Control device, network node and methods for allocating resources

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11190243-B2
Application number	US-201916716291-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 16, 2019
Priority date	Jun 16, 2017
Publication date	Nov 30, 2021
Grant date	Nov 30, 2021

Abstract

A control device for a wireless communication system is configured to obtain a first channel estimation for a first client device and a second channel estimation for a second client device, to allocate a common resource block (RB) for concurrent wireless transmission between a first network node and the first client device using a first radio access technology (RAT) and between a second network node and the second client device using a second RAT based on the first channel estimation and the second channel estimation. The control device is further configured to allocate a first precoder for the common RB for the first client device and a second precoder for the common RB for the second client device. The first precoder and the second precoder are configured for spatially multiplexing the concurrent wireless transmission.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control device for a wireless communication system, the control device comprising:
a processor configured to:
obtain a first channel estimation for a first client device;
obtain a second channel estimation for a second client device;
allocate a common resource block (RB) for concurrent wireless transmission between a first network node and the first client device using a first radio access technology (RAT) and between a second network node and the second client device using a second RAT based on the first channel estimation and the second channel estimation, wherein the first RAT is different from the second RAT; and
allocate a first precoder for the common RB for the first client device and a second precoder for the common RB for the second client device based on at least one of the first channel estimation and second channel estimation,

wherein the first precoder and the second precoder are configured for spatially multiplexing the concurrent wireless transmission between the first network node and the first client device and between the second network node and the second client device in the common RB.

2. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
receive a first reference signal from the first client device and obtain the first channel estimation based on the first reference signal;
receive a second reference signal from the second client device and obtain the second channel estimation based on the second reference signal; and
allocate the common RB if an estimated channel orthogonality between the first channel estimation and the second channel estimation is smaller than a channel orthogonality threshold value.

3. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
receive a first precoder matrix indicator (PMI) from the first client device and obtain the first channel estimation based on the first PMI;
receive a second PMI from the second client device and obtain the second channel estimation based on the second PMI;
allocate the common RB if the first PMI is different from the second PMI.

4. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
allocate a first RB for wireless transmission between the first network node and an additional client device using the first RAT; and
allocate a second RB for wireless transmission between the second network node and the additional client device using the second RAT.

5. The control device according to claim 4 , wherein the first RB, the second RB, and the common RB do not overlap in frequency.

6. The control device according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
allocate the first RB based on the first channel estimation and the second channel estimation; and
allocate the second RB based on the first channel estimation and the second channel estimation.

7. The control device according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
allocate the common RB for payload transmission between the first network node and the first client device using the first RAT.

8. The control device according to claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
allocate the first RB for transmission of control information between the first network node and the first client device using the first RAT, the control information being associated with the payload transmission between the first network node and the first client device in the common RB.

9. The control device according to claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
allocate the second RB for transmission of control information between the second network node and the first client device using the second RAT, the control information being associated with the payload transmission between the first network node and the first client device in the common RB.

10. The control device according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
allocate the common RB for payload transmission between the second network node and the second client device using the second RAT.

11. The control device according to claim 10 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
allocate the first RB for transmission of control information between the first network node and the second client device using the first RAT, the control information being associated with the payload transmission between the second network node and the second client device in the common RB.

12. The control device according to claim 10 , wherein the processor is further configured to
allocate the second RB for transmission of control information between the second network node and the second client device using the second RAT, the control information being associated with the payload transmission between the second network node and the second client device in the common RB.

13. The control device according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
obtain a first transmit power for transmissions in the first RB and in the common RB;
allocate the first transmit power between the first RB and the common RB.

14. The control device according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
obtain a second transmit power for transmissions in the second RB and in the common RB;
allocate the second transmit power between the common RB and the second RB.

15. The control device according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
obtain a total transmit power for transmissions in the first RB, in the second RB, and in the common RB;
allocate the total transmit power between first RB, the common RB, and the second RB.

16. A network node for a wireless communication system, the network node comprising:
a processor configured to:
receive an allocation of a common resource block (RB) for concurrent wireless transmission between the network node and a first client device using a first radio access technology (RAT), and/or between the network node and a second client device using a second RAT, wherein the first RAT is different from the second RAT,
receive an allocation of a first precoder and/or a second precoder for the common RB, wherein the first precoder and the second precoder are configured for spatially multiplexing concurrent wireless transmission in the common RB; and

a transceiver configured to:
perform wireless transmission with the first client device in the common RB using the first RAT and the first precoder, and/or
perform wireless transmission with the second client device in the common RB using the second RAT and the second precoder.

17. A method for a control device, the method comprising:
obtaining a first channel estimation for a first client device;
obtaining a second channel estimation for a second client device;
allocating a common resource block (RB), for concurrent wireless transmission between a first network node and the first client device using a first radio access technology (RAT) and between a second network node and the second client device using a second RAT based on the first channel estimation and the second channel estimation, wherein the first RAT is different from the second RAT;
allocating a first precoder for the common RB for the first client device and a second precoder for the common RB for the second client device based on at least one of the first channel estimation and second channel estimation,
wherein the first precoder and the second precoder are configured for spatially multiplexing th

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lu Xiaojia
• Dahlen Anders
• Peters Gunnar
• Tengkvist Per

Classifications

• H04L25/03904 Primary

  cooperative design, e.g. exchanging of codebook information between base stations · CPC title

• H04L5/0053

  Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals · CPC title

• H04B7/0456 Primary

  Selection of precoding matrices or codebooks, e.g. using matrices antenna weighting · 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

• H04L25/0242

  using matrix methods · CPC title