Method and arrangement for power allocation in communication systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9295062-B2
Application number	US-201114005215-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 16, 2011
Priority date	Mar 16, 2011
Publication date	Mar 22, 2016
Grant date	Mar 22, 2016

Abstract

In a method of allocating power to data streams in a communication system, providing (S 10 ) CQI for each of a plurality of data streams between a radio base station node and a user equipment node in the system. Subsequently, allocating (S 20 ) transmit power to each of the plurality of data streams based at least on the provided respective CQI, and determining coding and modulation (S 30 ) for the data streams based on at least the allocated power.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of enabling power allocation for a plurality of data streams in a user equipment node in a communication system, said user equipment node exchanging said plurality of data streams with a radio base station node in said communication system, wherein said radio base station node and said user equipment node share a common power allocation scheme known to both said user equipment node and said radio base station node, the method comprising:
receiving, by an input/output unit of said user equipment node, a cell specific reference signal for each of said plurality of data streams;
determining, by a rank, precoding matrix indication (PMI), and channel quality indicator (CQI) provider of said user equipment node, a rank, said rank comprising a subset of said plurality of data streams, a PMI for said rank, and a CQI for each of said plurality of data streams based on the received cell specific reference signal for each of said plurality of data streams;
reporting, by a transceiver of said user equipment node, said determined rank, PMI and CQI for each of said plurality of data streams to said radio base station node, to enable allocation of power to said plurality of data streams;
after reporting said determined rank, PMI and CQI for each of said plurality of data streams to said radio base station node, determining, by a throughput optimizer of said user equipment node, an optimal rank and a PMI for said optimal rank, and a CQI for each of said plurality of data streams based on said common power allocation scheme known to both said user equipment node and said radio base station node, to increase a throughput for said plurality of data streams; and
reporting, by said transceiver of said user equipment node, said optimal rank and PMI determined based on said common power allocation scheme to said radio base station node together with the corresponding CQI prior to said common power allocation scheme.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the CQI reported to said radio base station node enables allocation of same power to each frequency sub band of said plurality of data streams.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the CQI reported to said radio base station node enables allocation of different power to each frequency sub band of said plurality of data streams.

4. A user equipment node in a communication system, said user equipment node being capable of exchanging a plurality of data streams with a radio base station node in said communication system, wherein said user equipment node and said radio base station node share a common power allocation scheme known to both said user equipment node and said radio base station node, said user equipment node comprising:
an input/output unit that receives a cell specific reference signal for each of said plurality of data streams;
a rank, precoding matrix indication (PMI), and channel quality indicator (CQI) provider that determines a rank comprising a subset of said plurality of data streams, a PMI for said rank, and a CQI for each of said plurality of data streams based on the received cell specific reference signal for each of said plurality of data streams;
a transceiver that provides said determined rank, PMI and CQI for each of said plurality of data streams to said radio base station node, to enable allocation of power to said plurality of data streams; and
a throughput optimizer that determines, after providing said determined rank, PMI, and CQI for each of said plurality of data streams to said radio base station node by the transceiver, an optimized rank, a PMI for said optimized rank, and a CQI for each of said plurality of data streams based on said common power allocation scheme known to both said user equipment node and said radio base station node, to increase a throughput for said plurality of data streams, and wherein said transceiver further reports said optimized rank and PMI determined based on said common power allocation scheme to said radio base station node together with the corresponding CQI prior to said common power allocation scheme.

5. The user equipment node according to claim 4 , wherein said transceiver further suppresses inter data stream interference.

Assignees

• Nilsson Andreas
• Athley Fredrik
• Coldrey Mikael
• Ericsson Telefon Ab L M

Inventors

• Nilsson Andreas
• Athley Fredrik
• Coldrey Mikael

Classifications

• H04L5/0039

  Frequency-contiguous, i.e. with no allocation of frequencies for one user or terminal between the frequencies allocated to another · CPC title

• H04B7/0434 Primary

  using multiple eigenmodes · CPC title

• H04L5/0057

  Physical resource allocation for CQI · CPC title

• H04W52/42

  in systems with time, space, frequency or polarisation diversity · CPC title

• H04B7/0447

  utilizing uniform distribution · CPC title