Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v.

Jietao Zhang

Hongcheng Zhuang

Zezhou Luo

Kewen Yang

Petar Djukic

Halim Yanikomeroglu

Jianqiang Shen

Xiong Zhou

Andrian Beletchi

Chunhua Sun

Mikhail Pikhletsky

Farid Khafizov

Alireza Sharifian

Pikhletsky Mikhail

The present invention discloses a downlink interference management method, applied to interference coordination between a serving base station of a cell serving at least one first user equipment and a neighboring-cell base station of the cell, including: obtaining, by the serving base station, downlink interference overload information, where the downlink interference overload information is used to indicate an interfered-with transmission resource of the first user equipment; and sending, by the serving base station, the downlink interference overload information to the neighboring-cell base station, so that the neighboring-cell base station performs interference coordination on the transmission resource. The downlink interference overload information sent by the serving base station to the neighboring-cell base station may instruct the neighboring-cell base station to perform interference coordination on the interfered-with transmission resource.

Downlink interference management method, base station, and user equipment

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a resource configuration method and a resource configuration network device. The method includes: obtaining subframe information of each of multiple cells, where the subframe information of each of the multiple cells includes subframe configuration information and flexible subframe resource requirement information of each cell; and determining a flexible subframe resource configuration of each cell according to the subframe information of each of the multiple cells, where the flexible subframe resource configuration of each cell includes that each cell uses one or more of N flexible subframes to perform data transmission. A flexible subframe resource requirement of each of multiple neighboring cells is obtained, and flexible subframe resource configurations of the cells are coordinated in a distributed manner according to a subframe configuration and the flexible subframe resource requirement of each cell, thus, cross-subframe interference that may exist between flexible subframes can be reduced.

Resource configuration method and network device

Solutions for determining subframe configuration of a cell cluster are provided. In one example method, is obtained by a central control node, the radio resource information required by enhanced interference management and traffic adaptation eIMTA terminals and radio resource information required by conventional terminals in the cell cluster, where the cell cluster includes multiple cells. A TDD subframe configuration of the cell cluster is determined according to the radio resource information required by the eIMTA terminals and the radio resource information required by conventional terminals in the cell cluster. Each cell in the cell cluster is notified of the TDD subframe configuration information of the cell cluster, allowing the implementation of flexible TDD subframe configuration for terminals of different types in the cell cluster.

Method and apparatus for determining subframe configuration of cell cluster

Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a resource allocation method and apparatus. In an embodiment, the method may include receiving, by a base station, a downlink signal interference value that is sent by at least one UE associated with the base station and capability information of the at least one UE. The method may also include determining, by the base station, a belonging type of the at least one UE according to the downlink signal interference value and the capability information, and determining a duplex mode of the at least one UE according to the belonging type. Furthermore, the method may include allocating, based on the duplex mode, a resource to the at least one UE, and then sending the resource to the UE.

Resource allocation method and apparatus

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a cell selection method in a wireless network, a base station, and user equipment. The method includes: determining, by a base station, available uplink and downlink capacities of each cell in a coverage area of the base station; determining available uplink and downlink capacities of a backhaul link of the base station; calculating an uplink offset and a downlink offset of each cell according to the available uplink and downlink capacities of each cell and the available uplink and downlink capacities of the backhaul link of the base station; determining an uplink path loss of user equipment (UE); and sending a message to the UE, where the message carries the uplink path loss of the UE, the uplink offset, and the downlink offset, which are used by the UE to perform cell selection.

Cell selection method in wireless network, base station, and user equipment

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a power estimation method and apparatus. On a premise of controlling interference caused by a second node to a first node to be within a range, a transmit power of the second node can be increased so as to improve communication quality of the second node. A specific solution is: obtaining an estimated load value of each first node in N first nodes according to a transmit power and user service requirements of each first node that are obtained and according to a transmit power set for each second node in M second nodes, and further, respectively using the transmit power set for each second node as an allowed transmit power of each second node according to the estimated load value of each first node in the N first nodes.

Power estimation method and apparatus

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a network optimization method and apparatus, and a base station. The method includes: collecting statistics on a load index of a cell within a coverage area; determining a load level of the cell according to the load index of the cell; obtaining a network key performance indicator of the cell; determining a performance status of the cell according to the load index and the network key performance indicator of the cell; determining a cause for overload of the cell according to the performance status of the cell when the load level of the cell is overload; and sending a message to a self-organized network SON entity, where the message carries an identifier that is used to indicate the cause for overload of the cell.

Network optimization method and apparatus, and base station

A method for accessing to a mobile communication network, comprising: acquiring a session matching level for each cell, which is calculated based on a session type of a session initiated by a user terminal as needed, a session data rate available to the user terminal of each cell and load balance parameters of each cell; accessing to a cell selected according to the session matching level for each cell. Further, it also provides another method for accessing to a mobile communication network, and corresponding user terminal, network-side device and communication system.

Method, apparatus, and system for accessing to a mobile communication network

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a network optimization method and a network optimization device. The method includes: acquiring, in a first time segment, a first network status parameter that is determined according to M groups of network status parameters of at least one target cell, and acquiring a first CP that is determined according to M groups of cell control parameters CPs of the target cell, where the network status parameters include a key performance parameter KPI and a cell measurement parameter, determining, according to the first network status parameter and from a first entry that records a mapping relationship between a network status parameter and a security status, a security status of the target cell in the first time segment; and performing network optimization on the target cell according to the security status of the target cell in the first time segment.

Network optimization method, and network optimization device

A method includes acquiring a global handover performance parameter R, a local handover performance parameter r, and a handover parameter of a cell within a preset time; and detecting a handover problem, existing within the preset time, of the cell according to R and r. The method further includes receiving R, r, a handover parameter, and indication information for a handover problem, within the preset time, of each adjacent cell that are sent by all adjacent cells; and determining whether the cell is a cell to be optimized. If an icell is a cell to be optimized, the method optimizes, according to R, r, R, and r, a handover parameter of the icell, and the handover parameters of the adjacent cells of the icell by using a data statistical regression method, a handover parameter corresponding to a handover problem of the icell.

Method and device for optimizing a handover parameter

The present invention provides a method, a device, and a system for optimizing a tradeoff between capacity and coverage of a network. The method includes: receiving statistical information and a first count that are sent by a base station; establishing at least one coverage cluster; calculating cluster values of all the coverage clusters; acquiring an entire-network coverage hole (CH) value and an entire-network coverage overlap (CO) value; calculating an entire-network utility value according to the entire-network CH value and the entire-network CO value; if the capacity or coverage weight and the antenna downtilt of each base station in all the coverage clusters need to be adjusted, acquiring an adjustment value for the capacity or coverage weight of each base station and an adjustment value for the antenna downtilt of each base station according to an optimization strategy, and sending the adjustment values to a corresponding base station.

Method, device, and system for optimizing a tradeoff between capacity and coverage of a network

A method for allocating radio resources, a base station, and a system are provided. The method includes: acquiring statistical average user satisfaction of each access point in a relay cell, where the access point includes the base station and a relay node in the relay cell, the average user satisfaction is an average ratio of a total user rate obtained by an access point to a total user rate required by the access point, where the average ratio is in a statistical period; and when a difference between the statistical average user satisfaction of the base station and the statistical average user satisfaction of each relay node approaches a preset value, determining a resource partitioning weight of each access point; and calculating radio resources of each access point according to the resource partitioning weight of each access point, and allocating the radio resources to each access point.

Method for allocating radio resources in relay cell, base station, and system

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for dynamic spectrum management. The method includes: determining a reusable spectrum for one of multiple cell links in a network according to co-frequency indication information, where the co-frequency indication information is used to indicate reusable levels of spectrums of other cell links for each cell link in the multiple cell links; and updating a spectrum configuration of the one of the multiple cell links by using the reusable spectrum of the one of the multiple cell links. By determining a reusable spectrum for a specific cell link according to co-frequency indication information, embodiments of the present invention can locally adjust the spectrum configuration of the specific cell link, thereby reducing a spectrum configuration overhead while increasing network capacity and reducing inter-cell interference.

Method and apparatus for dynamic spectrum management

The present invention discloses an adaptive cell coverage and capacity optimization method and device in a mobile communication network, aiming to improve adaptive optimization performance of cell capacity and coverage. The technical solutions includes: calculating spectral efficiency of a cell; if the spectral efficiency of the cell is less than a first threshold, starting vertical sectorization processing of the cell to divide the cell into an inner sector and an outer sector, and configuring relevant parameters of the inner sector and the outer sector to improve the spectral efficiency of the cell; calculating spectral efficiency of the outer sector; and if the spectral efficiency of the outer sector is less than a second threshold, starting inter-cell interference coordination to improve the spectral efficiency of the outer sector, and reconfiguring the relevant parameters of the inner sector and the outer sector to improve the spectral efficiency of the cell.

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