Patent Grant
11510077
The present disclosure generally relates to next generation mobile communication.
With the success of Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) for the fourth-generation mobile communication which is Long Term Evolution (LTE)/LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), the next generation mobile communication, which is the fifth-generation (so called 5G) mobile communication, has been attracting attentions and more and more researches are being conducted.
For the fifth-generation (so called 5G) mobile communication, a new radio access technology (New RAT or NR) have been studied and researched.
An operating band in NR is divided into frequency range 1 (FR1) band and 1-R2 band. FR1 band means a frequency band of 6 GHz or less and FR2 band means a frequency band exceeding 6 GHz.
A user equipment (UE) operating in FR1 band, that is, 1-R1 UE, performs uplink signal transmission and downlink signal reception using an omnidirectional beam as in LTE.
A UE operating in FR2, that is, FR2 UE (mmWave NR UE), can improve transmission and reception performance by performing uplink signal transmission and downlink signal reception using a plurality of beams.
The number of beams used by a UE is not limited in NR related standards and may vary according to UE implementation. For example, UEs using different numbers of beams may be manufactured by UE manufacturers or different models of UEs using different numbers of beams may be manufactured by one UE manufacturer. Further, one UE may use different numbers of beams for measurement and downlink data reception.
When a UE operates in FR2, the number of transmitting beams or receiving beams used by the UE may affect measurement requirements with respect to radio resource management (RRM) such as radio link monitoring (RLM), a cell identification time and a measurement period. Furthermore, the number of transmitting beams or receiving beams used by the UE may also affect conformance test of the UE.
However, there are no conventional methods for defining measurement requirements with respect to RRM in consideration of the number of receiving beams used by a UE.
Moreover, when a UE performs measurement using a plurality of receiving beams, a measurement time varies according to the number of receiving beams used by the UE. Here, a base station needs to ascertain information representing that the UE measurement time may vary. However, there are no conventional methods by which a base station can ascertain information about the number of receiving beams used by a UE.
Accordingly, a disclosure of the present specification has been made in an effort to solve the aforementioned problem.
That is, an object of the disclosure is to provide a method for defining measurement requirements with respect to RRM in consideration of the number of receiving beams used by a UE in a next generation mobile communication system.
In addition, an object of the disclosure is to provide a method for transmitting information about the number or receiving beams used by a UE to a base station in a next generation mobile communication system.
To accomplish the objects, one disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing measurement by a user equipment (UE). The method may include: determining a first beam class from among a plurality of beam classes based on a number of receiving beams supported by the UE; transmitting UE capability information including information about the first beam class to a serving cell; and performing measurement on a downlink signal based on measurement requirement related to the first beam class.
The method may further include receiving downlink data based on the number of receiving beams supported by the UE.
The determining of the first beam class may include determining the first beam class from among the plurality of beam classes based on a number of receiving beams used for measurement and determining a second beam class from among the plurality of beam classes based on a number of receiving beams used for downlink data reception when different numbers of receiving beams are used for measurement and downlink data reception.
The UE capability information may include information about the first beam class and information about the second beam class.
The method may further include receiving the downlink data based on the number of receiving beams used for downlink data reception.
The method may further include changing the number of receiving beams when change in mobility of the UE is detected after the UE capability information is transmitted to the serving cell.
The method may further include: determining the first beam class from among the plurality of beam classes based on the changed number of receiving beams; and transmitting UE capability information including information about the first beam class determined based on the changed number of receiving beams to the serving cell.
The method may further include reducing the number of receiving beams when the UE operates in a power saving mode after the UE capability information is transmitted to the serving cell.
The method may further include: determining the first beam class from among the plurality of beam classes based on the reduced number of receiving beams; and transmitting UE capability information including information about the first beam class determined based on the reduced number of receiving beams to the serving cell.
The performing the measurement may further include selecting the measurement requirements related to the first beam class from a plurality of measurement requirement related to each of the plurality of beam classes.
The plurality of measurement requirements related to each of the plurality of beam classes may include at least one of a measurement period for synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SS/PBCH block: SSB) based measurement related to each of the plurality of beam classes, a time period for PSS/SSS detection related to each of the plurality of beam classes, and a radio link monitoring (RLM) evaluation period related to each of the plurality of beam classes.
The measurement period, the time period and the evaluation period may have different values according to the plurality of beam classes.
To accomplish the objects, one disclosure of the present specification provides a user equipment (UE) performing measurement. The UE may include a transceiver and a processor configured to control the transceiver, wherein the processor may be configured to: determine a first beam class from among a plurality of beam classes based on a number of receiving beams supported by the UE; transmit UE capability information including information about the first beam class to a serving cell; and perform measurement on a downlink signal based on measurement requirement related to the first beam class.
According to one disclosure of the present specification, the above-described problems of conventional technologies are solved.
Hereinafter, based on 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) long term evolution (LTE) or 3GPP LTE-advanced (LTE-A), the present disclosure will be applied. This is just an example, and the present disclosure may be applied to various wireless communication systems. Hereinafter, LTE includes LTE and/or LTE-A.
The technical terms used herein are used to merely describe specific embodiments and should not be construed as limiting the present disclosure. Further, the technical terms used herein should be, unless defined otherwise, interpreted as having meanings generally understood by those skilled in the art but not too broadly or too narrowly. Further, the technical terms used herein, which are determined not to exactly represent the spirit of the disclosure, should be replaced by or understood by such technical terms as being able to be exactly understood by those skilled in the art. Further, the general terms used herein should be interpreted in the context as defined in the dictionary, but not in an excessively narrowed manner.
The expression of the singular number in the present disclosure includes the meaning of the plural number unless the meaning of the singular number is definitely different from that of the plural number in the context. In the following description, the term ‘include’ or ‘have’ may represent the existence of a feature, a number, a step, an operation, a component, a part or the combination thereof described in the present disclosure, and may not exclude the existence or addition of another feature, another number, another step, another operation, another component, another part or the combination thereof.
The terms ‘first’ and ‘second’ are used for the purpose of explanation about various components, and the components are not limited to the terms ‘first’ and ‘second’. The terms ‘first’ and ‘second’ are only used to distinguish one component from another component. For example, a first component may be named as a second component without deviating from the scope of the present disclosure.
It will be understood that when an element or layer is referred to as being “connected to” or “coupled to” another element or layer, it can be directly connected or coupled to the other element or layer or intervening elements or layers may be present. In contrast, when an element is referred to as being “directly connected to” or “directly coupled to” another element or layer, there are no intervening elements or layers present.
Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in greater detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In describing the present disclosure, for ease of understanding, the same reference numerals are used to denote the same components throughout the drawings, and repetitive description on the same components will be omitted. Detailed description on well-known arts which are determined to make the gist of the disclosure unclear will be omitted. The accompanying drawings are provided to merely make the spirit of the disclosure readily understood, but not should be intended to be limiting of the disclosure. It should be understood that the spirit of the disclosure may be expanded to its modifications, replacements or equivalents in addition to what is shown in the drawings.
As used herein, ‘base station’ generally refers to a fixed station that communicates with a wireless device and may be denoted by other terms such as eNB (evolved-NodeB), BTS (base transceiver system), or access point.
As used herein, ‘user equipment (UE)’ may be stationary or mobile, and may be denoted by other terms such as device, wireless device, terminal, MS (mobile station), UT (user terminal), SS (subscriber station), MT (mobile terminal) and etc.
As seen with reference to
The UE generally belongs to one cell and the cell to which the UE belong is referred to as a serving cell. A base station that provides the communication service to the serving cell is referred to as a serving BS. Since the wireless communication system is a cellular system, another cell that neighbors to the serving cell is present. Another cell which neighbors to the serving cell is referred to a neighbor cell. A base station that provides the communication service to the neighbor cell is referred to as a neighbor BS. The serving cell and the neighbor cell are relatively decided based on the UE.
Hereinafter, a downlink means communication from the base station 20 to the UE110 and an uplink means communication from the UE 10 to the base station 20. In the downlink, a transmitter may be a part of the base station 20 and a receiver may be a part of the UE 10. In the uplink, the transmitter may be a part of the UE 10 and the receiver may be a part of the base station 20.
Meanwhile, the wireless communication system may be generally divided into a frequency division duplex (FDD) type and a time division duplex (TDD) type. According to the FDD type, uplink transmission and downlink transmission are achieved while occupying different frequency bands. According to the TDD type, the uplink transmission and the downlink transmission are achieved at different time while occupying the same frequency band. A channel response of the TDD type is substantially reciprocal. This means that a downlink channel response and an uplink channel response are approximately the same as each other in a given frequency area. Accordingly, in the TDD based wireless communication system, the downlink channel response may be acquired from the uplink channel response. In the TDD type, since an entire frequency band is time-divided in the uplink transmission and the downlink transmission, the downlink transmission by the base station and the uplink transmission by the terminal may not be performed simultaneously. In the TDD system in which the uplink transmission and the downlink transmission are divided by the unit of a subframe, the uplink transmission and the downlink transmission are performed in different subframes.
Hereinafter, the LTE system will be described in detail.
The radio frame of
The radio frame includes 10 sub-frames indexed 0 to 9. One sub-frame includes two consecutive slots. Accordingly, the radio frame includes 20 slots. The time taken for one sub-frame to be transmitted is denoted TTI (transmission time interval). For example, the length of one sub-frame may be 1 ms, and the length of one slot may be 0.5 ms.
The structure of the radio frame is for exemplary purposes only, and thus the number of sub-frames included in the radio frame or the number of slots included in the sub-frame may change variously.
One slot includes NRB resource blocks (RBs) in the frequency domain. For example, in the LTE system, the number of resource blocks (RBs), i.e., NRB, may be one from 6 to 110.
The resource block is a unit of resource allocation and includes a plurality of sub-carriers in the frequency domain. For example, if one slot includes seven OFDM symbols in the time domain and the resource block includes 12 sub-carriers in the frequency domain, one resource block may include 7×12 resource elements (REs).
The physical channels in 3GPP LTE may be classified into data channels such as PDSCH (physical downlink shared channel) and PUSCH (physical uplink shared channel) and control channels such as PDCCH (physical downlink control channel), PCFICH (physical control format indicator channel), PHICH (physical hybrid-ARQ indicator channel) and PUCCH (physical uplink control channel).
The uplink channels include a PUSCH, a PUCCH, an SRS (Sounding Reference Signal), and a PRACH (physical random access channel).
<Measurement and Measurement Report>
Supporting mobility of a UE 100 is essential in a mobile communication system. Thus, the UE 100 constantly measures a quality of a serving cell which is currently providing a service, and a quality of a neighbor cell. The UE 10 reports a result of the measurement to a network at an appropriate time, and the network provides optimal mobility to the UE through a handover or the like. Measurement for this purpose is referred to as a Radio Resource Management (RRM).
Meanwhile, the UE 100 monitors a downlink quality of a primary cell (Pcell) based on a CRS. This is so called Radio Link Monitoring (RLM).
Referring to
When the serving cell 200a and the neighbor cell respectively transmit Cell-specific Reference Signals (CRSs), the UE 100 measures the CRSs and transmits a result of the measurement to the serving cell 200a. In this case, the UE 100 may compare power of the received CRSs based on received information on a reference signal power.
At this point, the UE 100 may perform the measurement in the following three ways.
1) RSRP(reference signal received power): This represents an average reception power of all REs that carry the CRS which is transmitted through the whole bands. In this case, instead of the CRS, an average reception power of all REs that carry the CSI RS may also be measured.
2) RSS (received signal strength indicator): This represents a reception power which is measured through the whole bands. The RSSI includes all of signal, interference and thermal noise.
3) RSRQ (reference symbol received quality): This represents a CQI, and may be determined as the RSRP/RSSI according to a measured bandwidth or a sub-band. That is, the RSRQ signifies a signal-to-noise interference ratio (SINR). Since the RSRP is unable to provide a sufficient mobility, in handover or cell reselection procedure, the RSRQ may be used instead of the RSRP.
The RSRQ may be obtained by RSSI/RSSP.
Meanwhile, the UE 100 receives a radio resource configuration information element (IE) from the serving cell 100a for the measurement. The radio resource configuration information element (IE) is used to configure/modify/cancel a radio bearer or to modify an MAC configuration. The radio resource configuration IE includes subframe pattern information. The subframe pattern information is information on a measurement resource restriction pattern on the time domain, for measuring RSRP and RSRQ of a serving cell (e.g., PCell).
Meanwhile, the UE 100 receives a measurement configuration information element (IE) from the serving cell 100a for the measurement. A message including the measurement configuration information element (IE) is called a measurement configuration message. Here, the measurement configuration information element (IE) may be received through a RRC connection reconfiguration message. If the measurement result satisfies a report condition in the measurement configuration information, the UE reports the measurement result to a base station. A message including the measurement result is called a measurement report message.
The measurement configuration IE may include measurement object information. The measurement object information is information of an object which is to be measured by the UE. The measurement object includes at least one of an intra-frequency measurement object which is an object of intra-cell measurement, an inter-frequency measurement object which is an object of inter-cell measurement and an inter-RAT measurement object which is an object of inter-RAT measurement. For example, the intra-cell measurement object indicates a neighbor cell that has a frequency band which is identical to that of a serving cell, the inter-cell measurement object indicates a neighbor cell that has a frequency band which is different from that of a serving cell, and the inter-RAT measurement object indicates a neighbor cell of a RAT which is different from that of a serving cell.
Meanwhile, the measurement configuration IE includes an information element (IE) as shown in the following table.
The “measGapConfig” is used to configure or cancel a measurement gap (MG). The MG is a period for cell identification and RSRP measurement on an inter frequency different from that of a serving cell.
When the UE requires a measurement gap to identify and measure a cell at an inter-frequency and inter-RAT, the E-UTRAN (i.e., the base station) may provide a single measurement gap (MG) pattern with a predetermined gap period to the UE. Without transmitting or receiving any data from the serving cell for the measurement gap period, the UE returns its RF chain to be adapted to the inter-frequency and then performs measurement at the corresponding inter-frequency.
<Carrier Aggregation>
A carrier aggregation system is now described.
A carrier aggregation system aggregates a plurality of component carriers (CCs). A meaning of an existing cell is changed according to the above carrier aggregation. According to the carrier aggregation, a cell may signify a combination of a downlink component carrier and an uplink component carrier or an independent downlink component carrier.
Further, the cell in the carrier aggregation may be classified into a primary cell, a secondary cell, and a serving cell. The primary cell signifies a cell operated in a primary frequency. The primary cell signifies a cell which UE performs an initial connection establishment procedure or a connection reestablishment procedure or a cell indicated as a primary cell in a handover procedure. The secondary cell signifies a cell operating in a secondary frequency. Once the RRC connection is established, the secondary cell is used to provide an additional radio resource.
As described above, the carrier aggregation system may support a plurality of component carriers (CCs), that is, a plurality of serving cells unlike a single carrier system.
The carrier aggregation system may support a cross-carrier scheduling. The cross-carrier scheduling is a scheduling method capable of performing resource allocation of a PDSCH transmitted through other component carrier through a PDCCH transmitted through a specific component carrier and/or resource allocation of a PUSCH transmitted through other component carrier different from a component carrier basically linked with the specific component carrier.
<Introduction of Dual Connectivity (DC)>
Recently, a scheme for simultaneously connecting UE to different base stations, for example, a macro cell base station and a small cell base station, is being studied. This is called dual connectivity (DC).
In DC, the eNodeB for the primary cell (Pcell) may be referred to as a master eNodeB (hereinafter referred to as MeNB). In addition, the eNodeB only for the secondary cell (Scell) may be referred to as a secondary eNodeB (hereinafter referred to as SeNB).
A cell group including a primary cell (Pcell) implemented by MeNB may be referred to as a master cell group (MCG) or PUCCH cell group 1. A cell group including a secondary cell (Scell) implemented by the SeNB may be referred to as a secondary cell group (SCG) or PUCCH cell group 2.
Meanwhile, among the secondary cells in the secondary cell group (SCG), a secondary cell in which the UE can transmit Uplink Control Information (UCI), or the secondary cell in which the UE can transmit a PUCCH may be referred to as a super secondary cell (Super SCell) or a primary secondary cell (Primary Scell; PScell).
<Internet of Things (IoT) Communication>
Hereinafter, IoT will be described.
The IoT communication refers to the exchange of information between an IoT devices without human interaction through a base station or between the IoT device and a server through the base station. In this way, the IoT communication is also referred to as CIoT (Cellular Internet of Things) in that the IoT communication is performed through the cellular base station.
This IoT communication is a kind of machine type communication (MTC). Therefore, the IoT device may be referred to as an MTC device.
The IoT communication has a small amount of transmitted data. Further, uplink or downlink data transmission/reception rarely occurs. Accordingly, it is desirable to lower a price of the IoT device and reduce battery consumption in accordance with the low data rate. In addition, since the IoT device has low mobility, the IoT device has substantially the unchanged channel environment.
In one approach to a low cost of the IoT device, the IoT device may use, for example, a sub-band of approximately 1.4 MHz regardless of a system bandwidth of the cell.
The IoT communication operating on such a reduced bandwidth may be called NB (Narrow Band) IoT communication or NB CIoT communication.
<Next-Generation Mobile Communication Network>
With the success of Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) for the fourth-generation mobile communication which is Long Term Evolution (LTE)/LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), the next generation mobile communication, which is the fifth-generation (so called 5G) mobile communication, has been attracting attentions and more and more researches are being conducted.
The fifth-generation communication defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) refers to providing a maximum data transmission speed of 20 Gbps and a maximum transmission speed of 100 Mbps per user in anywhere. It is officially called “IMT-2020” and aims to be released around the world in 2020.
The ITU suggests three usage scenarios, for example, enhanced Mobile BroadBand (eMBB), massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC), and Ultra Reliable and Low Latency Communications (URLLC).
URLLC relates to a usage scenario in which high reliability and low delay time are required. For example, services like autonomous driving, automation, and virtual realities requires high reliability and low delay time (for example, 1 ms or less). A delay time of the current 4G (LTE) is statistically 21-43 ms (best 10%), 33-75 ms (median). Thus, the current 4G (LTE) is not sufficient to support a service requiring a delay time of 1 ms or less. Next, eMBB relates to a usage scenario in which an enhanced mobile broadband is required.
That is, the fifth-generation mobile communication system aims to achieve a capacity higher than the current 4G LTE and is capable of increasing a density of mobile broadband users and support Device-to-Device (D2D), high stability, and Machine Type Communication (MTC). Researches on 5G aims to achieve reduced waiting time and less batter consumption, compared to a 4G mobile communication system, in order to implement the IoT. For the 5G mobile communication, a new radio access technology (New RAT or NR) may be proposed.
Referring to
The NR cell is connected with a core network for the legacy fourth-generation mobile communication, that is, an Evolved Packet core (EPC).
Referring to
A service based on the architecture shown in
Referring to
Meanwhile, in the above new radio access technology (NR), using a downlink subframe for reception from a base station and using an uplink subframe for transmission to the base station may be considered. This method may be applied to paired spectrums and not-paired spectrums. A pair of spectrum indicates including two subcarrier for downlink and uplink operations. For example, one subcarrier in one pair of spectrum may include a pair of a downlink band and an uplink band.
A transmission time interval (TTI) shown in
<Support of Various Numerologies>
In the next generation system, with development of wireless communication technologies, a plurality of numerologies may be provided to a UE.
The numerologies may be defined by a length of cycle prefix (CP) and a subcarrier spacing. One cell may provide a plurality of numerology to a UE. When an index of a numerology is represented by μ, a subcarrier spacing and a corresponding CP length may be expressed as shown in the following table.
In the case of a normal CP, when an index of a numerology is expressed by μ, the number of OFDM symbols per slot Nslotsymb, the number of slots per frame Nframe,μslot, and the number of slots per subframe Nsubframe,μslot are expressed as shown in the following table.
In the case of an extended CP, when an index of a numerology is represented by μ, the number of OFDM symbols per slot Nslotsymb, the number of slots per frame Nframe,μslot, and the number of slots per subframe Nsubframe,μslot are expressed as shown in the following table.
Meanwhile, in the next-generation mobile communication, each symbol may be used for downlink or uplink, as shown in the following table. In the following table, uplink is indicated by U, and downlink is indicated by D. In the following table, X indicates a symbol that can be flexibly used for uplink or downlink.
<Operating Band in NR>
An operating band in NR is divided into frequency range 1 (FR1) band and 1-R2 band. FR1 band means a frequency band of 6 GHz or less and FR2 band means a frequency band exceeding 6 GHz. FR1 band and FR2 band are defined as shown in the following table 9.
Operating bands in the following table 10 are operating bands refarming from operating bands of LTE/LTE-A and correspond to FR1 band.
The following table 11 shows NR operating bands defined at high frequencies which correspond to 1-R2 band.
Meanwhile, when the operating band shown in the above table is used, a channel bandwidth is used as shown in the following table.
In the above table 12, SCS indicates a subcarrier spacing. In the above table, NRB indicates the number of RBs.
Meanwhile, when the operating band shown in the above table is used, a channel bandwidth is used as shown in the following table.
<SS Block in NR>
In the 5G NR, information required for a UE to perform an initial access, that is, a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) including a Master Information Block (MIB) and a synchronization signal (SS) (including PSS and SSS) are defined as an SS block. In addition, a plurality of SS blocks may be grouped and defined as an SS burst, and a plurality of SS bursts may be grouped and defined as an SS burst set. It is assumed that each SS block is beamformed in a particular direction, and various SS blocks existing in an SS burst set are designed to support UEs existing in different directions.
Referring to
Meanwhile, in the 5G NR, beam sweeping is performed on an SS. A detailed description thereof will be provided with reference to
Abase station transmits each SS block in an SS burst over time while performing beam sweeping. In this case, multiple SS blocks in an SS burst set are transmitted to support UEs existing in different directions. In
<Channel Raster and Sync Raster>
Hereinafter, a channel raster and a sync rater will be described.
A frequency channel raster is defined as a set of RF reference frequencies (FREF). An RF reference frequency may be used as a signal indicative of locations of an RF channel, an SS block, and the like.
A global frequency raster may be defined with respect to all frequencies from 0 GHz to 100 GHz. The granularity of the global frequency raster may be expressed by ΔFGlobal.
An RF reference frequency is designated by NR Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (NR-AFRCN) in the global frequency raster's range (0 . . . 2016666). A relationship between the NR-AFRCN and the RF reference frequency (FREF) of MHz may be expressed as shown in the following equation.
FREF=FREF-Offs+ΔFGlobal(NREF−NREF-Offs) [Equation 1]
In Equation 1, FREF-Offs and NRef-Offs are as shown in the following table.
A channel raster indicates a subset of FR reference frequencies able to be used to identify location of an RF channel in uplink and downlink. An RF reference frequency for an RF channel may be mapped to a resource element on a subcarrier.
Mapping of the RF reference frequency of the channel raster and the corresponding resource element may be used to identify a location of an RF channel. The mapping may differ according to a total number of RBs allocated to the channel, and the mapping applies to both uplink (UL) and downlink (DL).
When NRB mod 2=0,
the RE index k is 0, and
the number of PRBs is as below.
When NRB mod 2=0,
the RE index k is 6,
the number of PRBs is as below.
Locations of RF channels of a channel raster in each NR operating band may be expressed as shown in the following table.
Meanwhile, a sync raster indicates a frequency location of an SS block used by a UE to acquire system information. The frequency location of the SS block may be defined as SSREF using a GSCN number corresponding thereto.
<Disclosure of Present Specification>
Hereinafter, a method of defining measurement requirements with respect to RRM in consideration of the number of receiving beams used by a UE is proposed. Further, a method of transmitting information about the number of receiving beams used by a UE to a base station is proposed.
Referring to
Here, SMTC means an SS block based RRM measurement timing configuration. In addition, an SMTC period represents a time window in which a UE expects SS block reception. A UE can receive information about the SMTC, such as the SMTC period, SMTC periodicity and an SMTC offset through higher layer signaling (e.g., RRC signaling). Then, the UE can perform measurement with respect to RRM in SMTC periods based on the information about the SMTC.
First, a measurement period of the FR1 UE will be described. An example of a measurement period for SS block (SSB) based measurement of the UE for intra-frequency measurement without a measurement gap in FR1 is as shown in the following table 17.
For reference, when different SMTC periods are set for different cells in Table 17, the aforementioned SMTC period is an SMTC period used by a cell identified by the UE. Here, the DRX cycle refers to a cycle at which a UE for which DRX is set performs DRX operation. The DRX cycle includes ON time in which the UE performs monitoring of downlink signals and OFF time in which the UE does not perform monitoring of downlink signals.
In addition, TSSB_measurement_period means an SSB based measurement period. The SSB based measurement period may be a measurement period required when the UE performs SSB based measurement. For example, the UE can perform intra-frequency RSRP in the SSB based measurement period. In addition, max(x, y) is a max function that represents a maximum value between x and y.
The FR1 UE using an omnidirectional beam can perform measurement with respect to SSB in intra frequency measurement in TSSB_measurement_period according to Table 17. For example, when DRX is not set for the FR1 UE and the SMTC period is 50 ms, the 1-R1 UE can perform measurement with respect to SSB for 250 ms.
Since Table 17 shows the measurement period based on an omnidirectional antenna used by the FR1 UE, all transmitting beams transmitted from a base station can be measured in a single SMTC period (SMTC window period).
Meanwhile, since the FR2 UE supports a plurality of receiving beams to perform a beam sweeping operation, directions of receiving beams change and thus the FR2 UE cannot measure all transmitting beams from a base station in a single SMTC period. Accordingly, a measurement result with respect to each transmitting beam transmitted from a serving cell varies according to a beam direction of the FR2 UE.
For example, since the FR2 UE in
In other words, since SSBs in a single SMTC period are measured in the direction of a single specific receiving beam, it is necessary to increase the measurement period in response to the number of receiving beams of the UE when the UE supports a plurality of receiving beams. That is, it is necessary to increase the measurement period by reflecting a receiving beam sweeping period of the FR2 UE therein.
For example, a measurement period for SSB based measurement of a UE having 5 receiving beams in intra-frequency measurement without a measurement gap in FR2 may be defined as shown in the following table 18.
For reference, when different SMTC periods are set for different cells in Table 18, the aforementioned SMTC period is an SMTC period used by a cell identified by the UE. The FR2 UE supporting 5 receiving beams can perform measurement with respect to SSB in intra-frequency measurement in TSSB_measurement_period according to Table 18. For example, when DRX is not set for the FR2 UE and the SMTC period is 50 ms, the FR2 UE can perform SSB based measurement for 1250 ms.
As described in the background, the number of receiving beams supported by a UE and a beamforming operation of the UE may vary according to implementation. That is, since various numbers of receiving beams may be supported by a UE, it is not necessary to define measurement requirements with respect to RRM for each of available numbers of receiving beams in consideration of all the available numbers of receiving beams.
Accordingly, definition of a beam class based on the number of receiving beams is proposed in the disclosure of the present specification. In addition, definition of measurement requirements based on a beam class is proposed in the disclosure of the present specification.
Furthermore, transmission of UE capability information including information about a beam class from a UE to a base station is proposed in the disclosure of the present specification.
In the disclosure of the present specification, two or more beam classes may be defined. For example, there may be three beam classes. Here, the three beam classes may correspond to “low”, “medium” and “high” based on the number of receiving beams. Although description of the disclosure of the present specification will focus on a case in which there are three beam classes below, this is merely an example and the scope of the present specification also includes cases in which the number of beam classes is two, four or more.
In general, measurement accuracy increases due to a beamforming gain as the number of receiving beams increases. That is, the number of samples necessary for accuracy measurement in FR2 may be less than that in the case of FR1 because measurement accuracy increases as the number of receiving beams increases.
The three beam classes may be defined as beam class A, beam class B and beam class C. Here, beam class A is a beam class corresponding to a smallest number of receiving beams and beam class B and beam class C may be beam classes sequentially corresponding to larger numbers of receiving beams.
Beam class A, beam class B and beam class C can be defined as shown in the following table 19.
Table 19 is merely an example and different numbers of receiving beams may be defined for each of beam classes in the disclosure of the present specification. A UE can determine a beam class thereof from among a plurality of beam classes based on the number of receiving beams supported by the UE itself. For example, when the number of receiving beams supported by the UE is 6, the UE may determine beam class B as a beam class by the UE itself.
A measurement time varies according to the number of receiving beams used by a UE. A base station needs to ascertain that the measurement time of the UE may vary, and thus the UE may report information about the beam class thereof to the base station.
Specifically, the UE may transmit UE capability information including the information about the beam class thereof to the base station.
For example, the UE may define a radio access capability parameter as follows.
ue-BeamClass-N-r1x: this field indicates the number of receiving beams supported by the UE. Further, this field may indicate that the UE supports a plurality of receiving beams for measurement requirements with respect to RRM of TS 38.133 in FR2 (mmWave).
Specifically, the UE can transmit an information element (UE-NR-Capability-v1xy0-IEs) indicating the UE capability information, as shown in the following table 20, to the base station.
The information element of Table 20 is merely an example and the scope of the present specification includes any type of information element that a UE can transmit information about a beam class of the UE to the base station. As described in the background, a UE may use different numbers of receiving beams for measurement and downlink data reception because the number of receiving beams used by the UE may vary according to implementation. A case in which a UE uses different numbers of receiving beams for measurement and downlink data reception will be described with reference to
Referring to
As shown in
When the UE uses different numbers of beams for measurement and downlink data reception, the UE can determine a first beam class from among a plurality of beam classes based on the number of receiving beams used for measurement. In addition, the UE can determine a second beam class from among the plurality of beam classes based on the number of receiving beams used for downlink data reception.
Here, the first beam class may be a beam class corresponding to the number of receiving beams used by the UE for measurement and the second beam class may be a beam class corresponding to the number of receiving beams used by the UE for downlink data reception. In the case of the example shown in
Furthermore, the UE can transmit UE capability information including information about the first beam class and information about the second beam class to a base station. Here, a parameter representing the information about the first beam class may be the aforementioned ue-BeamClass-N-r15. In addition, a parameter representing the information about the second beam class may be defined as, for example, ue-AddBeamClass-N-r1x.
ue-AddBeamClass-N-r1x: this field indicates a beam class of receiving beams additionally used when a UE uses different numbers of receiving beams according to operation of receiving beams.
In addition, the UE may include information representing that different numbers of beams may be used for measurement and downlink data reception in the UE capability information and transmit the UE capability information to the base station. A parameter indicating the information representing that different numbers of beams may be used for measurement and downlink data reception may be defined as, for example, Ue-DataRRM-DiffRxBeam.
Ue-DataRRM-DiffRxBeam: this field indicates whether the UE can use different numbers of beams for measurement and downlink data reception.
When the UE uses different numbers of beams for measurement and downlink data reception, the UE may transmit an information element (UE-NR-Capability-v1xy0-IEs) indicating the UE capability information, as shown in the following table 21, to the base station.
The UE may transmit the information element of Table 21 from which Ue-DataRRM-DiffRxBeam has been omitted. The information element of Table 21 is merely an example and the scope of the present specification includes any type of information element that the UE can transmit the information about the first beam class and the information about the second beam class to the base station. Further, the scope of the present specification includes any type of information element through which information representing that the UE can use different numbers of beams for measurement and downlink data reception to the base station.
Hereinafter, examples of defining measurement requirements with respect to RRM based on beam classes will be described with reference to Tables 22 to 28. Examples of a plurality of measurement requirements with respect to three beam classes, that is, core requirements with respect to RRM, are shown in Tables 22 to 28.
For reference, values X, Y and Z in Tables 22 to 28 may be differently defined according to beam classes. The values X, Y and Z may be determined in consideration of the fact that beam class A corresponds to a smallest number of receiving beams and beam class C corresponds to a largest number of receiving beams.
Hereinafter, 1) Tables 22 and 23 show examples of a measurement period for SSB based measurement defined based on three beam classes, 2) Tables 25 and 26 show examples of a time period for PSS/SSS detection defined based on three beam classes, and 3) Tables 27 and 28 show examples of a radio link monitoring (RLM) evaluation period defined based on three beam classes.
Table 22 shows a first example of a measurement period for SSB based measurement of a UE defined based on three beam classes in intra-frequency measurement in FR2.
For reference, when different SMTC periods are set for different cells in Table 22, the aforementioned SMTC period is an SMTC period used by a cell identified by a UE. In Table 22, X may mean the number of SSB samples necessary for a UE corresponding to each beam class to perform SSB based measurement. Y may mean the number of receiving beams representative of each beam class.
Here, (X, Y) can be set to (n1, m1), (n2, m2) and (n3, m3) for beam class A, beam class B and beam class C. The values may satisfy n1>n2>n3 and m1<m2<m3.
Since measurement accuracy increases as the number of receiving beams increases, a UE can perform measurement with a relatively small number of samples. Accordingly, X of beam class A may be set to a largest value and X of beam class C may be set to a smallest value. In addition, since Y means the number of receiving beams representative of each beam class, Y of beam class A can be set to a smallest value and Y of beam class C can be set to a largest value.
For example, (X, Y) of beam class A can be set to (n1=6, m1=4), (X, Y) of beam class B can be set to (n2=5, m2=8), and (X, Y) of beam class C can be set to (n3=4, m3=12).
When the number of receiving beams of a UE is 2 and the SMTC period is 20 ms, the beam class of the UE is beam class A and TSSB_measurement_period=max(200 ms, 6*20 ms)*4, and thus TSSB_measurement_period may be 200 ms*4=800 ms. Then, the UE may perform SSB based measurement in intra-frequency measurement for 800 ms.
Table 23 shows a second example of a measurement period for SSB based measurement defined based on three beam classes in intra-frequency measurement in 1-R2 band.
For reference, when different SMTC periods are set for different cells in Table 23, the aforementioned SMTC period is an SMTC period used by a cell identified by a UE. Kp is as follows.
KRLM is as follows.
CSSFintra is a carrier specific scaling factor. CSSFintra may be used to increase a measurement period when a UE monitors multiple measurement objects. For example, CCSFintra when there is no measurement gap can be defined as shown in the following table 24.
In Table 24, E-UTRAN New Radio-Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) refers to dual connectivity between E-UTRAN and New Radio. SCC refers to a secondary component carrier.
RLM-RS refers to a reference signal for RLM. For example, RLM-RS may be composed of a CSI-RS and/or an SSB. In addition, ceil may be a rounding function of rounding up a value in a parenthesis.
In Table 23, (X, Y) can be set based on a beam class as in the method of Table 22. That is, (X, Y) may be set to (n1, m1), (n2, m2) and (n3, m3) for beam class A, beam class B and beam class C. The values can satisfy n1>n2>n3 and m1<m2<ms.
For example, (X, Y) of beam class A can be set to (n1=6, m1=4), (X, Y) of beam class B can be set to (n2=5, m2=8), and (X, Y) of beam class C can be set to (n3=4, m3=12).
When the number of receiving beams of a UE is 2, a DRX cycle is 30 ms, an SMTC period is 20 ms, Kp=1, KRLM=1.5, and CSSFintra=1, the beam class of the UE is beam class A and thus (X, Y)=(6, 4). According to Table 23, TSSB_measurement_period=max[400 ms, ceil(1.5*6*1*1.5)*max(20 ms, 30 ms)*4*1]. That is, TSSB_measurement_period=max[400 ms, 1,680 ms]=1,680 ms. In this case, the UE can perform SSB based measurement in intra-frequency measurement for 1,680 ms.
Table 25 shows a first example of a time period for PSS/SSS detection defined based on three beam classes in intra-frequency measurement in FR2.
For reference, when different SMTC periods are set for different cells in Table 25, the aforementioned SMTC period is an SMTC period used by a cell identified by a UE. In Table 25, X may mean the number of PSS/SSS samples necessary for a UE corresponding to each beam class to detect a PSS/SSS. Y may mean the number of receiving beams representative of each beam class. In addition, TPSS/SSS_sync_intra is a time period used in PSS/SSS detection. That is, TPSS/SSS_sync_intra may be a time required to detect a PSS/SSS.
In Table 25, (X, Y) may be set based on a beam class as in the method of Table 22. That is, (X, Y) may be set to (n1, m1), (n2, m2) and (n3, m3) for beam class A, beam class B and beam class C. The values may satisfy n1>n2>n3 and m1<m2<m3.
For example, (X, Y) of beam class A can be set to (n1=6, m1=4), (X, Y) of beam class B can be set to (n2=5, m2=8), and (X, Y) of beam class C can be set to (n3=4, m3=12).
When the number of receiving beams of a UE is 2 and an SMTC period is 20 ms, the beam class of the UE is beam class A and TPSS/SSS_sync_intra may be 600 ms*4=2,400 ms. Then, the UE can perform PSS/SSS detection for 2,400 ms.
Table 26 shows a second example of a time period for PSS/SSS detection defined based on three beam classes in intra-frequency measurement in FR2 band.
Table 26 shows a second example of a time period for PSS/SSS detection defined based on three beam classes in intra-frequency measurement in FR2 band.
For reference, when different SMTC periods are set for different cells in Table 26, the aforementioned SMTC period is an SMTC period used by a cell identified by a UE. Kp, KRLM and CSSFintra can be set as described with reference to Table 23.
In Table 26, (X, Y) can be set based on a beam class as in the method of Table 22. That is, (X, Y) may be set to (n1, m1), (n2, m2) and (n3, m3) for beam class A, beam class B and beam class C. The values may satisfy n1>n2>n3 and m1<m2<m3.
For example, (X, Y) of beam class A can be set to (n1=6, m1=4), (X, Y) of beam class B can be set to (n2=5, m2=8), and (X, Y) of beam class C can be set to (n3=4, m3=12).
When the number of receiving beams of a UE is 2, a DRX cycle is 30 ms, an SMTC period is 20 ms, Kp=1, KRLM=1.5, and CSSFintra=1, the beam class of the UE is beam class A and thus (X, Y)=(6, 4). According to Table 26, TPSS/SSS_sync_intra=max[600 ms, ceil(1.5*6*1*1.5)*max(20 ms, 30 ms)*4*1]. That is, TSSB_measurement_period=max[600 ms, 1,680 ms]=1,680 ms. In this case, the UE can perform PSS/SSS detection in intra-frequency measurement for 1,680 ms.
Table 27 shows a first example of an RLM evaluation period defined based on three beam classes in intra-frequency measurement in FR2 band.
TSSB may be an period of SSB set for RLM. TDRX can be a duration of a DRX cycle. A UE can receive information about TSSB and TDRX through higher layer signaling. TEvaluate_in and TEvaluate_out may be evaluation periods used for a UE to evaluate the quality of downlink radio link.
Specifically, the UE may determine whether the quantity of downlink radio link of RLM-RS resources estimated for TEvaluate_in is higher than a threshold value Qin_SSB. In addition, the UE may determine whether the quantity of downlink radio link of RLM-RS resources estimated for TEvaluate_out is less than a threshold value Qout_SSB.
Qin_SSB is a threshold value used for SSB based RLM and can be defined as a level at which a downlink radio link can be received with reliability. Qout_SSB is a threshold value used for SSB based RLM and can be defined as a level at which a downlink radio link cannot be received with reliability. A UE may receive Qin_SSB and Qout_SSB through higher layer signaling.
X and Z can represent numbers of SSB samples necessary for a UE corresponding to each beam class to evaluate the quality of radio link by comparing it with Qin_SSB and Qout_SSB. Y can represent the number of receiving beams representative of each beam class.
In Table 27, (X, Y) can be set based on a beam class as in the method of Table 22. That is, (X, Y) may be set to (n1, m1), (n2, m2) and (n3, m3) for beam class A, beam class B and beam class C. The values may satisfy n1>n2>n3 and m1<m2<m3.
In Table 27, Z can be set to l1, l2 and l3 for beam class A, beam class B and beam class C. The values may satisfy l1>l2>l3.
For example, (X, Y, Z) of beam class A can be set to (n1=6, m1=4, l1=5), (X, Y, Z) of beam class B can be set to (n2=5, m2=8, l2=4), and (X, Y, Z) of beam class C can be set to (n3=4, m3=12, l3=3).
When the number of receiving beams of a UE is 2, DRX is configured, TDRX=25 ms, and TSSB=20 ms, the beam class of the UE is beam class A and thus (X, Y, Z) may be (6, 4, 5). Then, TEvaluate_in is 6*max(20 ms, 25 ms, 20 ms)*4 and thus is 600 ms. In addition, TEvaluate_out is 5*max(20 ms, 25 ms, 20 ms)*4 and thus is 500 ms.
In this case, the UE may evaluate whether the quality of downlink radio link of RLM-RS resources estimated for 600 ms is higher than the threshold value Qin_SSB. In addition, the UE may evaluate whether the quality of downlink radio link of RLM-RS resources estimated for 500 ms is less than the threshold value Qout_SSB.
Table 28 shows a second example of an RLM evaluation period defined based on three beam classes in intra-frequency measurement in FR2.
P is as follows.
i) if the RLM-RS and SMTC (TSSB<TSMTCperiod) partially overlap, P=1/(1−TSSB/TSMTCperiod).
ii) if the RLM-RS and SMTC (TSSB=TSMTCperiod) completely overlap, P=3.
i) if the RLM-RS and SMTC (TSSB<TSMTCperiod) partially overlap and the SMTC and the measurement gap do not overlap, P=1/(1−TSSB/MGRP−TSSB/TSMTCperiod).
ii) If the RLM-RS and SMTC (TSSB<TSMTCperiod) partially overlap and the SMTC and the measurement gap partially overlap or completely overlap, P=1/{(1−TSSB/min(TSMTCperiod, MGRP)).
iii) If the RLM-RS and SMTC (TSSB=TSMTCperiod) completely overlap and the SMTC and the measurement gap (TSMTCperiod<MGRP) partially overlap, P=1/(1−TSSB/MGRP)*3.
Here, TSMTCperiod is the duration of the SMTC period.
In Table 28, X, Y and Z can be defined as in Table 27. That is, X and Z can represent numbers of SSB samples necessary for a UE corresponding to each beam class to evaluate the quality of radio link by comparing it with Qin_SSB and Qout_SSB. Y can represent the number of receiving beams representative of each beam class.
In Table 28, (X, Y) can be set based on a beam class as in the method of Table 22. That is, (X, Y) may be set to ((n1, m1), (n2, m2) and (n3, m3) for beam class A, beam class B and beam class C. The values may satisfy n1>n2>n3 and m1<m2<m3.
In Table 28, Z can be set to l1, l2 and l3 for beam class A, beam class B and beam class C. The values may satisfy l1>12>13.
For example, (X, Y, Z) of beam class A can be set to (n1=6, m1=4, l1=5), (X, Y, Z) of beam class B can be set to (n2=5, m2=8, l2=4), and (X, Y, Z) of beam class C can be set to (n3=4, m3=12, l3=3).
When an RLM-RS and a measurement gap do not overlap, the RLM-RS and SMTC completely overlap, the number of receiving beams of a UE is 2, DRX is configured, TDRX=25 ms, and TSSB=20 ms, the beam class of the UE is beam class A and thus (X, Y, Z) is (6, 4, 5) and P=3. Then, TEvaluate_in is max(200 ms, 1,800 ms) and thus is 1,800 ms. In addition, TEvaluate_out is max(100 ms, 1500 ms) and thus is 1,500 ms.
In this case, the UE may evaluate whether the quality of downlink radio link of RLM-RS resources estimated for 1,800 ms is higher than the threshold value Qin_SSB. In addition, the UE can evaluate whether the quality of downlink radio link of RLM-RS resources estimated for 1,500 ms is less than the threshold value Qout_SSB.
In Tables 22 to 28, methods in which a measurement period for SSB based measurement, a time period for PSS/SSS detection, and a radio link monitoring evaluation period have different values according to a plurality of beam classes are proposed.
Although only three measurement requirements (a measurement period for SSB based measurement, a time period for PSS/SSS detection, and a radio link monitoring evaluation period) are disclosed in description of Tables 22 to 28, these are merely an example and the scope of the present specification is not limited thereto.
The method for defining measurement requirements with respect to RRM based on a beam class proposed in the present specification includes all cases in which measurement requirements (for example, a measurement gap, DRX configuration, SCell detection, inter-frequency cell detection, inter-frequency measurement, cell selection, handover, etc.), which are not disclosed with reference to Tables 22 to 28, are defined such that they have different values based on beam classes.
Referring to
The UE may transmit UE capability information including information about the first beam class to a serving cell. For example, the UE may transmit the information element (UE-NR-Capability-v1xy0-IEs) representing the UE capability information as shown in Tables 20 and 21 to a base station.
Then, the UE may perform measurement on a downlink signal based on measurement requirements related to the first beam class.
Specifically, the UE may select measurement requirements from a plurality of measurement requirements related to each beam class. Then, the UE may perform measurement on a downlink signal based on the selected measurement requirements related to the first beam class.
Here, a plurality of measurement requirements related to each of the plurality of beam classes may include at least one of a measurement period for SSB based measurement related to each beam class, a time period for PSS/SSS detection related to each beam class, and a radio link monitoring evaluation period related to each beam class, as described with reference to Tables 22 to 28. The measurement period, the time period and the evaluation period may have different values according to the plurality of beam classes as described with reference to Tables 22 to 28.
Then, the UE may receive downlink data based on the number of receiving beams supported by the UE.
The UE operation illustrated in
Redundant description in the first to third examples of
A UE may perform only one of the UE operation shown in
A UE may determine whether different numbers of receiving beams are used for measurement and downlink data reception.
When different numbers of receiving beams are not used for measurement and downlink data reception, the UE may determine the first beam class based on the number of receiving beams supported by the UE and may transmit UE capability information including the information about the first beam class to a serving cell as in the operation shown in
When different numbers of receiving beams are used for measurement and downlink data reception, the UE may determine the first beam class from among a plurality of beam classes based on the number of receiving beams used for measurement. In addition, the UE may determine a second beam class based on the number of receiving beams used for downlink data reception.
Then, the UE may transmit UE capability information including the information about the first beam class and information about the second beam class to the serving cell. Further, the UE may include information representing that different numbers of receiving beams can be used for measurement and downlink data reception in the UE capability information and may transmit the UE capability information to the base station. For example, the UE may transmit the information element representing the UE capability information, as shown in Table 21, to the base station.
The UE may perform measurement on a downlink signal based on measurement requirements related to the first beam class. Then, the UE may receive downlink data based on the number of receiving beams used for downlink data reception.
A UE may change the number of receiving beams used thereby in consideration of change in mobility. Here, the UE includes various types of terminals, such as a smartphone, a fixed wireless access type terminal, and a vehicle mounted type terminal.
For example, when the UE operates in an environment in which the UE is moving at a high speed and then operates in an environment in which the UE stops, the UE may reduce the number of receiving beams used thereby and perform measurement and downlink data reception. On the contrary, when the UE operates in an environment in which the UE stops and then operates in an environment in which the UE is moving at a high speed, the UE may increase the number of receiving beams used thereby and perform measurement and downlink data reception.
Change in mobility considered by the UE may be change in a speed as described above and may include various changes such as changes in places such as indoor/outdoor places. When, the UE changes the number of receiving beams, the UE needs to additionally report UE capability information including information about a beam class to the serving cell.
Specifically, referring to
When change in UE mobility is not detected, the UE may not change the number of receiving beams and may not additionally report the UE capability information to the serving cell. In addition, the UE may perform measurement on a downlink signal based on the measurement requirements related to the first beam class as described in
When change in UE mobility is detected, the UE may change the number of receiving beams. Specifically, the UE may increase or decrease the number of receiving beams according to detected mobility change.
The UE may determine a first beam class from among the plurality of beam classes based on the changed number of receiving beams. Then, the UE may transmit the UE capability information including information about the first beam class to the serving cell. Then, the UE may perform measurement on a downlink signal based on measurement requirements related to the first beam class. Here, when the first beam class determined based on the changed number of receiving beams is the same as the first beam class determined based on the number of receiving beams before changed, the UE may not transmit the UE capability information to the serving cell.
Meanwhile, even when different numbers of receiving beams are used for measurement and downlink data reception, the UE may perform the operation according to the second example.
Specifically, when different numbers of receiving beams are used for measurement and downlink data reception, the UE may change the number of receiving beams as follows. For example, the UE may improve measurement quality with respect to a neighbor cell using a larger number or receiving beams and use a relatively small number of beams for downlink data reception in an indoor environment having low mobility or in an environment in which the UE is moving at a low speed because a neighbor cell environment does not significantly change. Further, the UE may perform rapid measurement on a neighbor cell using a small number of receiving cells and use a relatively large number of beams for data reception in an outdoor environment having high mobility or in an environment in which the UE is moving at a high speed.
A UE operation according to the second example when different numbers of receiving beams are used for measurement and downlink data reception will be described in detail below.
When change in UE mobility is detected, the UE may change the number of receiving beams used for measurement and the number of receiving beams used for downlink data reception. Then, the UE may determine a first beam class and a second beam class based on the changed number of receiving beams used for measurement and the changed number of receiving beams used for downlink data reception. Then, the UE may transmit UE capability information including information about the first beam class and information about the second beam class to the serving cell.
Power consumption of a UE increases as the number of receiving beams used by the UE increases. This is because UE operations for beam management for data reception or neighbor cell measurement for mobility increases for each receiving beam as the number of receiving beams increases to increase power consumption.
Accordingly, when the UE operates in a power saving mode in order to reduce UE power consumption, the UE may reduce the number of receiving beams used thereby.
For example, the UE can operate in the power saving mode when a remaining battery capacity is equal to or less than a threshold capacity or input for instructing the UE to operate in the power saving mode is received from a user.
Referring to
When the UE does not operate in the power saving mode, the UE may determine the first beam class based on the number of receiving beams supported by the UE and transmit the UE capability information including the information about the first beam class as in the operation of
When the UE operates in the power saving mode, the UE may reduce the number of receiving beams used thereby. Then, the UE may determine a first beam class based on the reduced number of receiving beams. The UE may transmit UE capability information including information about the first beam class to the serving cell. Then, the UE may perform measurement on a downlink signal based on measurement requirements related to the first beam class. Further, the UE may receive downlink data based on the reduced number of receiving beams.
Meanwhile, the UE may perform the operation according to the third example even when different number of receiving beams are used for measurement and downlink data reception of the first example.
Specifically, when different number of receiving beams are used for measurement and downlink data reception, the UE may transmit UE capability information including information about the first beam class and information about the second beam class to the serving cell. Then, the UE may reduce the numbers of receiving beams used for measurement and downlink data reception when the UE operates in the power saving mode. The UE may determine the first beam class and the second beam class based on the reduced numbers of receiving beams and transmit information about the first beam class and information about the second beam class to the serving cell.
Referring to
The wireless device 100 includes a processor 101, a memory 102, and a transceiver 103. Likewise, the base station 200 includes a processor 201, a memory 202, and a transceiver 203. The processors 101 and 201, the memories 102 and 202, and the transceivers 103 and 203 may be implemented as separate chips, or at least two or more blocks/functions may be implemented through one chip.
Each of the transceivers 103 and 203 includes a transmitter and a receiver. When a particular operation is performed, either or both of the transmitter and the receiver may operate. Each of the transceivers 103 and 203 may include one or more antennas for transmitting and/or receiving a radio signal. In addition, each of the transceivers 103 and 203 may include an amplifier configured for amplifying a Rx signal and/or a Tx signal, and a band pass filter for transmitting a signal to a particular frequency band.
Each of the processors 101 and 201 may implement functions, procedures, and/or methods proposed in this specification. Each of the processors 101 and 201 may include an encoder and a decoder. For example, each of the processors 101 and 202 may perform operations described above. Each of the processors 101 and 201 may include an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a different chipset, a logic circuit, a data processing device, and/or a converter which converts a base band signal and a radio signal into each other.
Each of the memories 102 and 202 may include a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a flash memory, a memory card, a storage medium, and/or any other storage device.
Referring to
The DFT unit 111 performs DFT on input symbols to output complex-valued symbols. For example, if Ntx symbols are input (here, Ntx is a natural number), a DFT size may be Ntx. The DFT unit 1111 may be called a transform precoder. The subcarrier mapper 1112 maps the complex-valued symbols to subcarriers of a frequency domain. The complex-valued symbols may be mapped to resource elements corresponding to a resource block allocated for data transmission. The subcarrier mapper 1112 may be called a resource element mapper. The IFFT unit 113 may perform IFFT on input symbols to output a baseband signal for data, which is a time-domain signal. The CP inserter 1114 copies a rear portion of the baseband signal for data and inserts the copied portion into a front part of the baseband signal. The CP insertion prevents Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) and Inter-Carrier Interference (ICI), and therefore, orthogonality may be maintained even in multi-path channels.
Meanwhile, the receiver 112 includes a wireless receiver 1121, a CP remover 1122, an FFT unit 1123, and an equalizer 1124, and so on. The wireless receiver 1121, the CP remover 1122, and the FFT unit 1123 of the receiver 112 performs functions inverse to functions of the wireless transmitter 1115, the CP inserter 1114, and the IFFT unit 113 of the transmitter 111. The receiver 112 may further include a demodulator.
The processors may include an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), other chipsets, a logic circuit, and/or a data processor. The memories may include a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a flash memory, a memory card, a storage medium and/or other storage devices. The RF units may include a baseband circuit for processing RF signals. When an embodiment is implemented by software, the above-described methods may be implemented as modules (e.g., processors and functions) which execute the above-described functions. The modules may be stored in the memories and executed by the processors. The memories may be positioned inside or outside the processors and connected to the processors through known means.
In the above exemplary system, although the methods have been described based on the flowcharts using a series of the steps or blocks, the disclosure is not limited to the sequence of the steps, and some of the steps may be performed at different sequences from the remaining steps or may be performed simultaneously with the remaining steps. Furthermore, those skilled in the art will understand that the steps shown in the flowcharts are not exclusive and may include other steps or one or more steps of the flowcharts may be deleted without affecting the scope of the disclosure.
This application is the National Stage filing under 35 U.S.C. 371 of International Application No. PCT/KR2018/014948, filed on Nov. 29, 2018, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/616,435 filed on Jan. 12, 2018, the contents of which are all hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.
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