Method for determining transmit power in coverage enhancement scenario and device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016337991-A1
Application number	US-201615221447-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 27, 2016
Priority date	Jan 28, 2014
Publication date	Nov 17, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method for determining a transmit power in a coverage enhancement scenario and a device resolve a problem that the prior art lacks a solution to determining a transmit power of a preamble sequence in a random access process in the coverage enhancement scenario. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, configuration information that is used to determine a transmit power used for transmitting a signal at each coverage enhancement level; and determining, by the terminal according to the obtained configuration information, a transmit power used for transmitting the signal at a coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal, so as to determine the transmit power used for transmitting the signal in the coverage enhancement scenario.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A terminal, comprising:
a transceiver, configured to obtain configuration information that is used to determine a transmit power used for transmitting a signal at each coverage enhancement level; and a processor, configured to determine, according to the configuration information, a transmit power used for transmitting the signal at a coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal.

2 . The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein if the configuration information comprises a quantity of repetition times required for the signal to be transmitted at each coverage enhancement level, the processor is configured to:
according to the quantity of repetition times comprised in the configuration information, determine a quantity of repetition times required for the signal to be transmitted at the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal; and according to the determined quantity of repetition times, determine the transmit power used for transmitting the signal at the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal.

3 . The terminal according to claim 2 , wherein the processor is configured to:
according to a correspondence between a quantity of repetition times and a power compensation value, determine a power compensation value corresponding to the quantity of repetition times required for the signal to be transmitted at the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal; and according to the determined power compensation value, determine the transmit power used for transmitting the signal at the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal.

4 . The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to determine, according to the following formula, the transmit power used for transmitting the signal at the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal:
P =min{ P MAX ,PREAMBLE_RECEIVED_TARGET_POWER_ CI+PL}, wherein P is the transmit power of transmitting the signal by the terminal, P MAX is a maximum transmit power of the terminal, PREAMBLE_RECEIVED_TARGET_POWER_CI is a target received power determined according to the power compensation value corresponding to the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal, and PL is a path loss.

5 . The terminal according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is configured to determine the target received power according to the following formula:
PREAMBLE_RECEIVED_TARGET_POWER_ CI =preambleInitialReceivedTargetPower+DELTA_PREAMBLE_ G Ri ; or, PREAMBLE_RECEIVED_TARGET_POWER_ CI =preambleInitialReceivedTargetPower+DELTA_PREAMBLE_ G Ri +(PREAMBLE_TRANSMISSION_COUNTER_ CI −1)*powerRampingStep_ CI,
wherein G Ri is the power compensation value, preambleInitialReceivedTargetPower is an initial target received power, DELTA_PREAMBLE is an offset corresponding to a format of the signal transmitted by the terminal, PREAMBLE_TRANSMISSION_COUNTER_CI is a quantity of signal transmitting attempts at the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal, and powerRampingStep_CI is a power ramping step in each signal transmitting attempt at the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal.

6 . The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:
when the configuration information carries a maximum quantity of signal transmitting attempts corresponding to each coverage enhancement level, determine, from the configuration information, a maximum quantity of signal transmitting attempts at the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal; or when the configuration information carries a total of maximum quantities of signal transmitting attempts corresponding to all the coverage enhancement levels, determine a maximum quantity of signal transmitting attempts at each coverage enhancement level according to the total of quantities of attempts carried in the configuration information, and determine, according to the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal, a maximum quantity of signal transmitting attempts at the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal.

7 . The terminal according to claim 3 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
when the power compensation value cannot be obtained according to the configuration information, determine that the transmit power used by the terminal for transmitting the signal is the maximum transmit power of the terminal.

8 . A network-side device, comprising:
a processor, configured to configure configuration information that is used to determine a transmit power used for transmitting a signal at each coverage enhancement level; and a transceiver, configured to transmit the configuration information to a terminal served by the network-side device, so that the terminal determines, according to the configuration information, a transmit power used for transmitting the signal at a coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal.

9 . The network-side device according to claim 8 , wherein the configuration information comprises at least one of the following information:
a power compensation value corresponding to each coverage enhancement level; a quantity of repetition times required for the signal to be transmitted at each coverage enhancement level; a maximum quantity of signal transmitting attempts at each coverage enhancement level; a total of maximum quantities of signal transmitting attempts at all the coverage enhancement levels; a power ramping step in each signal transmitting attempt corresponding to each coverage enhancement level; or a total of power ramping steps after the signal is transmitted repeatedly for N times in each attempt corresponding to each coverage enhancement level.

10 . A method for determining a transmit power in a coverage enhancement scenario, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a terminal, configuration information that is used to determine a transmit power used for transmitting a signal at each coverage enhancement level; and determining, by the terminal according to the configuration information, a transmit power used for transmitting the signal at a coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal.

11 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein if the configuration information comprises a quantity of repetition times required for the signal to be transmitted at each coverage enhancement level, determining, by the terminal according to the configuration information, a transmit power used for transmitting the signal at a coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal comprises:
determining, by the terminal according to the quantity of repetition times comprised in the configuration information, a quantity of repetition times required by the signal to be transmitted at the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal; and determining, by the terminal according to the determined quantity of repetition times, the transmit power used for transmitting the signal at the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal.

12 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein determining, by the terminal according to the configuration information, a transmit power used for transmitting the signal at a coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal comprises:
determining, by the terminal according to a correspondence between a quantity of repetition times and a power compensation value, a power compensation value corresponding to the quantity of repetition times required for the signal to be transmitted at the coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal;

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Xiangdong
• Xia Jinhuan

Classifications

• H04W72/51

  based on terminal or device properties · CPC title

• H04W52/50 Primary

  at the moment of starting communication in a multiple access environment · CPC title

• H04L1/08

  by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system {(H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence)} · CPC title

• H04W52/36

  with a discrete range or set of values, e.g. step size, ramping or offsets · CPC title

• H04W52/146

  Uplink power control · CPC title