WO2016185275A1 - Method and apparatus for resource contention based on access priority - Google Patents

Method and apparatus for resource contention based on access priority Download PDF

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WO2016185275A1
WO2016185275A1 PCT/IB2016/000738 IB2016000738W WO2016185275A1 WO 2016185275 A1 WO2016185275 A1 WO 2016185275A1 IB 2016000738 W IB2016000738 W IB 2016000738W WO 2016185275 A1 WO2016185275 A1 WO 2016185275A1
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Jianguo Liu
Yan Meng
Feng Han
Tao Tao
Junrong GU
Gang Shen
Sigen Ye
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    • H04W74/08—Non-scheduled access, e.g. ALOHA
    • H04W74/0808—Non-scheduled access, e.g. ALOHA using carrier sensing, e.g. carrier sense multiple access [CSMA]
    • H04W74/0816—Non-scheduled access, e.g. ALOHA using carrier sensing, e.g. carrier sense multiple access [CSMA] with collision avoidance

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  • the present invention relates to a radio communication network, and more specifically relates to a method and apparatus for resource contention for an unlicensed frequency band based on an access priority.
  • LTE LAA Licensed Assisted Access
  • LBT Listen Before Talk
  • DFS Dynamic Frequency Selection
  • TPC Transmission Power Control
  • carrier listening should be performed at a transmission side before performing transmission on the unlicensed frequency band.
  • RATs radio access technologies
  • carrier listening should be supported at the UE side.
  • a method for resource contention based on an access priority in a user equipment comprising steps of: A. receiving an uplink schedule grant from a serving base station, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment on an unlicensed frequency band; B. configuring an uplink frame structure for uplink transmission of the unlicensed frequency band based on the access priority, the uplink frame structure being one frame structure in a set of an uplink frame structures; C. blind-detecting other reserved signals of other user equipments within a user group on the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure; D.
  • performing channel clearance assessment to the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure if the user equipment fails to blind-detect the other reserved signals and a result of the channel clearance assessment is idle, transmitting a first reserved signal on the unlicensed frequency band and performing uplink data transmission of the user equipment; if the user equipment blind-detects the other reserved signals or a result of the channel clearance assessment is busy, stopping contending for the unlicensed frequency band.
  • the uplink schedule grant is a user equipment-specific uplink schedule grant.
  • the uplink schedule grant is an uplink schedule grant shared by the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of each user equipment within the user group.
  • the uplink frame structure comprises an idle timeslot, a CCA timeslot, a reserved signal timeslot, and a maximum channel occupation timeslot.
  • the uplink frame structure is associated with the access priority.
  • a timeslot index of the channel clearance assessment in the uplink frame structure is associated with the access priority.
  • the other reserved signals are reserved signals transmitted by user equipment having a higher priority in the user group than the user equipment.
  • the timeslot of the first reserved signal is before the end of a timeslot of a channel clearance assessment of a user equipment having a lower access priority than the user equipment.
  • the uplink frame structure set is pre-configured by the system, or transmitted by the serving base station in a cell downlink broadcast channel of the serving base station, or transmitted by the serving base station in a downlink broadcast channel within the user group.
  • the first reserved signal is a cell-specific reserved signal, which causes the base station to determine a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the non-licensed frequency band.
  • a method for resource contention based on an access priority in a serving base station comprising steps of: i. establishing or re-establishing a user group, user equipments within the user group being pre -granted to contend for an unlicensed frequency band; ii. transmitting an uplink schedule grant to a user equipment within the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment at the unlicensed frequency band; iii. blind-detecting a reserved signal transmitted by a user equipment within the user group; iv. Based on the received reserved signal, determining a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band.
  • step i comprises: notifying user equipments within a cell of the serving base station to measure a reserved signal and report a measurement result; determining the user group and user equipments within the user group based on the measurement result reported by the user equipments within the cell of the serving base station.
  • the user equipments within the user group have different interference environments.
  • the user equipments within the user group can detect reserved signals of user equipments having different access priorities within the user group.
  • an apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority in a user equipment comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive an uplink schedule grant from a serving base station, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment on an unlicensed frequency band; a configuring unit configured to configure an uplink frame structure for uplink transmission of the unlicensed frequency band based on the access priority, the uplink frame structure being one frame structure in a set of an uplink frame structures; a first blind-detecting unit configured to blind-detect other reserved signals of other user equipments within a user group on the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure; an assessing unit configured to perform channel clearance assessment to the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure; and a deciding unit configured to determine whether the other reserved signals are blind-detected by the user equipment and decide to transmit a first reserved signal on the unlicensed frequency band and perform uplink data transmission of the user equipment, if the user
  • an apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority in a serving base station comprising: a user group establishing unit configured to establish or re-establish a user group, user equipments within the user group being pre-granted to contend for an unlicensed frequency band; a transmitting unit configured to transmit an uplink schedule grant to a user equipment within the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment at the unlicensed frequency band; a second blind-detecting unit configured to blind-detect a reserved signal transmitted by a user equipment within the user group; and a reserved signal receiving unit configured to, based on the received reserved signal, determine a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band.
  • the solution of the present invention enables scheduling multiple intra-group UEs to contend for resources with other intra/inter-operator transmitters. Even a UE with a high access priority cannot occupy a non-licensed frequency band; other user equipments with a lower access priority within the UE group still have chance to occupy an unlicensed frequency band for uplink transmission. Therefore, the solution of the present invention may increase uplink transmission chance, thereby reducing uplink resource waste.
  • the uplink frame structure of the present invention is compatible with the existing LBT regulations. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of an uplink frame structure based on an access priority according to one embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a flow diagram of resource contention based on an access priority in a user equipment according to one embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a flow diagram of resource contention based on an access priority in a base station according to one embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 4 illustrates a schematic diagram of an apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority according to the embodiment of Fig. 2;
  • Fig. 5 illustrates a schematic diagram of an apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority according to the embodiment of Fig. 3.
  • a main idea of the present invention is that a base station pre-grants a group of user equipments having different access priorities and other transmitters to contend for an uplink transmission resource on an unlicensed frequency band, wherein the uplink frame structure for uplink transmission is designed based on an access priority.
  • the embodiments of the present invention illustrate the technical solution of the present invention with an example in which the user equipment acts as a transmitter for uplink transmission. Those skilled in the art should understand that this does not intend to limit transmitters for uplink transmission; instead, the transmitters for uplink transmission can be any appropriate communication device.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of an uplink frame structure based on an access priority according to one embodiment of the present invention.
  • the uplink frame structure is compatible with frame -based equipment (FBE) specifications.
  • FBE frame -based equipment
  • each frame cycle at least may comprise an idle timeslot, a CCA timeslot and a maximum channel occupation time.
  • the uplink frame structure set includes high-access priority uplink frame structure, middle-access priority uplink frame structure, and low-access priority uplink frame structure; the uplink frame structures are associated with access priorities of the user equipments so as to avoid collision between user equipments within the user group. Timeslot indexes of channel clearance assessments in the uplink frame structure are associated with the access priorities.
  • the uplink frame structure set may be pre-configured by the system, or transmitted in a cell downlink broadcast channel of the serving base station, or transmitted in a downlink broadcast channel within the user group of the serving base station.
  • a reserved signal timeslot may exist after the CCA timeslot; when the CCA result is idle, the user equipment transmits a reserved signal. Functions of the reserved signal at least include:
  • detection of the reserved signal may be used to determine whether the unlicensed frequency band has been occupied by other user equipment within the user group;
  • detection of the reserved signal may enable the serving base station to determine a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the non-licensed frequency band.
  • the serving base station may also notify the user equipments of a serving cell to measure a reserved signal and report a measurement result so as to establish a user group or re-establish a user group.
  • the reserved signal may be cell-specific, and other user equipment within the same user group may detect a reserved signal based on the information of the serving cell.
  • the timeslot of the reserved signal of a high-access priority user equipment may be before the timeslot of the reserved signal of a low-access priority user equipment, such that a low-access priority user equipment within the user group has enough time to detect the reserved signal transmitted by a high-access priority user equipment.
  • An objective of establishing a user group is to increase an uplink transmission opportunity of other user equipment within the user group on the unlicensed frequency band when a user equipment within the user group fails to successfully occupy a channel.
  • a traditional method is to schedule a user equipment to contend for an unlicensed frequency band; however, in the present invention, a group of user equipments with different access priorities is pre-granted to contend for an unlicensed frequency band.
  • the access priority of each user equipment within the user group corresponds to an access priority of its uplink frame, which may be dynamically adjusted based on the access requirements of the user.
  • the access priority of each user within the user group may be explicitly or implicitly notified to the user equipment.
  • each user within the user group has an uplink schedule grant specific to the user equipment.
  • the uplink schedule grant may include an access priority of the user equipment at the unlicensed frequency band. This solution affects little to the prior art. For example, the access priority of the user equipment may be explicitly included in existing downlink control information DCI for uplink schedule grant.
  • each user equipment within the user group may share an uplink schedule grant of the user group.
  • the shared uplink schedule grant may include an access priority of each user equipment within the user group.
  • a new uplink schedule grant shared by the user group is designed, which uplink schedule grant at least includes an access priority of each user equipment within the user group.
  • the access priority of the user equipment may also be implicitly indicated by a sequence of Modulation and Coding Schemes of respective users.
  • Information of the user group e.g., all possible uplink frame structures of group members of the user group, a group identifier, etc, may be transmitted to the user equipment in advance through, e.g., high-layer signaling.
  • the user equipments within the user group may have different interference environments. For example, a distance between two user equipments within the user group should be as far as possible so as to cause the interference environments between the two user equipments to be different.
  • a user equipment within the user group can detect reserved signals of user equipments having different access priorities within the user group, such that the user equipment decides whether the unlicensed frequency band has been occupied by other user equipments of the user group.
  • the serving base station may notify some user equipments within the cell via a high-layer signaling to measure the reserved signal transmitted by the user equipments within the cell at a specific time/frequency resource (e.g., a certain subframe).
  • the some user equipments report the results of measuring the reserved signals (e.g., a detection mark/ a reserved signal strength/ interference degree and the like on each sub-band) to the serving base station via, e.g., a high-layer signaling.
  • the serving base station determines a user group and the user equipments within the user group.
  • the serving base station may also determine the user group and the user equipments within the user group based on the measurement results reported by the some user equipments and schedule requirements.
  • the serving base station may also group the users based on the measurement results of the reserved signals and user location information, such that user equipments within the user group have different interference environments.
  • the serving base station may increase the power of the user equipment to transmit a reserved signal so as to increase the detectable feature of the reserved signal, such that channels between user equipments within the same user group and the interference environment have a recognizable degree. This is beneficial to increase the chance for the user group to occupy the unlicensed frequency band uplink transmission.
  • Fig. 2 illustrates a flow diagram of resource contention based on an access priority in a user equipment according to one embodiment of the present invention.
  • step S201 the user equipment receives an uplink schedule grant from a serving base station, which uplink schedule grant comprises an access priority of the user equipment at an unlicensed frequency band.
  • the uplink schedule grant may be an uplink schedule grant specific to the user equipment.
  • the uplink schedule grant may be an uplink schedule grant shared by the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of each user equipment within the user group.
  • step S202 the user equipment configures an uplink frame structure in an uplink frame structure set of the unlicensed frequency band based on the access priority.
  • the uplink frame structure set may be pre -configured by the system, or transmitted in a cell downlink broadcast channel of the serving base station, or transmitted in a downlink broadcast channel within the user group of the serving base station.
  • the uplink frame structure comprises an idle timeslot, a CCA time slot, a reserved signal timeslot, and a maximum channel occupation timeslot.
  • the uplink frame structure is associated with the access priority. Specifically, a timeslot index of the channel clearance assessment in the uplink frame structure is associated with the access priority. The higher the access priority of the user equipment is, the smaller the timeslot index of the channel clearance assessment of the uplink frame structure is.
  • user equipments 1, 2, and 3 respectively correspond to an uplink frame structure A with a high access priority level, an uplink frame structure B with a middle access priority level, and an uplink frame structure C with a low access priority level.
  • step S203 the user equipment blind-detects other reserved signals of other user equipments within the user group at the unlicensed frequency band.
  • the other reserved signals are reserved signals transmitted by user equipment having a higher priority than the user equipment.
  • step S204 the user equipment performs channel clearance assessment to an unlicensed frequency band based on an uplink frame structure:
  • the user equipment does not blind-detect other reserved signals and a result of the channel clearance assessment is idle, the first reserved signal is transmitted and uplink data transmission for the user equipment is performed on the unlicensed frequency band;
  • the first reserved signal is a cell-specific reserved signal, which causes a serving base station to determine a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the non-licensed frequency band.
  • user equipment 1 performs channel clearance assessment before end of the idle time slot of the uplink frame structure A. Supposing a result of the idle channel assessment is busy, the user equipment 1 stops contending for the unlicensed frequency band. Meanwhile, the user equipment 2 and the user equipment 3 perform, e.g., cell-specific reserved signal detection at the reserved signal timeslot of the uplink frame structure A.
  • user equipment 1 does not transmit a reserved signal at a reserved signal timeslot of the uplink frame structure A
  • user equipment 2 and user equipment 3 do not detect the reserved signal transmitted by the user equipment within the user group
  • the user equipment 2 performs channel clearance assessment at the channel clearance timeslot of the uplink frame structure B of the middle access priority
  • the user equipment 3 performs reserved signal detection at the reserved signal timeslot of the uplink frame structure B. If the result of the channel clearance assessment of the user equipment 2 is idle, the user equipment 2, after the idle channel assessment, transmits a reserved signal timeslot of the uplink frame structure B, and performs uplink data transmission on the unlicensed frequency band after transmitting the reserved signal.
  • the user equipment 3 detects the reserved signal transmitted by the user equipment 2 at the reserved signal timeslot of the uplink frame structure B, and the user equipment 3 stops contending for the unlicensed frequency band.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a flow diagram of resource contention based on an access priority in a serving base station according to one embodiment of the present invention
  • step S301 the serving base station establishes or re-establishes a user group, user equipments within the user group being pre-granted to contend for an unlicensed frequency band.
  • the serving base station notifies user equipments within a cell of the serving base station to measure a reserved signal and reports a measurement result.
  • the serving base station determines the user group and user equipments within the user group based on the measurement result reported by the user equipments within the cell of the serving base station.
  • the user equipments within the user group have different interference environments.
  • the user equipments within the user group can detect reserved signals of user equipments having different access priorities within the user group.
  • step S302 the serving base station transmits an uplink schedule grant to a user equipment within the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment at the unlicensed frequency band.
  • step S303 the serving base station blind-detects a reserved signal transmitted by a user equipment within the user group.
  • step S304 the serving base station, based on the received reserved signal, determines a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band.
  • the base station After the serving base station establishes the user group, the base station knows the uplink frame structure set of the user group based on the access priority of the user equipments within the user group.
  • the serving base station blind-detects time slots of the reserved signals that are possibly transmitted by the user equipments within the user group according to all uplink frame structures within all of the uplink frame structure sets. If a reserved signal is detected, the serving base station determines a user equipment occupying an unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band.
  • the serving base station determines, based on the received reserved signal, that the user equipment 2 occupies the unlicensed frequency band and is of an uplink frame structure B, such that the base station may determine a start time of the uplink data transmission and perform corresponding uplink data detection.
  • Fig. 4 illustrates a schematic diagram of an apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority according to the embodiment of Fig. 2.
  • the apparatus 400 may be or may implement the user equipment described above with reference to Fig. 2.
  • the apparatus 400 comprises a receiving unit 401 configured to receive an uplink schedule grant from a serving base station, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment on an unlicensed frequency band; a configuring unit 402 configured to configure an uplink frame structure for uplink transmission of the unlicensed frequency band based on the access priority, the uplink frame structure being a kind of frame structure in a set of an uplink frame structures; a first blind-detecting unit 403 configured to blind-detect other reserved signals of other user equipments within a user group on the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure; an assessing unit 404 configured to perform channel clearance assessment to the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure; and a deciding unit 405 configured to determine whether the other reserved signals are blind-detected by the user equipment and decide, if the user equipment fails to blind-detect the other reserved signals and a result of the channel clearance assessment is idle, to transmit a first reserved signal on the unlicensed
  • the apparatus 500 comprises a user group establishing unit 501 configured to establish or re-establish a user group, user equipments within the user group being pre-granted to contend for an unlicensed frequency band; a transmitting unit 502 configured to transmit an uplink schedule grant to a user equipment within the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment at the unlicensed frequency band; a second blind-detecting unit 503 configured to blind-detect a reserved signal transmitted by a user equipment within the user group; and a reserved signal receiving unit 504 configured to, based on the received reserved signal, determine a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band.

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The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority, comprising: establishing or re-establishing a user group, by a serving base station, based on an interference environment of respective user equipments within a cell; receiving, by a user equipment, an uplink schedule grant from a serving base station, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment on an unlicensed frequency band; configuring, by the user equipment, an uplink frame structure for uplink transmission of the unlicensed frequency band based on the access priority; blind-detecting other reserved signals of other user equipments within a user group on the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure; performing channel clearance assessment to the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure: if the user equipment fails to blind-detect the other reserved signals and a result of the channel clearance assessment is idle, transmitting a first reserved signal on the unlicensed frequency band and performing uplink data transmission of the user equipment; if the user equipment blind-detects the other reserved signals or a result of the channel clearance assessment is busy, stopping contending for the unlicensed frequency band.

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Method and Apparatus for Resource Contention Based on Access Priority
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[1] The present invention relates to a radio communication network, and more specifically relates to a method and apparatus for resource contention for an unlicensed frequency band based on an access priority.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[2] An LTE LAA (Licensed Assisted Access) system access to an unlicensed frequency band is essential as assistance to a traditional system. LBT (Listen Before Talk), carrier sensing or a discontinuous transmission having a limited maximum transmission time, DFS (Dynamic Frequency Selection), carrier selection, and TPC (Transmission Power Control) and the like are believed to be functions necessary for compliance with regulation requirements. These functions enable the LTE LAA system to be well co-existent with other radio network areas.
[3] As required by regulations in certain regions, e.g., Europe, in order to achieve co-existence between multiple carriers/ radio access technologies (RATs), carrier listening should be performed at a transmission side before performing transmission on the unlicensed frequency band. In consideration of uplink transmission on the unlicensed frequency band, when the user equipment (UE) is used as a transmitting device, carrier listening should be supported at the UE side.
[4] After the UE receives an uplink schedule grant from its serving cell via PDCCH, only when a Channel Clearance Assessment (CCA) on the unlicensed frequency band at the UE side is idle, can the UE perform uplink transmission on the unlicensed frequency band; otherwise, even the UE receives the uplink schedule grant from the serving cell, the UE cannot start uplink transmission on the unlicensed frequency band. Therefore, the opportunity of uplink transmission is reduced and resources are wasted as the resource already allocated to the UE cannot be used by other users. In order to enhance the uplink transmission probability and uplink resource utilization of each user, the uplink schedule grant and uplink frame structure design for unlicensed frequency band uplink transmission has to be improved. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[5] Based on the above understanding of the background technology and the existing technical problem, it will be very beneficial to provide a method and apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority in a user equipment.
[6] According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for resource contention based on an access priority in a user equipment, the method comprising steps of: A. receiving an uplink schedule grant from a serving base station, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment on an unlicensed frequency band; B. configuring an uplink frame structure for uplink transmission of the unlicensed frequency band based on the access priority, the uplink frame structure being one frame structure in a set of an uplink frame structures; C. blind-detecting other reserved signals of other user equipments within a user group on the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure; D. performing channel clearance assessment to the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure: if the user equipment fails to blind-detect the other reserved signals and a result of the channel clearance assessment is idle, transmitting a first reserved signal on the unlicensed frequency band and performing uplink data transmission of the user equipment; if the user equipment blind-detects the other reserved signals or a result of the channel clearance assessment is busy, stopping contending for the unlicensed frequency band.
[7] Advantageously, the uplink schedule grant is a user equipment-specific uplink schedule grant.
[8] Advantageously, the uplink schedule grant is an uplink schedule grant shared by the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of each user equipment within the user group.
[9] Advantageously, the uplink frame structure comprises an idle timeslot, a CCA timeslot, a reserved signal timeslot, and a maximum channel occupation timeslot.
[10] Advantageously, the uplink frame structure is associated with the access priority.
[11] Advantageously, a timeslot index of the channel clearance assessment in the uplink frame structure is associated with the access priority.
[12] Advantageously, the higher the access priority of the user equipment is, the smaller the timeslot index of the channel clearance assessment of the uplink frame structure is.
[13] Advantageously, the other reserved signals are reserved signals transmitted by user equipment having a higher priority in the user group than the user equipment.
[14] Advantageously, the timeslot of the first reserved signal is before the end of a timeslot of a channel clearance assessment of a user equipment having a lower access priority than the user equipment.
[15] Advantageously, the uplink frame structure set is pre-configured by the system, or transmitted by the serving base station in a cell downlink broadcast channel of the serving base station, or transmitted by the serving base station in a downlink broadcast channel within the user group.
[16] Advantageously, the first reserved signal is a cell-specific reserved signal, which causes the base station to determine a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the non-licensed frequency band.
[17] According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for resource contention based on an access priority in a serving base station, the method comprising steps of: i. establishing or re-establishing a user group, user equipments within the user group being pre -granted to contend for an unlicensed frequency band; ii. transmitting an uplink schedule grant to a user equipment within the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment at the unlicensed frequency band; iii. blind-detecting a reserved signal transmitted by a user equipment within the user group; iv. Based on the received reserved signal, determining a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band.
[18] Advantageously, step i comprises: notifying user equipments within a cell of the serving base station to measure a reserved signal and report a measurement result; determining the user group and user equipments within the user group based on the measurement result reported by the user equipments within the cell of the serving base station.
[19] Advantageously, the user equipments within the user group have different interference environments.
[20] Advantageously, the user equipments within the user group can detect reserved signals of user equipments having different access priorities within the user group.
[21] According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority in a user equipment, the apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive an uplink schedule grant from a serving base station, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment on an unlicensed frequency band; a configuring unit configured to configure an uplink frame structure for uplink transmission of the unlicensed frequency band based on the access priority, the uplink frame structure being one frame structure in a set of an uplink frame structures; a first blind-detecting unit configured to blind-detect other reserved signals of other user equipments within a user group on the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure; an assessing unit configured to perform channel clearance assessment to the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure; and a deciding unit configured to determine whether the other reserved signals are blind-detected by the user equipment and decide to transmit a first reserved signal on the unlicensed frequency band and perform uplink data transmission of the user equipment, if the user equipment fails to blind-detect the other reserved signals and a result of the channel clearance assessment is idle; to stop contending for the unlicensed frequency band, if the user equipment blind-detects the other reserved signals or a result of the channel clearance assessment is busy.
[22] According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority in a serving base station, the apparatus comprising: a user group establishing unit configured to establish or re-establish a user group, user equipments within the user group being pre-granted to contend for an unlicensed frequency band; a transmitting unit configured to transmit an uplink schedule grant to a user equipment within the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment at the unlicensed frequency band; a second blind-detecting unit configured to blind-detect a reserved signal transmitted by a user equipment within the user group; and a reserved signal receiving unit configured to, based on the received reserved signal, determine a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band.
[23] The solution of the present invention enables scheduling multiple intra-group UEs to contend for resources with other intra/inter-operator transmitters. Even a UE with a high access priority cannot occupy a non-licensed frequency band; other user equipments with a lower access priority within the UE group still have chance to occupy an unlicensed frequency band for uplink transmission. Therefore, the solution of the present invention may increase uplink transmission chance, thereby reducing uplink resource waste. In addition, the uplink frame structure of the present invention is compatible with the existing LBT regulations. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS
[24] Through reading the following detailed depiction of the non-limiting embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings, other features, objectives, and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent.
[25] Fig. 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of an uplink frame structure based on an access priority according to one embodiment of the present invention;
[26] Fig. 2 illustrates a flow diagram of resource contention based on an access priority in a user equipment according to one embodiment of the present invention;
[27] Fig. 3 illustrates a flow diagram of resource contention based on an access priority in a base station according to one embodiment of the present invention; [28] Fig. 4 illustrates a schematic diagram of an apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority according to the embodiment of Fig. 2; and
[29] Fig. 5 illustrates a schematic diagram of an apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority according to the embodiment of Fig. 3.
[30] In the drawings, throughout different figures, same or similar reference numerals represent same or similar means (modules) or steps.
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[31] In the specific description of the following preferred embodiments, accompanying drawings that constitute a portion of the present invention will be referenced. The accompanying drawings illustrate preferred embodiments that can implement the present invention in an exemplary manner. The exemplary embodiments do not intend to exhaust all embodiments of the present invention. It may be understood that without departing from the scope of the present invention, other embodiments may be used, and structural or logical modifications may also be performed. Therefore, the following specific depiction is not limited; instead, the scope of the present invention is limited by the appended claims. It should be noted that although the accompanying drawings describe steps of relevant methods in the present invention in a specific sequence, this does not require or imply that these operations have to be performed in that specific sequence, or a desired result can only be achieved by performing all of the illustrated operations. On the contrary, the steps as described in this disclosure may change their execution sequences. Additionally or alternatively, some steps may be omitted; multiple steps may be merged into one step for execution, and/or one step may be decomposed into multiple steps for execution.
[32] A main idea of the present invention is that a base station pre-grants a group of user equipments having different access priorities and other transmitters to contend for an uplink transmission resource on an unlicensed frequency band, wherein the uplink frame structure for uplink transmission is designed based on an access priority. The embodiments of the present invention illustrate the technical solution of the present invention with an example in which the user equipment acts as a transmitter for uplink transmission. Those skilled in the art should understand that this does not intend to limit transmitters for uplink transmission; instead, the transmitters for uplink transmission can be any appropriate communication device.
[33] Fig. 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of an uplink frame structure based on an access priority according to one embodiment of the present invention. The uplink frame structure is compatible with frame -based equipment (FBE) specifications.
[34] First, suppose different uplink frame structures have different FBE frame cycles, each frame cycle at least may comprise an idle timeslot, a CCA timeslot and a maximum channel occupation time. In Fig. 1 , the uplink frame structure set includes high-access priority uplink frame structure, middle-access priority uplink frame structure, and low-access priority uplink frame structure; the uplink frame structures are associated with access priorities of the user equipments so as to avoid collision between user equipments within the user group. Timeslot indexes of channel clearance assessments in the uplink frame structure are associated with the access priorities. The higher an access priority of a user equipment is, the smaller the timeslot index of the channel clearance assessment of the uplink frame structure is; the uplink frame structure set may be pre-configured by the system, or transmitted in a cell downlink broadcast channel of the serving base station, or transmitted in a downlink broadcast channel within the user group of the serving base station. [35] In addition, a reserved signal timeslot may exist after the CCA timeslot; when the CCA result is idle, the user equipment transmits a reserved signal. Functions of the reserved signal at least include:
[36] Channel reservation after the CCA timeslot;
[37] For users within the user group, detection of the reserved signal may be used to determine whether the unlicensed frequency band has been occupied by other user equipment within the user group;
[38] For a serving base station, detection of the reserved signal may enable the serving base station to determine a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the non-licensed frequency band.
[39] In addition, the serving base station may also notify the user equipments of a serving cell to measure a reserved signal and report a measurement result so as to establish a user group or re-establish a user group. The reserved signal may be cell-specific, and other user equipment within the same user group may detect a reserved signal based on the information of the serving cell. The timeslot of the reserved signal of a high-access priority user equipment may be before the timeslot of the reserved signal of a low-access priority user equipment, such that a low-access priority user equipment within the user group has enough time to detect the reserved signal transmitted by a high-access priority user equipment.
[40] An objective of establishing a user group is to increase an uplink transmission opportunity of other user equipment within the user group on the unlicensed frequency band when a user equipment within the user group fails to successfully occupy a channel. A traditional method is to schedule a user equipment to contend for an unlicensed frequency band; however, in the present invention, a group of user equipments with different access priorities is pre-granted to contend for an unlicensed frequency band.
[41] The access priority of each user equipment within the user group corresponds to an access priority of its uplink frame, which may be dynamically adjusted based on the access requirements of the user. The access priority of each user within the user group may be explicitly or implicitly notified to the user equipment.
[42] Optionally, each user within the user group has an uplink schedule grant specific to the user equipment. The uplink schedule grant may include an access priority of the user equipment at the unlicensed frequency band. This solution affects little to the prior art. For example, the access priority of the user equipment may be explicitly included in existing downlink control information DCI for uplink schedule grant.
[43] Optionally, each user equipment within the user group may share an uplink schedule grant of the user group. The shared uplink schedule grant may include an access priority of each user equipment within the user group. For example, a new uplink schedule grant shared by the user group is designed, which uplink schedule grant at least includes an access priority of each user equipment within the user group. The access priority of the user equipment may also be implicitly indicated by a sequence of Modulation and Coding Schemes of respective users. Information of the user group e.g., all possible uplink frame structures of group members of the user group, a group identifier, etc, may be transmitted to the user equipment in advance through, e.g., high-layer signaling.
[44] In order to achieve that when a user equipment within a user group fails to successfully occupy a channel, other user equipments within the group can also contend for resources on the unlicensed frequency band. The base station needs to establish a user group that contends for the unlicensed frequency band.
[45] The user equipments within the user group may have different interference environments. For example, a distance between two user equipments within the user group should be as far as possible so as to cause the interference environments between the two user equipments to be different.
[46] A user equipment within the user group can detect reserved signals of user equipments having different access priorities within the user group, such that the user equipment decides whether the unlicensed frequency band has been occupied by other user equipments of the user group.
[47] In order to establish a user group or re-establish a user group, e.g., the serving base station may notify some user equipments within the cell via a high-layer signaling to measure the reserved signal transmitted by the user equipments within the cell at a specific time/frequency resource (e.g., a certain subframe). The some user equipments report the results of measuring the reserved signals (e.g., a detection mark/ a reserved signal strength/ interference degree and the like on each sub-band) to the serving base station via, e.g., a high-layer signaling. Based on the measurement results of said some user equipments, the serving base station determines a user group and the user equipments within the user group. The serving base station may also determine the user group and the user equipments within the user group based on the measurement results reported by the some user equipments and schedule requirements. The serving base station may also group the users based on the measurement results of the reserved signals and user location information, such that user equipments within the user group have different interference environments.
[48] In addition, the serving base station may increase the power of the user equipment to transmit a reserved signal so as to increase the detectable feature of the reserved signal, such that channels between user equipments within the same user group and the interference environment have a recognizable degree. This is beneficial to increase the chance for the user group to occupy the unlicensed frequency band uplink transmission.
[49] Fig. 2 illustrates a flow diagram of resource contention based on an access priority in a user equipment according to one embodiment of the present invention.
[50] In step S201, the user equipment receives an uplink schedule grant from a serving base station, which uplink schedule grant comprises an access priority of the user equipment at an unlicensed frequency band.
[51] Optionally, the uplink schedule grant may be an uplink schedule grant specific to the user equipment.
[52] Optionally, the uplink schedule grant may be an uplink schedule grant shared by the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of each user equipment within the user group.
[53] In step S202, the user equipment configures an uplink frame structure in an uplink frame structure set of the unlicensed frequency band based on the access priority.
[54] The uplink frame structure set may be pre -configured by the system, or transmitted in a cell downlink broadcast channel of the serving base station, or transmitted in a downlink broadcast channel within the user group of the serving base station.
[55] The uplink frame structure comprises an idle timeslot, a CCA time slot, a reserved signal timeslot, and a maximum channel occupation timeslot.
[56] The uplink frame structure is associated with the access priority. Specifically, a timeslot index of the channel clearance assessment in the uplink frame structure is associated with the access priority. The higher the access priority of the user equipment is, the smaller the timeslot index of the channel clearance assessment of the uplink frame structure is.
[57] For example, as shown in Fig. 1, user equipments 1, 2, and 3 respectively correspond to an uplink frame structure A with a high access priority level, an uplink frame structure B with a middle access priority level, and an uplink frame structure C with a low access priority level.
[58] In step S203, the user equipment blind-detects other reserved signals of other user equipments within the user group at the unlicensed frequency band.
[59] The other reserved signals are reserved signals transmitted by user equipment having a higher priority than the user equipment.
[60] In step S204, the user equipment performs channel clearance assessment to an unlicensed frequency band based on an uplink frame structure:
[61] If the user equipment does not blind-detect other reserved signals and a result of the channel clearance assessment is idle, the first reserved signal is transmitted and uplink data transmission for the user equipment is performed on the unlicensed frequency band;
[62] If the user equipment blind-detects other reserved signals or a result of the channel clearance assessment is busy, stopping contending for the unlicensed frequency band.
[63] The first reserved signal is a cell-specific reserved signal, which causes a serving base station to determine a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the non-licensed frequency band.
[64] For example, as shown in Fig. 1, user equipment 1 performs channel clearance assessment before end of the idle time slot of the uplink frame structure A. Supposing a result of the idle channel assessment is busy, the user equipment 1 stops contending for the unlicensed frequency band. Meanwhile, the user equipment 2 and the user equipment 3 perform, e.g., cell-specific reserved signal detection at the reserved signal timeslot of the uplink frame structure A. Because user equipment 1 does not transmit a reserved signal at a reserved signal timeslot of the uplink frame structure A, user equipment 2 and user equipment 3 do not detect the reserved signal transmitted by the user equipment within the user group; the user equipment 2 performs channel clearance assessment at the channel clearance timeslot of the uplink frame structure B of the middle access priority; and the user equipment 3 performs reserved signal detection at the reserved signal timeslot of the uplink frame structure B. If the result of the channel clearance assessment of the user equipment 2 is idle, the user equipment 2, after the idle channel assessment, transmits a reserved signal timeslot of the uplink frame structure B, and performs uplink data transmission on the unlicensed frequency band after transmitting the reserved signal. The user equipment 3 detects the reserved signal transmitted by the user equipment 2 at the reserved signal timeslot of the uplink frame structure B, and the user equipment 3 stops contending for the unlicensed frequency band.
[65] Fig. 3 illustrates a flow diagram of resource contention based on an access priority in a serving base station according to one embodiment of the present invention;
[66] In step S301, the serving base station establishes or re-establishes a user group, user equipments within the user group being pre-granted to contend for an unlicensed frequency band.
[67] Specifically, the serving base station notifies user equipments within a cell of the serving base station to measure a reserved signal and reports a measurement result. The serving base station determines the user group and user equipments within the user group based on the measurement result reported by the user equipments within the cell of the serving base station. The user equipments within the user group have different interference environments. The user equipments within the user group can detect reserved signals of user equipments having different access priorities within the user group.
[68] In step S302, the serving base station transmits an uplink schedule grant to a user equipment within the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment at the unlicensed frequency band.
[69] In step S303, the serving base station blind-detects a reserved signal transmitted by a user equipment within the user group.
[70] In step S304, the serving base station, based on the received reserved signal, determines a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band.
[71] For example, after the serving base station establishes the user group, the base station knows the uplink frame structure set of the user group based on the access priority of the user equipments within the user group. The serving base station blind-detects time slots of the reserved signals that are possibly transmitted by the user equipments within the user group according to all uplink frame structures within all of the uplink frame structure sets. If a reserved signal is detected, the serving base station determines a user equipment occupying an unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band. For example, if the serving base station detects that the reserved signal timeslot of the uplink frame structure B, the serving base station determines, based on the received reserved signal, that the user equipment 2 occupies the unlicensed frequency band and is of an uplink frame structure B, such that the base station may determine a start time of the uplink data transmission and perform corresponding uplink data detection.
[72] Fig. 4 illustrates a schematic diagram of an apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority according to the embodiment of Fig. 2. The apparatus 400, for example, may be or may implement the user equipment described above with reference to Fig. 2.
[73] As illustrated in Fig. 4, the apparatus 400 comprises a receiving unit 401 configured to receive an uplink schedule grant from a serving base station, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment on an unlicensed frequency band; a configuring unit 402 configured to configure an uplink frame structure for uplink transmission of the unlicensed frequency band based on the access priority, the uplink frame structure being a kind of frame structure in a set of an uplink frame structures; a first blind-detecting unit 403 configured to blind-detect other reserved signals of other user equipments within a user group on the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure; an assessing unit 404 configured to perform channel clearance assessment to the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure; and a deciding unit 405 configured to determine whether the other reserved signals are blind-detected by the user equipment and decide, if the user equipment fails to blind-detect the other reserved signals and a result of the channel clearance assessment is idle, to transmit a first reserved signal on the unlicensed frequency band and perform uplink data transmission of the user equipment; if the user equipment blind-detects the other reserved signals or a result of the channel clearance assessment is busy, to stop contending for the unlicensed frequency band. [74] Fig. 5 illustrates a schematic diagram of an apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority according to the embodiment of Fig. 3. The apparatus 500, for example, may be or may implement the user equipment described above with reference to Fig. 3.
[75] As illustrated in Fig. 5, the apparatus 500 comprises a user group establishing unit 501 configured to establish or re-establish a user group, user equipments within the user group being pre-granted to contend for an unlicensed frequency band; a transmitting unit 502 configured to transmit an uplink schedule grant to a user equipment within the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment at the unlicensed frequency band; a second blind-detecting unit 503 configured to blind-detect a reserved signal transmitted by a user equipment within the user group; and a reserved signal receiving unit 504 configured to, based on the received reserved signal, determine a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band.
[76] To those skilled in the art, it is apparent that the present invention is not limited to the details of the illustrated embodiments above, and without departing from the spirit or basic feature of the present invention, can implement the present invention in other specific forms. Therefore, in any way, the embodiments should be regarded as illustrative, not limitative. In addition, it is apparent that the term "comprise" does not exclude other elements and steps, and the expression "one" does not exclude plurality. A plurality of elements stated in the apparatus claims may also be implemented by one element. Words like first and second are used for representing names, without representing any specific sequence.

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1. A method for resource contention based on an access priority in a user equipment, the method comprising steps of:
A. receiving an uplink schedule grant from a serving base station, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment on an unlicensed frequency band;
B. configuring an uplink frame structure for uplink transmission of the unlicensed frequency band based on the access priority, the uplink frame structure being one frame structure in a set of an uplink frame structures;
C. blind-detecting other reserved signals of other user equipments within a user group on the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure;
D. performing channel clearance assessment to the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure:
if the user equipment fails to blind-detect the other reserved signals and a result of the channel clearance assessment is idle, transmitting a first reserved signal on the unlicensed frequency band and performing uplink data transmission of the user equipment;
if the user equipment blind-detects the other reserved signals or a result of the channel clearance assessment is busy, stopping contending for the unlicensed frequency band.
2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the uplink schedule grant is a user equipment-specific uplink schedule grant.
3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the uplink schedule grant is an uplink schedule grant shared by the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of each user equipment within the user group.
4. The method according to claim 1 , characterized in that the uplink frame structure comprises an idle timeslot, a CCA timeslot, a reserved signal timeslot and a maximum channel occupation timeslot.
5. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the uplink frame structure is associated with the access priority.
6. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that a timeslot index of the channel clearance assessment in the uplink frame structure is associated with the access priority.
7. The method according to claim 6, characterized in that the higher the access priority of the user equipment is, the smaller the timeslot index of the channel clearance assessment of the uplink frame structure is.
8. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the other reserved signals are reserved signals transmitted by user equipment having a higher priority in the user group than the user equipment.
9. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the timeslot of the first reserved signal is before the end of a timeslot of a channel clearance assessment of a user equipment having a lower access priority than the user equipment.
10. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the uplink frame structure set is pre-configured by the system, or transmitted by the serving base station in a cell downlink broadcast channel of the serving base station, or transmitted by the serving base station in a downlink broadcast channel within the user group.
11. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the first reserved signal is a cell-specific reserved signal, which causes the base station to determine a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the non-licensed frequency band.
12. A method for resource contention based on an access priority in a serving base station, the method comprising steps of:
i. establishing or re-establishing a user group, user equipments within the user group being pre-granted to contend for an unlicensed frequency band;
ii. transmitting an uplink schedule grant to a user equipment within the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment at the unlicensed frequency band;
iii. blind-detecting a reserved signal transmitted by a user equipment within the user group;
iv. Based on the received reserved signal, determining a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band.
13. The method according to claim 12, characterized in that the step i comprises:
notifying user equipments within a cell of the serving base station to measure a reserved signal and report a measurement result;
determining the user group and user equipments within the user group based on the measurement result reported by the user equipments within the cell of the serving base station.
14. The method according to claim 13, characterized in that the user equipments within the user group have different interference environments.
15. The method according to claim 12, characterized in that the user equipments within the user group can detect reserved signals of user equipments having different access priorities within the user group.
16. An apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority in a user equipment, the apparatus comprising:
a receiving unit configured to receive an uplink schedule grant from a serving base station, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment on an unlicensed frequency band;
a configuring unit configured to configure an uplink frame structure for uplink transmission of the unlicensed frequency band based on the access priority, the uplink frame structure being one frame structure in a set of an uplink frame structures;
a first blind-detecting unit configured to blind-detect other reserved signals of other user equipments within a user group on the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure;
an assessing unit configured to perform channel clearance assessment to the unlicensed frequency band based on the uplink frame structure; and
a deciding unit configured to determine whether the other reserved signals are blind-detected by the user equipment, and decide to transmit a first reserved signal on the unlicensed frequency band and perform uplink data transmission of the user equipment, if the user equipment fails to blind-detect the other reserved signals and a result of the channel clearance assessment is idle; to stop contending for the unlicensed frequency band, if the user equipment blind-detects the other reserved signals or a result of the channel clearance assessment is busy.
17. An apparatus for resource contention based on an access priority in a serving base station, the apparatus comprising:
a user group establishing unit configured to establish or re-establish a user group, user equipments within the user group being pre-granted to contend for an unlicensed frequency band; a transmitting unit configured to transmit an uplink schedule grant to a user equipment within the user group, the uplink schedule grant comprising an access priority of the user equipment at the unlicensed frequency band;
a second blind-detecting unit configured to blind-detect a reserved signal transmitted by a user equipment within the user group; and
a reserved signal receiving unit configured to, based on the received reserved signal, determine a user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band and an uplink frame structure of the user equipment occupying the unlicensed frequency band.
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