Method and apparatus for configuring SRS resource for cooperating cells

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9814039-B2
Application number	US-201314649767-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 12, 2013
Priority date	Dec 7, 2012
Publication date	Nov 7, 2017
Grant date	Nov 7, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for configuring Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resource of cooperating cells. The method includes: grouping all cells into different cell groups; determining a SRS initial time domain resource configuration order of each cell group; determining a SRS resource grouping policy of the cells according to state information of user equipments; and configuring SRS resources for the user equipments accessing each cell according to the SRS initial time domain resource configuration order and the SRS resource grouping policy.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for configuring sounding reference signal (SRS) resources of cooperating cells, comprising:
grouping all cells into different cell groups;
determining a SRS initial time domain resource configuration order of each cell group;
determining a SRS resource grouping policy of the cell according to state information of user equipment; and
configuring SRS resources for user equipments accessing each cell according to the SRS initial time domain resource configuration order and the SRS resource grouping policy;
wherein, determining the SRS resource grouping policy of the cell according to the state information of a user equipment (UE) comprises:
dividing each SRS time domain resource into S groups, wherein S=2M, and M is a ratio of a cell SRS bandwidth to a UE SRS bandwidth; a total code tree set corresponding to different frequency division resources and comb division resources being marked as Φ, wherein, Φ={kεZ, 0≦k≦S−1, Z is an integer}; and
when there are x kinds of state information of the UE, each kind of state information of the UE corresponding to one code tree subset GroupAi, wherein, GroupAi={k|mod (k, x)=i}, iε(0, 1, . . . , x−1), GroupAi={k/mod (k, x)=i} represents a set of remainder i obtained from k divided by x.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein, grouping all the cells into different cell groups comprises:
grouping all the cells into different cell groups in accordance with a principle that adjacent cells are not in the same cell group.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein, determining the SRS initial time domain resource configuration order of each cell group comprises:
performing statistics on the number of SRS symbols within a predetermined reference time period to obtain the number of SRS symbols N according to a SRS sub-frame configuration; and
allocating SRS initial time domain resources to each cell group and determining the SRS initial time domain resource configuration order of each cell group according to the number of SRS symbols N.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein, configuring SRS resources for user equipments accessing each cell comprises:
when a user equipment establishes an initial connection, allocating an initial SRS resource for the user equipment according to a SRS initial time domain resource configuration order corresponding to the cell to which the user equipment belongs, as well as an initial frequency domain resource order of GroupA 0 >GroupA 1 >GroupA 2 > . . . >GroupA(X−1).

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein, configuring SRS resources for user equipments accessing each cell comprises:
after obtaining the state information of a user equipment, or when the state information of a user equipment changes, obtaining latest state information i of the user equipment; and
according to the latest state information i of the user equipment, configuring a GroupAi resource corresponding to the latest state information for the user equipment; and if the GroupAi does not have idle resources, configuring a SRS resource for the user equipment according to a priority order of frequency-domain resources.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: after configuring the SRS resources for UEs accessing each cell,
within a set time period, performing statistics on the number of UEs accessing each cell for multiple times to obtain the average number of UEs accessing each cell; and
when the average number of UEs is less than the maximum number of orthogonal UEs supported by a system and cells which have allocated SRS resources to UEs cannot be orthogonal with each other, reconfiguring the allocated SRS resources according to the SRS initial time domain resource configuration order.

7. An apparatus for configuring sounding reference signal (SRS) resources of cooperating cells, comprising a processor configured to:
group all cells into different cell groups;
determine a SRS initial time domain resource configuration order of each cell group;
determine a SRS resource grouping policy of the cell according to state information of UEs; and
configure SRS resources for UEs accessing each cell according to the SRS initial time domain resource configuration order and the SRS resource grouping policy;
wherein the processor is configured to determine the SRS resource grouping policy of a cell in accordance with the state information of the user equipment in a following way:
grouping each SRS time domain resource into S groups, wherein S=2M, and M is a ratio of a cell SRS bandwidth to a UE SRS bandwidth; a total code tree set corresponding to different frequency division resources and comb division resources being marked as Φ, wherein, Φ={kεZ, 0≦k≦S−1, Z is an integer}; and
when there are x kinds of state information of the user equipment, each kind of state information of the user equipment corresponding to one code tree subset GroupAi, wherein, GroupAi={k|mod (k, x)=i}, iε(0, 1, . . . , x−1), GroupAi={k/mod (k, x)=i} represents a set of remainder i obtained from k divided by x.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein, the processor is configured to group all the cells into different cell groups in a following way:
grouping all the cells into different cell groups in accordance with a principle that adjacent cells are not in the same cell group.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein, the processor is configured to determine the SRS initial time domain resource configuration order of each cell group in a following way:
performing statistics on the number of SRS symbols within a predetermined reference time period to obtain the number of SRS symbols N according to a SRS subframe configuration; and
allocating SRS initial time domain resources to each cell group and determining the SRS initial time domain resource configuration order of each cell group according to the number of SRS symbols N.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein, the processor is configured to configure SRS resources for UEs accessing each cell in a following way:
when a UE establishes an initial connection, allocating an initial SRS resource to the UE according to a SRS initial time domain resource configuration order corresponding to the cell to which the UE belongs, and an initial frequency domain resource order of GroupA 0 >GroupA 1 >GroupA 2 > . . . >GroupA(X−1).

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein, the processor is configured to configure the SRS resources for user equipments accessing each cell in a following way:
after obtaining the state information of a user equipment, or when the state information of a user equipment changes, obtaining latest state information i of the user equipment; and
according to the latest state information i of the user equipment, configuring a GroupAi resource corresponding to the latest state information for the user equipment; and if the GroupAi does not have idle resources, configuring a SRS resource for the user equipment according to a priority order of the frequency domain resources.

12. The apparatus of claim 7 , the processor is further configured to within a set time period, perform statistics on the number of UEs accessing each cell for multiple times to obtain an average number of UEs accessing each cell; when the average number of UEs is less than the maximum number of orthogonal UEs supported by a system, and cells which allocate SRS resources to UEs cannot be orthogonal with each other, reconfigure the allocated SRS resources according to the SRS initial time domain resource configuration order.

13. The method of claim 4 , further comprising: after configuring the SRS resources for UEs accessing each cell,
within a set time period, performing statistics on the number of UEs

Assignees

• Zte Corp
• Xian Zhongxing New Software Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liu Na

Classifications

• H04L5/008

  once only, on installation · CPC title

• H04W72/0446 Primary

  Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames · CPC title

• H04L5/0035

  Resource allocation in a cooperative multipoint environment · CPC title

• H04L5/0073

  Allocation arrangements that take into account other cell interferences · CPC title

• H04L5/0048 Primary

  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