WO2017076072A1

WO2017076072A1 - Harq process check and calibration method and apparatus, and base station

Info

Publication number: WO2017076072A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/091628
Authority: WO
Inventors: 李忠庆; 魏崇
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2015-11-04
Filing date: 2016-07-25
Publication date: 2017-05-11
Also published as: CN106658555A

Abstract

A hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process check and calibration method and apparatus, and a base station. A target activation state, sent by a base station to a terminal, of a target HARQ process is acquired, and a current actual activation state of a target HARQ process on a terminal side is acquired; the target activation state is compared with the actual activation state, whether the target activation state is consistent with the actual activation state is determined, and in this way, it can be known that whether the activated or deactivated HARQ process of the terminal is consistent with an HARQ process scheduled by a Node B; and when inconsistent, an anomaly notification is generated, and the activation state of the HARQ process on the terminal side is calibrated according to the anomaly notification.

Description

HARQ process inspection and calibration method and device and base station

Technical field

This document relates to, but is not limited to, the field of universal mobile communications, and more particularly to a HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat request) process check and calibration method and apparatus and base station.

Background technique

In the field of UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), especially WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) access 3G communication (3rd Generation) base station system, as users transmit high-speed data The demand is getting higher and higher, and HSUPA (high speed uplink packet access) technology is introduced. In HSUPA, 2 millisecond (ms) E-DCH (Enhanced Dedicated Channel) TTI The user of the transmission time interval (Transmission Time Interval) has the advantages of small delay and large peak rate compared with the user of 10 ms TTI, but also has the disadvantage of large uplink transmission power, because the power will climb when multi-users, resulting in control channel occupation. The power of the cell is large, and the total uplink throughput of the cell is reduced. However, the protocol stipulates that 8 HARQ processes of 2 ms can be freely activated and deactivated, and all 4 HARQ processes of 10 ms must be activated; thus, time division multiplexing can be used to distinguish different 2 ms users and reduce inter-user interference. Improve the uplink throughput of the cell. During the HSUPA scheduling, different HARQ processes are activated and deactivated according to the situation at the time, and the uplink throughput of the cell can be raised if the number of users is unchanged.

There are two ways to activate the HARQ process. One is to activate certain HARQ processes in the signaling mode. The method is simple, but not flexible. The other is dynamic mode. The HARQ process is activated and deactivated according to the actual situation. The processing is flexible. Different from the signaling to notify the terminal to activate certain HARQ processes, the dynamic activation and deactivation of the Node B (Node Base Station) needs to pass through the E-AGCH (E-DCH Absolute Grant Channel). The absolute grant channel) sends a command to the terminal, which may cause the terminal's actual activation and deactivation of the HARQ process to be inconsistent with the Node B scheduling due to the error, etc., resulting in abnormal scheduling, which in turn increases the interference of the cell and affects the throughput of the cell. . Therefore, a detection method and a calibration method are needed to find out whether the activation and deactivation of the HARQ process of the terminal and the HARQ process scheduled by the Node B are consistent. Then, the inconsistency is corrected to ensure that the activation and deactivation of the terminal are consistent with the HARQ process scheduled by the Node B.

Summary of the invention

The following is an overview of the topics detailed in this document. This Summary is not intended to limit the scope of the claims.

The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for verifying and calibrating a HARQ process, and a base station. When dynamically activating certain HARQ processes, it is determined whether the HARQ process of the activation and deactivation of the terminal is consistent with the HARQ process scheduled by the Node B.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for verifying a HARQ process, including: acquiring a target activation state of a target HARQ process that is currently sent by a base station to a terminal; acquiring an actual activation state of the target HARQ process at the terminal side; The actual activation states are compared to determine whether the target activation state is consistent with the actual activation state.

Optionally, the obtaining, by the acquiring, the target activation state of the target HARQ process that is sent by the base station to the terminal, is: acquiring, according to the target HARQ process activation state control pattern currently corresponding to the target HARQ process, the location that the base station currently sends to the terminal. The target activation state of the target HARQ process.

Optionally, the method further includes: before acquiring the current actual activation state of the target HARQ process on the terminal side, starting time after the target base station sends the target activation state to the terminal, until the timing value reaches a pre-up Set the delay value.

Optionally, the acquiring the current actual activation status of the target HARQ process on the terminal side includes: acquiring the actual activation according to the target activation status and information about a physical channel between the base station and the terminal side. In the state, the physical channel includes an uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel and an uplink enhanced dedicated physical data channel.

Optionally, obtaining the actual activation state according to the target activation state and the information of the physical channel includes: determining, when the target activation state is deactivated, whether a current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is If the data is greater than the preset channel energy threshold, if yes, it is determined whether the data decoding output by the uplink enhanced dedicated physical data channel is correct. If yes, the actual activation state is determined to be active; if not, whether the number of HARQ errors is determined. Greater than the preset error threshold The value, if yes, determines that the actual activation state is active.

Optionally, obtaining the actual activation status according to the target activation status and the information of the physical channel further includes:

The current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is less than or equal to a preset channel energy threshold; or the current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is greater than a preset channel energy threshold, and the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel outputs data. The decoding is incorrect, and the number of HARQ errors is less than or equal to the preset error threshold, and the actual activation state is determined to be deactivated.

Optionally, obtaining the actual activation state according to the target activation state and the information of the physical channel includes: determining, when the target activation state is active, whether a current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is greater than Presetting the channel energy threshold, if yes, determining whether the uplink enhanced dedicated physical data channel decoding is correct, if correct, clearing the accumulated abnormal value; if not, determining whether the minimum power ratio corresponding authorization value is greater than the service authorization value and the step size And if not, clear the accumulated outliers, and if so, the cumulative outliers are incremented by one;

After the accumulated abnormal value is cleared or the accumulated abnormal value is incremented by one, it is determined whether the accumulated abnormal value reaches a preset value. If it is reached, it is determined that the actual activation state is deactivation, and if not, it is determined that the actual activation state is active.

Before determining whether the accumulated abnormal value reaches the preset value, if the current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is less than or equal to the preset channel energy threshold, determining whether the previous saved satisfied bit is satisfactory, and if not, accumulating the abnormal value Add one, if yes, determine whether the total cache state value of the enhanced dedicated channel saved last time is zero. If not, the cumulative outlier is incremented by one.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for calibrating a HARQ process, including: generating an abnormality notification when the actual activation state is inconsistent with the target activation state by using the foregoing HARQ process verification method; and notifying the terminal side according to the abnormality notification The activation state of the HARQ process is subjected to a calibration process.

Optionally, performing the calibration process on the terminal side actual activation state corresponding to the target HARQ process according to the abnormality notification includes: generating a control command according to the abnormality notification, and sending the control instruction to the end The activation state of the HARQ process on the end side is subjected to calibration processing.

Optionally, generating a control command according to the abnormality notification, and sending the control command to perform calibration processing on the activation state of the HARQ process on the terminal side includes: when the target HARQ process is in a deactivated state, sending and transmitting according to the HARQ process identifier The frame number and the subframe number of the activation message are sent, and the deactivation command including the frame number and the subframe number of the deactivation message is sent to the terminal side HARQ process at the corresponding time of the frame number and the subframe number of the received deactivation message. Corresponding deactivation operation; when the target HARQ process is in an active state, calculating a frame number and a subframe number of the sending activation message according to the HARQ process identifier, and transmitting the corresponding time of the frame number and the subframe number of the calculated transmission activation message The activation command of the frame number and the subframe number of the activation message performs a corresponding activation operation on the HARQ process on the terminal side.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a HARQ process verification apparatus, including:

a first acquiring module, where the first acquiring module is configured to acquire a target activation state of a target HARQ process that the base station currently sends to the terminal;

a second acquiring module, where the second acquiring module is configured to acquire a current actual activation state of the target HARQ process on the terminal side;

a determining module, the determining module is configured to compare the target activation state with the actual activation state, and determine whether the target activation state is consistent with the actual activation state.

Optionally, the first obtaining module includes an obtaining sub-module and a determining sub-module, where the acquiring sub-module is configured to acquire, according to the target HARQ process activation state control pattern currently corresponding to the target HARQ process, the current base station to the The target activation state of the target HARQ process sent by the terminal.

Optionally, the method further includes: a timing module, where the timing module is configured to send the target activation state to the terminal after the base station sends the target active state to the current active state of the target HARQ process Start timing until the timer value reaches the preset delay value.

Optionally, the second obtaining module includes a processing submodule, and the processing submodule is configured to acquire the actual activation state according to the target activation state and information of a physical channel between the base station and the terminal side. The physical channel includes an uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel and an uplink enhanced dedicated physical data channel.

Optionally, the processing submodule includes a first processing unit, and the first processing unit is configured to determine, when the target activation state is deactivated, whether a current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is greater than a pre- The channel energy threshold is set. If yes, it is determined whether the data decoding output by the uplink enhanced dedicated physical data channel is correct. If yes, the actual activation state is determined to be active; if not, whether the number of HARQ errors is greater than the pre-determination The error number threshold is set, and if so, the actual activation state is determined to be active.

Optionally, the first processing unit is further configured to: the current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is less than or equal to a preset channel energy threshold; or the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel has a current channel energy greater than a preset channel. The energy threshold is determined, and the data of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel output is incorrectly decoded, and the number of HARQ errors is less than or equal to the preset error number threshold, and the actual activation state is determined to be deactivated.

Optionally, the processing sub-module includes a second processing unit, where the second processing unit is configured to determine, when the target activation state is active, whether a current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is greater than a preset. The channel energy threshold, if yes, determining whether the uplink enhanced dedicated physical data channel decoding is correct, if correct, clearing the accumulated outliers; if not, determining whether the minimum power ratio corresponding to the authorized value is greater than the sum of the service authorization value and the step size If no, the accumulated outliers are cleared, and if so, the accumulated outliers are incremented by one;

Optionally, the second processing unit is further configured to:

Before determining whether the accumulated abnormal value reaches the preset value, if the current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is less than or equal to the preset channel energy threshold, determining whether the previous saved satisfied bit is satisfactory, if not, accumulating the abnormal value Add one, if yes, determine whether the total cache state value of the enhanced dedicated channel saved last time is zero. If not, the cumulative outlier is incremented by one.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a HARQ process calibration apparatus, including:

An abnormality notification generating module configured to generate, when the actual activation state is inconsistent with the target activation state by the foregoing HARQ process verification device Regular notice;

And a calibration module configured to perform a calibration process on an activation state of the target HARQ process on the terminal side according to the abnormality notification.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a base station, including a sending apparatus, the foregoing HARQ process checking apparatus, and a HARQ process calibration apparatus;

The transmitting device is configured to send a target activation state of the target HARQ process to the terminal;

The HARQ process checking apparatus is configured to acquire the target activation state of the target HARQ process sent by the sending device to the terminal side, and acquire the actual activation state of the target HARQ process of the terminal side, And comparing the actual activation state with the target activation state;

The HARQ process calibration device is configured to calibrate the actual activation state of the terminal side according to the target activation state of the target HARQ process when the actual activation state is inconsistent with the target activation state.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions for performing any of the methods described above.

The beneficial effects of the embodiments of the present invention are:

The present invention proposes a HARQ process check and calibration method and apparatus, and a base station, which acquires a target activation state of a target HARQ process currently transmitted by the base station to the terminal and a current active state of the terminal-side target HARQ process; the target activation state and the actual state The activation state is compared to determine whether the target activation state is consistent with the actual activation state, so that it is known whether the activation and deactivation of the terminal is consistent with the HARQ process scheduled by the Node B. When the inconsistency is generated, an exception notification is generated, according to the abnormality notification. The calibration process of the activation state of the HARQ process on the terminal side is performed. In this manner, when the HARQ process of the terminal is dynamically activated, whether the state of the HARQ process of the terminal is consistent with that of the Node B, if the state is inconsistent, the actual activation state of the HARQ process on the terminal side is calibrated to solve the problem in the prior art. When a certain HARQ process is activated, the activation and deactivation of the HARQ process of the terminal and the HARQ process scheduled by the Node B are inconsistent, affecting the accuracy of the scheduling and the problem of affecting the throughput of the cell.

Other aspects will be apparent upon reading and understanding the drawings and detailed description.

BRIEF abstract

1 is a flowchart of a method for verifying a HARQ process according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention;

2 is a flowchart of a verification method when a target activation state is deactivated according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart of a verification method when a target activation state is activated according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart of a method for calibrating a HARQ process according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention;

5 is a schematic diagram of a HARQ process verification apparatus according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention;

6 is a schematic diagram of a first acquisition module of the HARQ process verification apparatus of FIG. 5;

7 is a schematic diagram of a second acquisition module of the HARQ process verification apparatus of FIG. 5;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of another HARQ process verification apparatus according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention; FIG.

9 is a schematic diagram of a HARQ process calibration apparatus according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of a base station according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention.

Embodiments of the invention

The present invention will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Embodiment 1:

The present embodiment provides a method for verifying the HARQ process, which is used to check whether the target activation state of the current target HARQ process sent by the base station to the terminal is consistent with the actual activation state of the terminal side corresponding to the target HARQ process, and avoids dynamically activating certain HARQ processes. When the HARQ process of the actual activation state of the activation and deactivation states of the terminal is inconsistent with the HARQ process scheduled by the Node B, affecting the accuracy of the scheduling and the throughput affecting the cell, refer to FIG. 1. The foregoing verification methods include:

Step S101: Acquire a target activation state of a target HARQ process that the base station currently sends to the terminal.

Step S102: Acquire a current actual activation state of the target HARQ process on the terminal side.

Step S103, comparing the target activation state with the actual activation state, and determining the location Whether the target activation state is consistent with the actual activation state.

Each step is explained below. In step S101, the scheduler (part of the base station) pre-allocates the target activation state of the HARQ process, and sends information including the target activation state to the terminal, and controls the activation and deactivation states of the terminal HARQ process. However, when some HARQ processes are dynamically activated, there may be cases where the actual activation and deactivation of the HARQ process of the terminal is inconsistent with that of the Node B due to the presence of errors, etc., which may result in abnormal scheduling and increase of the cell. The interference affects the throughput of the cell. To avoid this situation, it is necessary to check that the actual activation state of the terminal corresponding to the target HARQ process is inconsistent with that of the Node B. Optionally, the target state information of the target HARQ process that is sent by the base station to the terminal is obtained, and the target activation state of the target HARQ process is obtained, and the target activation state is obtained according to the target HARQ process activation state currently corresponding to the target HARQ process. The control pattern obtains the target activation state, and the HARQ process activation state control pattern can be acquired from the scheduler.

Step S102: After obtaining the target activation state, in order to ensure that the terminal receives the control information about the activation state of the target HARQ process sent by the E-AGCH channel, a certain delay is required, so that the current actual activation of the target HARQ process on the terminal side is acquired. Before the state, the timer is started after the base station sends the target activation state to the terminal, and the timer value reaches a preset delay value. Optionally, the timer can be started. After the timer reaches the preset delay value, Obtain the current actual activation status of the terminal-side target HARQ process.

Obtaining the actual active state of the terminal-side target HARQ process includes: obtaining an actual activation state according to the target activation state and information of the physical channel between the base station and the terminal side. Optionally, the physical channel includes an E-DPC (E-DCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel, uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel) and E-DPDCH (E-DCH Dedicated Physical date Channel). That is, the actual activation state is obtained according to E-DPCCH and E-DPDCH. When the target activation state is deactivated, please refer to FIG. 2, including:

Step S201, determining whether the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is greater than a preset channel energy threshold, if yes, go to step S202; if no, go to step S204;

Step S202, it is determined whether the data decoding output by the E-DPDCH is correct, if not, go to step S203; if yes, go to step S205;

Step S203, determining whether the number of HARQ FAILs is greater than a threshold number of preset errors, If no, go to step S204; if yes, go to step S205;

Step S204, determining that the actual activation state is deactivation;

In step S205, it is determined that the actual activation state is activation.

The above-mentioned steps of the present invention can be implemented by the well-known techniques of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of protection of the embodiments of the present invention, and are not described herein again.

That is, when the target activation state of the target HARQ process is deactivated, it is verified and judged if the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is less than or equal to the preset channel energy threshold; or if the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is greater than the preset channel. The energy threshold, the data decoded by the E-DPDCH output is incorrect, and the HARQ FAIL condition is not met, and the actual activation state of the target HARQ process is deactivated. If the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is greater than the preset channel energy threshold; and the data of the E-DPDCH output is decoded correctly; or if the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is greater than the preset channel energy threshold, the data decoding of the E-DPDCH output Incorrect, and the HARQ FAIL judgment condition specified by the protocol is reached, the actual activation state of the target HARQ process is activated. It should be understood that the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH includes the channel power in a certain period of time of the current E-DPCCH channel corresponding to the target HARQ process.

When the target activation state is the active state, first determine whether the value of the SG (Serving Grant) is zero for the accumulated abnormal value in the abnormality counter of each HARQ process. If it is zero, no detection is performed, if not If it is zero, the detection is started; the Happy Bit and the TEBS (Total E-DCH Buffer State) information of the previous update are saved before the detection is started. Referring to Figure 3, the detection process includes:

Step S301, determining whether the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is greater than a preset channel energy threshold, if yes, go to step S302; if no, go to step S305;

Step S302, it is determined whether the data decoding output by the E-DPDCH is correct, if not, go to step S303; if yes, go to step S304;

Step S303, it is determined whether the SG _LUPR (the minimum power ratio corresponding authorization value) is greater than the sum of SG and A (step size), if yes, go to step S307; if not, go to step S304;

Step S304, the accumulated abnormal value is cleared;

Step S305, it is determined whether the Happy Bit is happy (satisfactory), and if so, go to step S306; If no, go to step S307;

Step 306, it is determined whether the TEBS is zero, if not, go to step S307;

Step S307, the cumulative abnormal value is increased by one;

Step S308, it is determined whether the accumulated abnormal value reaches the preset value, if not, go to step S309; if yes, go to step S310;

Step S309, determining that the actual activation state is active;

In step S310, it is determined that the actual activation state is deactivation.

That is, when the target activation state of the target HARQ process is active, the accumulated abnormal value of the abnormality counter corresponding to the target HARQ process is first cleared, and the latest Happy Bit and TEBS are saved, and then the test analysis and judgment are performed, if the E-DPCCH is currently The channel energy is greater than the preset channel energy threshold, and the data output by the E-DPDCH is correctly decoded; or if the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is greater than the preset channel energy threshold, the data decoding of the E-DPDCH output is incorrect, and the SG _LUPR If the sum of SG and A is less than or equal to the sum of SG and A, the accumulated abnormal value of the abnormal counter is cleared. To avoid clearing the error, optional, you can determine whether the value of the abnormal counter reaches the preset value. If not, the actual active state is Activated; if reached, the actual activation state is deactivated. It is verified that if the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is greater than the preset channel energy threshold, the data output by the E-DPDCH is decoded incorrectly, and the SG _{LUPR is} greater than the sum of SG and A; or if the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is less than or equal to Preset the channel energy threshold, and the Happy Bit is Unhappy, or if the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is greater than the preset channel energy threshold, and the Happy Bit is Happy, and the TEBS is not zero, then the exception is abnormal. The accumulated abnormal value of the counter is incremented by one, and then it is determined whether the accumulated abnormal value of the abnormal counter reaches the preset value. If not, the actual activation state is activated; if it is reached, the actual activation state is deactivated, which is inconsistent with the target activation state.

It is to be understood that the HARQ process corresponding to each E-DCH TTI needs to perform the processing of steps 301 to 307. When the accumulated abnormal value of the counter of a certain HARQ process reaches a preset value, the actual activation state of the process is considered. For deactivation, further calibration processing is required.

In addition, it should be understood that the SG _LUPR is an index of the scheduling grant table corresponding to the minimum value of the value of the variable reference_ETPR in the scheduling grant table; the reference_ETPR is actually used by the previous TTI of the same HARQ process for transmission. The power ratio of the E-DPDCH to the DPCCH scheduled for transmission.

Step S103, comparing the target activation state with the actual activation state, and determining whether the target activation state is consistent with the actual activation state, including: after obtaining the target activation state and the actual activation state of the target HARQ process, comparing The target activation state and the actual activation state are determined to be consistent. If the two are inconsistent, the actual activation state of the terminal is inconsistent with that of the Node B. That is, the scheduling of the target HARQ process is abnormal. In this case, the abnormality can be further calibrated as needed. Processing, to ensure that the two are consistent; if they are consistent, you can directly test the next target HARQ process without any processing.

Embodiment 2:

The embodiment provides a HARQ process calibration method, when the target activation state of the target HARQ process is inconsistent with the actual activation state according to the HARQ process verification method of the first embodiment, an abnormality notification is generated, and the target HARQ process is notified according to the abnormality. Corresponding terminal-side activation status is calibrated, see Figure 4, including:

Step S401, when the actual activation state of the target HARQ process is inconsistent with the target activation state by the HARQ process check method, an abnormality notification is generated;

Optionally, after the comparison, if the target state is inconsistent with the actual state, an exception notification is generated, and then the corresponding processing is performed according to the exception notification.

The exception notification includes the type of the exception, and subsequent processing according to the type of the exception.

Step S402, performing calibration processing on the state of the target HARQ process on the terminal side according to the abnormality notification.

Optionally, performing the calibration process on the terminal side actual activation state corresponding to the target HARQ process according to the abnormality notification includes: generating a control command according to the abnormality notification, and issuing a control command to perform calibration processing on the activation state of the terminal side HARQ process.

Generating a control command according to the abnormality notification, and issuing a control command to perform calibration processing on the activation state of the HARQ process on the terminal side includes: when the target activation state of the target HARQ process is de-excited The frame number and the subframe number of the deactivation message are calculated according to the HARQ ID (process ID), and the frame number and the subframe number including the deactivation message are sent at the corresponding time of the frame number and the subframe number of the received deactivation message. The deactivation command performs a corresponding deactivation operation on the terminal side HARQ process; when the target HARQ process target activation state is the active state, the frame number and the subframe number of the transmission activation message are calculated according to the HARQ ID, and the calculated transmission activation is performed. The frame number of the message and the corresponding time of the subframe number send an activation command including the frame number and the subframe number of the deactivation message to perform a corresponding activation operation on the terminal side HARQ process.

Specifically, how to calculate the frame number and the sub-frame number of the de-activated message or the activating message may be implemented by using a well-known technique of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of protection of the embodiment of the present invention, and details are not described herein again.

The above method can be implemented by a base station.

Embodiment 3:

The present embodiment provides a HARQ process verification apparatus, which is configured to check whether the target activation state of the target HARQ process that the base station currently sends to the terminal is consistent with the actual activation state of the terminal side, and avoids activation of the terminal when dynamically activating certain HARQ processes. The HARQ process of the actual activation state of the deactivated state is inconsistent with the HARQ process scheduled by the Node B, affecting the accuracy of the scheduling and the problem of affecting the throughput of the cell. Referring to FIG. 5, the foregoing HARQ process checking apparatus 50 includes:

The first obtaining module 501 is configured to acquire target state information of a target HARQ process that the base station currently sends to the terminal;

The second obtaining module 502 is configured to acquire a current active state of the terminal-side target HARQ process;

The determining module 503 is configured to compare the target activation state with the actual activation state, and determine whether the target activation state is consistent with the actual activation state.

The following is a detailed description of each module. The scheduler pre-allocates the target activation status of the HARQ process, and sends information including the target activation status to the terminal to control the activation and deactivation status of the terminal HARQ process, but dynamically activates a certain In some HARQ processes, due to factors such as error codes, there may be cases where the actual activation and deactivation of the HARQ process of the terminal is inconsistent with that of the Node B. In this case, the scheduling abnormality increases the interference of the cell and affects the cell. Throughput In order to avoid this situation, it is necessary to check that the actual activation state of the terminal corresponding to the target HARQ process is inconsistent with the scheduling of the Node B. Optionally, referring to FIG. 6, the first obtaining module 501 includes an obtaining submodule 5011, and the obtaining submodule 5011 is configured to obtain a HARQ process activation state control pattern corresponding to the target HARQ process, where the HARQ process activation state control pattern can be obtained from the scheduler. Obtaining, according to the target HARQ process activation state control pattern currently corresponding to the target HARQ process, acquiring the target activation state of the target HARQ process that the base station currently sends to the terminal. .

After obtaining the target activation state, the second obtaining module 502 needs to ensure a certain delay in order to ensure that the terminal receives the control information of the target HARQ process activation state sent by the E-AGCH channel, and therefore acquires the current target HARQ process at the terminal side. Before the actual activation state, the base station starts to time after the target activation state is sent to the terminal, and the timing value reaches a preset delay value. For details, refer to FIG. 8. The HARQ process verification device further includes a timing module 504. The timing module 504 is configured to start timing after the target base station sends the target activation state to the terminal before acquiring the current actual activation state of the terminal-side target HARQ process, until the timing value reaches a preset delay value, when the preset value is reached. After the delay value is set, the second obtaining module 502 is notified to acquire the current actual state of the terminal-side target HARQ process.

Optionally, referring to FIG. 7, the second obtaining module 502 includes a processing submodule 5021, and the processing submodule 5021 is configured to obtain an actual activation state according to the target activation state and information of a physical channel between the base station and the terminal side, where the physical channel includes E-DPCCH and E-DPDCH channels.

The processing sub-module 5021 includes a first processing unit 50211, and the first processing unit 50211 is configured to determine whether the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is greater than a preset channel energy threshold when the target activation state is deactivated, and if so, determine the E-DPDCH output. Whether the data decoding is correct, if it is correct, it is determined that the actual activation state is active; if not, it is determined whether the HARQ FAIL is greater than the preset error number threshold, and if so, the actual activation state is determined to be active.

The first processing unit 50211 is further configured to: when the target activation state is deactivated, such as the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is less than or equal to the preset channel energy threshold; or, the current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is greater than the preset channel energy. Threshold, and the data of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel output is incorrectly decoded, and the number of HARQ errors is less than or equal to the preset error number threshold, and the actual activation state is determined to be deactivated. It should be understood that the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH includes The power within a certain period of time within the current E-DPCCH channel corresponding to the target HARQ process.

Optionally, the processing submodule includes a second processing unit 50212, and the second processing unit 50212 is configured to determine, when the target activation state is active, whether the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is greater than a preset channel energy threshold, and if so, determine E- Whether the data decoded by DPDCH is correct. If it is correct, the accumulated abnormal value is cleared. If it is incorrect, it is judged whether SG _LUPR is greater than SG+A. If not, the accumulated abnormal value is cleared. If yes, the accumulated abnormal value is increased by one. ;

When the target activation state is the active state, firstly, whether the SG is zero for the accumulated abnormal value in the abnormality counter of each HARQ process, if it is zero, no detection is performed, otherwise the detection is started; before the detection is started, the previous update is saved. Happy Bit and TEBS information.

The second processing unit 50212 is further configured to determine, before the target activation state is activated, whether the current channel energy of the E-DPCCH is less than or equal to the preset channel energy threshold before determining whether the accumulated abnormal value reaches the preset value, and determining the previous saved Happy. Whether the Bit is Happy, if not, the accumulated abnormal value is incremented by one. If yes, it is judged whether the previously saved TEBS is zero. If it is not zero, the accumulated abnormal value is incremented by one.

The determining module 503 compares the target activation state with the actual activation state, and determines whether the target activation state and the actual activation state are consistent. The determining module 503 obtains the target activation state and the actual activation state of the target HARQ process, and compares the target activation state with the actual activation. The state is determined to be consistent. If the two are inconsistent, the actual activation status of the terminal is inconsistent with that of the Node B. That is, the scheduling of the target HARQ process is abnormal. In this case, the abnormality can be further calibrated as needed to ensure that the two are consistent. If they are consistent, you can directly test the next target HARQ process without any processing.

Embodiment 4:

The present embodiment provides a HARQ process calibration apparatus, which is configured to generate an abnormality notification when the target activation state of the HARQ process is inconsistent with the actual activation state according to the HARQ process verification apparatus of the third embodiment, and corresponding to the target HARQ process according to the abnormality notification. The activation state of the terminal side is subjected to a calibration process. Referring to FIG. 9, the HARQ process calibration device 60 includes:

The abnormality notification generating module 601 is configured to generate an abnormality notification when the actual activation state is inconsistent with the target activation state by the HARQ process verification method protected by the first embodiment;

The calibration module 602 is configured to perform a calibration process on the state of the HARQ process on the terminal side according to the abnormality notification.

Optionally, the calibration module 602 is configured to: generate a control command according to the abnormality notification, issue the control command, and perform a calibration process on the activation state of the HARQ process on the terminal side.

The calibration module 602 is configured to: when the target activation state of the target HARQ process is deactivated, calculate a frame number and a subframe number of the deactivation message according to the HARQ ID, and calculate the frame number and the subframe number of the sent deactivation message. The corresponding time sending deactivation command performs a corresponding deactivation operation on the terminal side HARQ process; when the target HARQ process target activation state is the active state, the frame number and the subframe number of the sending activation message are calculated according to the HARQ ID, and are calculated. Sending the activation time of the frame number of the activation message and the corresponding time of the subframe number to send an activation command to perform a corresponding activation operation on the HARQ process on the terminal side.

The embodiment further includes a base station. Referring to FIG. 10, the base station includes a transmitting device 40, the foregoing HARQ process checking device 50, and a HARQ process calibration device 60. The transmitting device 40 is configured to send a target activation state of the target HARQ process to the base station. The terminal, the HARQ process checking device 50 is configured to acquire a target activation state of the target HARQ process sent by the transmitting device to the terminal side, and acquire an actual activation state of the terminal-side target HARQ process, and compare the actual activation state with the target activation state; the HARQ process The calibration device 60 is arranged to calibrate the actual activation state of the terminal side according to the target activation state of the target HARQ process when the actual activation state is inconsistent with the target activation state.

One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or a portion of the above steps may be performed by a program to instruct related hardware, such as a processor, which may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, such as a read only memory, disk or optical disk. Wait. Alternatively, all or part of the steps of the above embodiments may also be implemented using one or more integrated circuits. Correspondingly, each module/unit in the foregoing embodiment may be implemented in the form of hardware, for example, by implementing an integrated circuit to implement its corresponding function, or may be implemented in the form of a software function module, for example, executing a program in a storage and a memory by a processor. / instruction to achieve its corresponding function. The invention is not limited to any specific form of combination of hardware and software.

The above is a further detailed description of the present invention in connection with the specific embodiments, and the specific embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the description. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Industrial applicability

The foregoing technical solution implements the dynamic activation of certain HARQ processes, ensures that the HARQ process of the activation and deactivation of the terminal is consistent with the HARQ process scheduled by the Node B, and improves the scheduling accuracy and the throughput of the cell.

Claims

A hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ process check method, comprising:

Obtaining a target activation state of the target HARQ process that the base station currently sends to the terminal;

Obtaining a current actual activation state of the target HARQ process on the terminal side;

Comparing the target activation state with the actual activation state, and determining whether the target activation state is consistent with the actual activation state.
The method for verifying a HARQ process according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring the target activation state of the target HARQ process that the base station currently sends to the terminal comprises:

Acquiring, according to the target HARQ process activation state control pattern currently corresponding to the target HARQ process, the target activation state of the target HARQ process that the base station currently sends to the terminal.
The HARQ process verification method according to claim 1, further comprising:

Before acquiring the current actual activation state of the target HARQ process on the terminal side, the base station starts timing after the target activation state is sent to the terminal, until the timing value reaches a preset delay value.
The method for verifying a HARQ process according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the obtaining the current actual activation state of the target HARQ process on the terminal side comprises: according to the target activation state and the base station and the The actual activation state is obtained by information of a physical channel between the terminal sides, where the physical channel includes an uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel and an uplink enhanced dedicated physical data channel.
The HARQ process verification method according to claim 4, wherein the obtaining the actual activation state according to the target activation state and the information of the physical channel comprises:

When the target activation state is deactivated, determining whether the current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is greater than a preset channel energy threshold, and if so, determining whether the data decoding output by the uplink enhanced dedicated physical data channel is correct If yes, it is determined that the actual activation state is active; if not, it is determined whether the number of HARQ errors is greater than a preset error number threshold, and if so, the actual activation state is determined to be active.
The method for verifying the HARQ process according to claim 5, wherein the obtaining the actual activation state according to the target activation state and the information of the physical channel further includes:

The current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is less than or equal to a preset channel energy threshold; or the current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is greater than a preset channel energy threshold, and the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel outputs data. The decoding is incorrect, and the number of HARQ errors is less than or equal to the preset error threshold, and the actual activation state is determined to be deactivated.
The HARQ process verification method according to claim 4, wherein the obtaining the actual activation state according to the target activation state and the information of the physical channel comprises:

When the target activation state is activated, determining whether the current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is greater than a preset channel energy threshold, and if so, determining whether the data decoding output by the uplink enhanced dedicated physical data channel is correct, If it is correct, the accumulated abnormal value is cleared; if it is not correct, it is judged whether the corresponding power value of the minimum power ratio is greater than the sum of the service authorization value and the step size. If not, the accumulated abnormal value is cleared. If yes, the accumulated abnormal value is added. One;

After the accumulated abnormal value is cleared or the accumulated abnormal value is incremented by one, it is determined whether the accumulated abnormal value reaches a preset value. If it is reached, it is determined that the actual activation state is deactivation, and if not, it is determined that the actual activation state is active.
The method of verifying the HARQ process according to claim 7, wherein the obtaining the actual activation state according to the target activation state and the information of the physical channel further includes:

Before determining whether the accumulated abnormal value reaches the preset value, if the current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is less than or equal to the preset channel energy threshold, determining whether the previous saved satisfied bit is satisfactory, and if not, accumulating the abnormal value Add one, if yes, determine whether the total cache state value of the enhanced dedicated channel saved last time is zero. If not, the cumulative outlier is incremented by one.
A HARQ process calibration method includes:

When the actual activation state of the target HARQ process is inconsistent with the target activation state by the HARQ process verification method according to any one of claims 1-8, an abnormality notification is generated;

The calibration process is performed on the activation state of the target HARQ process on the terminal side according to the abnormality notification.
The HARQ process calibration method according to claim 9, wherein the calibrating the actual activation state of the terminal side corresponding to the target HARQ process according to the abnormality notification comprises: generating a control command according to the abnormality notification, and issuing the control command to the terminal side The activation state of the HARQ process is subjected to calibration processing.
The HARQ process calibration method according to claim 10, wherein the generating a control command according to the abnormality notification, and issuing the control command to perform calibration processing on the activation state of the HARQ process on the terminal side includes:

When the target HARQ process is in a deactivated state, the frame number and the subframe number of the sending deactivation message are calculated according to the HARQ process identifier, and the corresponding time of transmitting the frame number and the subframe number of the sending deactivation message includes the The deactivation command of the frame number and the subframe number of the activation message performs a corresponding deactivation operation on the HARQ process on the terminal side;

When the target HARQ process is in an active state, the frame number and the subframe number of the sending activation message are calculated according to the HARQ process identifier, and the frame including the activation message is sent at the corresponding time of the frame number and the subframe number of the received transmission activation message. The activation command of the number and the subframe number performs a corresponding activation operation on the HARQ process on the terminal side.
A hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ process verification device, comprising:

a first acquiring module, where the first acquiring module is configured to acquire a target activation state of a target HARQ process that the base station currently sends to the terminal;

a second acquiring module, where the second acquiring module is configured to acquire a current actual activation state of the target HARQ process on the terminal side;

a determining module, the determining module is configured to compare the target activation state with the actual activation state, and determine whether the target activation state is consistent with the actual activation state.
The HARQ process verification apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the first acquisition module comprises an acquisition submodule, and the acquisition submodule is configured as:

Acquiring, according to the target HARQ process activation state control pattern currently corresponding to the target HARQ process, the target activation state of the target HARQ process that the base station currently sends to the terminal.
The HARQ process checking apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising: a timing module, said The timing module is configured to start timing after the target base station sends the target activation state to the terminal before acquiring the current actual activation state of the target HARQ process on the terminal side, until the timing value reaches a preset delay value. .
The HARQ process verification apparatus according to any one of claims 12 to 14, wherein the second acquisition module includes a processing submodule, the processing submodule being set to be in accordance with the target activation state and the base station and the The actual activation state is obtained by information of a physical channel between the terminal side, the physical channel including an uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel and an uplink enhanced dedicated physical data channel.
The HARQ process verification apparatus according to claim 15, wherein said processing sub-module comprises a first processing unit, said first processing unit being configured to determine said uplink enhancement dedicated when said target activation state is deactivated Whether the current channel energy of the physical control channel is greater than a preset channel energy threshold, and if so, determining whether the data decoding output by the uplink enhanced dedicated physical data channel is correct, and if yes, determining that the actual activation state is active; And determining whether the number of HARQ errors is greater than a preset error number threshold, and if so, determining that the actual activation state is active.
The HARQ process verification apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the first processing unit is further configured to:

If the current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is less than or equal to a preset channel energy threshold; or, the current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is greater than a preset channel energy threshold, and the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel outputs data. The decoding is incorrect, and the number of HARQ errors is less than or equal to the preset error threshold, and the actual activation state is determined to be deactivated.
The HARQ process verification apparatus according to claim 15, wherein said processing sub-module includes a second processing unit, said second processing unit being configured to determine said uplink enhanced dedicated physics when said target activation state is active Whether the current channel energy of the control channel is greater than a preset channel energy threshold, and if so, determining whether the data decoding output by the uplink enhanced dedicated physical data channel is correct, and if yes, clearing the accumulated abnormal value; if not, determining the minimum power Whether the corresponding authorized value is greater than the sum of the service authorization value and the step size, if not, the accumulated abnormal value is cleared, and if so, the accumulated abnormal value is incremented by one;

After the accumulated abnormal value is cleared or the accumulated abnormal value is incremented by one, it is determined whether the accumulated abnormal value reaches a preset value. If it is reached, it is determined that the actual activation state is deactivation, and if not, it is determined that the actual activation state is active.
The HARQ process verification device according to claim 18, wherein the second processing unit is further configured to:

Before determining whether the accumulated abnormal value reaches the preset value, if the current channel energy of the uplink enhanced dedicated physical control channel is less than or equal to the preset channel energy threshold, determining whether the previous saved satisfied bit is satisfactory, if not, accumulating the abnormal value Add one, if yes, determine whether the total cache state value of the enhanced dedicated channel saved last time is zero. If not, the cumulative outlier is incremented by one.
A HARQ process calibration device comprising:

An abnormality notification generating module, configured to generate an abnormality notification when the actual activation state is inconsistent with the target activation state by the HARQ process verification device according to any one of claims 12-19;

And a calibration module configured to perform a calibration process on an activation state of the target HARQ process on the terminal side according to the abnormality notification.
A base station, comprising: a transmitting device, the HARQ process checking device according to any one of claims 12-19, and the HARQ process calibrating device according to claim 20;

The transmitting device is configured to:

Sending a target activation status of the target HARQ process to the terminal;

The HARQ process verification device is set to:

Acquiring the target activation state of the target HARQ process sent by the sending device to the terminal side, and acquiring the actual activation state of the target HARQ process on the terminal side, and comparing the actual activation state with The target activation state;

The HARQ process calibration device is set to:

When the actual activation state is inconsistent with the target activation state, the actual activation state of the terminal side is calibrated according to the target activation state of the target HARQ process.