RRM measurements for UEs with interference suppression receiver

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9258068-B2
Application number	US-201114113443-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 28, 2011
Priority date	Apr 28, 2011
Publication date	Feb 9, 2016
Grant date	Feb 9, 2016

Abstract

An apparatus and a method are described, in which a plurality of signals is received via plurality of receiver units of a receiver, signal quality and/or power related measurements are performed, and a signal quality and/or power related measurement result is generated based on a combination of signals received by the receiver units.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising
a receiver including a plurality of receiver units,
a processor configured to perform signal quality and/or power related measurements,
wherein the processor is configured to apply interference rejection combining to suppress interference of a combination of signals received by the receiver unit, and configured to generate a signal quality and/or power related measurement result based on the combination of signals,

and wherein the processor is configured to perform radio resource management measurements dependent on the result based on the combination of signals received by the receiver units when selecting a serving cell, and wherein the serving cell is selected dependent on interference suppression resulting from applying the interference rejection combining.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the signal quality and/or power related measurement result is reference signal received power and/or a reference signal strength indicator.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the receiver units receive signals from antennas, and the combination is antenna combining.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the receiver is configured to apply interference rejection combination.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is configured to measure a plurality of reference signal received power values and to determine strongest interfering reference signal received power values, and to use an N rx th strongest interfering reference signal received power as the strongest interfering reference signal received power, wherein N rx indicates a number of antennas.

6. The apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is configured to generate a reference signal strength indicator value using a reference signal from a least strongest interfering cell of N rx strongest interfering cells, wherein N rx indicates a number of antennas.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the processor is configured to calculate a reference signal received quality based on a division of a reference signal received power by the calculated reference signal strength indicator value.

8. The apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein a network configuration specifies using either reference signal received power measurement or reference signal received quality measurement, wherein the processor is configured to use the calculated reference signal received quality.

9. A method comprising
receiving a plurality of signals via plurality of receiver units of a receiver,
performing signal quality and/or power related measurements,
generating a signal quality and/or power related measurement result based on a combination of signals received by the receiver units including applying interference rejection combining to suppress interference of the combination of signals, and
performing radio resource management measurements dependent on the result based on the combination of signals received by the receiver units when selecting a serving cell, and wherein the serving cell is selected dependent on interference suppression resulting from applying the interference rejection combining.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the signal quality and/or power related measurement result is reference signal received power and/or a reference signal strength indicator.

11. The method according to claim 9 wherein the receiver units receive signals from antennas, and the combination is antenna combining.

12. The method according to claim 9 , wherein interference rejection combination is applied.

13. The method according to claim 12 , further comprising
measuring a plurality of reference signal received power values,
determining strongest interfering reference signal received power values, and
using an N rx th strongest interfering reference signal received power as the strongest interfering RSRP, wherein N rx indicates a number of antennas.

14. The method according to claim 12 , further comprising
generating a reference signal strength indicator value using a reference signal from a least strongest interfering cell of N rx strongest interfacing cells, wherein N rx indicates a number of antennas.

15. The method according to claim 14 , further comprising
calculating a reference signal received quality based on a division of a reference signal received power by the calculated reference signal strength indicator value.

16. The method according to claim 12 , wherein a network configuration specifies using either reference signal received power measurement or reference signal received quality measurement, and the method further comprises using the calculated reference signal received quality.

17. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer memory and comprising instructions the execution of which by a processor results in performing operations that comprise:
receiving a plurality of signals via plurality of receiver units of a receiver,
performing signal quality and/or power related measurements,
generating a signal quality and/or power related measurement result based on a combination of signals received by the receiver units including applying interference rejection combining to suppress interference of the combination of signals, and
performing radio resource management measurements dependent on the result based on the combination of signals received by the receiver units when selecting a serving cell, and wherein the serving cell is selected dependent on interference suppression resulting from applying the interference rejection combining.

Assignees

• Wang Yuanye
• Pedersen Klaus Ingemann
• Nokia Solutions & Networks Oy

Inventors

• Wang Yuanye
• Pedersen Klaus Ingemann

Classifications

• H04B17/382

  for resource allocation, admission control or handover · CPC title

• H04B17/328 Primary

  Reference signal received power [RSRP]; Reference signal received quality [RSRQ] · CPC title

• H04B17/318

  Received signal strength · CPC title

• H04B17/0042 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04B17/309

  Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters · CPC title