Method and apparatus for adjusting broadcast beam domain

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11432165-B2
Application number	US-202016853879-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 21, 2020
Priority date	Oct 27, 2017
Publication date	Aug 30, 2022
Grant date	Aug 30, 2022

Abstract

A method includes: obtaining user equipment distribution information of a beam domain, where there are at least two beam domains, and the beam domain is a vertical area in a physically vertical dimension of a cell coverage area; determining information about a concentrated beam domain based on the user equipment distribution information, where the concentrated beam domain is a beam domain in which a quantity of covered user equipments exceeds a quantity threshold; and compared with information about a historical concentrated beam domain, if the information about the concentrated beam domain satisfies a preset condition, adjusting a broadcast beam domain based on the information about the concentrated beam domain, so that a main lobe direction of the broadcast beam domain is adjusted to a beam domain corresponding to the concentrated beam domain.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for adjusting a broadcast beam domain, comprising: obtaining user equipment distribution information of at least two beam domains, wherein each beam domain is a vertical area in a physically vertical dimension of a cell coverage area, and wherein the user equipment distribution information is a distribution situation of user equipments in a coverage area of each beam domain;
determining information about a concentrated beam domain based on the user equipment distribution information, comprising:
obtaining, based on the user equipment distribution information, each quantity of user equipments covered by each beam domain;
if a respective quantity of user equipments exceeds a quantity threshold, determining a concentrated beam domain based on a preset ratio threshold and a ratio of the corresponding beam domain based on the respective quantity of user equipments covered by the respective beam domain to a total quantity of user equipments, wherein the quantity threshold is the preset ratio threshold multiplied by the total quantity of user equipments; and
recording the information about the concentrated beam domain, wherein there is at least one concentrated beam domain; and

compared with information about a historical concentrated beam domain, if the information about the concentrated beam domain satisfies a preset condition, adjusting a broadcast beam domain based on the information about the concentrated beam domain, so that a main lobe direction of the broadcast beam domain is adjusted to the concentrated beam domain.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein before the obtaining user equipment distribution information of the beam domain, the method further comprises:
obtaining direction angle information of the vertical area, wherein there are at least two vertical areas, and the vertical area is obtained through division in the physically vertical dimension of the cell coverage area;
setting a cell uplink beam matrix based on the direction angle information; and
determining the at least two beam domains based on the cell uplink beam matrix, wherein each beam domain of the at least two beam domains corresponds to a respective vertical area.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the obtaining user equipment distribution information of the beam domain comprises:
obtaining channel sounding information of a user equipment, wherein there is at least one user equipment;
performing weighted processing on the channel sounding information and the cell uplink beam matrix, to obtain a weighted result; and
determining, based on the weighted result, a beam domain in which the user equipment is located, to obtain the user equipment distribution information of the beam domain.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein before the adjusting the broadcast beam domain based on the information about the concentrated beam domain, the method further comprises:
obtaining the information about the historical concentrated beam domain, wherein the historical concentrated beam domain is a beam domain corresponding to the broadcast beam domain used when last time a broadcast beam is transmitted;
if the historical concentrated beam domain and the concentrated beam domain reach preset area isolation, determining that, compared with the information about the historical concentrated beam domain, the information about the concentrated beam domain satisfies the preset condition.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the adjusting the broadcast beam domain based on the information about the concentrated beam domain comprises:
determining a broadcast beam weighted value of the concentrated beam domain based on the information about the concentrated beam domain;
determining a historical broadcast beam weighted value of the historical concentrated beam domain based on the information about the historical concentrated beam domain; and
adjusting the historical broadcast beam weighted value as the broadcast beam weighted value, so that the main lobe direction of the broadcast beam domain is adjusted to the concentrated beam domain.

6. An apparatus for adjusting a broadcast beam domain, comprising:
a processor, and
a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
obtaining user equipment distribution information of at least two beam domains, wherein each beam domain is a vertical area in a physically vertical dimension of a cell coverage area, and wherein the user equipment distribution information is a distribution situation of user equipments in a coverage area of each beam domain;
determining information about a concentrated beam domain based on the user equipment distribution information, comprising:
obtaining, based on the user equipment distribution information, each quantity of user equipments covered by each beam domain;
if a respective quantity of user equipments exceeds a quantity threshold, determining a concentrated beam domain based on a preset ratio threshold and a ratio of the corresponding beam domain based on the respective quantity of user equipments covered by the respective beam domain to a total quantity of user equipments, wherein the quantity threshold is the preset ratio threshold multiplied by the total quantity of user equipments; and

recording the information about the concentrated beam domain, wherein there is at least one concentrated beam domain, and
compared with information about a historical concentrated beam domain, when the information about the concentrated beam domain satisfies a preset condition, adjusting a broadcast beam domain based on the information about the concentrated beam domain, so that a main lobe direction of the broadcast beam domain is adjusted to the concentrated beam domain.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6 , the operations further comprising:
obtaining direction angle information of the vertical area, wherein there are at least two vertical areas, and the vertical area is obtained through division in the physically vertical dimension of the cell coverage area;
setting a cell uplink beam matrix based on the direction angle information; and
determining the at least two beam domains based on the cell uplink beam matrix, wherein each beam domain corresponds to one vertical area.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7 , the operations further comprising:
obtaining channel sounding information of a user equipment, wherein there is at least one user equipment;
performing weighted processing on the channel sounding information and the cell uplink beam matrix, to obtain a weighted result; and
determining, based on the weighted result, a beam domain in which the user equipment is located, to obtain the user equipment distribution information of the beam domain.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6 , the operations further comprising:
obtaining the information about the historical concentrated beam domain, wherein the historical concentrated beam domain is a beam domain corresponding to the broadcast beam domain used when last time a broadcast beam is transmitted; and
when the historical concentrated beam domain and the concentrated beam domain reach preset area isolation, determining that, compared with the information about the historical concentrated beam domain, the information about the concentrated beam domain satisfies the preset condition.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9 , the operations further comprising:
determining a broadcast beam weighted value of the concentrated beam domain based on the information about the concentrated beam domain;
determining a historical broadcast beam weig

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Han Ran
• Xia Ji
• Yu Hongyan

Classifications

• H04W24/08

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• H04W16/28 Primary

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• H04W24/02

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• H04B7/0617 Primary

  for beam forming · CPC title