Electronic apparatus and method in wireless communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10327155-B2
Application number	US-201715841417-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 14, 2017
Priority date	Mar 8, 2017
Publication date	Jun 18, 2019
Grant date	Jun 18, 2019

Abstract

An electronic apparatus and a method in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The electronic apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to train a beam adjustment model for adaptive beamforming with training data, so that the beam adjustment model outputs, for any movement path of a user equipment, beam information which enables a beam adjustment time interval meeting a performance requirement of the user equipment to be optimized. According to embodiments of the disclosure, the beam adjustment model is trained by taking the beam adjustment time interval as an optimization target, and adaptive beamforming is performed using the trained beam adjustment model, so that it is possible to significantly reduce system overhead and measurement and processing overhead for beam adjustment, while ensuring communication performance of the user equipment.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic apparatus in a wireless communication system, wherein the electronic apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to:
acquire training data;
train a beam adjustment model for adaptive beamforming with the training data, so that the beam adjustment model outputs, for any movement path of a user equipment, beam information which enables a beam adjustment time interval meeting a performance requirement of the user equipment to be optimized, wherein an optimum beam adjustment time interval is a maximum time interval between two beam adjustments while still meeting a service quality requirement of the user equipment for the any movement path of the user equipment during the maximum time interval.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the training data is predetermined and comprises: training paths as an input parameter of the beam adjustment model, comprising at least different initial positions and movement directions of the user equipment; and beam information as an output parameter of the beam adjustment model, which enables the beam adjustment time interval meeting the performance requirement of the user equipment to be optimized.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to generate the training data by:
generating training paths comprising different initial positions and movement directions of the user equipment within a coverage area of a serving cell of the user equipment as an input parameter of the beam adjustment model;
building a beam database in a codebook-based beamforming manner or an iteration-based non-codebook beamforming manner;
searching, for the input parameter, the beam database for the beam information which enables the beam adjustment time interval meeting the performance requirement of the user equipment to be optimized as an output parameter of the beam adjustment model; and
generating the training data based on the input parameter and the output parameter.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the codebook comprises a beamsteering codebook and a phase shift-specific codebook, and wherein the codebook is selected to enable all beams within the coverage area of the serving cell to be covered.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein in a case that the beam database is built in the codebook-based beamforming manner, the beam information is a beamforming weight vector index which enables the beam adjustment time interval meeting the performance requirement of the user equipment to be optimized.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein in a case that the beam database is built in the iteration-based non-codebook beamforming manner, the beam database is built so that a beam which enables the beam adjustment time interval meeting the performance requirement of the user equipment to be optimized is found in the beam database for at least each of the training paths.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the input parameter further comprises environmental information and/or interference information for the user equipment, and wherein the interference information comprises a direction and a width of an interfering beam.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the performance requirement comprises one or more of a signal to interference plus noise ratio, a throughput and an outage probability.

9. An electronic apparatus in a wireless communication system, wherein the electronic apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to:
perform, based on at least information on a position, a movement direction and a communication performance requirement of a user equipment, beam adjustment using the beam adjustment model trained by the electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , to achieve adaptive beamforming.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform beam adjustment further based on one or more of environmental information and interference information.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:
monitor communication performance of the user equipment;
instruct, in a case of monitoring that the communication performance of the user equipment does not meet the communication performance requirement, the user equipment to report a current position and a movement direction of the user equipment; and
perform, based on the current position and the movement direction reported by the user equipment, beam adjustment using the beam adjustment model.

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to adjust a transmission power of a serving base station of the user equipment based on the monitored communication performance of the user equipment.

13. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:
instruct directly or indirectly an interfering base station to report interference information, in a case of monitoring that the communication performance of the user equipment does not meet the communication performance requirement; and
perform, based on the current position and the movement direction reported by the user equipment and the interference information, beam adjustment using the beam adjustment model.

14. The electronic apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform beam adjustment further based on information on an operating frequency band and a maximum transmission power of a serving base station of the user equipment from a core network or a spectrum coordinator.

15. The electronic apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the electronic apparatus operates as a serving base station of the user equipment and further comprises:
a communication unit configured to perform a data transceiving operation.

16. An apparatus in a wireless communication system, wherein the apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to:
generate a report comprising at least a position, a movement direction and a communication performance requirement of a user equipment, the report being to be transmitted to a serving base station of the user equipment, so that the serving base station performs, based on the received report, beam adjustment using the beam adjustment model trained by the electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , to achieve adaptive beamforming.

17. The apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to generate, based on an instruction transmitted by the serving base station in a case that communication performance of the user equipment does not meet the communication performance requirement, a report about a current position and a movement direction of the user equipment to be transmitted to the serving base station.

18. The apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the apparatus operates as the user equipment and further comprises:
a communication unit configured to perform a data transceiving operation.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Zhao Youping
• Zhu Dongzhi
• Sun Chen
• Guo Xin

Classifications

• H04B7/0617

  for beam forming · CPC title

• H04W16/28 Primary

  using beam steering · CPC title

• H04W4/026

  using orientation information, e.g. compass · CPC title

• H04B7/0482 Primary

  Adaptive codebooks · CPC title

• H04B7/0695

  using beam selection · CPC title