Downlink signal reception method and user equipment, and downlink signal transmission method and base station

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10219265-B2
Application number	US-201515500874-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 29, 2015
Priority date	Aug 1, 2014
Publication date	Feb 26, 2019
Grant date	Feb 26, 2019

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and a device for transmitting/receiving a downlink signal. If the number of reference signals is greater than a certain level when the size of a transmission block to the transmitted through a downlink is determined, the present invention transmits/receives a downlink signal in a reduced transmission block size smaller than a transmission block size according to a modulation and coding scheme to be used for the downlink signal, and/or the number of resource blocks.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for receiving a downlink signal, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprising:
receiving downlink control information (DCI) including modulation and coding scheme (MCS) information and including resource allocation information indicating one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) allocated to the UE;
receiving downlink data through a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) mapped to the one or more PRBs allocated to the UE based on the DCI; and
determining a transport block size of the downlink data among a plurality of predefined transport block sizes, based on the MCS information and a number, N PRB ′, of the PRBs allocated to the UE,
wherein, if the density of downlink reference signals is greater than a reference value, the transport block size is determined based on a number, N PRB , of reduced PRBs rather than on N PRB ′,
wherein N PRB is determined based on a value obtained by multiplying a positive real number less than 1, α by the N PRB ′, and
wherein α is determined based on a ratio, N RE ′/N RE , of a number, N RE ′, of resource elements excluding resource elements used to receive the downlink reference signals from N RE to a number, N RE , of resource elements excluding resource elements included in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols used to transmit a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from resource elements in a resource block.

2. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein N PRB is determined by at least N PRB =max{floor(N PRB ′×α),1}, N PRB =floor(N PRB ′×α), or N PRB =ceil(N PRB ′×α).

3. A user equipment (UE) for receiving a downlink signal, the UE comprising:
a radio frequency (RF) transceiver configured to transmit or receive a signal, and
a processor configured to control the RF transceiver, the processor configured to:
control the RF transceiver to receive downlink control information (DCI) including modulation and coding scheme (MCS) information and including resource allocation information indicating one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) allocated to the UE;
control the RF transceiver to receive downlink data through a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) mapped to the PRBs allocated to the UE based on the DCI; and
determine a transport block size of the downlink data among a plurality of predefined transport block sizes, based on the MCS information and a number, N PRB ′, of the PRBs, and
wherein, if the density of downlink reference signals is greater than a reference value, the processor is configured to determine the transport block size based on a number, N PRB , of reduced PRBs rather than on N PRB ′,
wherein N PRB is determined based on a value obtained by multiplying a positive real number less than 1, αby the N PRB ′, and
wherein αis determined based on a ratio, N RE ′/N RE, of a number, N RE ′, of resource elements excluding resource elements used to receive the downlink reference signals from N RE to a number, N RE , of resource elements excluding resource elements included in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols used to transmit a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from resource elements in a resource block.

4. The UE according to claim 3 ,
wherein N PRB is determined by at least N PRB =max{floor(N PRB ′×α),1}, N PRB =floor(N PRB ′×α), or N PRB =ceil(N PRB ′×α).

5. A method for transmitting a downlink signal, the method performed by a base station (BS) and comprising:
determining a transport block size of downlink data among a plurality of predefined transport block sizes according to modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) and the number of physical resource blocks (PRBs);
transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), downlink control information (DCI) including MCS information for transmission of the downlink data and including resource allocation information indicating PRBs allocated to the UE; and
transmitting the downlink data through a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) mapped to the PRBs allocated to the UE according to the DCI,
wherein, if the density of downlink reference signals is greater than a reference value, the transport block size is determined based on a number, N PRB , of reduced PRBs rather than on a number, N PRB , of the PRBs allocated to the UE,
wherein N PRB is determined based on a value obtained by multiplying a positive real number less than 1, αby the N PRB ′, and
wherein αis determined based on a ratio, N RE ′/N RE , of a number, N RE ′, of resource elements excluding resource elements used to receive the downlink reference signals from N RE to a number, N RE of resource elements excluding resource elements included in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols used to transmit a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from resource elements in a resource block.

6. The method according to claim 5 ,
wherein N PRB is determined by at least N PRB =max{floor(N PRB ′×α),1}, N PRB =floor(N PRB ′×α), or N PRB =ceil(N PRB ′×α).

7. A base station (BS) for transmitting a downlink signal, the BS comprising:
a radio frequency (RF) transceiver configured to transmit or receive a signal, and
a processor configured to control the RF transceiver, the processor configured to:
determine a transport block size of downlink data among a plurality of predefined transport block sizes according to modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) and the number of physical resource blocks (PRBs);
control the RF transceiver to transmit, to a user equipment (UE), downlink control information (DCI) including MCS information for transmission of the downlink data and including resource allocation information indicating PRBs allocated to the UE; and
control the RF transceiver to transmit the downlink data through a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) mapped to the PRBs allocated to the UE according to the DCI, and
wherein, if the density of downlink reference signals is greater than a reference value, the transport block size is determined based on a number, N PRB , of reduced PRBs rather than on a number, N PRB ′, of the PRBs allocated to the UE,
wherein N PRB is determined based on a value obtained by multiplying a positive real number less than 1, αby the N PRB ′, and
wherein αis determined based on a ratio, N RE ′/N RE , of a number, N RE ′, of resource elements excluding resource elements used to receive the downlink reference signals from N RE to a number, N RE of resource elements excluding resource elements included in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols used to transmit a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from resource elements in a resource block.

8. The BS according to claim 7 ,
wherein N PRB is determined by at least N PRB =max{floor(N PRB ′×α),1}, N PRB =floor(N PRB ′×α).

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• You Hyangsun
• Kim Kijun
• Yi Yunjung
• Kim Bonghoe

Classifications

• H04W72/23 Primary

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04L5/0064

  Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority · CPC title

• H04L5/0007

  the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A) or DMT · CPC title

• H04L5/0048

  Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091) · CPC title

• H04L5/005 Primary

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