The present disclosure relates to a method of efficiently reporting user equipment (UE) transmission power and an apparatus thereof, and more particularly, to a method of reporting UE transmission power including a variation factor of maximum transmission power of a UE, and an apparatus thereof.
In general, a mobile communication system has been developed to provide communication while securing mobility of a user. The mobile communication system leads to a stage capable of providing high speed data communication service as well as voice communication with dramatic development of technology.
In recent years, a standard work with respect to Long Term Evolution (LTE) in 3GPP as one of next generation mobile communication systems proceeds. LTE aims at commercialization in 2010, and is a technology implementing high speed packet based communication having transmission of maximum 100 Mbps greater than a currently provided data transmission rate. To do this, various approaches have been discussed. For example, an approach of simplifying a construction of a network to reduce the number of nodes located on a communication line or an approach approximating wireless protocols to a wireless channel to the maximum degree have been discussed.
Meanwhile, a resource to be allotted in a data service is determined according to an amount of data to be transmitted and a channel situation unlike a voice service. Accordingly, management allotting a transmission resource is achieved in consideration of an amount in a wireless communication system like a mobile communication system. This is equally performed in LTE being one of next generation mobile communication systems, and a scheduler located at a base station manages and allots a wireless transmission resource.
LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) communication system improving transmission speed by combining various new techniques with an LTE communication system has been actively discussed. There is carrier aggregation as a representative example of newly introduced technologies. Unlike the related art where a UE performs data transmission/reception using one forward carrier and one reverse carrier, one UE use a plurality of forward carriers and a plurality of reverseward carriers in the carrier aggregation. Accordingly, unlike the related art, it is necessary to efficiently set UE transmission power for a plurality of reverse carries. To do this, it is very important to report UE maximum transmission power and available power by a UE.
Development of the LTE communication system makes one UE possible to perform a dual mode function having a plurality of system modems. Further, the UE may receive provision of separate services using different systems. It is important to report UE maximum transmission power and available power used by each system for scheduling.
The present disclosure has been made in view of the above problems, and provides a method that may include a variation factor of maximum transmission power of a UE in a transmission power report and an apparatus thereof.
The present disclosure further provides a method capable of reporting whether a various factor of maximum transmission power of a UE is P-MPR.
In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a method of transmitting Power Headroom Report (PHR) of user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes configuring an evolved PHR including an indicator with respect of a variation factor of maximum transmission power of the UE, and transmitting the evolved PHR to an eNB.
In accordance with another aspect of the present disclosure, a method of receiving Power Headroom Report (PHR) of an eNB in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting control information indicating application of an evolved PHR including an indicator with respect to a variation factor of maximum transmission power of user equipment (UE) to the UE, and receiving the evolved PHR from the UE.
In accordance with another aspect of the present disclosure, an apparatus of transmitting Power Headroom Report (PHR) of user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system is provided. The apparatus includes a controller configuring an evolved PHR including an indicator with respect of a variation factor of maximum transmission power of the UE, and a transceiver transmitting the evolved PHR to an eNB.
In accordance with another aspect of the present disclosure, an apparatus of receiving Power Headroom Report (PHR) of an eNB in a mobile communication system is provided. The apparatus includes a controller generating control information indicating application of an evolved PHR including an indicator with respect to a variation factor of maximum transmission power of user equipment (UE), and a transceiver transmitting the control information and receiving the evolved PHR from the UE.
The objects, features and advantages of the present disclosure will be more apparent from the following detailed description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are described with reference to the accompanying drawings in detail. The same reference numbers are used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts. Detailed descriptions of well-known functions and structures incorporated herein may be omitted to avoid obscuring the subject matter of the present disclosure.
In an LTE system, transmission power which a UE may use is a Power Headroom (PH), which is defined as a difference between UE maximum transmission power PCMAX and currently used UE transmission power. If certain conditions meet, the UE reports PH to a base station, which is called Power Headroom Report (PHR). In the related art, certain conditions reporting the PHR by the UE where a wireless path is changed by greater than a predetermined threshold value, or when a PH report period comes. The base station (eNB) may anticipate a channel state used by a corresponding UE based on collected PH values, and determine whether to additional allot a wireless resource to a corresponding UE. The PH continuously changes due to variation of UE maximum transmission power PCMAX, variation of wave path loss, or TPC command error. Due to this, the base station may wrongly allot a wireless resource.
At time t1, the UE receives allotment of x wireless resources of Resource Block (RB) and transmits data with MCS (Modulation & Coding Scheme)=m. In this case, UE transmission power 120 is very less than UE maximum transmission power 110. If certain conditions meet, the UE transfers a PH 145 being a difference between the maximum transmission power PCMAX(110) and used transmission power 120 to a base station.
Although more wireless resources are allotted to the UE based on the PH value, the eNB determines that the UE transmission power is not lack. Accordingly, the eNB further allots y RBs, and increase MCS to n higher than a previous m so as to provide a service with a higher transmission rate.
Accordingly, in a method of solving such a problem, a UE reports maximum transmission power, and a eNB collects the information, and considers and calculates UE maximum transmission power which is changed in a plurality of situations. However, it is not sufficient to collect only UE maximum transmission power. The eNB should know by what causes the UE maximum transmission power is changed to have meaning information.
In order to confirm factors influencing on the UE maximum transmission power, a reference determining UE maximum transmission power should be grasped. As illustrated above, a maximum value PCMAX_H and a minimum value PCMAX_L of the UE maximum transmission power PCMAX are determined using a parameter provided from an eNB and previously defined parameters, which is determined as one value within the range.
That is,
PCMAX_L≤PCMAX≤PCMAX_H Equation 1
where, the maximum value PCMAX_H and the minimum value PCMAX_L are defined using following Equation 2 and Equation 3.
PCMAX_L=MIN{PCMAX−ΔTc,PPowerClass−MAX(MPR+A-MPR,P-MPR)−ΔTc} Equation 2
PCMAX_H=MIN{PEMAX,PPowerClass} Equation 3
PEMAX is maximum transmission power provided from the base station and is transferred to the UE through SIB1 being broadcast information. Meanwhile, PPowerClass is maximum transmission power which each UE may provide. PCMAX_H is defined as a minimum value of the PEMAX and the PPowerClass.
In the meantime, PCMAX_L is complicated. The PCMAX_L is chiefly influenced by MPR+A-MPR and P-MPR. ΔTc, MPR, A-MPR are parameters defining a limit value which a UE may adjust maximum transmission power in a serving cell to match unintended with respect to an adjacent channel with predetermined required conditions.
MPR is a value determined by an amount (namely, bandwidth) and a modulation scheme that the UE receives allotment. A-MPR is a value determined by a frequency band in which a reverse transmission is achieved, local characteristics, and a bandwidth of reverse transmission. When there is a frequency band specifically sensitive to spurious radiation at a periphery, the A-MPR is used according to local characteristics and frequency band characteristics. When reverse transmission is performed at an edge of a frequency band, ΔTc is used to allow additional transmission power adjustment. When the reverse transmission is achieved at a band corresponding to a minimum 4 MHz of an operational frequency band or a band corresponding to a maximum 4 MHz, the UE sets ΔTc to 1.5 dB. In other cases, the UE sets ΔTc to 0.
P-MPR is transmission output reduced value applied to satisfy Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) requiring conditions (to control an influence of the electromagnetic wave on a human body), and is determined in consideration of a distance between a device and the human body. For example, when a distance between the device and the human body is near, a total transmission output value of the device should be reduced. To do this, a great value is applied to P-MRP.
Conversely, when the distance between the device and the human body is great, because the total transmission output value of the device may be increased, a small value is applied to the P-MPR.
The P-MRP is related to power management. When a plurality of carries are simultaneously operated or transmit data together with another system modem, the P-MRP limits maximum power allotted to one carrier or one system. Such an influence is reflected as P-MPR.
Accordingly, it will be understood that the UE maximum transmission power PCMAX is changed by two factors including MPR+A-MPR associated with out-of-band emission requirement or a P-MPR associate with power management. If the UE reports one indicator capable of discriminating two factors together with maximum transmission power, an eNB may consider and calculate how the UE maximum transmission power is changed for various situations.
The present disclosure suggests a method of transferring one bit indicator indicating a variation cause of UE maximum transmission power and maximum transmission power.
In the present disclosure, a corresponding 1 bit indictor is called a p bit. The corresponding indicator is configured by 1 bit. A ‘0’ indicates a case where the maximum transmission power is not influenced by a P-MPR for power management. A ‘1’ indicates a case where the maximum transmission power is influenced by the P-MPR for power management.
That is, the P-MPR is applied and PCMAX,C has a different value, the p bit is set to 1. When the P-MPR is applied or not, if the PCMAX,C is the same, the p bit is set to 0.1. To do this, unlike a conventional PHR format, an enlarge PHR format may be used to include additional information. In addition to a conventional PHR trigger condition, when the P-MPR is changed by greater than a certain threshold, the PHR is triggered.
A UE 200 informs a base station (evolved NodeB; eNB) that the UE 200 may support another RAT or carrier aggregation (CA) (210). The eNB determines collection of information with respect to PCMAX variation for various situations, and using an evolved PHR format (215).
The eNB instructs application of the evolved PHR format to the UE through RRC Connection Reconfiguration message (220). Presence of application of the evolved PHR format is instructed through MAC-MainConfig IE and other PHR relation setting information is included in the PHR-config IE. The UE transmits data through another RAT or recognizes that data transmission is necessary through a plurality of serving cells, namely, additional SCell using a CA technology (225).
The eNB allots an uplink wireless resource to the UE (230). When determining PCMAX, the UE recognizes that PCMAX is influenced by P-MPR for power management (235). The UE selects PCMAX within ranges of a maximum value PCMAX_H and a minimum value PCMAX_L obtained from Equation 2 and Equation 3.
If at least one of following conditions is satisfied, the UE triggers PHR (240).
The UE reports an evolved PHR to eNB (245). The evolved PHR contains 1 bit indicator P informing presence of influences of PCMAX and P-MPR is together with PH information. When a maximum transmission power is not influenced by P-MPR for power management, the 1 bit is set ‘0’. When the maximum transmission power is influenced by P-MPR for power management, the 1 bit is set ‘1’.
For reference, when CA is applied, the evolved PHR includes PH, PCMAX, and P value of all activated SCell. Here, the PH is calculated by a following Equation 4. The PHR includes PCMAX,C only for a serving cell with valid uplink grant. Therefore, the PHR does not include a maximum transmission power for a first activated serving cell, if an uplink grant for the first activated serving cell is not allocated.
PH(i)=PCMAX,c(i)−{10 log10(MPUSCH,c(i))+PO_PUSCH,c(j)+αc(j)·PLc+ΔTF,c(i)+fc(i)} Equation 4
An i-th subframe PH(i) in a serving cell c is calculated by a maximum reverse transmission power PCMAX,c(i), the number MPUSCH,c(i) of resource blocks, power offset ΔTF,c induced from MCS, a pass loss PLc, and fc(i) (accumulated TPC commands).
The PLc in the Equation 4 is a path loss of a cell set to provide a path loss with a serving cell c. A path loss used to determine a reverse transmission output of optional serving cell is a path loss of a forward channel of a corresponding cell or a path loss of a forward channel of another cell. The eNB selects and informs the UE in a call setting procedure to use any path.
In the Equation 4, fc(i) is an accumulated value of Transmission Power Control of a serving cell c. PO_PUSCH,C is a parameter in an upper layer, which is a sum of cell-specific and UE-specific. In general, different values are applied to PO_PUSCH,C according to Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission types such as semi-persistent scheduling, dynamic scheduling, and random access response.
αc is 3-bit cell-specific value provided in an upper layer. When a reverse transmission output is calculated, it is a weight (the higher a weight applied to a path loss is, it greatly influences a reverse transmission output) applied to path loss, and an applicable value is limited to αc according to a type of PUSCH transmission.
A j value is used to indicate a type of PUSCH. When J=0, it indicates semi-persistent scheduling. When j=1, it indicates dynamic scheduling. When j=2, it indicates random access response.
Next, the eNB makes database of corresponding information and is used for scheduling (250).
A UE determines whether there is an instruction to apply an evolved PHR format among PHR setting information provided from the eNB (300). If there is no instruction, the UE reports PHR using a conventional PH format (310).
The UE transmits data according to allotment of an uplink wireless resource (305), and continuously determines whether PHR trigger conditions meet (315).
If at least one of the PHR trigger conditions meets, the UE determines whether a PCMAX value to be reported is influenced by P-MPR in a power management side (320).
If the PCMAX value is influenced by the P-MPR, the UE configures an evolved PHR (325), and sets a P bit value to 1 (330). If the PCMAX value is not influenced by the P-MPR, the UE configures an evolved PHR (335), and sets a P bit value to 0 (340).
The UE reports the PHR to the eNB (345).
An eNB determines collection of information with respect to PCMAX variation for various situations (350). That is, the eNB determines using an evolved PHR format according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
The eNB instructs the UE to apply an evolved PHR format through an RRC Connection Reconfiguration message (360). Presence of application of the evolved PHR format is instructed through MAC-MainConfig IE, and PHR relation setting information is included in the PHR-config IE. Next, the eNB allots an uplink wireless resource to the UE (370).
The eNB receives an evolved PHR from the UE (380). As illustrated above, the evolved PHR includes a 1 bit indicator P for information presence of influence of PCMAX and P-MPR as well as PH information. If maximum transmission power is not influenced by P-MPR for power management, the 1 bit is set to ‘0’. If maximum transmission power is influenced by P-MPR for power management, the 1 bit is set to ‘1’. For reference, when CA is applied, the evolved PHR includes PH, PCMAX, and P value of all activated SCells.
Next, the eNB makes database of corresponding information to be used for scheduling (390).
When a PH with respect to a plurality of serving cells is reported in a mobile communication system in which a plurality of carriers are integrated, they are collected in one PHR to be transmitted. Such a method may reduce a signal overhead in comparison with transmission of PH by carriers, and may obtain PH information with respect to a carrier in which there is no actual PUSCH transmission.
Blocks 400 to 430 are a bitmap for instructing whether a PH of any activated Component Carrier (CC) is included in a corresponding PHR. Each bit of the bitmap accords with SCell index, and corresponds to one SCell.
A block 435 is a P bit, and instructs whether terminal maximum transmission power PCMAX is influenced by P-MRP according to the present disclosure.
Although there is no actual PUSCH transmission, the eNB may trigger a PHS so as to obtain path loss information in a specific reverse carrier. When there is no PUSCH transmission, the UE and eNB may solve by determining a transmission format (amount and MSC level of transmission resource) to be used in order to calculate a PH.
In this case, the eNB should know whether a PH with respect to each serving cell included in PHR is calculated in consideration of actual PUSCH transmission or using a previously defined transmission format. To do this, there is a need for an indicator for information it to a conventional PHR format. A V bit of a block 440 is a 1 bit indicator therefor.
When calculating a PH of the cell in reporting a PH of an optional cell, if calculating the PH based on actual PUSCH transmission, namely, using an actual transmission format, the UE sets the bit to a predetermined value (e.g., 0). When calculating the PH using a reference format (namely, the number of RBs=0, ΔTF=0), the UE sets the bit to another value (e.g., 1).
Blocks 450 and 455 are PH and PCMAX values, respectively. PH information of each carrier in continuous bytes is configured in an ascending order of Type 2 PH and PCMAX of PCell→Type 1 PH (block 460) and PCMAX (block 465) of PCell→PH (block 470) and PCMAX (block 475) of a first SCell→PH and PCMAX of a second SCell→PH and PCMAX of a third SCell→PH and PCMAX of of a fourth SCell. R (block 450) is a reserved bit.
The terminal includes an upper layer device 51 transmitting/receiving an upper link and data, and transmits/receive control message through a control message processor 515.
Further, when transmitting a control signal or data to the eNB 205, the UE multiplexes it through a multiplexer/demultiplexer (MUX/DeMUX) 505 under the control of the controller 520 and transmits data through a transceiver 500.
Meanwhile, when receiving data, the UE receives a physical signal by a transceiver 500 under the control of the controller 520, demultiplexes a received signal by a multiplexer/demultiplexer (MUX/DeMUX) 505, and transfers a received signal to an upper layer device 501 or a control message processor 515 according to each message information.
According to the present disclosure, an eNB may know maximum transmission power of an UE and a variation factor thereof to enable efficient scheduling.
Although exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure have been described in detail hereinabove, it should be clearly understood that many variations and modifications of the basic inventive concepts herein taught which may appear to those skilled in the present art will still fall within the spirit and scope of the present disclosure, as defined in the appended claims.
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