Pilot signals

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11070332-B2
Application number	US-201616094580-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 28, 2016
Priority date	Apr 28, 2016
Publication date	Jul 20, 2021
Grant date	Jul 20, 2021

Abstract

A first terminal receives, on a radio link of a cellular network, at least one uplink pilot signal transmitted by at least one second terminal. The first terminal transmits, on the radio link and to an access node of the cellular network, an uplink report message indicative of at least one property of the received at least one uplink pilot signal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a first terminal, on a radio link of a cellular network, at least one uplink pilot signal transmitted by at least one second terminal;
transmitting by the first terminal, on the radio link and to an access node of the cellular network, an uplink report message indicative of at least one property of the received at least one uplink pilot signal; and
based on the at least one property of the received at least one uplink pilot signal, establishing a sidelink channel between the first terminal and a given one of the at least one second terminal.

2. A terminal configured to execute the method of claim 1 .

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
based on the at least one property of the received at least one uplink pilot signal, determining a relative position of the first terminal with respect to at least one of the at least one second terminal and the access node.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
based on the at least one property of the received at least one uplink pilot signal: establishing a relay channel between the first terminal and the access node and via a given one of the at least one second terminal as a relay.

5. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the uplink report message is indicative of a position of the first terminal.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
based on the at least one property of the received at least one uplink pilot signal, determining a condition of a multi-input multi-output, MIMO, channel implemented on the radio link.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
based on the at least one property of the received at least one uplink pilot signal, determining at least one resource mapping for communication of pilot signals by at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal.

8. The method of claim 7 ,
wherein said determining of the at least one resource mapping is further based on a relative position of the first terminal with respect to the at least one second terminal.

9. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the first terminal receives the at least one uplink pilot signal in a subset of a sequence of transmission intervals.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
sporadically or persistently scheduling, between the first terminal and the access node, the transmission intervals of the subset.

11. The method of claim 9 ,
wherein the at least one uplink pilot signal in the subset of the sequence of transmission intervals has a non-zero second transmit power and is communicated according to a resource mapping,
wherein at least one further uplink pilot signal in a further subset of the sequence of transmission intervals has a non-zero first transmit power smaller than the second transmit power and is communicated according to the resource mapping.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
the first terminal not receiving the at least one further uplink pilot signal.

13. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the uplink report message is indicative of the at least one property of a plurality of uplink pilot signals transmitted in a plurality of transmission intervals,
wherein the plurality of uplink pilot signals is optionally transmitted by a plurality of second terminals.

14. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the at least one property of the received at least one uplink pilot signal is selected from the group comprising: an amplitude of the received at least one uplink pilot signal, a phase of the received at least one uplink pilot signal, a resource of the received at least one uplink pilot signal, a time offset of the received at least one uplink pilot signal, resource identification information of the received at least one uplink pilot signal, and an angle of arrival of the received at least one uplink pilot signal.

15. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the at least one uplink pilot signal is received by the first terminal during a silent period during which the first terminal does not transmit on the radio link.

16. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the at least one uplink pilot signal is selected from the group comprising:

Sounding Reference Signal, SRS; and Demodulation Reference Signal, DRS.

17. A method, comprising:
receiving, by an access node of a cellular network, on a radio link of the cellular network and from a first terminal, an uplink report message indicative of at least one property of at least one uplink pilot signal received by the first terminal, the at least one uplink pilot signal being transmitted by at least one second terminal,
based on the at least one property of the received at least one uplink pilot signal, establishing a sidelink channel between the first terminal and a given one of the at least one second terminal.

18. A terminal configured to be attached to a cellular network, the terminal comprising:
an interface configured to transceive on a radio link of the cellular network,
at least one processor configured to receive, via the interface, at least one uplink pilot signal transmitted by at least one further terminal,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to transmit, via the interface and to an access node of the cellular network, an uplink report message indicative of at least one property of the received at least one uplink pilot signal, and
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to establish, based on the at least one property of the received at least one uplink pilot signal, a sidelink channel between the terminal and a given one of the at least one further terminal.

19. An access node of a cellular network, comprising:
an interface configured to transceive on a radio link of the cellular network,
at least one processor configured to receive, via the interface and from a first terminal, an uplink report message indicative of at least one property of at least one uplink pilot signal received by the first terminal, the at least one uplink pilot signal being transmitted by at least one second terminal, and
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to establish, based on the at least one property of the received at least one uplink pilot signal, a sidelink channel between the first terminal and a given one of the at least one second terminal.

Assignees

• Sony Mobile Communications Inc
• Sony Group Corp

Inventors

• Ljung Rickard
• Priyanto Basuki
• Larsson Bo
• Ying Zhinong
• Bengtsson Erik

Classifications

• H04L5/0048 Primary

  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

• H04B7/0413

  MIMO systems · CPC title

• H04W4/023

  using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds · CPC title

• H04W76/15

  Setup of multiple wireless link connections · CPC title

• H04W64/006

  with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination · CPC title