China Academy of Telecommunications Technology

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.

Hao Ni

Qiubin Gao

Ranran Zhang

Ying Peng

Xiaohui Yang

Yi Zhao

Meifang Jing

Hui Li

Shaohui Sun

Chen Chen

Wenhong Chen

Jing Zhu

Seho Kim

Zhichun Shen

Shoufeng Wang

Chun Luo

Huiyang Wang

Jiajia Wang

Chanjuan Wei

Junyi Yu

Quibin Gao

A method for controlling a beam in a cell, includes obtaining traffic distribution data of a plurality of beam areas included in the cell, obtaining a total number of a plurality of beams for a beam area among the plurality of the beam areas, based on the obtained traffic distribution data, and obtaining a beam width of one among the plurality of beams for the beam area, based on the obtained total number of the plurality of beams. The method further includes obtaining, from a candidate beam set, candidate beams for the beam area, based on the obtained total number of the plurality of beams and the obtained beam width of the one among the plurality of beams, and obtaining, from the obtained candidate beams, multiple beams for the beam area, based on a distance between the obtained candidate beams and the beam area.

Method and apparatus for controlling beam adaptively in wireless communication system

An apparatus for beam configuration in a wireless communication system, including a transceiver; and at least one processor connected with the transceiver and configured to: form at least one beam cluster from beams of a base station; determine a configuration of the at least one beam cluster; and configure the beams in the at least one beam cluster according to the determined configuration

Method and apparatus for beam configuration in wireless communication system

The present disclosure provides a scheduling method, a coordinated-transmission node and a CCN for downlink coordinated-transmission. The scheduling method at a coordinated-transmission node side includes: receiving, by a coordinated-transmission node, scheduling privilege information corresponding to a downlink time-frequency resource from a CCN, the scheduling privilege information corresponding to the downlink time-frequency resource indicating a scheduling privilege of the coordinated-transmission node over the downlink time-frequency resource; and performing, by the coordinated-transmission node, the scheduling in accordance with the received scheduling privilege information and the latest CSI reported by the terminal. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the CCN merely determines the scheduling privilege of each coordinated-transmission node over the downlink time-frequency resource, and each coordinated-transmission node performs the scheduling in accordance with its scheduling privilege and the latest CSI reported by the terminal that is connected to the coordinated-transmission node.

Scheduling method, coordinated-transmission node and central coordination node for downlink coordinated-transmission

The embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of wireless communications, and in particular, to a method, system and device for scheduling a resource, which are used for solving the problems that the realization of non-central coordinated scheduling using an iterative method needs to perform iterative scheduling information interaction, and scheduling time delay will obviously increase in the case of a relatively large X2 interface time delay in the prior art. The method of the embodiments of the present application comprises: a serving base station determining a time-frequency resource needing to be silenced by a cooperative base station according to channel information reported by a user equipment adopting coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission technology, and notifying the cooperative base station of the time-frequency resource needing to be silenced; and scheduling the user equipment according to a received notification about whether to silence the resource from the cooperative base station. The adoption of the solution of the embodiments of the present invention reduces the scheduling time delay in the case of a relatively large X2 interface time delay, and improves the efficiency of information scheduling and the system performance.

Method, system and device for scheduling resource

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide reference signal transmitting and receiving methods and devices in an active antenna system. Port virtualization to a transmit antennas may be implemented for multiple cell-specific reference signal (CRS) antenna ports and applying different vertical beamforming vectors to implement port virtualization for the different CRS antenna ports. The User Equipment (UE) reports the maximum RSRP/RSRQ value measured based on multiple CRS ports, or the UE simultaneously reports multiple RSRP/RSRQ values and the information of the multiple CRS antenna ports. Therefore, the coverage problem of the CRS signal and Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH)/Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH)/Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) demodulated based on CRS and the problem of measurement for Radio Resource Management (RRM) in the active antenna system may be avoided. Specifically, the following problems may be solved. 1) Coverage differences between CRS and PBCH/PDCCH/PDSCH demodulated based on CRS transmission and Enhanced PDCCH (E-PDCCH)/PDSCH signal transmission, which is measured based on the CSI-RS or demodulated based on the DMRS may be reduced or avoided. 2) The cell association problem due to the different vertical beamforming technologies adopted by the CSI-RS or DMRS and by the CRS may be avoided. 3) Deep spatial fading state may be avoided for CRS reception and PBCH/PDCCH/PDSCH demodulated based on the CRS.

Method and apparatus for reference signal transmitting and receiving in active antenna systems

The embodiments of the present application disclose a method and a device for scheduling a resource in coordinated multi-point transmission and relate to the field of the wireless communications, so as to reduce the delay of a non-center coordination scheduling solution under the coordinated multi-point CoMP transmission and improve the scheduling efficiency. The solution comprises: a serving base station determining, according to a preset result of a negotiation with a coordinated base station, a final precoding matrix the coordinated base station prohibits; scheduling a resource according to channel state information (CSI) reported by a user terminal and the final precoding matrix the coordinated base station prohibits, and the coordinated base station scheduling the resource according to the CSI reported by the user terminal and the final precoding matrix the coordinated base station prohibits. By using the solution, the efficiency of the resource scheduling can be improved.

Method and device for scheduling resource in coordinated multi-point transmission

The present application relates to the field of wireless communications. Disclosed are a channel state information (CSI) reference resource indication and measurement method and device, so as to reduce the complexity of measurement and computation performed by a terminal. In the solution provided by the embodiments of the present application, a network side informs a terminal of a periodic value and/or a subframe offset value of a periodic CSI reference resource, and after the periodic value and/or the subframe offset value of the periodic CSI reference resource on a carrier is determined, the terminal determines, through a frame structure type used by the carrier and according to the determined periodic value and/or subframe offset value of the periodic CSI reference resource, a time-frequency resource corresponding to the effective CSI reference resource and measures the CSI in the determined time-frequency resource. It can be seen from the above that, the solution can effectively reduce the complexity of measurement and computation performed by a terminal.

Channel state information reference resource indication and measurement method and device

Disclosed are a multipoint channel state information reporting method and device. The technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention can be applied to configure a corresponding reporting mode for a reference signal resource pair composed of a channel sounding reference signal resource and an interference sounding reference signal resource which are allocated to a terminal device or configure a plurality of channel state information reporting configurations containing corresponding reporting modes, and allocate to each channel state information reporting configuration a reference signal resource pair composed of a channel sounding reference signal resource and an interference sounding reference signal resource; then, the terminal device report channel state information about corresponding reference signal resource pairs according to corresponding report modes, thereby achieving the purpose that the terminal device reports the channel state information for the one or more transmission points on one or more interference assumptions.

Multipoint channel state information reporting method and device

The present invention relates to the field of communications. Disclosed are a CoMP transmission feedback method, device and system, the method comprising: determining an inter-mode reference relationship between at least two configured modes according to configuration information transmitted by a base station (s); at each feedback instance. determining the parameter in the current mode via the parameter in a reference mode and according to the reference relationship between modes (s); and feeding back the channel state information containing the parameter in the current mode according to the configuration of the current mode (s). The present invention realizes the sharing of pre-coding matrix indicator/rank indicator (PMI/RI) information among a plurality of channel quality indicators (CQIs) having different interference assumptions, and realizes the sharing of RI information among different transmission points, thus achieving a dependency relationship among a plurality of feedback modes.

Comp transmission feedback method, device and system

Disclosed are a method, device, and system for reporting a channel quality indicator (CQI), applicable in solving the problem in coordinated multipoint transmission technology of the incapability of a network side to execute accurately resource distribution and scheduling due to the incapability of the network side to have accurate knowledge of the interference that a terminal is being subjected to. The method is: on the basis of measurement reference signals transmitted by each device in a measurement collection, the terminal feeding back to a network side device an initial CQI of each device in the measurement collection; on the basis of the initial CQI of each device fed back by the terminal, and of channel matrix reference information fed back by the terminal, the network side device calculating a target CQI of the terminal. This allows the network side to learn accurately the interference that the terminal is being subjected to, thus allowing for accurate execution of terminal scheduling, resource distribution, and MCS selection, for effectively improved system throughput in coordinated multipoint transmission, and for improved system performance.

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