Managing resources for cooperative uplink transmission

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10757702-B2
Application number	US-201515521520-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 3, 2015
Priority date	Nov 5, 2014
Publication date	Aug 25, 2020
Grant date	Aug 25, 2020

Abstract

Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for managing resources for cooperative uplink transmission. A base station may determine different groups for a plurality of user equipments (UEs) participating in cooperative uplink transmission, and transmit mode configurations indicating whether or not UEs in each group are configured to transmit data as a data source or to relay data received from another UE configured to transmit data as a data source. A UE may participate, with one or more other UEs, in cooperative uplink transmission to the base station, wherein each UE belongs to a group. The UE may determine, for a transmission time interval (TTI), at least one operation to perform for the cooperative uplink transmission based, at least in part, on a group number of a group to which the UE belongs and an index of the TTI.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
participating, with one or more other UEs, in cooperative uplink transmission to a base station, wherein each UE belongs to a UE group of a plurality of UE groups, each UE group having a unique UE group number;
selecting at least one operation to be performed in a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) from a set of operations, wherein the selecting is based, at least in part, on a UE group number of the UE group to which the UE belongs and a TTI index of the TTI, wherein the UE is configured to select a different operation of the set of operations for a different combination of TTI index and UE group number; and
performing the selected at least one operation for the cooperative uplink transmission.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of operations includes at least two of: transmitting data as a data source, receiving data from another UE transmitting as a data source, decoding data received from another UE transmitting as a data source, or transmitting data as a relay.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein transmitting data as a relay comprises transmitting data to at least one of the base station or another UE.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the selecting comprises:
selecting the at least one operation from the set of operations based on a modulus function involving the UE group number and the TTI index of the TTI.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the modulus function is based on how many different TTI indices are supported.

6. The method of claim 2 , wherein the selecting comprises:
determining, in a first TTI, to receive data transmission from the other UE transmitting as the data source;
determining, in a second TTI subsequent to the first TTI, to decode the data; and
determining, in a third TTI subsequent to the first TTI, to relay the data.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving information regarding the UE group number of the UE group to which the UE belongs.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the selecting is also based on a mode configuration indicating whether or not the UE is to transmit data as a relay.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising receiving signaling from the base station indicating the mode configuration.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, for each TTI, frequency resources to use for the at least one operation.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein different frequency resources are allocated to different UEs transmitting in a same TTI.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining power allocation for a TTI based, at least in part, on whether the UE is transmitting data as a data source or transmitting data as a relay.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining channel state information (CSI) between the UE and another UE; and
reporting the determined CSI to the base station.

14. A method for wireless communication by a base station, comprising:
determining a plurality of UE groups for a plurality of user equipments (UEs) participating in cooperative uplink transmission to the base station, wherein each UE belongs to a UE group of the plurality of UE groups, each UE group having a unique UE group number, wherein at least one operation to be performed by a UE in a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) is selected from a set of operations, wherein the selection is based, at least in part, on a UE group number of the UE group to which the UE belongs and a TTI index of the TTI, wherein a different operation of the set of operations is selected for a different combination of TTI index and UE group number;
communicating with the UE based on the selected at least one operation; and
transmitting mode configurations indicating whether or not UEs in each group are configured to transmit data as a data source or to relay data received from another UE configured to transmit data as a data source.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:
receiving data transmitted by one or more UEs configured to relay data.

16. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:
receiving data transmitted by one or more UEs configured to transmit data as a data source.

17. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:
for each TTI, allocating frequency resources for an operation to be performed by the UE.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the allocating comprises allocating different frequency resources to different UEs transmitting in a same TTI.

19. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:
deciding whether or not a UE is to be configured to transmit data directly to the base station, based on a comparison of a predicted data rate for a direct link between the UE and the base station link and a predicted data rate for one or more links between the UE and the base station via one or more UEs configured to transmit data as relays.

20. The method of claim 14 , wherein determining different groups for the plurality of UEs comprises:
determining one or more UEs are in a UE group configured to transmit data as relays based on determined channel state information (CSI) measurements for one or more links between the UEs in the UE group and a UE transmitting as a data source and CSI measurements for one or more links between the UEs in the UE group and the base station.

21. The method of claim 20 , further comprising:
receiving reports of channel state information (CSI) measurements for one or more links between the UEs in the UE group and a UE transmitting as a data source; and
measuring CSI for the one or more links between the UEs in the UE group and the base station.

22. The method of claim 20 , further comprising:
predicting data rates based on the CSI measurements; and
determining the one or more UEs are in the UE group configured to transmit data as relays based on the predicted data rates.

23. The method of claim 22 , further comprising:
sorting potential relay UEs based on the predicted data rates; and
selecting UEs to include in the UE group based on an analysis of predicted data rates of the sorted UEs.

24. The method of claim 23 , wherein:
the sorting comprises sorting potential relay UEs, such that the predicted data rates for links between a data source UE and the potential relay UEs are in descending order; and
the selecting comprises initializing a set of UEs to include in the UE group, then expanding the set of UEs to include in the UE group based on the predicted data rates for links between the data source UE and the sorted potential relay UEs and predicted data rates for links between the sorted potential relay UEs and the base station.

25. The method of claim 24 , further comprising:
sorting UEs in the expanded set of UEs to include in the UE group, such that the predicted data rates for links the potential relay UEs and the base station are in ascending order; and
shrinking the expanded set of UEs to include in the UE group by removing UEs based on the predicted data rates for links between the data source UE and the sorted UEs in the expanded set and predicted data rates for links between the sorted UEs in the expanded set and the base station.

26. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:
allocating power for transmission by the UE in a TTI, based, at least in part, on whether the UE is to transmit data as a data source or transmit data as a rel

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc
• Wang Neng
• Fan Mingxi
• Bhushan Naga

Inventors

• Wang Neng
• Fan Mingxi
• Bhushan Naga

Classifications

• H04W72/21 Primary

  in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network · CPC title

• H04W52/223

  predicting future states of the transmission · CPC title

• H04B7/15592

  Adapting at the relay station communication parameters for supporting cooperative relaying, i.e. transmission of the same data via direct - and relayed path (cooperative diversity H04B7/024) · CPC title

• H04B7/026

  Co-operative diversity, e.g. using fixed or mobile stations as relays · CPC title

• H04L5/0076

  Allocation utility-based · CPC title