Method, device, and system for signal transmission in unlicensed band

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10057785-B2
Application number	US-201715813108-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 14, 2017
Priority date	May 16, 2015
Publication date	Aug 21, 2018
Grant date	Aug 21, 2018

Abstract

Disclosed relates to a method, device, and system for performing downlink transmission. Specifically, the disclosed relates to a method including when the downlink signal includes a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a channel in the specific cell is sensed to be idle for a first predefined interval, wherein the processor performs backoff after the second predefined time in order to perform the downlink transmission, and when the downlink transmission includes a Discovery Reference Signal (DRS) and the channel in the specific cell is sensed to be idle for a second predefined interval, performing the downlink transmission immediately after the second predefined interval, and a device and system therefor.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for performing downlink transmission in a specific cell by a base station in a cellular wireless communication system, the method comprising:
when the downlink transmission includes a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a channel in the specific cell is sensed to be idle for a first predefined interval, performing backoff after the first predefined interval in order to perform the downlink transmission; and
when the downlink transmission includes a Discovery Reference Signal (DRS) and the channel in the specific cell is sensed to be idle for a second predefined interval, performing the downlink transmission immediately after the second predefined interval.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the channel in the specific cell is sensed after a previous downlink transmission fails.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the previous downlink transmission fails because the channel in the specific cell is busy.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the DRS is transmitted in a periodically-configured Discovery Measurement Timing Configuration (DMTC).

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the DRS is configured with at least one of Cell-specific Reference Signal (CRS), Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS), and Channel State Information (CSI)-RS.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the DRS is configured in subframe units, and all the CRS, PSS, SSS, and CSI-RS are included in one subframe.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein no signal is transmitted in a last Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of a subframe configured with the DRS signal.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the backoff comprises generating a random number N (N≥0) in a contention window size and waiting for N slots when the channel in the specific cell is idle.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the specific cell is an unlicensed cell, and the cellular communication system is a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) communication system.

10. A base station used in a cellular wireless communication system, the base station comprising:
a wireless communication module; and
a processor,
when the downlink signal includes a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a channel in the specific cell is sensed to be idle for a first predefined interval, wherein the processor performs backoff after the first predefined time in order to perform the downlink transmission, and
when the downlink transmission includes a Discovery Reference Signal (DRS) and the channel in the specific cell is sensed to be state for a second predefined interval, wherein the processor performs the downlink transmission immediately after the second predefined interval.

11. The base station of claim 10 , wherein the channel in the specific cell is sensed after a previous downlink transmission fails.

12. The base station of claim 10 , wherein the previous downlink transmission fails because the channel in the specific cell is busy.

13. The base station of claim 10 , wherein the DRS is transmitted in a periodically-configured Discovery Measurement Timing Configuration (DMTC).

14. The base station of claim 10 , wherein the DRS is configured with at least one of Cell-specific Reference Signal (CRS), Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS), and Channel State Information (CSI)-RS.

15. The base station of claim 14 , wherein the DRS is configured in subframe units, and all the CRS, PSS, SSS, and CSI-RS are included in one subframe.

16. The base station of claim 15 , wherein no signal is transmitted in a last Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of a subframe configured with the DRS signal.

17. The base station of claim 10 , wherein the backoff comprises generating a random number N (N≥0) in a contention window size and waiting for N slots when the channel in the specific cell is idle.

18. The base station of claim 10 , wherein the specific cell is an unlicensed cell, and the cellular wireless communication system is a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) communication system.

Assignees

• Wilus Inst Standards & Tech Inc

Inventors

• Kwak Jinsam
• Son Juhyung
• Ko Geonjung
• Noh Minseok

Classifications

• H04L5/005

  of common pilots, i.e. pilots destined for multiple users or terminals · CPC title

• H04W74/0808

  using carrier sensing, e.g. carrier sense multiple access [CSMA] · CPC title

• H04W16/14 Primary

  Spectrum sharing arrangements {between different networks} · CPC title

• H04W84/045

  using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B · CPC title

• H04L27/26

  Systems using multi-frequency codes (H04L27/32 takes precedence) · CPC title