.
- the base station determines the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then selects the initial beam with good signal quality to communicate with the UE, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the user equipment in the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements can extend the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the beam configuration method is described in detail in the following different application scenarios, as follows:
- the first application scenario is described by using a user equipment in a scenario that is discontinuously received.
- the application scenario corresponds to the first application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the user equipment has a dormant state and an activated state, and the user equipment in the active state needs to receive the control information transmitted by the base station through the beamforming technology on the control channel, and the control information includes resource allocation control.
- the resource allocation control instruction is used to indicate an uplink/downlink resource allocated by the base station to the user equipment.
- the user equipment further includes a processor 803, and is also used for the transmitter. After the 802 sends the RRM measurement report, after the user equipment switches from the sleep state to the active state, determining, by the user equipment, the first initial beam index information that is greater than the first threshold by the reference signal information;
- the receiver 801 is further configured to monitor the control information on the control channel by using an initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information determined by the processor 803.
- the base station can agree with the user equipment to use the initial beam with better signal quality in the RRM measurement report.
- the base station can agree with the user equipment to use the initial beam with better signal quality in the RRM measurement report.
- At least one initial beam may be determined from the RRM measurement report according to the foregoing method, and the control information is monitored on the control channel by the determined at least one initial beam.
- the receiver 801 is further configured to: receive, by the base station, the at least one of the radio resource control RRC signaling and the medium access control layer control meta MAC CE from each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report.
- the second initial beam index information the control information is monitored on the control channel by the initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information.
- the base station may specify an initial beam for transmitting resource allocation control signaling on the control channel from the allocated initial beam, and then pass the second initial beam index information of the specified initial beam through the RRC. Signaling or MAC CE is sent to the user equipment.
- the beam index information may be jointly determined by the first method and the second method.
- the first method may be jointly determined by the first method and the second method.
- the user equipment can also control the control by at least one of the following methods.
- the channel is listening.
- the receiver 801 is configured to receive control information in an omnidirectional manner, or receive control information in a beam range equal to or greater than an initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information, or to be smaller than the first initial beam index information.
- the beam range of the corresponding initial beam receives the control information; or the receiver 801 is specifically configured to receive the control information in an omnidirectional manner, or to receive and control the beam range of the initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information.
- the information, or the control information is received with a beam range smaller than the initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information.
- the reference signal information includes at least one of a reference signal received power RSRP and a reference signal received quality RSRQ
- the RRM measurement report includes reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information
- the user equipment switches from the sleep state to the active state. After the state, the user equipment determines the first initial beam index information that the reference signal information is greater than the first threshold; and the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information is used to monitor the control information on the control channel, and the signal quality in the RRM measurement report may be used.
- the second application scenario is described in the scenario where the user equipment is applied to the TA.
- the application scenario corresponds to the second application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the base station can configure the candidate beam for the user equipment in advance to improve the communication quality by avoiding the obstacle, and therefore, optionally, the receiver 801.
- the 801 is further configured to receive candidate beam index information sent by the base station, where the candidate beam index information is used to indicate an candidate beam of a millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment.
- the user equipment further includes a processor 803, configured to perform RRM measurement, reference signal information, on the candidate beam indicated by each candidate beam index information received by the receiver 801 when the reference signal information of the initial beam is less than the second threshold. Include at least one of RSRP and RSRQ; determining first candidate beam index information that the reference signal information is greater than a third threshold according to the RRM measurement;
- the transmitter 802 is further configured to send the first candidate beam index information determined by the processor 803 to the base station, where the base station is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the first candidate beam index information.
- the base station needs to configure different TAs according to different user equipments between the user equipment and the base station.
- the candidate beam has a longer propagation path than the initial beam allocated by the base station, resulting in a large propagation delay.
- the uplink TA is abruptly changed. Therefore, the user equipment needs to re-determine the uplink TA.
- the determination of the uplink TA needs to be implemented through a random access procedure.
- the transmitter 802 is further configured to automatically send a first random access request to the base station, where the first random access request is used to instruct the base station to generate an uplink TA, and corresponding to the allocated second candidate beam index information.
- the candidate beam and the uplink TA communicate with the user equipment, or receive a random access command sent by the base station on the control channel, where the base station uses beam tracking to determine an alternate beam and user to be used for the user equipment to be allocated.
- the second random access request is sent to the base station according to the random access command, and the second random access request is used to indicate that the base station generates the uplink TA, and corresponding to the received first candidate beam index information.
- the alternate beam and the uplink TA communicate with the user equipment.
- the user equipment When the user equipment actively triggers the random access procedure, the user equipment actively sends a first random access request to the base station. When the user equipment triggers the random access procedure under the instruction of the random access instruction, the user equipment sends the second random to the base station.
- the access process For details of the access process, refer to the description of the second application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, which is not described here.
- the user equipment when the user equipment detects that the reference signal information of each candidate beam is smaller than the third threshold and detects that the reference signal information of the at least one initial beam is greater than the second threshold, determining that the quality of the initial beam is better, at least one The initial beam index information of the initial beam is transmitted to the base station, and the base station communicates with the base station using at least one initial beam. Or, the base station determines, by using the beam waveform technology, that the user equipment is about to leave the obstacle area and detects that the reference signal information of the at least one initial beam is greater than the second threshold, determining to communicate with the base station by using the at least one initial beam. At this time, the user equipment may re-determine the uplink TA, or may not be sure of the uplink TA.
- the beams used by the user equipment may have different TAs, and these TAs may be for the same millimeter wave base station or for different millimeter wave base stations. Therefore, the base station may further set at least one TA group for each user equipment, each TA group includes at least one beam index information, and the uplink TA corresponding to each beam index information is the same.
- the beam index information may be initial beam index information of the initial beam, or may be candidate beam index information of the candidate beam.
- the beams indicated by the beam index information in one TA group may belong to the same cell or belong to different cells. Therefore, the cell identifier of the cell associated with each beam may also be identified in the TA group.
- the receiver 801 is further configured to receive a TA group that is sent by the base station, where the TA group is a beam that the base station communicates with the user equipment, and determines that the same beam of the uplink TA is a packet, and the TA group includes the TA according to each group. a group identifier, beam index information of each beam in the packet, a cell identifier corresponding to each beam in the packet, and a time adjustment timer TAT, where the beam includes at least one of the initial beam and the candidate beam;
- the user equipment further includes a processor 803, and is further configured to: when the TAT timeout in the TA group received by the receiver 801, detect whether the cell identifier in the TA group corresponds to beam index information in other TA groups and other TA groups The TAT does not time out; when it is detected that the cell identifier in the TA group corresponds to the beam index information in the other TA group and the TAT of the other TA group does not time out, the cell corresponding to the beam index information is determined, and the hybrid automatic corresponding to the maintenance cell is maintained.
- the HARQ buffer and the SRS resource corresponding to the cell are released.
- the candidate beam index information is used to receive the candidate beam index information of the millimeter wave band allocated by the base station for the user equipment; if the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than the second threshold, The candidate beam indicated by the beam index information is subjected to the RRM measurement; the first candidate beam index information whose reference signal information is greater than the third threshold is determined according to the RRM measurement; and the determined first candidate beam index information is sent to the base station, where When the quality of the allocated initial beam is poor, the better-quality candidate beam is used to communicate with the base station, thereby achieving an effect of improving communication efficiency.
- the third application scenario is described in the example in which the user equipment is applied to the power control.
- the application scenario corresponds to the third application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the path loss in different beam directions may be different. Therefore, it is necessary to select the initial beam with the smallest path loss from the allocated initial beams, and perform communication on the selected initial beam.
- the user equipment further includes a processor 803, configured to: after the transmitter 802 sends the RRM measurement report, measure the RSRP of the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information, to obtain path loss information of each initial beam;
- the path loss information generates at least one power headroom PH to obtain a power headroom report PHR;
- the transmitter 802 is further configured to send a PHR generated by the processor 803, where the PHR is used to indicate that the base station is configured to allocate uplink resources to the user equipment according to the PH and the initial beam corresponding to the PH, by using the PH and the PH.
- the corresponding initial beam communicates with the user equipment on the corresponding uplink resource.
- the beam index information sent by the base station may correspond to a beam located outside the beam range corresponding to the RRM measurement report, or may correspond to an initial beam located in a beam range corresponding to the RRM measurement report, or may be an adaptively determined beam. This embodiment is not limited.
- the MAC CE can be dynamically indicated by the MAC CE to enable the user equipment to report the minimum path loss.
- the PH of the beam is the PH of the beam.
- the receiver 801 is further configured to receive, by the base station, a first indication of the first beam index information of the first beam in the range of the beam carrying the single initial beam;
- the processor 803 is further configured to measure the RSRP of each first beam indicated by the first indication received by the receiver 801 to obtain path loss information of each first beam.
- the base station does not limit the uplink transmit power of the user equipment
- the user equipment can support multi-beam transmission on the uplink to improve air interface efficiency. If the user equipment supports multiple beams at the same time and the power is limited to a certain extent, the transmit power of the at least one beam needs to be down-converted. For details, refer to the description of the third application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. Do not repeat them.
- the path loss information of each initial beam is obtained by measuring the RSRP of the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information; the PH is generated according to the minimum path loss information to obtain the PHR; and the PHR is transmitted, and the PHR is used to indicate the base station according to the PH and
- the initial beam corresponding to the PH allocates an uplink resource to the user equipment, and communicates with the user equipment on the corresponding uplink resource by using the initial beam corresponding to the PH, and can select to communicate with the base station on the uplink resource corresponding to the initial beam with the smallest path loss, thereby saving The transmission power.
- the fourth application scenario is described in the scenario where the user equipment is applied to the CSI measurement.
- the application scenario corresponds to the fourth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the user equipment also needs to perform CSI measurement on the initial beam to obtain CSI information to determine the quality of the initial beam according to the CSI information.
- the user equipment further includes a processor 803, configured to perform channel state indication CSI measurement on the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information after the transmitter 802 sends the RRM measurement report, to obtain a channel quality indicator CQI of each initial beam. Generating at least one channel state indication CSI information according to the highest CQI to obtain a CSI measurement report;
- the transmitter 802 is further configured to send a CSI measurement report generated by the processor 803, where the CSI measurement report is used to instruct the base station to communicate with the user equipment according to the CSI information and the initial beam corresponding to the CSI information. letter.
- the user equipment needs to obtain the beam in the range of the RRM measurement report, and the user equipment first needs to obtain the initial beam corresponding to the RRM measurement report.
- the specific acquisition method is shown in the fourth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 . The description is not repeated here.
- the user equipment may filter the CSI information including the highest CQI from each CSI information, and generate a CSI measurement report according to the selected at least one CSI information.
- the CSI information includes at least one of CQI, PMI, and RI, and the user equipment may send at least one of CQI, PMI, and RI to the base station at the same time or at different times.
- the MAC CE may be dynamically indicated by the MAC CE to cause the user equipment to report the CSI information with the highest CQI.
- the receiver 801 is further configured to receive, by the base station, a second indication of the second beam index information of the second beam in the range of the beam carrying the single initial beam;
- the processor 803 is further configured to perform CSI measurement on each of the second beams indicated by the second indication received by the receiver 801 to obtain CQIs of the respective second beams.
- the CSI measurement of each initial beam is performed by performing channel state indication CSI measurement on the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information; the CSI measurement report is generated according to the highest CQI, and the CSI measurement report is sent; the CSI measurement report is used to indicate
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the CSI information and the initial beam corresponding to the CSI information, and can select the initial beam with the highest CQI to communicate with the base station, thereby improving communication efficiency.
- the fifth application scenario is described in the scenario where the user equipment is used to adjust the bandwidth of the cell.
- the application scenario corresponds to the fifth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the base station when the traffic of each user equipment that is accessed by the cell changes, and the load of the cell changes, the base station needs to adjust the cell bandwidth of the cell, and the specific adjustment method is shown in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 .
- the description of the fifth application scenario is not described here.
- the adjusted cell can use multiple channels such that multiple channels share the same HARQ entity.
- the entire cell may be composed of a plurality of channels of the same bandwidth, the base station may transmit the common information on the channel located at the central frequency point, or the base station may transmit the common information on the center frequency of each channel.
- the receiver 801 is further configured to receive, by using a broadcast, an adjusted cell bandwidth sent by the base station.
- the information and the information of the central frequency point, or the RRC signaling sent by the receiving base station, the RRC signaling carries the information of the adjusted cell bandwidth and the information of the central frequency point; the adjusted cell bandwidth is determined by the base station according to at least one user.
- the service volume of the device is adjusted, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume.
- the center frequency is the center frequency or the specified frequency in the frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth; if the adjusted cell has the same bandwidth
- the channel composition receives the common information sent by the base station on the channel located at the center frequency point, or receives the transmission common information sent by the base station on the center frequency of each channel.
- the user equipment may receive the adjusted information of the cell bandwidth and the information of the center frequency point in a manner corresponding to the manner in which the base station sends the information of the adjusted cell bandwidth and the information of the center frequency point, and the information according to the center frequency point is located at the center frequency.
- the public information is received on the channel of the point, or the public information is received on the center frequency of each channel.
- the adjusted cell bandwidth is adjusted by the base station according to the service volume of the user equipment, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume.
- the center frequency point is the center frequency or the specified frequency within the frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth.
- the cell bandwidth can be adjusted only without configuring other radio resource configuration parameters, which saves communication overhead in the process of configuring cell bandwidth.
- the sixth application scenario is described in the example that the user equipment is used to adjust the bandwidth of the user.
- the application scenario corresponds to the sixth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the overall load of the cell does not change much, but the traffic of some user equipments varies greatly.
- the demand for the cell bandwidth of the user equipment changes.
- the user bandwidth can be adaptively reduced or increased; but from the perspective of the base station, the base station still transmits information according to the originally used cell bandwidth, but the frequency range used by different user equipments can be different.
- the base station when the base station adjusts the user bandwidth, the base station can adjust the user bandwidth by adjusting the channel allocated to the user equipment according to the traffic volume.
- the receiver 801 is further configured to: receive, by using at least one of the RRC signaling, the MAC CE, and the control channel, information about the adjusted user bandwidth sent by the base station, where the adjusted user bandwidth is the traffic volume of the base station according to the user equipment. Adjusted, and the user bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic; the control channel of the channel that constitutes the user bandwidth is monitored.
- the user equipment may receive the adjusted user bandwidth information in a manner corresponding to the manner in which the base station sends the adjusted user bandwidth information, and listen to the channel that constitutes the user bandwidth.
- the remaining bandwidth after adjusting the user bandwidth adjustment may be continuous or discontinuous in the frequency domain.
- the adjusted user bandwidth is adjusted by the base station according to the service volume of the user equipment, and the user bandwidth and the traffic volume are positive.
- the related relationship can adjust the user bandwidth in real time according to the service volume of the user equipment, and ensure the normal operation of the user equipment.
- the seventh application scenario is described in the scenario where the user equipment is applied to the SPS.
- the application scenario corresponds to the seventh application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the receiver 801 is configured to receive SPS resource information sent by the base station.
- the user equipment may determine the beam according to the beam index information; when the SPS resource information does not include the beam index information, the user equipment may determine the beam according to the beam index information carried in the RRM measurement report, where the beam may be It is either a transmit beam or a receive beam.
- the base station may indicate beam index information when the user equipment is configured through RRC signaling or when the SPS resource is activated by using the control channel.
- the user equipment further includes a processor 803, configured to determine, according to the SPS resource information, resource information and beam index information allocated by the base station for the user equipment.
- the base station may agree with the user equipment to use a better quality beam or use a preset beam according to the measurement result. At this time, the user equipment can transmit/receive information on a beam with better quality. Correspondingly, the base station receives/transmits information on the beam. Or, the user equipment simultaneously transmits/receives information on the preset at least one beam, and correspondingly, the base station simultaneously receives/transmits information on the at least one beam.
- the user equipment selects a beam with better signal condition when transmitting/receiving information in the SPS manner, or simultaneously transmits and/or receives on one or more predetermined beams.
- the base station can receive/transmit information in SPS mode on one or more predetermined beams.
- the base station and the user equipment can preferentially select one or more beams with good signal conditions in a plurality of predetermined beam ranges according to the measurement result.
- the base station when the base station re-indicates the beam index information according to the measurement result or the recommended beam index information of the user equipment, only the beam index information in the SPS resource information needs to be modified, and There is no need to modify resource information. At this time, the base station may re-instruct the user equipment of the beam index information through RRC signaling or a MAC CE or a control channel.
- the resource information and the beam index information allocated by the base station for the user equipment are determined according to the SPS resource information, and the resource and the beam can be configured by receiving the SPS resource information, and the resource and the beam can be dynamically configured for the user equipment.
- the problem of wasted communication overhead is achieved, and the effect of saving communication overhead is achieved.
- An eighth application scenario is described in the example in which the user equipment is applied to the D2D.
- the application scenario corresponds to the eighth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the base station allocates initial beam index information of the beam of the D2D communication to the user equipment.
- the receiver 801 receives resource indication information sent by the base station, where the resource indication information includes D2D resource information and initial beam index information.
- the user equipment further includes a processor 803, configured to determine, according to the resource indication information received by the receiver 801, resources and initial beams used when D2D communication is adopted with other user equipments.
- the beam index information allocated by the base station may be set by the base station, or may be, after the user equipment determines the beam index information of the beam with good quality according to the measurement result, requesting the initial beam index information allocated to the base station, for the user equipment and D2D communication between other user equipments.
- the D2D resource information includes time domain resource information and frequency domain resource information.
- the cellular communication used between the base station and the user equipment and the D2D communication used between the user equipment and other user equipment can reuse time domain resources and frequency domain resources on different initial beams.
- the user equipment provided by the embodiment of the present invention receives the initial beam index information sent by the base station, where the initial beam index information is used to indicate the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated by the base station for the user equipment; and the radio resource management RRM is sent.
- the RRM measurement report is obtained by the user equipment performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information, where the RRM measurement report is used to indicate that the base station determines initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment,
- the RRM measurement report reports the signal quality of the initial beam to the base station, so that the base station selects a beam with better signal quality to communicate with the user equipment, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the existing millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of the data communication requirement of the user equipment reaches the effect of extending the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the beam configuration method may include:
- Step 901 The base station sends initial beam index information of the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is used to indicate an initial beam used by the base station to send downlink information to the user equipment, and is pre-configured by the base station to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is associated with antenna weights or codebook information used by the base station to transmit downlink information to determine information such as the direction and width of the initial beam.
- the direction of the initial beam refers to the angle information of the initial beam with respect to the horizontal direction and/or the vertical direction.
- the initial beam index information is also associated with the feature information of the initial beam, and the base station transmits the initial beam-specific feature information on different initial beams, so that the user equipment identifies different initial beams according to different feature information, as shown in FIG. 2 .
- the description in the embodiment is not described here.
- Step 902 The base station receives an RRM measurement report originating from the user equipment, where the RRM measurement report is obtained by performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information by the user equipment.
- Step 903 The base station determines initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report.
- the base station determines the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then selects the initial beam with good signal quality to communicate with the UE, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the user equipment in the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements can extend the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the beam configuration method sends the initial beam index information of the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the UE, and receives the RRM measurement report originating from the user equipment, and the RRM measurement is performed.
- the report is obtained by the user equipment performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information; determining initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, and determining the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then
- the initial beam with good signal quality is selected to communicate with the user equipment, and the beamforming technology is used to solve the short transmission distance of the existing millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the number of user equipments in the cellular communication environment. According to the problem of communication demand, the effect of extending the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band is achieved.
- Another embodiment of the present invention provides a beam configuration method, where the beam configuration method may include:
- Step 901 The base station sends initial beam index information of the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is used to indicate a beam used by the base station to send downlink information to the user equipment, and is configured by the base station to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is associated with antenna weights or codebook information used by the base station to transmit downlink information to determine information such as the direction and width of the initial beam.
- the direction of the initial beam refers to the angle information of the initial beam with respect to the horizontal direction and/or the vertical direction.
- the beam direction of an initial beam is a direction of 30°-60° with respect to the horizontal direction, or, relative to the vertical direction. 20°-40° direction, etc.
- the initial beam index information is also associated with the feature information of the initial beam, and the base station transmits the initial beam-specific feature information on different initial beams, so that the user equipment identifies different initial beams according to different feature information, as shown in FIG. 2 .
- the description in the embodiment is not described here.
- the base station may configure at least one initial beam for the user equipment, and send initial beam index information of each initial beam in the at least one initial beam to the user equipment, so that the user equipment explicitly indicates on which initial beam the base station transmits. Downstream information.
- Step 902 The base station receives an RRM measurement report originating from the user equipment, where the RRM measurement report is obtained by performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information by the user equipment.
- Step 903 The base station determines initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report.
- the base station determines the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then selects the initial beam with good signal quality to communicate with the UE, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the user equipment in the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements can extend the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the beam configuration method is described in detail in the following different application scenarios, as follows:
- the first application scenario is described by using a base station in a scenario of discontinuous reception.
- the application scenario corresponds to the first application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the user equipment has a dormant state and an activated state, and the user equipment in the activated state needs to receive the base station through the beam monitoring control channel allocated by the base station, thereby receiving the base station through the beamforming technology on the control channel.
- the control information is sent, where the control information includes a resource allocation control command, and the resource allocation control command is used to indicate an uplink/downlink resource allocated by the base station to the user equipment.
- the user equipment is switched from the dormant state to the active state, the beam that may receive the resource allocation control signaling when the user equipment is in the active state is no longer applicable. Therefore, the user equipment also needs to determine the control channel that needs to be monitored this time. Beam.
- This embodiment provides two methods for determining the beam of the control channel to be monitored. The following two methods are specifically described:
- the base station determines initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, including:
- the base station determines, from the reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report, the first initial beam index information that the reference signal information is greater than the first threshold, where the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ;
- the base station sends control information to the user equipment on the control channel by using the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information, and the user equipment is configured to respond to the first initial beam index information after the user equipment is used to switch from the sleep state to the active state.
- Initial beam steering control information
- the base station can agree with the user equipment to use the initial beam with better signal quality in the RRM measurement report.
- the base station can agree with the user equipment to use the initial beam with better signal quality in the RRM measurement report.
- the base station controls at least one of the RRC signaling and the medium access control layer control element MAC CE by using the radio resource control RRC signaling, and specifies the second initial beam index information from each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report, and specifies The initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information is used to send control information to the user equipment on the control channel.
- the base station may specify an initial beam for transmitting resource allocation control signaling on the control channel from the allocated initial beam, and then pass the second initial beam index information of the specified initial beam through the RRC. Signaling or MAC CE is sent to the user equipment.
- the beam index information may be jointly determined by the first method and the second method.
- the first method may be jointly determined by the first method and the second method.
- the first initial beam index information whose reference signal information is greater than the first threshold is determined from the reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report, and the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information is controlled.
- the control information is sent to the user equipment on the channel, and the initial information of the signal quality in the RRM measurement report can be used to transmit the control information, thereby improving communication efficiency.
- the second application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to the TA.
- the application scenario corresponds to the second application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the provided beam configuration method also includes:
- the base station sends the candidate beam index information of the candidate beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the user equipment;
- the base station receives first candidate beam index information that is selected and sent by the user equipment from each candidate beam index information, where the first candidate beam index information is that the reference signal information of the initial beam is smaller than a second threshold, and each candidate beam index is indexed.
- the determined reference signal information is greater than the third threshold candidate beam index information, and the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ;
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the received first candidate beam index information.
- the process of configuring the candidate beam for the user equipment is described in detail in the description of the second application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, and details are not described herein.
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the received at least one candidate beam index information.
- the base station may also use the beam tracking technology to detect whether the user equipment is about to enter the obstacle area, when the base station detects When the user equipment is about to enter the obstacle area, the user equipment is triggered to perform RRM measurement on the candidate beam.
- the base station needs to configure different TAs according to different user equipments between the user equipment and the base station.
- the candidate beam has a longer propagation path than the initial beam allocated by the base station, resulting in a large propagation delay.
- the uplink TA is abruptly changed. Therefore, the user equipment needs to re-determine the uplink TA.
- the determination of the uplink TA needs to be implemented through a random access procedure.
- the user equipment When the user equipment actively triggers the random access procedure, the user equipment actively sends a first random access request to the base station, and the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the received first candidate beam index information. , including:
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the received first candidate beam index information and the uplink TA.
- the user equipment When the user equipment triggers the random access procedure under the instruction of the random access command, the user equipment sends a second random access request to the base station, and the method further includes:
- the base station uses beam tracking to determine that the candidate beam to be allocated for the user equipment is to communicate with the user equipment;
- the base station sends a random access instruction to the user equipment on the control channel
- the base station receives the second random access request sent by the user equipment according to the random access command, and generates an uplink TA according to the second random access request;
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the candidate beam corresponding to the allocated second candidate beam index information and the uplink TA.
- the beams used by the user equipment may have different TAs, and these TAs may be for the same millimeter wave base station or for different millimeter wave base stations. Therefore, the base station may further set at least one TA group for each user equipment, each TA group includes at least one beam index information, and the uplink TA corresponding to each beam index information is the same.
- the beam index information may be initial beam index information of the initial beam, or may be candidate beam index information of the candidate beam.
- the beams indicated by the beam index information in one TA group may belong to the same cell or belong to different cells. Therefore, the cell identifier of the cell associated with each beam may also be identified in the TA group.
- the method further includes:
- the base station determines the same beam of the uplink TA as one packet, and the beam includes at least one of an initial beam and an alternate beam;
- the base station generates a TA group according to each group, and the TA group includes a TA group identifier, beam index information of each beam in the packet, a cell identifier corresponding to each beam in the packet, and a time adjustment timer TAT;
- the base station sends the generated TA group to the user equipment.
- the base station may reconfigure the TA group for the user equipment according to the new uplink TA and allocate the cell associated with the beam index information and the beam index information of the TA group.
- the base station can adjust the uplink TA and the TA group by using TA cmd.
- the third application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to the power control.
- the application scenario corresponds to the third application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the path loss in different beam directions may be different. Therefore, it is necessary to select the initial beam with the smallest path loss from the allocated initial beams, and perform communication on the selected initial beam.
- the base station further includes:
- the base station receives the power headroom report PHR from the user equipment, where the PHR includes a power headroom PH, and the PH is a road loss information obtained by measuring the RSRP of each initial beam, and is generated according to the minimum path loss information;
- the base station allocates uplink resources to the user equipment according to the PH and the initial beam corresponding to the PH;
- the base station communicates with the user equipment on the corresponding uplink resource by using the initial beam corresponding to the PH.
- the beam index information sent by the base station may correspond to a beam located outside the beam range corresponding to the RRM measurement report, or may correspond to an initial beam located in a beam range corresponding to the RRM measurement report, or may be an adaptively determined beam. This embodiment is not limited.
- the base station After receiving the PHR, the base station allocates uplink resources to the user equipment according to the beam index information and the PH in the PHR, so that the user equipment sends uplink information on the corresponding initial beam using power that is suitable and does not exceed the maximum allowed transmit power of the user equipment.
- the MAC CE can be dynamically indicated by the MAC CE to enable the user equipment to report the minimum path loss.
- the PH of the beam is the PH of the beam.
- the method before the base station receives the power headroom report PHR from the user equipment, the method further includes:
- the base station sends a first indication of the first beam index information of the first beam in the range of the beam carrying the single initial beam to the user equipment, where the first indication is used to indicate that the user equipment measures the RSRP of the first beam.
- the base station does not limit the uplink transmit power of the user equipment
- the user equipment can support multi-beam transmission on the uplink to improve air interface efficiency. If the user equipment supports multiple beams at the same time and the power is limited to a certain extent, the transmit power of the at least one beam needs to be down-converted. For details, refer to the description of the third application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. Do not repeat them.
- the PHR By receiving the PHR from the user equipment, the PHR includes a PH, and the PH is a measurement of the RSRP of each initial beam to obtain path loss information, which is generated according to the minimum path loss information; and the user is based on the PH and the initial beam corresponding to the PH.
- the device allocates an uplink resource, and communicates with the user equipment on the corresponding uplink resource by using the initial beam corresponding to the PH, and can select to communicate with the user equipment on the uplink resource corresponding to the initial beam with the smallest path loss, thereby saving the transmission power.
- the fourth application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to the CSI measurement.
- the application scenario corresponds to the fourth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the user equipment also needs to perform CSI measurement on the initial beam to obtain CSI information to determine the quality of the initial beam according to the CSI information.
- the user equipment needs to obtain the beam in the range of the RRM measurement report, and the user equipment first needs to obtain the initial beam corresponding to the RRM measurement report.
- the specific acquisition method is shown in the fourth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 . The description is not repeated here.
- the base station further includes:
- the base station receives the channel state indication CSI measurement report from the user equipment, where the CSI measurement report includes CSI information, and the CSI information is obtained by performing CSI measurement on each initial beam to obtain a channel quality indicator CQI, which is generated according to the highest CQI;
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the CSI information and the initial beam corresponding to the CSI information.
- the MAC CE may be dynamically indicated by the MAC CE to cause the user equipment to report the CSI information with the highest CQI.
- the method before receiving, by the base station, the channel state indication CSI measurement report originating from the user equipment, the method further includes:
- the base station sends a second indication of the second beam index information of the second beam in the range of the beam carrying the single initial beam to the user equipment, where the second indication is used to indicate that the user equipment performs CSI measurement on the second beam.
- the CSI measurement report includes a CSI measurement report, where the CSI measurement report includes CSI measurement for each initial beam to obtain a CQI, which is generated according to the highest CQI, and an initial corresponding to the CSI information according to the CSI information.
- the beam communicates with the user equipment, and the initial beam with the highest CQI can be selected to communicate with the user equipment to improve communication efficiency.
- the fifth application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is used to adjust the bandwidth of the cell.
- the application scenario corresponds to the fifth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the base station when the traffic of each user equipment that is accessed by the cell changes, and the load of the cell changes, the base station needs to adjust the cell bandwidth of the cell, and the specific adjustment method is shown in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 .
- the description of the fifth application scenario is not described here.
- the base station further includes:
- the base station adjusts the cell bandwidth according to the traffic volume of the user equipment, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume;
- the base station broadcasts the adjusted information of the cell bandwidth and the information of the central frequency point to each user equipment, or sends the information of the adjusted cell bandwidth and the information of the central frequency point to each user equipment through RRC signaling, and the central frequency point It is the center frequency or the specified frequency in the frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth.
- the adjusted cell can use multiple channels such that multiple channels share the same HARQ entity.
- the entire cell may be composed of a plurality of channels of the same bandwidth
- the base station may transmit the common information on the channel located at the central frequency point, or the base station may transmit the common information on the center frequency of each channel. That is, if the adjusted cell is composed of channels having the same bandwidth, the method further includes:
- the base station transmits public information to each user equipment on a channel located at a central frequency point, or transmits public information to each user equipment at a center frequency of each channel.
- the cell bandwidth is adjusted according to the traffic volume of the at least one user equipment, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume; the adjusted cell bandwidth information and the central frequency point information are broadcast to each user equipment, or adjusted by RRC signaling.
- the information of the cell bandwidth and the information of the center frequency are sent to the user equipments, and only the cell bandwidth can be adjusted, and other radio resource configuration parameters need not be configured, which saves the communication overhead in the process of configuring the cell bandwidth.
- a sixth application scenario is described in the example in which the base station is used to adjust the bandwidth of the user.
- the application scenario corresponds to the sixth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the overall load of the cell does not change much, but the traffic of some user equipments varies greatly.
- the demand for the cell bandwidth of the user equipment changes.
- the user bandwidth can be adaptively reduced or increased; but from the perspective of the base station, the base station still transmits information based on the originally used cell bandwidth, but different The frequency range used by the user equipment can vary.
- the base station further includes:
- the base station adjusts the user bandwidth of the user equipment according to the service volume of the user equipment, and the user bandwidth is positively correlated with the service volume;
- the base station sends the adjusted user bandwidth information to the user equipment by using at least one of RRC signaling, a MAC CE, and a control channel.
- the base station can adjust the user bandwidth by adjusting the channel allocated to the user equipment according to the traffic volume. Specifically, the base station adjusts the user bandwidth of the user equipment according to the service volume of the user equipment, including:
- the base station adjusts the channel allocated to the user equipment according to the traffic volume of the user equipment, and obtains the user bandwidth.
- the user bandwidth of the user equipment is adjusted according to the traffic volume of the user equipment, and the user bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume; the adjusted user bandwidth information is sent to the user equipment by using at least one of RRC signaling, the MAC CE, and the control channel.
- the user bandwidth can be adjusted in real time according to the service volume of the user equipment, and the normal operation of the user equipment is ensured.
- the seventh application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to the SPS.
- the application scenario corresponds to the seventh application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the transmitter 601 is configured to send the SPS resource information to the user equipment, where the SPS resource information is used to indicate resource information and beam index information allocated by the base station for the user equipment;
- the user equipment may determine the beam according to the beam index information; when the SPS resource information does not include the beam index information, the user equipment may determine the beam according to the beam index information carried in the RRM measurement report, where the beam may be It is either a transmit beam or a receive beam.
- the base station may indicate beam index information when the user equipment is configured through RRC signaling or when the SPS resource is activated by using the control channel.
- the processor 603 is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to a beam corresponding to the beam index information indicated by the SPS information.
- the base station may agree with the user equipment to use a better quality beam or use a preset beam according to the measurement result. At this time, the user equipment can transmit/receive information on a beam with better quality. Correspondingly, the base station receives/transmits information on the beam. Or, the user equipment simultaneously transmits/receives information on the preset at least one beam, and correspondingly, the base station simultaneously receives/transmits information on the at least one beam.
- the user equipment selects a beam with better signal condition when transmitting/receiving information in the SPS manner, or simultaneously transmits and/or receives on one or more predetermined beams.
- the base station can receive/transmit information in SPS mode on one or more predetermined beams.
- the base station and the user equipment can preferentially select one or more beams with good signal conditions in a plurality of predetermined beam ranges according to the measurement result.
- the base station when the base station re-instructs the beam index information according to the measurement result or the recommended beam index information of the user equipment, only the beam index information in the SPS resource information needs to be modified, and the resource information does not need to be modified. At this time, the base station may re-instruct the user equipment of the beam index information through RRC signaling or a MAC CE or a control channel.
- the SPS resource information is used to indicate resource information and beam index information allocated by the base station for the user equipment; and the beam corresponding to the beam index information indicated by the SPS information is used to communicate with the user equipment, and may be sent by
- the SPS resource information is configured to allocate resources and beams to the user equipment, and can solve the problem of wasteful communication overhead caused by dynamically configuring resources and beams for the user equipment, thereby achieving the effect of saving communication overhead.
- An eighth application scenario is described in the scenario where the base station is applied to the D2D.
- the application scenario corresponds to the eighth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3:
- the base station allocates initial beam index information of the beam of the D2D communication to the user equipment.
- the transmitter 601 is configured to send the resource indication information used in the D2D communication to the user equipment, where the resource indication information includes D2D resource information and initial beam index information, and is used to indicate that the user equipment uses D2D communication with other user equipments. Resources and initial beams.
- the beam index information allocated by the base station may be set by the base station, or may be, after the user equipment determines the beam index information of the beam with good quality according to the measurement result, requesting the initial beam index information allocated to the base station, for the user equipment and D2D communication between other user equipments.
- the D2D resource information includes time domain resource information and frequency domain resource information.
- the cellular communication used between the base station and the user equipment and the D2D communication used between the user equipment and other user equipment can reuse time domain resources and frequency domain resources on different initial beams.
- Receiving resource indication information sent by the base station where the resource indication information includes D2D resource information and beam index information; determining resources and beams used when using D2D communication with other user equipments according to the resource indication information, and may be based on an initial beam allocated by the base station Communicate with other user equipments to solve the problem of mutual interference between D2D communication, and the effect of improving communication quality is obtained.
- the beam configuration method provided by the embodiment of the present invention sends the initial beam index information of the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated to the user equipment to the UE, and receives the RRM measurement report originating from the user equipment, and the RRM measurement is performed.
- the report is obtained by the user equipment performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information; determining initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment according to the RRM measurement report, and determining the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then
- the initial beam with good signal quality is selected to communicate with the user equipment, and the beamforming technology is used to solve the problem that the transmission distance of the existing millimeter wave band is short, and the data communication requirement of the user equipment in the cellular communication environment cannot be met, and the problem is extended.
- the effect of the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band is used to solve the problem that the transmission distance of the existing millimeter wave band is short, and the data communication requirement of the user equipment in the cellular communication environment cannot be met, and the problem is extended. The effect of the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a method of a beam configuration method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the beam configuration method may include:
- Step 1001 The user equipment receives initial beam index information sent by the base station, where the initial beam index information is used to indicate an initial beam of a millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is detailed in the description in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and details are not described herein.
- Step 1002 The user equipment sends an RRM measurement report, where the RRM measurement report is obtained by the user equipment performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information, where the RRM measurement report is used to indicate that the base station determines the initial communication with the user equipment. Beam index information.
- the user equipment may perform RRM measurement on the determined initial beam allocated by the base station, and generate an RRM measurement report according to the measurement result.
- the user equipment may send the RRM measurement report to the LTE eNB, and the LTE eNB forwards the RRM measurement report to the millimeter wave eNB.
- the RRM measurement report may also be sent to the millimeter wave eNB.
- the embodiment does not limit the user equipment to the RRM measurement report. sending method.
- the method for the user equipment to send the RRM measurement report in the following embodiments of the present invention is the same as the description of the embodiment, and details are not described herein again.
- the RRM measurement may refer to a measurement for mobility management in a usual sense, a measurement method filtered by the RRC layer, or a measurement performed by means of beam training, as shown in FIG.
- the description in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 is not described herein.
- the base station determines the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then selects the initial beam with good signal quality to communicate with the UE, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the user equipment in the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements can extend the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the beam configuration method receives the initial beam index information sent by the base station, and the initial beam index information is used to indicate the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated by the base station for the user equipment;
- the RRM measurement report is obtained by the user equipment performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information, where the RRM measurement report is used to indicate that the base station determines initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment, which can be
- the RRM measurement report reports the signal quality of the initial beam to the base station, so that the base station selects a beam with better signal quality to communicate with the user equipment, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the existing millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of the data communication requirement of the user equipment reaches the effect of extending the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- a further embodiment of the present invention provides a beam configuration method, which may include:
- Step 1001 The user equipment receives initial beam index information sent by the base station, where the initial beam index information is used to indicate an initial beam of a millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment.
- the initial beam index information is detailed in the description in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and details are not described herein.
- Step 1002 The user equipment sends an RRM measurement report, where the RRM measurement report is obtained by the user equipment performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information, where the RRM measurement report is used to indicate that the base station determines the initial communication with the user equipment. Beam index information.
- the user equipment may perform RRM measurement on the determined initial beam allocated by the base station, and generate an RRM measurement report according to the measurement result.
- the user equipment may send the RRM measurement report to the LTE eNB, and the LTE eNB forwards the RRM measurement report to the millimeter wave eNB.
- the RRM measurement report may also be sent to the millimeter wave eNB.
- the embodiment does not limit the user equipment to the RRM measurement report. sending method.
- the method for the user equipment to send the RRM measurement report in the following embodiments of the present invention is the same as the description of the embodiment, and details are not described herein again.
- RRM measurement can refer to the measurement for mobility management in the usual sense, which is through RRC.
- the measurement method of the layer filtering may also refer to the measurement by means of beam training. For details, refer to the description in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and details are not described herein.
- the base station determines the signal quality of the initial beam according to the RRM measurement report, and then selects the initial beam with good signal quality to communicate with the UE, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the user equipment in the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of data communication requirements can extend the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the beam configuration method is described in detail in the following different application scenarios, as follows:
- the first application scenario is described by using a user equipment in a scenario that is discontinuously received.
- the application scenario corresponds to the first application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the user equipment has a dormant state and an activated state, and the user equipment in the active state needs to receive the control information transmitted by the base station through the beamforming technology on the control channel, and the control information includes resource allocation control.
- the resource allocation control instruction is used to indicate an uplink/downlink resource allocated by the base station to the user equipment.
- the first method if the RRM measurement report includes reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information, and the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ, after the user equipment sends the RRM measurement report, the method further includes:
- the user equipment After the user equipment is switched from the dormant state to the activated state, the user equipment determines first reference beam index information that the reference signal information is greater than the first threshold;
- the user equipment listens to the control information on the control channel by using the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information.
- the base station can agree with the user equipment to use the initial beam with better signal quality in the RRM measurement report.
- the base station can agree with the user equipment to use the initial beam with better signal quality in the RRM measurement report.
- At least one initial beam may be determined from the RRM measurement report according to the foregoing method, and the control information is monitored on the control channel by the determined at least one initial beam.
- the second method, method also includes:
- the user equipment receives, by the base station, the second initial beam index information specified in each initial beam index information in the RRM measurement report by at least one of the radio resource control RRC signaling and the medium access control layer control meta MAC CE;
- the user equipment listens to the control information on the control channel by using an initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information.
- the base station may specify an initial beam for transmitting resource allocation control signaling on the control channel from the allocated initial beam, and then pass the second initial beam index information of the specified initial beam through the RRC. Signaling or MAC CE is sent to the user equipment.
- the beam index information may be jointly determined by the first method and the second method.
- the first method may be jointly determined by the first method and the second method.
- the user equipment can also monitor the control channel by using at least one of the following manners.
- the user equipment monitors the control information on the control channel by using the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information, including: the user equipment receives the control information in an omnidirectional manner, or is greater than or equal to the first initial beam index information.
- the beam range of the initial beam receives the control information, or receives the control information with a beam range smaller than the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information;
- the user equipment monitors the control information on the control channel by using the initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information, including: the user equipment receives the control information in an omnidirectional manner, or the initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information is greater than or equal to
- the beam range receives the control information, or receives the control information with a beam range smaller than the initial beam corresponding to the second initial beam index information.
- the reference signal information includes at least one of a reference signal received power RSRP and a reference signal received quality RSRQ
- the RRM measurement report includes reference signal information corresponding to each initial beam index information
- the user equipment switches from the sleep state to the active state. After the state, the user equipment determines the first initial beam index information that the reference signal information is greater than the first threshold; and the initial beam corresponding to the first initial beam index information is used to monitor the control information on the control channel, and the signal quality in the RRM measurement report may be used.
- the second application scenario is described in the scenario where the user equipment is applied to the TA, and the application is used as an example.
- the scenario corresponds to the second application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the base station can configure the candidate beam for the user equipment in advance to improve the communication quality by avoiding the obstacle. Therefore, the method is optional. Also includes:
- the user equipment receives the candidate beam index information sent by the base station, where the candidate beam index information is used to indicate the candidate beam of the millimeter wave band allocated by the base station to the user equipment;
- the user equipment performs RRM measurement on the candidate beam indicated by each candidate beam index information, where the reference signal information includes at least one of RSRP and RSRQ;
- the user equipment sends the determined first candidate beam index information to the base station, where the base station is configured to communicate with the candidate beam user equipment according to the first candidate beam index information.
- the base station needs to configure different TAs according to different user equipments between the user equipment and the base station.
- the candidate beam has a longer propagation path than the initial beam allocated by the base station, resulting in a large propagation delay.
- the uplink TA is abruptly changed. Therefore, the user equipment needs to re-determine the uplink TA.
- the determination of the uplink TA needs to be implemented through a random access procedure.
- the method further includes:
- the user equipment automatically sends a first random access request to the base station, where the first random access request is used to instruct the base station to generate an uplink time advance TA, and the candidate beam and the uplink TA corresponding to the allocated second candidate beam index information User equipment communicates; or,
- the user equipment receives the random access command sent by the base station on the control channel, where the base station uses the beam tracking to determine that the candidate beam to be allocated for the user equipment is used to communicate with the user equipment, and is sent according to the random access command.
- the base station sends a second random access request, where the second random access request is used to instruct the base station to generate an uplink TA, and communicates with the user equipment according to the candidate beam and the uplink TA corresponding to the received first candidate beam index information.
- the user equipment When the user equipment actively triggers the random access procedure, the user equipment actively sends the first random to the base station.
- the user equipment triggers the random access procedure under the instruction of the random access command the user equipment sends a second random access request to the base station, and the specific process is shown in the second application in the embodiment shown in FIG. The description of the scene is not described here.
- the user equipment when the user equipment detects that the reference signal information of each candidate beam is smaller than the third threshold and detects that the reference signal information of the at least one initial beam is greater than the second threshold, determining that the quality of the initial beam is better, at least one The initial beam index information of the initial beam is transmitted to the base station, and the base station communicates with the base station using at least one initial beam. Or, the base station determines, by using the beam waveform technology, that the user equipment is about to leave the obstacle area and detects that the reference signal information of the at least one initial beam is greater than the second threshold, determining to communicate with the base station by using the at least one initial beam. At this time, the user equipment may re-determine the uplink TA, or may not be sure of the uplink TA.
- the beams used by the user equipment may have different TAs, and these TAs may be for the same millimeter wave base station or for different millimeter wave base stations. Therefore, the base station may further set at least one TA group for each user equipment, each TA group includes at least one beam index information, and the uplink TA corresponding to each beam index information is the same.
- the beam index information may be initial beam index information of the initial beam, or may be candidate beam index information of the candidate beam.
- the beams indicated by the beam index information in one TA group may belong to the same cell or belong to different cells. Therefore, the cell identifier of the cell associated with each beam may also be identified in the TA group.
- the method further includes:
- the user equipment receives the TA group sent by the base station, and the TA group is the base station that determines the same uplink beam of the uplink TA as a packet in the beam that communicates with the user equipment, and the TA group includes the TA group identifier and the packet in each group.
- the user equipment detects whether the cell identifier in the TA group corresponds to the beam index information in the other TA group and the TAT of the other TA group does not time out;
- the user equipment determines the cell corresponding to the beam index information, and maintains the hybrid automatic retransmission corresponding to the cell. Requesting a HARQ buffer and sounding reference signal SRS resources;
- the user equipment determines the cell corresponding to the beam index information, and releases the HARQ buffer and the SRS corresponding to the cell. Resources.
- the candidate beam index information is used to indicate the base station by receiving the candidate beam index information sent by the base station.
- the first candidate beam index information is greater than the third threshold; the first candidate beam index information is sent to the base station, and the candidate beam with better quality can be used when the quality of the allocated initial beam is poor.
- Base station communication achieves the effect of improving communication efficiency.
- the third application scenario is described in the example in which the user equipment is applied to the power control.
- the application scenario corresponds to the third application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the path loss in different beam directions may be different. Therefore, it is necessary to select the initial beam with the smallest path loss from the allocated initial beams, and perform communication on the selected initial beam.
- the method further includes:
- the user equipment measures the RSRP of the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information, and obtains path loss information of each initial beam.
- the user equipment generates a power headroom PH according to the minimum path loss information, and obtains a power headroom report PHR;
- the user equipment sends a PHR, and the PHR is used to instruct the base station to allocate an uplink resource to the user equipment according to the PH and the initial beam corresponding to the PH, and communicate with the user equipment on the corresponding uplink resource by using the initial beam corresponding to the PH.
- the beam index information sent by the base station may correspond to a beam located outside the beam range corresponding to the RRM measurement report, or may correspond to an initial beam located in a beam range corresponding to the RRM measurement report, or may be an adaptively determined beam. This embodiment is not limited.
- the MAC CE can be dynamically indicated by the MAC CE to enable the user equipment to report the minimum path loss.
- the PH of the beam is the PH of the beam.
- the user equipment measures the RSRP of the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information, and obtains path loss information of each initial beam, including:
- the user equipment measures the RSRP of each first beam indicated by the first indication to obtain path loss information of each first beam.
- the base station does not limit the uplink transmit power of the user equipment
- the user equipment Multi-beam transmission can be supported on the uplink to improve air interface efficiency. If the user equipment supports multiple beams at the same time and the power is limited to a certain extent, the transmit power of the at least one beam needs to be down-converted. For details, refer to the description of the third application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. Do not repeat them.
- the path loss information of each initial beam is obtained by measuring the RSRP of the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information; the PH is generated according to the minimum path loss information to obtain the PHR; and the PHR is transmitted, and the PHR is used to indicate the base station according to the PH and
- the initial beam corresponding to the PH allocates an uplink resource to the user equipment, and communicates with the user equipment on the corresponding uplink resource by using the initial beam corresponding to the PH, and can select to communicate with the base station on the uplink resource corresponding to the initial beam with the smallest path loss, thereby saving The transmission power.
- the fourth application scenario is described in the scenario where the user equipment is applied to the CSI measurement.
- the application scenario corresponds to the fourth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the user equipment also needs to perform CSI measurement on the initial beam to obtain CSI information to determine the quality of the initial beam according to the CSI information.
- the method further includes:
- the user equipment performs channel state indication CSI measurement on the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information, and obtains a channel quality indicator CQI of each initial beam;
- the user equipment generates channel state indication CSI information according to the highest CQI, and obtains a CSI measurement report;
- the user equipment sends a CSI measurement report, where the CSI measurement report is used to instruct the base station to communicate with the user equipment according to the CSI information and the initial beam corresponding to the CSI information.
- the user equipment needs to obtain the beam in the range of the RRM measurement report, and the user equipment first needs to obtain the initial beam corresponding to the RRM measurement report.
- the specific acquisition method is shown in the fourth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 . The description is not repeated here.
- the user equipment may filter the CSI information including the highest CQI from each CSI information, and generate a CSI measurement report according to the selected at least one CSI information.
- the CSI information includes at least one of CQI, PMI, and RI, and the user equipment may send at least one of CQI, PMI, and RI to the base station at the same time or at different times.
- the MAC CE may be dynamically indicated by the MAC CE to cause the user equipment to report the CSI information with the highest CQI.
- the user equipment performs channel shape on the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information.
- the state indicates the CSI measurement, and the channel quality indicator CQI of each initial beam is obtained, including:
- the user equipment performs CSI measurement on each second beam indicated by the second indication to obtain CQI of each second beam.
- the CSI measurement of each initial beam is performed by performing channel state indication CSI measurement on the initial beam corresponding to each initial beam index information; the CSI measurement report is generated according to the highest CQI, and the CSI measurement report is sent; the CSI measurement report is used to indicate
- the base station communicates with the user equipment according to the CSI information and the initial beam corresponding to the CSI information, and can select the initial beam with the highest CQI to communicate with the base station, thereby improving communication efficiency.
- the fifth application scenario is described in the scenario where the user equipment is used to adjust the bandwidth of the cell.
- the application scenario corresponds to the fifth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the base station when the traffic of each user equipment that is accessed by the cell changes, and the load of the cell changes, the base station needs to adjust the cell bandwidth of the cell, and the specific adjustment method is shown in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 .
- the description of the fifth application scenario is not described here.
- the adjusted cell can use multiple channels such that multiple channels share the same HARQ entity.
- the entire cell may be composed of a plurality of channels of the same bandwidth, the base station may transmit the common information on the channel located at the central frequency point, or the base station may transmit the common information on the center frequency of each channel.
- the method further includes:
- the user equipment receives the information of the adjusted cell bandwidth and the information of the center frequency point sent by the base station by broadcasting, or receives the RRC signaling sent by the base station, where the RRC signaling carries the information of the adjusted cell bandwidth and the center frequency point.
- the adjusted cell bandwidth is adjusted by the base station according to the service volume of the user equipment, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume.
- the center frequency point is the center frequency or the frequency range within the frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth. frequency;
- the user equipment receives the common information sent by the base station on the channel located at the central frequency point, or receives the transmission common information sent by the base station on the center frequency of each channel.
- the user equipment may receive the adjusted information of the cell bandwidth and the information of the center frequency point in a manner corresponding to the manner in which the base station sends the information of the adjusted cell bandwidth and the information of the center frequency point, according to the center.
- the information of the frequency points receives the common information on the channel located at the center frequency point, or receives the public information on the center frequency of each channel.
- the adjusted cell bandwidth is adjusted by the base station according to the service volume of the user equipment, and the cell bandwidth is positively correlated with the traffic volume.
- the center frequency point is the center frequency or the specified frequency within the frequency range corresponding to the adjusted cell bandwidth.
- the cell bandwidth can be adjusted only without configuring other radio resource configuration parameters, which saves communication overhead in the process of configuring cell bandwidth.
- the sixth application scenario is described in the example that the user equipment is used to adjust the bandwidth of the user.
- the application scenario corresponds to the sixth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the overall load of the cell does not change much, but the traffic of some user equipments varies greatly.
- the demand for the cell bandwidth of the user equipment changes.
- the user bandwidth can be adaptively reduced or increased; but from the perspective of the base station, the base station still transmits information according to the originally used cell bandwidth, but the frequency range used by different user equipments can be different.
- the base station when the base station adjusts the user bandwidth, the base station can adjust the user bandwidth by adjusting the channel allocated to the user equipment according to the traffic volume.
- the method further includes:
- the user equipment receives the adjusted user bandwidth information sent by the base station by using at least one of the RRC signaling, the MAC CE, and the control channel, where the adjusted user bandwidth is adjusted by the base station according to the service volume of the user equipment, and the user bandwidth and the service are performed.
- the quantity is positively correlated;
- the user equipment listens to the control channel of the channel that constitutes the user bandwidth.
- the user equipment may receive the adjusted user bandwidth information in a manner corresponding to the manner in which the base station sends the adjusted user bandwidth information, and listen to the channel that constitutes the user bandwidth.
- the remaining bandwidth after adjusting the user bandwidth adjustment may be continuous or discontinuous in the frequency domain.
- the adjusted user bandwidth is adjusted by the base station according to the service volume of the user equipment, and the user bandwidth and the traffic volume are positive.
- the related relationship can adjust the user bandwidth in real time according to the service volume of the user equipment, and ensure the normal operation of the user equipment.
- the seventh application scenario is described in the scenario where the user equipment is applied to the SPS.
- the application scenario corresponds to the seventh application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the receiver 801 is configured to receive SPS resource information sent by the base station.
- the user equipment may determine the beam according to the beam index information; when the SPS resource information does not include the beam index information, the user equipment may determine the beam according to the beam index information carried in the RRM measurement report, where the beam may be It is either a transmit beam or a receive beam.
- the base station may indicate beam index information when the user equipment is configured through RRC signaling or when the SPS resource is activated by using the control channel.
- the user equipment further includes a processor 803, configured to determine, according to the SPS resource information, resource information and beam index information allocated by the base station for the user equipment.
- the base station may agree with the user equipment to use a better quality beam or use a preset beam according to the measurement result. At this time, the user equipment can transmit/receive information on a beam with better quality. Correspondingly, the base station receives/transmits information on the beam. Or, the user equipment simultaneously transmits/receives information on the preset at least one beam, and correspondingly, the base station simultaneously receives/transmits information on the at least one beam.
- the user equipment selects a beam with better signal condition when transmitting/receiving information in the SPS manner, or simultaneously transmits and/or receives on one or more predetermined beams.
- the base station can receive/transmit information in SPS mode on one or more predetermined beams.
- the base station and the user equipment can preferentially select one or more beams with good signal conditions in a plurality of predetermined beam ranges according to the measurement result.
- the base station when the base station re-instructs the beam index information according to the measurement result or the recommended beam index information of the user equipment, only the beam index information in the SPS resource information needs to be modified, and the resource information does not need to be modified. At this time, the base station may re-instruct the user equipment of the beam index information through RRC signaling or a MAC CE or a control channel.
- the resource information and the beam index information allocated by the base station for the user equipment are determined according to the SPS resource information, and the resource and the beam can be configured by receiving the SPS resource information, and the resource and the beam can be dynamically configured for the user equipment.
- the problem of wasted communication overhead is achieved, and the effect of saving communication overhead is achieved.
- the eighth application scenario is described in the scenario where the user equipment is applied to the D2D.
- the usage scenario corresponds to the eighth application scenario in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5:
- the base station allocates initial beam index information of the beam of the D2D communication to the user equipment.
- the receiver 801 receives resource indication information sent by the base station, where the resource indication information includes D2D resource information and initial beam index information.
- the user equipment further includes a processor 803, configured to determine, according to the resource indication information received by the receiver 801, resources and initial beams used when D2D communication is adopted with other user equipments.
- the beam index information allocated by the base station may be set by the base station, or may be, after the user equipment determines the beam index information of the beam with good quality according to the measurement result, requesting the initial beam index information allocated to the base station, for the user equipment and D2D communication between other user equipments.
- the D2D resource information includes time domain resource information and frequency domain resource information.
- the cellular communication used between the base station and the user equipment and the D2D communication used between the user equipment and other user equipment can reuse time domain resources and frequency domain resources on different initial beams.
- the beam configuration method receives the initial beam index information sent by the base station, and the initial beam index information is used to indicate the initial beam of the millimeter wave band allocated by the base station for the user equipment;
- the RRM measurement report is obtained by the user equipment performing RRM measurement on the initial beam indicated by the initial beam index information, where the RRM measurement report is used to indicate that the base station determines initial beam index information for communicating with the user equipment, which can be
- the RRM measurement report reports the signal quality of the initial beam to the base station, so that the base station selects a beam with better signal quality to communicate with the user equipment, and uses the beamforming technology to solve the short transmission distance of the existing millimeter wave band, which cannot meet the cellular communication environment.
- the problem of the data communication requirement of the user equipment reaches the effect of extending the transmission distance of the millimeter wave band.
- the base station and the user equipment provided by the foregoing embodiments are only illustrated by the division of the foregoing functional modules. In actual applications, the function allocation may be completed by different functional modules as needed. , dividing the internal structure of the base station and user equipment into different Functional modules to perform all or part of the functions described above.
- the base station and the user equipment provided by the foregoing embodiments are in the same concept as the beam configuration method, and the specific implementation process is described in detail in the method embodiment, and details are not described herein again.
- the disclosed systems, devices, and methods may be implemented in other manners.
- the device embodiments described above are merely illustrative.
- the division of the unit may be only a logical function division.
- there may be another division manner for example, multiple units or components may be combined. Or it can be integrated into another system, or some features can be ignored or not executed.
- the mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interface, device or unit, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.
- the units described as separate components may or may not be physically separated, and the components displayed as units may or may not be physical units, that is, may be located in one place, or may be distributed to multiple network units. Some or all of the units may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.
- each functional unit in each embodiment of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist physically separately, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit.
- the functions may be stored in a computer readable storage medium if implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as a standalone product.
- the technical solution of the present invention which is essential or contributes to the prior art, or a part of the technical solution, may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium, including Several instructions are used to make a computer device (which can be a personal computer, server, or network device) All or part of the steps of the method described in various embodiments of the invention are performed.
- the foregoing storage medium includes: a U disk, a mobile hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk, and the like, which can store program codes. .
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- 一种基站,其特征在于,所述基站包括:发送模块,用于将为用户设备分配的毫米波频段的初始波束的初始波束索引信息发送给所述用户设备;接收模块,用于接收来源于所述用户设备的无线资源管理RRM测量报告,所述RRM测量报告是所述用户设备对所述发送模块发送的所述初始波束索引信息所指示的所述初始波束进行RRM测量后得到的;确定模块,用于根据所述接收模块接收到的所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息。
- 根据权利要求1所述的基站,其特征在于:所述确定模块,具体用于从所述RRM测量报告中每个初始波束索引信息所对应的参考信号信息中,确定所述参考信号信息大于第一阈值的第一初始波束索引信息,所述参考信号信息包括参考信号接收功率RSRP和参考信号接收质量RSRQ中的至少一种;所述发送模块,还用于通过所述确定模块确定的所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束在控制信道上向所述用户设备发送控制信息,所述用户设备用于从休眠状态切换到激活状态后,通过确定的所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束监听所述控制信息。
- 根据权利要求1所述的基站,其特征在于:所述确定模块,具体用于通过无线资源控制RRC信令和媒体接入控制层控制元MAC CE中的至少一种,从所述RRM测量报告中的各个初始波束索引信息中指定第二初始波束索引信息,指定的所述第二初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束用于在控制信道上向所述用户设备发送所述控制信息。
- 根据权利要求1所述的基站,其特征在于:所述发送模块,还用于将为所述用户设备分配的毫米波频段的备选波束的备选波束索引信息发送给所述用户设备;所述接收模块,还用于接收所述用户设备从所述发送模块发送的各个备选 波束索引信息中选择并发送的第一备选波束索引信息,所述第一备选波束索引信息是所述初始波束的参考信号信息小于第二阈值,且对各个备选波束索引信息所指示的备选波束进行RRM测量后,确定出的参考信号信息大于第三阈值的备选波束索引信息,所述参考信号信息包括RSRP和RSRQ中的至少一种;所述基站还包括通信模块,用于根据所述接收模块接收到的所述第一备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求4所述的基站,其特征在于:所述接收模块,还用于接收所述用户设备发送的第一随机接入请求;所述基站还包括生成模块,用于根据所述第一随机接入请求生成上行时间提前TA;所述通信模块,还用于根据接收到的所述第一备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束以及所述生成模块生成的所述上行TA与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求4所述的基站,其特征在于:所述确定模块,还用于利用波束跟踪确定将要使用为所述用户设备分配的所述备选波束与所述用户设备进行通信;所述发送模块,还用于在控制信道上向所述用户设备发送随机接入指令;所述接收模块,还用于接收所述用户设备根据所述发送模块发送的所述随机接入指令发送的第二随机接入请求;所述基站还包括生成模块,用于根据所述第二随机接入请求生成上行TA;所述通信模块,还用于根据分配的第二备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束以及所述生成模块生成的所述上行TA与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求5或6所述的基站,其特征在于:所述确定模块,还用于在与所述用户设备进行通信的波束中,将上行TA相同的波束确定为一个分组,所述波束包括所述初始波束和所述备选波束中的至少一种;所述生成模块,还用于根据所述确定模块得到的每个分组生成一个TA组,所述TA组包括TA组标识、所述分组中各个波束的波束索引信息、所述分组中各个波束所对应的小区标识和时间调整定时器TAT;所述发送模块,还用于将所述生成模块生成的所述TA组发送给所述用户设备。
- 根据权利要求1所述的基站,其特征在于:所述接收模块,还用于所述确定模块根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息之后,接收来源于所述用户设备的功率余量报告PHR,所述PHR中包括功率余量PH,所述PH是对各个初始波束的RSRP进行测量得到路损信息,根据最小的路损信息生成的;所述基站还包括分配模块,用于根据所述接收模块接收到的所述PH和与所述PH对应的初始波束为所述用户设备分配上行资源;所述通信模块,具体用于通过与所述PH对应的初始波束在所述分配模块分配的对应的上行资源上与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求8所述的基站,其特征在于:所述发送模块,还用于所述接收模块接收来源于所述用户设备的功率余量报告PHR之前,向所述用户设备发送携带有单个初始波束的波束范围内的第一波束的第一波束索引信息的第一指示,所述第一指示用于指示所述用户设备对所述第一波束的RSRP进行测量。
- 根据权利要求1所述的基站,其特征在于:所述接收模块,用于所述确定模块根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息之后,接收来源于所述用户设备的信道状态指示CSI测量报告,所述CSI测量报告中包括CSI信息,所述CSI信息是对各个初始波束进行CSI测量得到信道质量指示CQI,根据最高的CQI生成的;所述通信模块,具体用于根据所述接收模块接收到的所述CSI信息和与所述CSI信息对应的初始波束与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求10所述的基站,其特征在于:所述发送模块,还用于所述接收模块接收来源于所述用户设备的信道状态指示CSI测量报告之前,向所述用户设备发送携带有单个初始波束的波束范围内的第二波束的第二波束索引信息的第二指示,所述第二指示用于指示所述用 户设备对所述第二波束进行CSI测量。
- 根据权利要求1所述的基站,其特征在于:所述基站还包括调整模块,用于所述确定模块根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息之后,根据至少一个用户设备的业务量调整小区带宽,所述小区带宽与所述业务量呈正相关关系;所述发送模块,还用于将所述调整模块调整后的小区带宽的信息和中心频点的信息广播给各个用户设备,或,通过RRC信令将调整后的小区带宽的信息和中心频点的信息发送给各个用户设备,所述中心频点是所述调整后的小区带宽对应的频率范围的中心频率或所述频率范围内的指定频率。
- 根据权利要求12所述的基站,其特征在于,若所述调整后的小区由带宽相同的信道组成:所述发送模块,还用于在位于所述中心频点的信道上向各个用户设备发送公共信息,或,在每个信道的中心频率上向各个用户设备发送公共信息。
- 根据权利要求1所述的基站,其特征在于:所述基站还包括调整模块,用于所述确定模块根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息之后,根据所述用户设备的业务量调整所述用户设备的用户带宽,所述用户带宽与所述业务量呈正相关关系;所述发送模块,还用于通过RRC信令、MAC CE和控制信道中的至少一种将所述调整模块调整后的用户带宽的信息发送给所述用户设备。
- 根据权利要求14所述的基站,其特征在于,所述调整模块,具体用于根据所述用户设备的业务量调整为所述用户设备分配的信道,得到所述用户带宽。
- 一种用户设备,其特征在于,所述用户设备包括:接收模块,用于接收基站发送的初始波束索引信息,所述初始波束索引信息用于指示所述基站为用户设备分配的毫米波频段的初始波束;发送模块,用于发送无线资源管理RRM测量报告,所述RRM测量报告是所述用户设备对所述初始波束索引信息所指示的所述初始波束进行RRM测量后得到的,所述RRM测量报告用于指示所述基站确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息。
- 根据权利要求16所述的用户设备,其特征在于,若所述RRM测量报告包括每个初始波束索引信息所对应的参考信号信息,所述参考信号信息包括参考信号接收功率RSRP和参考信号接收质量RSRQ中的至少一种,则所述用户设备,还包括:确定模块,用于所述发送模块发送无线资源管理RRM测量报告之后,在所述用户设备从休眠状态切换到激活状态后,确定所述参考信号信息大于第一阈值的第一初始波束索引信息;监听模块,用于通过所述确定模块确定的所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束在控制信道上监听控制信息。
- 根据权利要求16所述的用户设备,其特征在于:所述接收模块,还用于接收所述基站通过无线资源控制RRC信令和媒体接入控制层控制元MAC CE中的至少一种从所述RRM测量报告中的各个初始波束索引信息中指定的第二初始波束索引信息;所述用户设备还包括监听模块,用于通过所述接收模块接收到的所述第二初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束在控制信道上监听控制信息。
- 根据权利要求17或18所述的用户设备,其特征在于,所述监听模块,具体用于以全向方式接收所述控制信息,或,以大于等于所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的波束范围接收所述控制信息,或,以小于所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的波束范围接收所述控制信息;或,所述监听模块,具体用于以全向方式接收所述控制信息,或,以大于等于所述第二初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的波束范围接收所述控制信息,或,以小于所述第二初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的波束范围接收所述控制信息。
- 根据权利要求16所述的用户设备,其特征在于:所述接收模块,还用于接收所述基站发送的备选波束索引信息,所述备选波束索引信息用于指示所述基站为所述用户设备分配的毫米波频段的备选波束;所述用户设备还包括:测量模块,用于在所述初始波束的参考信号信息小于第二阈值时,对各个备选波束索引信息所指示的备选波束进行RRM测量,所述参考信号信息包括RSRP和RSRQ中的至少一种;确定模块,用于根据所述测量模块进行的所述RRM测量确定出参考信号信息大于第三阈值的第一备选波束索引信息;所述发送模块,还用于将所述确定模块确定出的所述第一备选波束索引信息发送给所述基站,所述基站用于根据所述第一备选波束索引信息所对应的与备选波束所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求20所述的用户设备,其特征在于:所述发送模块,还用于自动向所述基站发送第一随机接入请求,所述第一随机接入请求用于指示所述基站生成上行时间提前TA,并根据分配的第二备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束以及所述上行TA与所述用户设备进行通信;或,所述接收模块,还用于在控制信道上接收所述基站发送的随机接入指令,所述随机接入指令是所述基站利用波束跟踪确定将要使用为所述用户设备分配的所述备选波束与所述用户设备进行通信后发送的,根据所述随机接入指令向所述基站发送第二随机接入请求,所述第二随机接入请求用于指示所述基站生成上行TA,并根据接收到的所述第一备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束以及所述上行TA与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求20所述的用户设备,其特征在于:所述接收模块,还用于接收所述基站发送的TA组,所述TA组是所述基站在与所述用户设备进行通信的波束中,将上行TA相同的波束确定为一个分组,根据每个分组生成的,所述TA组包括TA组标识、所述分组中各个波束的波束 索引信息、所述分组中各个波束所对应的小区标识和时间调整定时器TAT,所述波束包括所述初始波束和所述备选波束中的至少一种;所述测量模块,还用于在所述接收模块接收到的所述TA组中的TAT超时,则检测所述TA组中的所述小区标识是否对应于位于其它TA组中的波束索引信息且所述其它TA组的TAT未超时;所述用户设备还包括:维护模块,用于在所述测量模块检测出所述TA组中的所述小区标识对应于位于其它TA组中的波束索引信息且所述其它TA组的TAT未超时时,确定所述波束索引信息所对应的小区,维护所述小区所对应的混合自动重传请求HARQ缓冲区和探测参考信号SRS资源;释放模块,用于在所述测量模块检测出所述TA组中的所述小区标识对应于位于其它TA组中的波束索引信息且所述其它TA组的TAT超时时,确定所述波束索引信息所对应的小区,释放所述小区所对应的HARQ缓冲区和SRS资源。
- 根据权利要求16所述的用户设备,其特征在于:所述用户设备,还包括:测量模块,用于所述发送模块发送无线资源管理RRM测量报告之后,对各个初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的RSRP进行测量,得到各个初始波束的路损信息;生成模块,用于根据所述测量模块测出的最小的路损信息生成至少一个功率余量PH,得到功率余量报告PHR;所述发送模块,具体用于发送所述生成模块生成的所述PHR,所述PHR用于指示所述基站根据所述PH和与所述PH对应的初始波束为所述用户设备分配上行资源,通过与所述PH对应的初始波束在对应的上行资源上与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求23所述的用户设备,其特征在于:所述接收模块,还用于接收所述基站发送的携带有单个初始波束的波束范围内的第一波束的第一波束索引信息的第一指示;所述生成模块,还用于对所述接收模块接收到的所述第一指示所指示的各个第一波束的RSRP进行测量,得到各个第一波束的路损信息。
- 根据权利要求16所述的用户设备,其特征在于:所述用户设备,还包括:测量模块,用于所述发送模块发送无线资源管理RRM测量报告之后,对各个初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束进行信道状态指示CSI测量,得到各个初始波束的信道质量指示CQI;生成模块,用于根据所述测量模块测出的最高的CQI生成至少一个信道状态指示CSI信息,得到CSI测量报告;所述发送模块,还用于发送所述生成模块生成的所述CSI测量报告,所述CSI测量报告用于指示所述基站根据所述CSI信息和与所述CSI信息对应的初始波束与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求25所述的用户设备,其特征在于:所述接收模块,还用于接收所述基站发送的携带有单个初始波束的波束范围内的第二波束的第二波束索引信息的第二指示;所述生成模块,还用于对所述接收模块接收到的所述第二指示所指示的各个第二波束进行CSI测量,得到各个第二波束的CQI。
- 根据权利要求16所述的用户设备,其特征在于:所述接收模块,还用于:通过广播接收所述基站发送的调整后的小区带宽的信息和中心频点的信息,或,接收所述基站发送的RRC信令,所述RRC信令中携带有调整后的小区带宽的信息和中心频点的信息;所述调整后的小区带宽是所述基站根据至少一个用户设备的业务量调整的,且所述小区带宽与所述业务量呈正相关关系,所述中心频点是所述调整后的小区带宽对应的频率范围的中心频率或所述频率范围内的指定频率;在所述调整后的小区由带宽相同的信道组成时,在位于所述中心频点的信道上接收所述基站发送的公共信息,或,在每个信道的中心频率上接收所述基站发送的发送公共信息。
- 根据权利要求16所述的用户设备,其特征在于:所述接收模块,还用于通过RRC信令、MAC CE和控制信道中的至少一种接收所述基站发送的调整后的用户带宽的信息,所述调整后的用户带宽是所述基站根据所述用户设备的业务量调整的,且所述用户带宽与所述业务量呈正相关关系;所述用户设备还包括监听模块,用于对组成所述接收模块接收到的所述用户带宽的信道的控制信道进行监听。
- 一种基站,其特征在于,所述基站包括:发射机,用于将为用户设备分配的毫米波频段的初始波束的初始波束索引信息发送给所述用户设备;接收机,用于接收来源于所述用户设备的无线资源管理RRM测量报告,所述RRM测量报告是所述用户设备对所述发射机发送的所述初始波束索引信息所指示的所述初始波束进行RRM测量后得到的;处理器,用于根据所述接收机接收到的所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息。
- 根据权利要求29所述的基站,其特征在于,所述处理器,具体用于从所述RRM测量报告中每个初始波束索引信息所对应的参考信号信息中,确定所述参考信号信息大于第一阈值的第一初始波束索引信息,所述参考信号信息包括参考信号接收功率RSRP和参考信号接收质量RSRQ中的至少一种;所述发射机,还用于通过所述处理器确定的所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束在控制信道上向所述用户设备发送控制信息,所述用户设备用于从休眠状态切换到激活状态后,通过确定的所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束监听所述控制信息。
- 根据权利要求29所述的基站,其特征在于,所述发射机,还用于通过无线资源控制RRC信令和媒体接入控制层控制元MAC CE中的至少一种,从所述RRM测量报告中的各个初始波束索引信息中指定第二初始波束索引信息,指定的所述第二初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束用于在控制信道上向所述用户设备发送所述控制信息。
- 根据权利要求29所述的基站,其特征在于,所述发射机,还用于将为所述用户设备分配的毫米波频段的备选波束的备选波束索引信息发送给所述用户设备;所述接收机,还用于接收所述用户设备从所述发射机发送的各个备选波束索引信息中选择并发送的第一备选波束索引信息,所述第一备选波束索引信息是所述初始波束的参考信号信息小于第二阈值,且对各个备选波束索引信息所指示的备选波束进行RRM测量后,确定出的参考信号信息大于第三阈值的备选波束索引信息,所述参考信号信息包括RSRP和RSRQ中的至少一种;所述处理器,还用于根据所述接收机接收到的所述第一备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求32所述的基站,其特征在于:所述发射机,还用于接收所述用户设备发送的第一随机接入请求;所述处理器,具体用于根据所述第一随机接入请求生成上行时间提前TA,根据接收到的所述第一备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束以及所述上行TA与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求32所述的基站,其特征在于,所述处理器,还用于利用波束跟踪确定将要使用为所述用户设备分配的所述备选波束与所述用户设备进行通信;所述发射机,还用于在控制信道上向所述用户设备发送随机接入指令;所述接收机,还用于接收所述用户设备根据所述发射机发送的所述随机接入指令发送的第二随机接入请求;所述处理器,具体用于根据所述接收机接收到的所述第二随机接入请求生成上行TA;并根据分配的第二备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束以及所述上行TA与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求29至34任一项所述的基站,其特征在于,所述处理器,还用于在与所述用户设备进行通信的波束中,将上行TA相同的波束确定为一个分组,所述波束包括所述初始波束和所述备选波束中的至少 一种;根据每个分组生成一个TA组,所述TA组包括TA组标识、所述分组中各个波束的波束索引信息、所述分组中各个波束所对应的小区标识和时间调整定时器TAT;所述发射机,还用于将所述处理器生成的所述TA组发送给所述用户设备。
- 根据权利要求29所述的基站,其特征在于,所述接收机,还用于所述处理器根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息之后,接收来源于所述用户设备的功率余量报告PHR,所述PHR中包括功率余量PH,所述PH是对各个初始波束的RSRP进行测量得到路损信息,根据最小的路损信息生成的;所述处理器,具体用于根据所述接收机接收到的所述PH和与所述PH对应的初始波束为所述用户设备分配上行资源;通过与所述PH对应的初始波束在对应的上行资源上与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求36所述的基站,其特征在于,所述发射机,还用于所述接收机接收来源于所述用户设备的功率余量报告PHR之前,向所述用户设备发送携带有单个初始波束的波束范围内的第一波束的第一波束索引信息的第一指示,所述第一指示用于指示所述用户设备对所述第一波束的RSRP进行测量。
- 根据权利要求29所述的基站,其特征在于,所述接收机,还用于所述处理器根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息之后,接收来源于所述用户设备的信道状态指示CSI测量报告,所述CSI测量报告中包括CSI信息,所述CSI信息是对各个初始波束进行CSI测量得到信道质量指示CQI,根据最高的CQI生成的;所述处理器,具体用于根据所述接收机接收到的所述CSI信息和与所述CSI信息对应的初始波束与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求38所述的基站,其特征在于,所述发射机,还用于所述接收机接收来源于所述用户设备的信道状态指示CSI测量报告之前,向所述用户设备发送携带有单个初始波束的波束范围内的第二波束的第二波束索引信息的第二指示,所述第二指示用于指示所述用户设备对所述第二波束进行CSI测 量。
- 根据权利要求29所述的基站,其特征在于,所述处理器,还用于根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息之后,根据至少一个用户设备的业务量调整小区带宽,所述小区带宽与所述业务量呈正相关关系;所述发射机,还用于将所述处理器调整后的小区带宽的信息和中心频点的信息广播给各个用户设备,或,通过RRC信令将调整后的小区带宽的信息和中心频点的信息发送给各个用户设备,所述中心频点是所述调整后的小区带宽对应的频率范围的中心频率或所述频率范围内的指定频率。
- 根据权利要求40所述的基站,其特征在于,若所述调整后的小区由带宽相同的信道组成,则所述发射机,还用于在位于所述中心频点的信道上向各个用户设备发送公共信息,或,在每个信道的中心频率上向各个用户设备发送公共信息。
- 根据权利要求29所述的基站,其特征在于,所述处理器,还用于根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息之后,根据所述用户设备的业务量调整所述用户设备的用户带宽,所述用户带宽与所述业务量呈正相关关系;所述发射机,还用于通过RRC信令、MAC CE和控制信道中的至少一种将所述处理器调整后的用户带宽的信息发送给所述用户设备。
- 根据权利要求42所述的基站,其特征在于,所述处理器,还用于根据所述用户设备的业务量调整为所述用户设备分配的信道,得到所述用户带宽。
- 一种用户设备,其特征在于,所述用户设备包括:接收机,用于接收基站发送的初始波束索引信息,所述初始波束索引信息用于指示所述基站为用户设备分配的毫米波频段的初始波束;发射机,用于向所述基站发送无线资源管理RRM测量报告,所述RRM测量报告是所述用户设备对所述初始波束索引信息所指示的所述初始波束进行 RRM测量后得到的,所述RRM测量报告用于指示所述基站确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息。
- 根据权利要求44所述的用户设备,其特征在于,若所述RRM测量报告包括每个初始波束索引信息所对应的参考信号信息,所述参考信号信息包括参考信号接收功率RSRP和参考信号接收质量RSRQ中的至少一种,则所述用户设备还包括处理器,用于所述发射机发送无线资源管理RRM测量报告之后,在所述用户设备从休眠状态切换到激活状态后,确定所述参考信号信息大于第一阈值的第一初始波束索引信息;所述接收机,还用于通过所述处理器确定的所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束在控制信道上监听控制信息。
- 根据权利要求44所述的用户设备,其特征在于,所述接收机,还用于接收所述基站通过无线资源控制RRC信令和媒体接入控制层控制元MAC CE中的至少一种从所述RRM测量报告中的各个初始波束索引信息中指定的第二初始波束索引信息;通过所述第二初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束在控制信道上监听控制信息。
- 根据权利要求45或46所述的用户设备,其特征在于,所述接收机,具体用于以全向方式接收所述控制信息,或,以大于等于所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的波束范围接收所述控制信息,或,以小于所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的波束范围接收所述控制信息;或,所述接收机,具体用于以全向方式接收所述控制信息,或,以大于等于所述第二初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的波束范围接收所述控制信息,或,以小于所述第二初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的波束范围接收所述控制信息。
- 根据权利要求44所述的用户设备,其特征在于,所述接收机,还用于接收所述基站发送的备选波束索引信息,所述备选波束索引信息用于指示所述基站为所述用户设备分配的毫米波频段的备选波束;所述用户设备还包括处理器,用于在所述初始波束的参考信号信息小于第二阈值时,对所述接收机接收到的各个备选波束索引信息所指示的备选波束进行RRM测量,所述参考信号信息包括RSRP和RSRQ中的至少一种;根据所述RRM测量确定出参考信号信息大于第三阈值第一备选波束索引信息;所述发射机,还用于将所述处理器确定出的所述第一备选波束索引信息发送给所述基站,所述基站用于根据所述第一备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求48所述的用户设备,其特征在于,所述发射机,还用于自动向所述基站发送第一随机接入请求,所述第一随机接入请求用于指示所述基站生成上行时间提前TA,并根据分配的第二备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束以及所述上行TA与所述用户设备进行通信,或,在控制信道上接收所述基站发送的随机接入指令,所述随机接入指令是所述基站利用波束跟踪确定将要使用为所述用户设备分配的所述备选波束与所述用户设备进行通信后发送的,根据所述随机接入指令向所述基站发送第二随机接入请求,所述第二随机接入请求用于指示所述基站生成上行TA,并根据接收到的所述第一备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束以及所述上行TA与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求44至49任一项所述的用户设备,其特征在于,所述接收机,还用于接收所述基站发送的TA组,所述TA组是所述基站在与所述用户设备进行通信的波束中,将上行TA相同的波束确定为一个分组,根据每个分组生成的,所述TA组包括TA组标识、所述分组中各个波束的波束索引信息、所述分组中各个波束所对应的小区标识和时间调整定时器TAT,所述波束包括所述初始波束和所述备选波束中的至少一种;所述用户设备还包括处理器,用于在所述接收机接收到的所述TA组中的TAT超时,则检测所述TA组中的所述小区标识是否对应于位于其它TA组中的波束索引信息且所述其它TA组的TAT未超时;在检测出所述TA组中的所述小区标识对应于位于其它TA组中的波束索引信息且所述其它TA组的TAT未超时时,确定所述波束索引信息所对应的小区,维护所述小区所对应的混合自动重传请求HARQ缓冲区和探测参考信号SRS资源;在检测出所述TA组中的所述小区标识对应于位于其它TA组中的波束索引信息且所述其它TA组的TAT超时 时,确定所述波束索引信息所对应的小区,释放所述小区所对应的HARQ缓冲区和SRS资源。
- 根据权利要求44所述的用户设备,其特征在于:所述用户设备还包括:处理器,用于所述发射机发送无线资源管理RRM测量报告之后,对各个初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的RSRP进行测量,得到各个初始波束的路损信息;根据最小的路损信息生成至少一个功率余量PH,得到功率余量报告PHR;所述发射机,还用于发送所述处理器生成的所述PHR,所述PHR用于指示所述基站根据所述PH和与所述PH对应的初始波束为所述用户设备分配上行资源,通过与所述PH对应的波束在对应的上行资源上与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求51所述的用户设备,其特征在于,接收机,还用于接收所述基站发送的携带有单个初始波束的波束范围内的第一波束的第一波束索引信息的第一指示;所述处理器,还用于对所述接收机接收到的所述第一指示所指示的各个第一波束的RSRP进行测量,得到各个第一波束的路损信息。
- 根据权利要求44所述的用户设备,其特征在于:所述用户设备还包括处理器,用于所述发射机发送无线资源管理RRM测量报告之后,对各个初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束进行信道状态指示CSI测量,得到各个初始波束的信道质量指示CQI;根据最高的CQI生成至少一个信道状态指示CSI信息,得到CSI测量报告;所述发射机,还用于发送所述处理器生成的所述CSI测量报告,所述CSI测量报告用于指示所述基站根据所述CSI信息和与所述CSI信息对应的初始波束与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求53所述的用户设备,其特征在于,所述接收机,还用于接收所述基站发送的携带有单个初始波束的波束范围内的第二波束的第二波束索引信息的第二指示;所述处理器,还用于对所述接收机接收到的所述第二指示所指示的各个第二波束进行CSI测量,得到各个第二波束的CQI。
- 根据权利要求44所述的用户设备,其特征在于,所述接收机,还用于通过广播接收所述基站发送的调整后的小区带宽的信息和中心频点的信息,或,接收所述基站发送的RRC信令,所述RRC信令中携带有调整后的小区带宽的信息和中心频点的信息;所述调整后的小区带宽是所述基站根据至少一个用户设备的业务量调整的,且所述小区带宽与所述业务量呈正相关关系,所述中心频点是所述调整后的小区带宽对应的频率范围的中心频率或所述频率范围内的指定频率;若所述调整后的小区由带宽相同的信道组成,则在位于所述中心频点的信道上接收所述基站发送的公共信息,或,在每个信道的中心频率上接收所述基站发送的发送公共信息。
- 根据权利要求44所述的用户设备,其特征在于,所述接收机,还用于通过RRC信令、MAC CE和控制信道中的至少一种接收所述基站发送的调整后的用户带宽的信息,所述调整后的用户带宽是所述基站根据所述用户设备的业务量调整的,且所述用户带宽与所述业务量呈正相关关系;对组成所述用户带宽的信道的控制信道进行监听。
- 一种波束配置方法,其特征在于,所述方法包括:基站将为用户设备分配的毫米波频段的初始波束的初始波束索引信息发送给所述用户设备;所述基站接收来源于所述用户设备的无线资源管理RRM测量报告,所述RRM测量报告是所述用户设备对所述初始波束索引信息所指示的所述初始波束进行RRM测量后得到的;所述基站根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息。
- 根据权利要求57所述的方法,其特征在于,所述基站根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息,包括:所述基站从所述RRM测量报告中每个初始波束索引信息所对应的参考信 号信息中,确定所述参考信号信息大于第一阈值的第一初始波束索引信息,所述参考信号信息包括参考信号接收功率RSRP和参考信号接收质量RSRQ中的至少一种;所述基站通过确定的所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束在控制信道上向所述用户设备发送控制信息,所述用户设备用于从休眠状态切换到激活状态后,通过确定的所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束监听所述控制信息。
- 根据权利要求57所述的方法,其特征在于,所述方法,还包括:所述基站通过无线资源控制RRC信令和媒体接入控制层控制元MAC CE中的至少一种,从所述RRM测量报告中的各个初始波束索引信息中指定第二初始波束索引信息,指定的所述第二初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束用于在控制信道上向所述用户设备发送所述控制信息。
- 根据权利要求57所述的方法,其特征在于,所述方法,还包括:所述基站将为所述用户设备分配的毫米波频段的备选波束的备选波束索引信息发送给所述用户设备;所述基站接收所述用户设备从各个备选波束索引信息中选择并发送的第一备选波束索引信息,所述第一备选波束索引信息是所述初始波束的参考信号信息小于第二阈值,且对各个备选波束索引信息所指示的备选波束进行RRM测量后,确定出的参考信号信息大于第三阈值的备选波束索引信息,所述参考信号信息包括RSRP和RSRQ中的至少一种;所述基站根据接收到的所述第一备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求60所述的方法,其特征在于,所述基站根据接收到的所述第一备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束与所述用户设备进行通信,包括:所述基站接收所述用户设备发送的第一随机接入请求,根据所述第一随机接入请求生成上行时间提前TA;所述基站根据接收到的所述第一备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束以及所述上行TA与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求60所述的方法,其特征在于,所述方法,还包括:所述基站利用波束跟踪确定将要使用为所述用户设备分配的所述备选波束与所述用户设备进行通信;所述基站在控制信道上向所述用户设备发送随机接入指令;所述基站接收所述用户设备根据所述随机接入指令发送的第二随机接入请求,根据所述第二随机接入请求生成上行TA;所述基站根据分配的第二备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束以及所述上行TA与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求57至62中任一项所述的方法,其特征在于,所述方法,还包括:在与所述用户设备进行通信的波束中,所述基站将上行TA相同的波束确定为一个分组,所述波束包括所述初始波束和所述备选波束中的至少一种;所述基站根据每个分组生成一个TA组,所述TA组包括TA组标识、所述分组中各个波束的波束索引信息、所述分组中各个波束所对应的小区标识和时间调整定时器TAT;所述基站将生成的所述TA组发送给所述用户设备。
- 根据权利要求57所述的方法,其特征在于,所述基站根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息之后,还包括:所述基站接收来源于所述用户设备的功率余量报告PHR,所述PHR中包括功率余量PH,所述PH是对各个初始波束的RSRP进行测量得到路损信息,根据最小的路损信息生成的;所述基站根据所述PH和与所述PH对应的初始波束为所述用户设备分配上行资源;所述基站通过与所述PH对应的初始波束在对应的上行资源上与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求64所述的方法,其特征在于,所述基站接收来源于所述用户设备的功率余量报告PHR之前,还包括:所述基站向所述用户设备发送携带有单个初始波束的波束范围内的第一波束的第一波束索引信息的第一指示,所述第一指示用于指示所述用户设备对所述第一波束的RSRP进行测量。
- 根据权利要求57所述的方法,其特征在于,所述基站根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息之后,还包括:所述基站接收来源于所述用户设备的信道状态指示CSI测量报告,所述CSI测量报告中包括CSI信息,所述CSI信息是对各个初始波束进行CSI测量得到信道质量指示CQI,根据最高的CQI生成的;所述基站根据所述CSI信息和与所述CSI信息对应的初始波束与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求66所述的方法,其特征在于,所述基站接收来源于所述用户设备的信道状态指示CSI测量报告之前,还包括:所述基站向所述用户设备发送携带有单个初始波束的波束范围内的第二波束的第二波束索引信息的第二指示,所述第二指示用于指示所述用户设备对所述第二波束进行CSI测量。
- 根据权利要求57所述的方法,其特征在于,所述基站根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息之后,还包括:所述基站根据用户设备的业务量调整小区带宽,所述小区带宽与所述业务量呈正相关关系;所述基站将调整后的小区带宽的信息和中心频点的信息广播给各个用户设备,或,通过RRC信令将调整后的小区带宽的信息和中心频点的信息发送给各个用户设备,所述中心频点是所述调整后的小区带宽对应的频率范围的中心频率或所述频率范围内的指定频率。
- 根据权利要求68所述的方法,其特征在于,若所述调整后的小区由带宽相同的信道组成,则所述方法,还包括:所述基站在位于所述中心频点的信道上向各个用户设备发送公共信息,或,在每个信道的中心频率上向各个用户设备发送公共信息。
- 根据权利要求57所述的方法,其特征在于,所述基站根据所述RRM测量报告确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息之后,还包括:所述基站根据所述用户设备的业务量调整所述用户设备的用户带宽,所述用户带宽与所述业务量呈正相关关系;所述基站通过RRC信令、MAC CE和控制信道中的至少一种将调整后的用户带宽的信息发送给所述用户设备。
- 根据权利要求70所述的方法,其特征在于,所述基站根据所述用户设备的业务量调整所述用户设备的用户带宽,包括:所述基站根据所述用户设备的业务量调整为所述用户设备分配的信道,得到所述用户带宽。
- 一种波束配置方法,其特征在于,所述方法包括:用户设备接收基站送的初始波束索引信息,所述初始波束索引信息用于指示所述基站为所述用户设备分配的毫米波频段的初始波束;所述用户设备发送无线资源管理RRM测量报告,所述RRM测量报告是所述用户设备对所述初始波束索引信息所指示的所述初始波束进行RRM测量后得到的,所述RRM测量报告用于指示所述基站确定与所述用户设备进行通信的所述初始波束索引信息。
- 根据权利要求72所述的方法,其特征在于,若所述RRM测量报告包括每个初始波束索引信息所对应的参考信号信息,所述参考信号信息包括参考信号接收功率RSRP和参考信号接收质量RSRQ中的至少一种,则所述用户设备发送无线资源管理RRM测量报告之后,还包括:在所述用户设备从休眠状态切换到激活状态后,所述用户设备确定所述参考信号信息大于第一阈值的第一初始波束索引信息;所述用户设备通过所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束在控制信道上监听控制信息。
- 根据权利要求72所述的方法,其特征在于,所述方法,还包括:所述用户设备接收所述基站通过无线资源控制RRC信令和媒体接入控制层控制元MAC CE中的至少一种从所述RRM测量报告中的各个初始波束索引信息中指定的第二初始波束索引信息;所述用户设备通过所述第二初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束在控制信道上监听控制信息。
- 根据权利要求73或74所述的方法,其特征在于,所述用户设备通过所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束在控制信道上监听控制信息,包括:所述用户设备以全向方式接收所述控制信息,或,以大于等于所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的波束范围接收所述控制信息,或,以小于所述第一初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的波束范围接收所述控制信息;所述用户设备通过所述第二初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束在控制信道上监听控制信息,包括:所述用户设备以全向方式接收所述控制信息,或,以大于等于所述第二初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的波束范围接收所述控制信息,或,以小于所述第二初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的波束范围接收所述控制信息。
- 根据权利要求72所述的方法,其特征在于,所述方法,还包括:所述用户设备接收所述基站发送的备选波束索引信息,所述备选波束索引信息用于指示所述基站为所述用户设备分配的毫米波频段的备选波束;若所述初始波束的参考信号信息小于第二阈值,则所述用户设备对各个备选波束索引信息所指示的备选波束进行RRM测量,所述参考信号信息包括RSRP和RSRQ中的至少一种;所述用户设备根据所述RRM测量确定出参考信号信息大于第三阈值的第一备选波束索引信息;所述用户设备将确定出的所述第一备选波束索引信息发送给所述基站,所述基站用于根据所述第一备选波束索引信息所对应的与备选波束所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求76所述的方法,其特征在于,所述方法,还包括:所述用户设备自动向所述基站发送第一随机接入请求,所述第一随机接入请求用于指示所述基站生成上行时间提前TA,并根据分配的第二备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束以及所述上行TA与所述用户设备进行通信;或,所述用户设备在控制信道上接收所述基站发送的随机接入指令,所述随机接入指令是所述基站利用波束跟踪确定将要使用为所述用户设备分配的所述备选波束与所述用户设备进行通信后发送的,根据所述随机接入指令向所述基站发送第二随机接入请求,所述第二随机接入请求用于指示所述基站生成上行TA,并根据接收到的所述第一备选波束索引信息所对应的备选波束以及所述上行TA与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求72至77中任一项所述的方法,其特征在于,所述方法,还包括:所述用户设备接收所述基站发送的TA组,所述TA组是所述基站在与所述用户设备进行通信的波束中,将上行TA相同的波束确定为一个分组,根据每个分组生成的,所述TA组包括TA组标识、所述分组中各个波束的波束索引信息、所述分组中各个波束所对应的小区标识和时间调整定时器TAT,所述波束包括所述初始波束和所述备选波束中的至少一种;若所述TA组中的TAT超时,则所述用户设备检测所述TA组中的所述小区标识是否对应于位于其它TA组中的波束索引信息且所述其它TA组的TAT未超时;若检测出所述TA组中的所述小区标识对应于位于其它TA组中的波束索引信息且所述其它TA组的TAT未超时,则所述用户设备确定所述波束索引信息所对应的小区,维护所述小区所对应的混合自动重传请求HARQ缓冲区和探测参考信号SRS资源;若检测出所述TA组中的所述小区标识对应于位于其它TA组中的波束索引信息且所述其它TA组的TAT超时,则所述用户设备确定所述波束索引信息所对应的小区,释放所述小区所对应的HARQ缓冲区和SRS资源。
- 根据权利要求72所述的方法,其特征在于,所述用户设备发送无线资源管理RRM测量报告之后,还包括:所述用户设备对各个初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的RSRP进行测 量,得到各个初始波束的路损信息;所述用户设备根据最小的路损信息生成功率余量PH,得到功率余量报告PHR;所述用户设备发送所述PHR,所述PHR用于指示所述基站根据所述PH和与所述PH对应的初始波束为所述用户设备分配上行资源,通过与所述PH对应的初始波束在对应的上行资源上与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求79所述的方法,其特征在于,所述用户设备对各个初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束的RSRP进行测量,得到各个初始波束的路损信息,包括:所述用户设备接收所述基站发送的携带有单个初始波束的波束范围内的第一波束的第一波束索引信息的第一指示;所述用户设备对所述第一指示所指示的各个第一波束的RSRP进行测量,得到各个第一波束的路损信息。
- 根据权利要求72所述的方法,其特征在于,所述用户设备发送无线资源管理RRM测量报告之后,还包括:所述用户设备对各个初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束进行信道状态指示CSI测量,得到各个初始波束的信道质量指示CQI;所述用户设备根据最高的CQI生成信道状态指示CSI信息,得到CSI测量报告;所述用户设备发送所述CSI测量报告,所述CSI测量报告用于指示所述基站根据所述CSI信息和与所述CSI信息对应的初始波束与所述用户设备进行通信。
- 根据权利要求81所述的方法,其特征在于,所述用户设备对各个初始波束索引信息所对应的初始波束进行信道状态指示CSI测量,得到各个初始波束的信道质量指示CQI,包括:所述用户设备接收所述基站发送的携带有单个初始波束的波束范围内的第二波束的第二波束索引信息的第二指示;所述用户设备对所述第二指示所指示的各个第二波束进行CSI测量,得到 各个第二波束的CQI。
- 根据权利要求72所述的方法,其特征在于,所述方法,还包括:所述用户设备通过广播接收所述基站发送的调整后的小区带宽的信息和中心频点的信息,或,接收所述基站发送的RRC信令,所述RRC信令中携带有调整后的小区带宽的信息和中心频点的信息;所述调整后的小区带宽是所述基站根据用户设备的业务量调整的,且所述小区带宽与所述业务量呈正相关关系,所述中心频点是所述调整后的小区带宽对应的频率范围的中心频率或所述频率范围内的指定频率;若所述调整后的小区由带宽相同的信道组成,则所述用户设备在位于所述中心频点的信道上接收所述基站发送的公共信息,或,在每个信道的中心频率上接收所述基站发送的发送公共信息。
- 根据权利要求72所述的方法,其特征在于,所述方法,还包括:所述用户设备通过RRC信令、MAC CE和控制信道中的至少一种接收所述基站发送的调整后的用户带宽的信息,所述调整后的用户带宽是所述基站根据所述用户设备的业务量调整的,且所述用户带宽与所述业务量呈正相关关系;所述用户设备对组成所述用户带宽的信道的控制信道进行监听。
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