Apparatus and method for saving power by transmission interval in wireless communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10149244-B2
Application number	US-201414177805-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 11, 2014
Priority date	Mar 6, 2013
Publication date	Dec 4, 2018
Grant date	Dec 4, 2018

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for controlling power consumption of a terminal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes deactivating one or more of hardware components for signal reception in a transmission interval if there is no data to be received in the transmission interval, and receiving a control signal by activating all the components in a next transmission interval.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for operating a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
receiving control information through a control channel during a first period of a transmission interval, wherein the transmission interval comprises the first period and a second period including a power controllable interval;
deactivating a part of components for signal reception during the power controllable interval of the transmission interval by generating a plurality of control signals to change a state of each component in the deactivated part of the components, if it is determined that there is no data to be received during the power controllable interval of the transmission interval based on the control information; and
receiving another control information by activating the components for the signal reception in a next transmission interval,
wherein at least two components in the deactivated part of the components are in different states during the power controllable interval of the transmission interval, and
wherein the power controllable interval is determined based on a first time for switching the state and a second time for setting an initial value of each of the components for signal reception.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining whether the data to be received during the transmission interval is present based on the control information.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the deactivated part of the components for signal reception is selected based on at least one of a warm-up time and the internal initial value problem.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the deactivating of the part of the components for signal reception comprises at least one of switching to a power-off state, switching to a stand-by state, and switching to a sleep state.

5. The method of claim 4 ,
wherein at least one of the deactivated part is powered off, and
wherein a rest of the deactivated part is switched to the stand-by state or the sleep state.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the components comprises at least one of a Phase Loop Lock (PLL), a Voltage Control Oscillator (VCO), a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), a mixer, a Local Oscillator (LO), and an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC).

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmission interval is one of a transmission time interval (TTI) and a subframe.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving of the control information comprises estimating the control channel using reference signals transferred through the transmission interval.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein a number of the reference signals, used for the estimating of the control channel, is determined based on a channel condition.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the estimating of the control channel comprises selecting a channel estimation mode based on a channel condition.

11. A terminal apparatus in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:
a plurality of components configured to receive signals; and
at least one processor configured to:
control the plurality of components to receive control information through a control channel during a first period of a transmission interval,

wherein the transmission interval comprises the first period and a second period including a power controllable interval,
control a part of the plurality of components to be deactivated during the power controllable interval of the transmission interval by generating a plurality of control signals to change a state of each component in the deactivated part of the plurality of components, if it is determined that there is no data to be received during the power controllable interval of the transmission interval based on the control information, and
control the plurality of components for the signal reception to be activated to receive another control information in a next transmission interval,

wherein at least two components in the deactivated part of the components are in different states during the power controllable interval of the transmission interval, and
wherein the power controllable interval is determined based on a first time for switching the state and a second time for setting an initial value of each of the components for signal reception.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to determine whether data to be received during the transmission interval is present based on the control information.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the deactivated part of the plurality of components is selected based on at least one of a warm-up time and the internal initial value problem.

14. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the deactivating comprises at least one of switching to a power-off state, switching to a stand-by state, and switching to a sleep state.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 ,
wherein at least one of the deactivated part is powered off, and
wherein a rest of the deactivated part is switched to the stand-by state or the sleep state.

16. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein each of the plurality of components comprises at least one of a Phase Loop Lock (PLL), a Voltage Control Oscillator (VCO), an Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), a mixer, an Local Oscillator (LO), and an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC).

17. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the transmission interval is one of a transmission time interval (TTI) and a subframe.

18. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to estimate the control channel using reference signals transferred through the transmission interval.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein a number of the reference signals, used for the estimating of the control channel, is determined based on a channel condition.

20. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to select a channel estimation mode based on a channel condition.

21. A terminal apparatus in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:
a plurality of components; and
a control circuitry configured to:
control the plurality of components to receive control information through a control channel during a first period of a transmission interval by generating a plurality of control signals to change a state of each component in the deactivated part of the components, wherein the transmission interval comprises the first period and a second period including a power controllable interval,
control a part of the plurality of components to be deactivated during the power controllable interval of the transmission interval, if there is no data to be received in the transmission interval, and
control the plurality of components to be activated to receive another control information in a next transmission interval,

wherein the deactivated part of the plurality of components is selected based on a warm-up time of each of the plurality of components, and
wherein the power controllable interval is determined based on a first time for switching the state and a second time for setting an initial value of each of the components for signal reception.

22. The apparatus of claim 21 ,
wherein the plurality of components is included in a Radio Frequency (RF) processing circuitry and a baseband processing circuitry, and
wherein the RF processing circuitry comprises the control circuitry and is configured to convert an RF signal to a baseband signal.

23. The ap

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Tae-Yoon
• Kim Min-Goo
• Ahn Seong-Woo
• Lim Jong-Han
• Lim Chae-Man
• Jung Young-Seok

Classifications

• H04W52/0225 Primary

  using monitoring of external events, e.g. the presence of a signal · CPC title

• Y02D70/00

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02D70/1262

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02D70/24

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H04W52/02

  Power saving arrangements · CPC title