Method for indicating channel measurement feedback and sending station

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9930552-B2
Application number	US-201214386967-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 29, 2012
Priority date	Mar 22, 2012
Publication date	Mar 27, 2018
Grant date	Mar 27, 2018

Abstract

Disclosed are a method for indicating channel measurement feedback and a sending station. The method comprises: a sending station sends a radio frame, wherein a signal field, which is in the physical layer header of the radio frame, carries indication information requesting channel measurement feedback. The disclosure effectively reduces the transmission load overhead for sending the radio frame when requesting channel measurement feedback, thereby reducing, the power consumption of a station.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for indicating channel measurement feedback, comprising:
a sending station sending a radio frame to a receiving station, wherein indication information for requesting channel measurement feedback is carried in a signal field which is in a physical layer header of the radio frame;
wherein the indication information for requesting channel measurement feedback comprises: frame type information and fragment retransmission bitmap information;
the sending station receiving channel measurement information, which is feed back by the receiving station according to the indication information which the receiving station has received.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein when the sending station sends the radio frame, the frame type information is carried through a combination of one or more bits in the signal field which is in the physical layer header of the radio frame.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein when the sending station sends the radio frame, one or more subfields in the signal field, which is in the physical layer header of the radio frame, are multiplexed to carry the frame type information;
wherein multiplexing the one or more subfields in the signal field, which is in the physical layer header of the radio frame, to carry the frame type information comprises:
multiplexing a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) subfield in the signal field, which is in the physical layer header of the radio frame, to carry the frame type information, and indicating a frame type of the radio frame via a value of the MCS subfield, wherein if the value of the MCS subfield is a preset value, then the radio frame is one which requests the channel measurement feedback; or
multiplexing the MCS subfield and other subfields in a common signal field, which is in the physical layer header of the radio frame, to carry the frame type information, and indicating the frame type of the radio frame via a combination value of the MCS subfield and the other subfields, wherein if the combination value is a preset value, then the radio frame is one which requests the channel measurement feedback.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the signal field further carries address information;
wherein the address information comprises: receiving address information and sending address information; wherein,
when the radio frame is sent to an access point (AP) by a station (STA), the receiving address information is partial basic service set identifier (BSSID) of the AP, and the sending address information is an associated identifier (AID) of the STA, wherein the partial BSSID is a compressed BSSID; or
when the radio frame is sent to the STA by the AP, the receiving address information is the AID of the STA, and the sending address information is the partial BSSID of the AP.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the signal field further carries cyclic redundancy check information, wherein the cyclic redundancy check information comprises: check information of the signal field information, or the joint check information of the signal field information and additional information.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the physical layer header of the radio frame further comprises: a short training sequence field and a long training sequence field, wherein the long training sequence field consists of a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein it is indicated that the signal field, which is in the physical layer header of the radio frame, is not the common signal field through a phase difference between at least two OFDM symbols in the long training sequence field.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the radio frame merely comprises the physical layer header.

9. A sending station, comprising a processor configured to execute program modules stored on a memory, wherein the program modules comprise:
a processing module connected with a sending module and configured to carry indication information for requesting channel measurement feedback in a signal field which is in a physical layer header of a radio frame; and
the sending module connected with the processing module and configured to send the radio frame to a receiving station;
wherein the indication information for requesting the channel measurement feedback comprises: frame type information and fragment retransmission bitmap information;
the sending station is also configured to receive channel measurement information, which is feed back by the receiving station according to the indication information which the receiving station has received.

10. The sending station according to claim 9 , wherein the processing module carries the frame type information through a combination of one or more bits in the signal field which is in the physical layer header of the radio frame.

11. The sending station according to claim 9 , wherein the processing module carries the frame type information by multiplexing one or more subfields in the signal field, which is in the physical layer header of the radio frame, through the following manner:
multiplexing a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) subfield in the signal field, which is in the physical layer header of the radio frame, to carry the frame type information, and indicating a frame type of the radio frame via a value of the MCS subfield, wherein if the value of the MCS subfield is a preset value, then the radio frame is one which requests the channel measurement feedback; or
multiplexing the MCS subfield and other subfields in a common signal field, which is in the physical layer header of the radio frame, to carry the frame type information, and indicating the frame type of the radio frame via a combination value of the MCS subfield and the other subfields, wherein if the combination value is a preset value, then the radio frame is one which requests the channel measurement feedback.

12. The sending station according to claim 9 , wherein the physical layer header of the radio frame further comprises: a short training sequence field and a long training sequence field, wherein the long training sequence field consists of a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.

13. The sending station according to claim 12 , wherein the radio frame merely comprises the physical layer header.

14. A receiving station, comprising a processor configured to execute program modules stored on a memory, wherein the program modules comprise:
a receiving module connected with a sending module and configured to receive a radio frame which is sent by a sending station and carries indication information for requesting channel measurement feedback, wherein the indication information for requesting the channel measurement feedback is carried in a signal field which is in the physical layer header of the radio frame; and
the sending module connected with the processing modules and configured to feed back channel measurement information, according to the indication information for requesting the channel measurement feedback, to the sending station;
wherein the indication information for requesting the channel measurement feedback comprises: frame type information and fragment retransmission bitmap information.

15. The receiving station according to claim 14 , wherein the indication information for requesting the channel measurement feedback comprises:
frame type information and fragment retransmission bitmap information; and wherein the sending module comprises:
a detecting unit connected with a sending unit and co

Assignees

• Tian Kaibo
• Jiang Jing
• Xing Weimin
• Jiang Anming
• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Tian Kaibo
• Jiang Jing
• Xing Weimin
• Jiang Anming

Classifications

• H04B17/24

  with feedback of measurements to the transmitter · CPC title

• H04L1/0028

  Formatting · CPC title

• H04L1/0025 Primary

  Transmission of mode-switching indication · CPC title

• H04W72/0446

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

• H04B17/309

  Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters · CPC title