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- the present disclosure generally relates to the technical field of wireless communications, in particular to radio resource management in the wireless communications, and more particularly to a device and a method for a user equipment side in wireless communications, and a device and a method for a base station side in wireless communications.
- a user equipment in a RRC idle state in the current LTE communication system measures intensities of signals of a serving cell and a neighboring cell, to perform a cell reselection operation.
- the serving cell of the user equipment does not instruct the neighboring cell in system information thereof, and the user equipment itself performs cell search and measurement, so that the neighboring cell is detected.
- the user equipment starts measuring the neighboring cell based on the S criterion, and performs cell reselection judgment based on the R criterion.
- a cell reselection result based on the current criterion may be not ideal in a scenario where service load balance is performed for example in an enhanced small cell related to a massive MIMO.
- a neighboring cell suitable to be used as a candidate cell may fail to be reported on the side of the user equipment, and a resource management decision for example handover performed by the base station based on the measurement report result of the user equipment may be unreasonable.
- a device for a user equipment side in wireless communications includes: an information acquiring unit, configured to acquire information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; a measuring unit, configured to measure reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell; and a cell reselection/measurement reporting unit, configured to perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment.
- an information acquiring unit configured to acquire information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management, where
- a device for a base station side in wireless communications includes: an instruction generating unit, configured to generate instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a selling cell of the base station and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management, so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and a radio resource management unit, configured to perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset, radio resource management on the user equipment.
- a device for a base station side in wireless communications includes: a communication unit, configured to interchange, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving cell used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and a radio resource management unit, configured to perform, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the. serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station.
- a method for a user equipment side in wireless communications includes: acquiring information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; measuring reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell; performing, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment.
- a method for a base station side in wireless communications includes: generating instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the base station and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management, so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and performing, based on the cell specific dynamic offset, radio resource management on the user equipment.
- a method for a base station side in wireless communications includes: interchanging, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving to cell used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and performing, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station.
- a device for a user equipment side in wireless communications is further provided according to another aspect of the present disclosure, and the device includes one or more processors configured to: acquire information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; measure reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell; and perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment.
- the device includes one or more processors configured to: generate instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the base station and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management, so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset, radio resource management on the user equipment.
- a device for a base station side in wireless communications includes one or more processors configured to: interchange, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving cell used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and perform, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station.
- Computer program codes and a computer program product for implementing the method for the user equipment side in wireless communications and the method for the base station side in wireless communications described above, and a computer readable storage medium on which the computer program codes for implementing the method for the user equipment side in wireless communications and the method for the base station side in wireless communications described above are recorded are further provided according to other aspects of the present disclosure.
- the information of the cell specific dynamic offset is taken into account in cell reselection/measurement report in the device and the method according to the present disclosure, thereby allowing selecting a cell with better actual transmission performance.
- FIG. 1 is a structural block diagram showing a device for a user equipment side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
- FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram showing a device for a user equipment side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
- FIG. 3 is a structural block diagram showing a device for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
- FIG. 4 is a structural block diagram showing a device for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
- FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a method for a user equipment side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
- FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a method for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
- FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a method for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
- FIG. 8 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating the structure of a general purpose personal computer capable of realizing the method andlor device and/or system according to the embodiments of the present invention
- FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an example of schematic configuration of an evolved node B (eNB) in which the technology according to the present disclosure is applied.
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- FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing an example of schematic configuration of a terminal device.
- FIG. 1 is a structural block diagram showing a device 100 for a user equipment side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
- the device 100 includes: an information acquiring unit 101 , configured to acquire information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment andlor a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; a measuring unit 102 , configured to measure reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell; and a cell reselection/measurement reporting unit 103 , configured to perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment.
- an information acquiring unit 101 configured to acquire information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving
- a measurement report value of the user equipment for a radio resource management operation such as cell handover is only with respect to a channel corresponding to a single antenna port, and a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the base station of the cell is neglected. Therefore, the following situation may occur: the user equipment accesses to a cell actually having a poor performance due to a small multi-antenna transmission performance gain rather than a cell actually having a good performance due to a great multi-antenna transmission performance gain.
- the information acquiring unit 101 acquires the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the user equipment and/or the cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management.
- the cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 performs the cell reselection or the measurement report with the information of the cell specific dynamic offset, thereby more accurately determining a cell having better actual performance.
- the cell specific dynamic offset may change dynamically due to being specific to the cell, and different cells generally have different dynamic offset values.
- the information acquiring unit 101 can acquire the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of both the serving cell (the current cell) and the neighboring cell, or can acquire the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of only one of the serving cell and the neighboring cell. For example, in measurement report event configuration for cell handover, only cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell can be acquired, since the base station can naturally know a specific situation of the current cell and takes the situation of the current cell into account when making radio resource management decision.
- the information acquiring unit 101 can only acquire the cell specific dynamic offset of the current cell, for example, and the cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 can add the measurement result of the current cell with the cell specific dynamic offset, and compare the result with the measurement result of other cells, so as to determine a cell to be accessed, so that frequent cell reselection can be avoided.
- the cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 performs cell reselection air measurement report based on the cell specific dynamic offset and the measurement result of the measuring unit 102 , according to a connection state of the user equipment such as whether the user equipment is in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state. For example, measurement report is performed in the RRC connected state, and cell reselection is performed in a RRC unconnected (idle) state.
- RRC radio resource control
- the measurement result of the measuring unit 102 includes a measurement value related to at least one of reference signal receiving. power (RSRP) and reference signal receiving quality (RSRQ).
- RSRP reference signal receiving. power
- RSRQ reference signal receiving quality
- the cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 may be configured to rank measured cells based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset and the measurement results described above, and determine a cell to be accessed based on a ranking result.
- the cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 can combine the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of each cell with a measurement result of the cell to acquire transmission performance of the cell, and determine a cell with the best transmission performance as the cell to be accessed.
- the cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 can determine a cell with the best transmission performance and where signaling transmission can he ensured as a cell to be accessed, an such an example is suitable for a situation where some signaling, for example control signaling such as PDCCH signaling would not be subjected to multi-antenna processing and thus would not benefit from the multi-antenna gain. Therefore, it is required that receiving quality of the user equipment for the signaling achieves a certain level, for example, the measurement result itself is required to achieve a certain threshold.
- some signaling for example control signaling such as PDCCH signaling would not be subjected to multi-antenna processing and thus would not benefit from the multi-antenna gain. Therefore, it is required that receiving quality of the user equipment for the signaling achieves a certain level, for example, the measurement result itself is required to achieve a certain threshold.
- the user equipment can rank the measured cells based on the acquired information of the cell specific dynamic offset and the measurement results, and select a cell with the best transmission performance to be accessed. It can be understood that an existing cell reselection rule can be further combined based on the cell reselection idea of the present disclosure, which is not limited in the present disclosure.
- the user equipment measures reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell, and acquires measurement values Q meas,s and Q meas,n represented by RSRP, and ranks the cells based on a cell reselection parameter including the cell specific dynamic offset notified by the base station according to the equations below:
- R s′ Q meas,s +Q Hyst ⁇ Q offsettemp +Q offsetdyn,s (1)
- R s′ Q meas,n ⁇ Q offset ⁇ Q offsettemp +Q offsetdyn,n (2)
- R s′ represents a R reference value of the serving cell for participating in cell ranking
- R n′ represents a R reference value of the neighboring cell for participating in cell ranking
- Q offsetdyn,s represents a cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell
- Q offsetdyn,n represents a cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell.
- Q Hyst represents a hysteresis value of a ranking rule
- Q offset represents an offset or a frequency specific offset between the serving cell and the neighboring cell of OAM static configuration based on whether the two cells are intra-frequency cells or inter-frequency cells, respectively
- Q offsettempt represents a temporary offset value common for all cells.
- the user equipment ranks all cells meeting the S criterion based on the R reference values calculated according to the equation above, and selects an optimal cell ranked in the first place to execute the cell reselection operation in some examples.
- the user equipment calculates reference values R s and R n according to the R criterion in existing standard, for example, according to the equations below:
- R n Q meas,n ⁇ Q offset ⁇ Q offsettemp (4)
- the same symbol in equations (3) and (4) has the same meaning as that in equations (1) and (2).
- the user equipment selects multiple candidate neighboring cells having a reference value R n greater than R s of the serving cell, calculates R n′ for the multiple candidate neighboring cells respectively, and performs cell ranking.
- a neighboring cell with the greatest R n′ value is used as a reselection object, and therefore, a cell with the best actual transmission performance is reselected.
- the user equipment does not need to use the cell specific dynamic offset Q offsettdyn,s of the serving cell, and therefore, it is possible not to set the cell specific dynamic offset value to reduce signaling overhead.
- the user equipment receives, from the base station, only a difference between Q offsetdyn,s and Q offsetdyn,n as the cell specific dynamic offset of the corresponding neighboring cell, and calculates R n′ with the difference between Q offsetdyn,s and Q offsetdyn,n while ranking the cells in combination with R s , which are not enumerated here.
- the information acquiring unit 101 can acquire the information of the cell specific dynamic offset based on system information or historical information recorded in the user equipment.
- the system information is acquired through a broadcast channel (for example BCCII)
- the historical information refers to for example the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of a certain cell and the neighboring cell acquired from the cell when the user equipment accesses to the cell previously.
- the historical information may be the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of a cell recorded every time the user equipment accesses to the cell.
- the information acquiring unit 101 uses the system information or the historical information as the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell in the case that the user equipment is in a RRC idle state, to perform for example cell reselection.
- the information acquiring unit 101 acquires the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell and the cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell by receiving. a RRC signaling from the base station of the serving cell.
- the information acquiring unit 101 acquires an ID of the neighboring cell and the corresponding information of the cell specific dynamic offset when the user equipment establishes a RRC connection with the serving cell, for example, acquires the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of each cell in an information element System 1 nformationBlockType 4 and/or SystemInformationBlockType 5 of a RRC message.
- the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell measured. currently is determined with the previously recorded information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell and the acquired ID of the neighboring cell in the RRC idle state.
- the multi-antenna transmission performance gain in the above may include for example a pre-coding gain and/or a beam-forming gain of the cell.
- the cell specific dynamic offset is also related to a load of the cell, specifically, the greater the load is, the smaller the vale of the offset is.
- a base station performs radio resource management (RRM) measurement configuration on the user equipment through high-layer signaling, and makes, based on RRM measurement results on a neighboring cell and the current cell fed back by the user equipment according to the configuration, a radio resource management decision such as cell handover, dual-connection starting or adjusting, carrier aggregation starting or carrier combination adjusting.
- RRM radio resource management
- the information acquiring unit 101 is configured to acquire measurement configuration information from a serving cell of the user equipment in the case that a connection state of radio resource control (RRC) of the user equipment is connected.
- the measurement configuration information contains for example a cell specific dynamic offset and measurement report configuration about a report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account.
- the report triggering event refers to an event newly defined in the present disclosure which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account, which will be described in detail hereinafter.
- the information acquiring unit 101 acquires information on the measurement report configuration including a triggering condition and so on for the report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account and the related information of the cell specific dynamic offset from the serving cell (the base station).
- the above measurement configuration information containing the information of the cell specific dynamic offset may be contained in a RRC signaling, specifically in a MeasObjectEUTRA (for example in CellsToAddMod) of the RRC signaling, and the information related to the measurement report configuration may be contained in measconfig IE.
- the cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 may include: a measurement report triggering module, configured to trigger a measurement report based at least on the cell specific dynamic offset the measurement result and the measurement report configuration.
- a measurement report triggering module configured to trigger a measurement report based at least on the cell specific dynamic offset the measurement result and the measurement report configuration.
- the measurement report triggering module incorporates an ID of the cell into the measurement report and triggers the measurement report, for example, reports a neighboring cell with the best transmission performance to the base station through the measurement report, to be switched to the neighboring cell.
- the cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 may include a measurement report generating module, configured to contain a measurement result of the neighboring cell meeting the report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account in the measurement report, In this case, rather than performing determination of a target cell on the side of the user equipment, the user equipment reports the measurement result to the base station.
- the target cell is selected by the base station to perform a management operation such as cell handover, dual-connection, carrier aggregation or the like.
- the user equipment is in a RRC idle state
- the information acquiring unit 101 can acquire the information of the cell specific dynamic offset for example via the system information or the historical information described above.
- the cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 can determine, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset and the measurement result of the measuring unit 102 , a cell with the best transmission performance as a cell to be accessed, for example, determine by a cell ranking way in the first embodiment.
- the device 200 may further include a capability flag transmitting unit 201 , configured to transmit, after the cell reselection is completed, an equipment capability flag indicating that the cell specific dynamic offset is taken into account when determining to a target cell of the cell reselection.
- the target cell may preferably configure a multi-antenna transmission scheme for the user equipment.
- the capability flag transmitting unit 201 may be configured to transmit the equipment capability flag in the RRC signaling.
- the capability flag transmitting unit 201 may be configured to transmit the equipment capability flag in random access request signaling.
- the device 100 and the device 200 described above take the information of the cell specific dynamic offset into account when performing the cell reselection or measurement report, thereby accurately reflecting actual performance of the cell and facilitating more accurate decision-making.
- FIG. 3 is a structural block diagram showing a device 300 for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
- the device 300 includes: an instruction ;venerating unit 301 , configured to generate instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the base station andlor a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management, so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and a radio resource management unit 302 , configured to perform radio resource management on the user equipment based on the cell specific dynamic offset.
- an instruction ;venerating unit 301 configured to generate instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the base station andlor a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management
- the multi-antenna transmission performance gain may include a pre-coding gain and/or a beam-forming gain of the cell.
- the cell specific dynamic offset may also be related to a load of the cell. The greater the load is, the smaller a value of the offset is Specifically, the multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and the load of the cell change dynamically based on an operating state of the corresponding cell, for example, the multi-antenna transmission performance of a cell where multiple antennas are deployed may change with the number of users served currently.
- the instruction generating unit 301 generates instruction information containing the cell specific dynamic offset
- the radio resource management unit 302 performs radio resource management such as cell handover, dual-connection and carrier aggregation based on the cell specific dynamic offset.
- the device 300 may further include a communication unit 303 configured to transmit the instruction information to the user equipment served by the base station, and receive an access request and a measurement report from the user equipment.
- a communication unit 303 configured to transmit the instruction information to the user equipment served by the base station, and receive an access request and a measurement report from the user equipment.
- the instruction generating unit 301 contains the cell specific dynamic offset in system information
- the communication unit 303 transmits the system information containing the cell specific dynamic offset through a broadcast channel.
- the system information is SIB
- a dynamic offset item of the current cell (q-OffsetDyn) can he added in cellReselectionIinfoCommon in SystemInformationBlockType 3
- a dynamic offset item of a intra-frequency neighboring cell (q-OffsetDyn) can be added in IntraFreqNeighCellInfo in SystemInformationBlockType 4
- a dynamic offset item of a inter-frequency neighboring cell q-OffsetDyn
- it can receive the system information so as to perform an operation such as cell reselection.
- the instruction generating unit 301 contains the cell specific dynamic offset in a RRC signaling, and the communication unit 303 transmits the RRC signaling containing the cell specific dynamic offset through a data channel.
- the cell specific dynamic offset may be contained in MeasObjectEUTRA (for example in CellsToAddMod) of the RRC signaling
- the cell specific dynamic (net may be contained in a system information block of the RRC, specifically, in the SysteminformationBlocklype 3 , the SystemInformationBlockpe 4 or the SysteminformationBlockType 5 described above.
- the instruction generating unit 301 may also contain the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement report configuration about a report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account in the measurement configuration information of the RRC signaling, for measurement report of the user equipment. That is, the transmitted RRC signaling further includes measurement report configuration for the user equipment.
- the information of the measurement report configuration may be contained in measconfig IE.
- the measconfig may further include a list of cells which the base station expects to he measured by the user equipment, parameters of respective measurement report events and the like.
- the user equipment When the user equipment completes measuring the cells according to a requirement of the measurement configuration, it determines, based on a parameter of the event, whether the measurement result meets a corresponding report triggering event, and an ID of the cell, an ID of the report triggering event met by the measurement result and/or the particular measurement result are reported in the case that the measurement result meets the report triggering event.
- the radio resource management unit 302 determines the measurement result on the neighboring cell contained in the measurement report from the user equipment, and determines, based on the measurement result on the neighboring cell and the cell specific dynamic offset corresponding to the neighboring cell, a target access cell for the user equipment.
- the target access cell is determined on the side of the base station.
- the radio resource management unit 302 can determine, based on the report triggering event corresponding to the measurement result, the target access cell as at least one of a switch target cell, a dual-connection target cell or a carrier aggregation target cell of the user equipment. For example, a new report triggering event for handover, dual-connection and carrier aggregation, which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account may be set, and a unique ID is allocated to the new report triggering event.
- report triggering event described here is an event newly defined in the present disclosure which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account.
- new events A 7 and A 8 can be defined, Specifically, A 7 includes two entering conditions:
- Mn is a measurement result on the neighboring cell without taking the offset into account
- Ofn is a frequency specific offset for a frequency of the neighboring cell
- Ocn is a static neighboring cell specific offset by OAM assignment
- Odn is a cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell introduced in the present disclosure
- Hys is a hysteresis parameter of the event
- MP is a measurement result on a primary cell without taking the offset into account
- Ofp is a frequency specific offset of a primary frequency
- Ocp is a static primary cell specific offset by OAM assignment
- Ods is a cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell introduced in the present disclosure
- Off is an offset parameter for the event
- the first threshold may be set for example in the measconfig.
- the condition (6) ensures a signal quality of transmission of the neighboring cell, for example, which transmission is not subjected to the multi-antenna processing and thus fails to benefit from the multi-antenna transmission performance gain.
- a leaving condition for the event A 7 is also set based on the idea of the present disclosure in a preferable example:
- the user equipment is configured to report a corresponding measurement result by triggering event A 7 configuration based on the above measurement report, and the base station determines whether to perform the switch of the primary cell Pcell/PScell and selection of a switch target cell based on the measurement report under this event.
- Event AS includes two entering conditions as follows:
- a leaving condition for the event AS is set according to the idea of the present disclosure in the preferable example:
- the second threshold may also be set in measconfig for example.
- the user equipment is configured to report a corresponding measurement result by triggering event A 8 configuration based on the above measurement report, for example, can report an ID of the cell, an event ID of A 8 and/or the measurement result.
- the base station determines, based on the measurement report under the event, whether to add, delete or replace a secondary cell Scell.
- the user equipment receives only a difference between Qdn and Qds as the cell specific dynamic offset of the corresponding neighboring cell from the base station, which is not enumerated here.
- the communication unit 303 may be further configured to receive, from the user equipment, an equipment capability flag indicating that the user equipment has taken the cell specific dynamic offset into account.
- the radio resource management unit 302 is configured to preferentially determine a multi-antenna transmission scheme for the user equipment.
- the above equipment capability flag is transmitted to a communication unit 303 of a selected cell.
- the radio resource management unit 302 determines a multi-antenna transmission scheme for the user equipment preferentially, since the equipment capability flag indicates that the multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell is taken into account when selecting the cell.
- the device 300 implements radio resource management based on the cell specific dynamic offset, and improves resource utilization efficiency.
- FIG. 4 is a structural block diagram showing a device 400 for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
- the device 400 includes: a communication unit 401 , configured to interchange, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving cell used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and a radio resource management unit 402 configured to perform, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station.
- a communication unit 401 configured to interchange, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving cell used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability comprises at
- the communication unit 401 enables interchange of the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the respective serving cell with each other between neighboring base stations, so that the base station can provide the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the cells of the base station itself and the neighboring base station to a user equipment of a cell served by the base station.
- the base station performs radio resource management with the information of the cell specific dynamic offset.
- the cell specific dynamic offset of each cell in the present disclosure changes dynamically based on an operating state of the cell, for example, the multi-antenna transmission performance gain can change with the number of the served users.
- Beam-firming can be used to improve transmission quality in the case that the number of users is small, and the transmission service of beam-forming can not be provided in the case that the number of users is great.
- the load of the cell also changes according to a particular transmission service state of the cell. Therefore, in the present disclosure, it is designed that the neighboring base stations directly interchange the information of the cell specific dynamic offsets with each other, thereby ensuring real time of the information, and improving accuracy of the radio resource management compared with a current way of acquiring a static characteristic of the neighboring cell by OAM configuration.
- the base station rather than notifying the user equipment of the information of the cell specific dynamic offset, the base station overlaps the cell specific dynamic offset within the base station after receiving the measurement result from the user equipment, to perform the radio resource management operation such as cell handover.
- the communication unit 401 corresponds to an X2 communication interface, and the communication unit 401 interchanges the information of the cell specific dynamic offset via an information bit in Cell Information Item of an X2 message.
- the device 400 can implement radio resource management based on the cell specific dynamic offset, and improve resource utilization efficiency,
- the embodiments of the device for a user equipment side and a base station side in wireless communications may be partially or completely implemented with hardware and/or firmware, the method for a user equipment side and a base station side in wireless communications described below may be executed by a computer-executable program completely, although the hardware and/or firmware of the device for a user equipment side and a base station side in wireless communications can also be used in the methods.
- FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a method for a user equipment side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method includes: acquiring information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management (S 11 ), wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; measuring reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell (S 12 ); and performing, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment (S 13 ).
- S 11 radio resource management
- the multi-antenna transmission performance gain includes a pre-coding gain and/or a beam-forming gain of the cell.
- the cell specific dynamic offset can also be related to load of the cell, specifically, the greater the load is, the smaller a value of the offset is.
- step S 11 the information of the cell specific dynamic offset is acquired via system information or historical information recorded in the user equipment.
- the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell and the cell specific dynamic offset the neighboring cell can also be acquired by receiving RRC signaling from the base station of the serving cell.
- the measurement result acquired in step S 12 may include a measurement value related to at least one of reference signal receiving power and reference signal receiving quality.
- the measured cells can be ranked based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset and the measurement results, and a cell to be accessed is determined based on a ranking result.
- measurement configuration information from the serving cell of the user equipment is acquired in step S 11 .
- the measurement configuration information includes the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement report configuration about a report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account. As described above, multiple new report triggering events which take the cell specific dynamic offset into account may be defined.
- the measurement configuration information containing the information of the cell specific dynamic offset is contained in the RRC signaling.
- step S 13 the measurement report is triggered based at least on the cell specific dynamic offset, the measurement result and the measurement report configuration.
- a measurement result on the neighboring cell which meets the report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account can also be contained in the measurement report.
- step S 14 transmitting, after the cell reselection is completed, an equipment capability flag indicating that the cell specific dynamic offset is taken into account when determining to a target cell of the cell reselection.
- the equipment capability flag may be transmitted in the RRC signaling.
- FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a method for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and the method includes: generating instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the base station and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management (S 21 ), so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and performing, based on the cell specific dynamic offset, radio resource management on the user equipment (S 25 ).
- the multi-antenna transmission performance gain includes a pre-coding gain and/or abeam-farming gain of the cell.
- the cell specific dynamic offset is further related to the load of the cell, wherein the greater the load is, the small a value of the offset is.
- the above method further includes: transmitting the instruction information to the user equipment served by the base station (S 22 ); and receiving an access request or a measurement report from the user equipment ( 523 ).
- the cell specific dynamic offset can be contained in the system information in step S 21 , and the system information containing the cell specific dynamic offset is transmitted on a broadcast channel in step S 22 .
- the cell specific dynamic offset can also be contained in a RRC signaling in step S 21 , and the RRC signaling containing the cell specific dynamic offset is transmitted on a data channel in step S 22 .
- the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement report configuration about a report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account can be contained in measurement configuration information of the RRC signaling, for the measurement report of the user equipment.
- step S 23 when performing cell reselection, an access request from the user equipment is received in step S 23 .
- the method may further include step S 24 : receiving the equipment capability flag indicating that the user equipment has taken the cell specific dynamic offset into account from the user equipment.
- the equipment capability flag indicates that the access request has taken the cell specific dynamic offset into account, a multi-antenna transmission scheme is determined for the user equipment preferentially.
- a measurement report is received from the user equipment in step S 23 , and the measurement report is reported by the user equipment based on the measurement configuration information.
- a measurement result on the neighboring cell contained in the measurement report from the user equipment is determined, and a target access cell of the user equipment is determined based on the measurement result on the neighboring cell and the corresponding cell specific dynamic offset.
- the target access cell can also be determined as at least one of a switch target cell, a dual-connection target cell or a carrier aggregation target cell of the user equipment, based on a report triggering event corresponding to the measurement result.
- FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a method for a base station side in wireless communications according to another embodiment of the present disclosure, and the method includes: interchanging, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving cell used for radio resource management (S 31 ), wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and performing, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station (S 32 ).
- the information of the cell specific dynamic offset is interchanged via an X2 communication interface in step S 31 , specifically, for example, the information of the cell specific dynamic offset can be interchanged by an information bit in Cell Information Item of an X2 message.
- the information acquiring unit, the measuring unit, the cell reselection/measurement report unit, the instruction generating unit, the radio resource management unit and the like in the device described above may be implemented by one or more processors, and for example the capability flag transmitting unit, the communication unit and so on can be implemented by a circuit element such as an antenna, a filter, a modem, a codec and the like.
- a device ( 1 ) a user equipment side in wireless communications is further provided according to the present disclosure.
- the device ( 1 ) includes: one or more processors configured to: acquire information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; measure reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell; and perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment.
- the device ( 1 ) is a user equipment, and can further include: a transceiver configured to receive the information of the cell specific dynamic offset and transmit a random access request to the neighboring cell or transmit a measurement report to the serving cell.
- a device ( 2 ) for a base station side in wireless communications is further provided according to the present disclosure.
- the device ( 2 ) includes one or more processors configured to: generate instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the base station and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management, so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset, radio resource management on the user equipment.
- a device ( 3 ) for a base station side in wireless communications is further provided according to the present disclosure.
- the device ( 3 ) includes one or more processors configured to: interchange, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving cell used for radio resource management, wherein the to cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and perform, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station.
- each of the devices ( 2 ) and the device ( 3 ) is a base station, and can further include a transceiver configured to transmit the information of the cell specific dynamic offset to the user equipment. Details related to the devices ( 1 ) to device ( 3 ) have been given in the above embodiments, which are not described repeatedly here anymore.
- an electronic apparatus ( 1 ) is further provided according to the present disclosure.
- the electronic apparatus (I) includes circuitry configured to: acquire information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment andlor a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capabilities 4 comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; measure reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell; and perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment,
- An electronic apparatus ( 2 ) is further provided according to the present disclosure.
- the electronic apparatus ( 2 ) includes circuitry configured to: generate instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the base station and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management, so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset, radio resource management on the user equipment.
- the electronic apparatus ( 3 ) includes circuitry configured to: interchange, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving cell used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and perform, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station.
- the present invention further discloses a program product in which machine-readable instruction codes are stored.
- the aforementioned methods according to the embodiments can be implemented when the instruction codes are read and executed by a machine.
- the memory medium includes but is not limited to soft disc, optical disc, magnetic optical disc, memory card, memoty stick and the like.
- a program constituting the software is installed in a computer with a dedicated hardware structure (e.g. the general computer 800 shown in FIG. 18 ) from a storage medium or network, wherein the computer is capable of implementing various functions when installed with various programs.
- a dedicated hardware structure e.g. the general computer 800 shown in FIG. 18
- the computer is capable of implementing various functions when installed with various programs.
- a central processing unit (CPU) 1801 executes various processing according to a program stored in a read-only memory (ROM) 1802 or a program loaded to a random access memory (RAM) 1803 from a memory section 1808 .
- the data needed for the various processing of the CPU 1801 may be stored in the RAM 1803 as needed.
- the CPU 1801 . the ROM 1802 and the RAM 1803 are linked with each other via a bus 1804 .
- An input/output interface 1805 is also linked to the bus 1804 .
- the following components are linked to the input/output interface 1805 : an input section 1806 (including keyboard, mouse and the like), an output section 1807 (including displays such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), a liquid crystal display (LCD), a loudspeaker and the like), a memory section 1808 (including hard disc and the like), and a communication section 1809 (including a network interface card such as a LAN card, modem and the like).
- the communication section 1809 performs communication processing via a network such as the Internet.
- a driver 1810 may also be linked to the input/output interface 1805 .
- a removable medium 1811 for example, a magnetic disc, an optical disc, a magnetic optical disc, a semiconductor memory and the like, may be installed in the driver 1810 , so that the computer program read therefrom is installed in the memory section 1808 as appropriate.
- programs forming the software are installed from a network such as the Internet or a memory medium such as the removable medium 1811 .
- the memory medium is not limited to the removable medium 1811 shown in FIG. 8 , which has program stored therein and is distributed separately from the apparatus so as to provide the programs to users.
- the removable medium 1811 may be, for example, a magnetic disc (including floppy disc (registered trademark)), a compact disc (including compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) and digital versatile disc (DVD), a magneto optical disc (including mini disc (MD)(registered trademark)), and a semiconductor memory.
- the memory medium may be the hard discs included in ROM 1802 and the memory section 1808 in which programs are stored, and can be distributed to users along with the device in which they are incorporated.
- the devices 300 and 400 on the side of the base station can be implemented as any type of evolved nodes B (eNB) such as a macro eNB and a small eNB.
- eNB evolved nodes B
- the small eNB may be an eNB such as a pico eNB, a micro eNB, and a home (femto) eNB that covers a cell smaller than a macro cell.
- the devices 300 and 400 on the side of the base station may be implemented as any other types of base stations such as a NodeB and a base transceiver station (BTS),
- the devices 300 and 400 on the side of the base station may include: a main body (that is also referred to as a base station apparatus) configured to control radio communication, and one or more remote radio heads (RRH) disposed in a different place from the main body.
- a main body that is also referred to as a base station apparatus
- RRH remote radio heads
- various types of terminals which will be described below, may each operate as the devices 300 and 400 on the side of the base station by temporarily or semi-persistently executing a base station function
- the devices 100 and 200 on the side of the user equipment may be implemented as a mobile terminal (such as a smart phone, a tablet personal computer (PC), a notebook PC, a portable game terminal, a portable/dongle type mobile router, and a digital camera), or an in-vehicle terminal (such as a car navigation apparatus).
- the terminal device 300 may also be implemented as a terminal (also referred to as a machine type communication (MTC) terminal) that performs machine-to-machine (M2M) communication.
- MTC machine type communication
- M2M machine-to-machine
- the devices 100 and 200 on the side of the user equipment may be a radio communication module (such as an integrated circuit module including a single die) mounted on each of the terminals described above.
- FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a first example of a schematic configuration of an eNB to which the technology of the present disclosure may be applied.
- An eNB 800 includes one or more antennas 810 and a base station apparatus 820 . Each antenna 810 and the base station apparatus 820 may be connected to each other via an RF cable.
- Each of the antennas 810 includes a single or multiple antenna elements (such as multiple antenna elements included in an MIMO antenna), and is used for the base station apparatus 820 to transmit and receive radio signals.
- the eNB 800 may include the multiple antennas 810 , as illustrated in FIG. 9 .
- the multiple antennas 810 may be compatible with multiple frequency bands used by the eNB 800 .
- FIG. 9 illustrates the example in which the eNB 800 includes the multiple antennas 810
- the eNB 800 may also include a single antenna 810 .
- the base station apparatus 820 includes a controller 821 , a memory 822 , a network interface 823 , and a radio communication interface 825 .
- the controller 821 may be, for example, a CPU or a DSP, and operates various functions of a higher layer of the base station apparatus 820 .
- the controller 821 generates a data packet from data in signals processed by the radio communication interface 825 , and transfers the generated packet via the network interface 823 .
- the controller 821 may bundle data from multiple base band processors to generate the bundled packet, and transfer the generated bundled packet.
- the controller 821 may have logical functions of performing control such as radio resource control, radio bearer control, mobility management, admission control, and scheduling. The control may be performed in corporation with an eNB or a core network node in the vicinity.
- the memory 822 includes RAM and ROM, and stores a program that is executed by the controller 821 , and various types of control data (such as a terminal list, transmission power data, and scheduling data).
- the network interface 823 is a communication interface for connecting the base station apparatus 820 to a core network 824 .
- the controller 821 may communicate with a core network node or another eNB via the network interface 823 .
- the eNB 800 , and the core network node or the other eNB may be connected to each other through a logical interface (such as an Si interface and an X 2 interface).
- the network interface 823 may also be a wired communication interface or a radio communication interface for radio backhaul. If the network interface 823 is a radio communication interface, the network interface 823 may use a higher frequency hand for radio communication than a frequency band used by the radio communication interface 825 .
- the radio communication interface 825 supports any cellular communication scheme such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced, and provides radio connection to a terminal positioned in a cell of the eNB 800 via the antenna 810 .
- the radio communication interface 825 may typically include, for example, a baseband (BB) processor 826 and an RF circuit 827 .
- the BB processor 826 may perform, for example, encoding/decoding, modulating/demodulating, and multiplexing/demultiplexing, and performs various types of signal processing of layers (such as LI, medium access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC), and a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP)).
- layers such as LI, medium access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC), and a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP)
- the BB processor 826 may have a part or all of the above-described logical functions instead of the controller 821 .
- the BB processor 826 may be a memory that stores a communication control program, or a module that includes a processor and a related circuit configured to execute the program. Updating the program may allow the functions of the BB processor 826 to be changed.
- the module may be a card or a blade that is inserted into a slot of the base station apparatus 820 . Alternatively, the module may also be a chip that is mounted on the card or the blade.
- the RF circuit 827 may include, for example, a mixer, a filter, and an amplifier, and transmits and receives radio signals via the antenna 810 .
- the radio communication interface 825 may include the multiple BB processors 826 .
- the multiple BB processors 826 may be compatible with multiple frequency bands used by the eNB 800 .
- the radio communication interface 825 may include the multiple RF circuits 827 , as illustrated in FIG. 9 .
- the multiple RF circuits 827 may be compatible with multiple antenna elements,
- FIG. 9 illustrates the example in which the radio communication interface 825 includes the multiple BB processors 826 and the multiple RE circuits 827
- the radio communication interface 825 may also include a single BB processor 826 or a single RF circuit 827 .
- the communication unit shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 may be implemented by a wireless communication interface 825 and the wireless communication interface 855 andlor the wireless communication interface 863 .
- At least part of the functions may be implemented by the controller 821 .
- the controller 821 may execute an operation to generate the instruction information containing the cell specific dynamic offset by executing the function of the instruction generating unit.
- the controller 821 may execute an operation to perform wireless resource management based on the cell specific dynamic offset by executing the function of the radio resource management unit.
- FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a schematic configuration of a smartphone 900 to which the technology of the present disclosure may be applied.
- the smartphone 900 includes a processor 901 , a memory 902 , a storage 903 , an external connection interface 904 , a camera 906 , a sensor 907 , a microphone 908 , an input device 909 , a display device 910 , a speaker 911 , a radio communication interface 912 , one or more antenna switches 915 , one or more antennas 916 , a bus 917 , a battery 918 , and an auxiliary controller 919 .
- the processor 901 may be, for example, a CPU or a system on a chip (SoC), and controls functions of an application layer and another layer of the smartphone 900 .
- the memory 902 includes RAM and ROM, and stores a program that is executed by the processor 901 , and data
- the storage 903 may include a storage medium such as a semiconductor memory and a hard disk
- the external connection interface 904 is an interface for connecting an external device such as a memory card and a universal serial bus (USB) device to the smartphone 900 .
- USB universal serial bus
- the camera 906 includes an image sensor such as a charge coupled device (CCD) and a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), and generates a captured image.
- the sensor 907 may include a group of sensors such as a measurement sensor, a gyro sensor, a geomagnetic sensor, and an acceleration sensor.
- the microphone 908 converts sounds that are input to the smartphone 900 to audio signals.
- the input device 909 includes, for example, a touch sensor configured to detect touch onto a screen of the display device 910 , a keypad, a keyboard, a button, or a switch, and receives an operation or an information input from a user.
- the display device 910 includes a screen such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display, and displays an output image of the smartphone 900 .
- the speaker 911 converts audio signals that are output from the smartphone 900 to sounds.
- the radio communication interface 912 supports any cellular communication scheme such as LET and LIE-Advanced, and performs radio communication.
- the radio communication interface 912 may typically include, for example, a BB processor 913 and an RF circuit 914 .
- the BB processor 913 may perform, for example, encoding/decoding, modulating/demodulating, and multiplexing/demultiplexing, and performs various types of signal processing for radio communication.
- the RF circuit 914 may include, for example, a mixer, a filter, and an amplifier, and transmits and receives radio signals via the antenna 916 .
- the radio communication interface 912 may be a one chip module having the BB processor 913 and the RF circuit 914 integrated thereon.
- the radio communication interface 912 may include the multiple BB processors 913 and the multiple RF circuits 914 , as illustrated in FIG. 10 .
- FIG. 10 illustrates the example in which the radio communication interface 912 includes the multiple BB processors 913 and the multiple RF circuits 914
- the radio communication interface 912 may also include a single BB processor 913 or a single RF circuit 914 .
- the radio communication interface 912 may support another type of radio communication scheme such as a short-distance wireless communication scheme, a near field communication scheme, and a radio local area network (LAN) scheme.
- the radio communication interface 912 may include the BB processor 913 and the RF circuit 914 for each radio communication scheme.
- Each of the antenna switches 915 switches connection destinations of the antennas 916 among multiple circuits (such as circuits for different radio communication schemes) included in the radio communication interface 912 .
- Each of the antennas 916 includes a single or multiple antenna elements (such as multiple antenna elements included in an MIMO antenna), and is used for the radio communication interface 912 to transmit and receive radio signals.
- the smartphone 900 may include the multiple antennas 916 , as illustrated in FIG. 10 .
- FIG. 10 illustrates the example in which the smartphone 900 includes the multiple antennas 916
- the smartphone 900 may also include a single antenna 916 .
- the smartphone 900 may include the antenna 916 for each radio communication scheme.
- the antenna switches 915 may be omitted from the configuration of the smartphone 900 .
- the bus 917 connects the processor 901 , the memory 902 , the storage 903 , the external connection interface 904 . the camera 906 , the sensor 907 , the microphone 908 , the input device 909 , the display device 910 , the speaker 911 , the radio communication interface 912 , and the auxiliary controller 919 to each other.
- the battery 918 supplies power to blocks of the smartphone 900 illustrated in FIG. 10 via feeder lines, which are partially shown as dashed lines in the figure.
- the auxiliary controller 919 operates a minimum necessary function of the smartphone 900 , for example, in a sleep mode.
- the information acquiring unit and the capability flag transmitting unit shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 can be implemented by the wireless communication interface 912 .
- At least part of the functions may be realized by the processor 901 and the auxiliary controller 919 .
- the processor 901 or the auxiliary controller 919 may execute an operation to measure a reference signal by executing a function of the measuring unit, and the processor 901 or the auxiliary controller 919 may execute an operation to perform cell reselection or measurement report based on the cell specific dynamic offset and the measurement result by executing the function of the cell reselection/measurement report unit.
- the respective components or steps can be decomposed and/or recombined.
- These decompositions and/or recombinations shall be regarded as equivalent schemes of the invention.
- the above series of processing steps can naturally be performed temporally in the sequence as described above but will not be limited thereto, and some of the steps can be performed in parallel or independently from each other.
- the term “include”, “comprise” or any variant thereof is intended to encompass nonexclusive inclusion so that a process, method, article or device including a series of elements includes not only those elements but also other elements which have been not listed definitely or an element(s) inherent to the process, method, article or device.
- the expression “comprising a(n) . . . ” in which an element is defined will not preclude presence of an additional identical element(s) in a process, method, article or device comprising the defined element(s)” unless further defined.
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- The present application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 16/744,209, tiled Jan. 16, 2020, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 15/556,339, filed Sep. 7, 2017 (now U.S. Pat. No. 10,911,969), which is based on PCT filing PCT/CN2016/076959, filed Mar. 22, 2016, which claims priority to CN 201510151725.5, filed Apr. 1, 2015, the entire contents of each are incorporated herein by reference.
- The present disclosure generally relates to the technical field of wireless communications, in particular to radio resource management in the wireless communications, and more particularly to a device and a method for a user equipment side in wireless communications, and a device and a method for a base station side in wireless communications.
- In a wireless communication system such as a LTE system, various radio resource management operations such as cell reselection, cell handover, carrier aggregation and dual-connection are performed based on a measurement result for a channel. Specifically, a user equipment in a RRC idle state in the current LTE communication system measures intensities of signals of a serving cell and a neighboring cell, to perform a cell reselection operation. The serving cell of the user equipment does not instruct the neighboring cell in system information thereof, and the user equipment itself performs cell search and measurement, so that the neighboring cell is detected. The user equipment starts measuring the neighboring cell based on the S criterion, and performs cell reselection judgment based on the R criterion. Dynamic characteristics of respective cells including the serving cell are not taken into consideration in the current R criterion, therefore, a cell reselection result based on the current criterion may be not ideal in a scenario where service load balance is performed for example in an enhanced small cell related to a massive MIMO.
- In addition, in a current REM measurement mechanism, the above dynamic characteristics of the cells are not taken into consideration either in report triggering determination of the user equipment for the measurement result. Therefore, for example, a neighboring cell suitable to be used as a candidate cell may fail to be reported on the side of the user equipment, and a resource management decision for example handover performed by the base station based on the measurement report result of the user equipment may be unreasonable.
- In the following, an overview of the present disclosure is given simply to provide basic understanding to some aspects of the present disclosure. However, it should be understood that this overview is not an exhaustive overview of the present disclosure. It is not intended to determine a critical part or an important part of the present disclosure, nor to limit the scope of the present disclosure. An object of the overview is only to give some concepts about the present disclosure in a simplified manner, which serves as a preface of a more detailed description described later.
- According to an aspect of the present application, a device for a user equipment side in wireless communications is provided, and the device includes: an information acquiring unit, configured to acquire information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; a measuring unit, configured to measure reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell; and a cell reselection/measurement reporting unit, configured to perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment.
- A device for a base station side in wireless communications is provided according to another aspect of the present disclosure, and the device includes: an instruction generating unit, configured to generate instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a selling cell of the base station and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management, so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and a radio resource management unit, configured to perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset, radio resource management on the user equipment.
- A device for a base station side in wireless communications is provided according to yet another aspect of the present disclosure, and the device includes: a communication unit, configured to interchange, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving cell used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and a radio resource management unit, configured to perform, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the. serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station.
- A method for a user equipment side in wireless communications is provided according to another aspect of the present disclosure, and the method includes: acquiring information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; measuring reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell; performing, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment.
- A method for a base station side in wireless communications is provided according to another aspect of the present disclosure, the method includes: generating instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the base station and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management, so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and performing, based on the cell specific dynamic offset, radio resource management on the user equipment.
- A method for a base station side in wireless communications is provided according to an aspect of the present disclosure, and the method includes: interchanging, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving to cell used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and performing, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station.
- A device for a user equipment side in wireless communications is further provided according to another aspect of the present disclosure, and the device includes one or more processors configured to: acquire information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; measure reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell; and perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment.
- A device for a base station side in wireless communications is provided according to another aspect of the present disclosure, the device includes one or more processors configured to: generate instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the base station and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management, so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset, radio resource management on the user equipment.
- A device for a base station side in wireless communications is provided according to another aspect of the present disclosure, and the device includes one or more processors configured to: interchange, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving cell used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and perform, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station.
- Computer program codes and a computer program product for implementing the method for the user equipment side in wireless communications and the method for the base station side in wireless communications described above, and a computer readable storage medium on which the computer program codes for implementing the method for the user equipment side in wireless communications and the method for the base station side in wireless communications described above are recorded are further provided according to other aspects of the present disclosure.
- The information of the cell specific dynamic offset is taken into account in cell reselection/measurement report in the device and the method according to the present disclosure, thereby allowing selecting a cell with better actual transmission performance.
- These and other advantages of the present disclosure will be more apparent by illustrating in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention in conjunction with accompanying drawings below.
- To further set forth the above and other advantages and features of the present invention, detailed description will be made in the following taken in conjunction with accompanying drawings in which identical or like reference signs designate identical or like components. The accompanying drawings, together with the detailed description below, are incorporated into and form a part of the specification. It should be noted that the accompanying drawings only illustrate, by way of example, typical embodiments of the present invention and should not be construed as a limitation to the scope of the invention. In the accompanying drawings.
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FIG. 1 is a structural block diagram showing a device for a user equipment side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; -
FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram showing a device for a user equipment side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; -
FIG. 3 is a structural block diagram showing a device for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; -
FIG. 4 is a structural block diagram showing a device for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; -
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a method for a user equipment side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; -
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a method for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; -
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a method for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; -
FIG. 8 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating the structure of a general purpose personal computer capable of realizing the method andlor device and/or system according to the embodiments of the present invention; -
FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an example of schematic configuration of an evolved node B (eNB) in which the technology according to the present disclosure is applied; and -
FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing an example of schematic configuration of a terminal device. - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described hereinafter in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. For the purpose of conciseness and clarity, not all features of an embodiment are described in this specification. However, it should be understood that multiple decisions specific to the embodiment have to be made in a process of developing any such embodiment to realize a particular object of a developer, for example, conforming to those constraints related to a system and a business, and these constraints may change as the embodiments differs. Furthermore, it should also be understood that although the development work may be ver,,, complicated and time-consuming, for those skilled in the art benefiting from the present disclosure, such development work is only a routine task,
- Here, it should also be noted that in order to avoid obscuring the present invention due to unnecessary details, only a device structure andlor processing steps closely related to the solution according to the present invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and other details having little relationship to the present invention are omitted.
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FIG. 1 is a structural block diagram showing adevice 100 for a user equipment side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and thedevice 100 includes: aninformation acquiring unit 101, configured to acquire information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment andlor a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; a measuringunit 102, configured to measure reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell; and a cell reselection/measurement reporting unit 103, configured to perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment. in an existing LTE system, a measurement report value of the user equipment for a radio resource management operation such as cell handover is only with respect to a channel corresponding to a single antenna port, and a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the base station of the cell is neglected. Therefore, the following situation may occur: the user equipment accesses to a cell actually having a poor performance due to a small multi-antenna transmission performance gain rather than a cell actually having a good performance due to a great multi-antenna transmission performance gain. - In the
device 100, theinformation acquiring unit 101 acquires the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the user equipment and/or the cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management. The cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 performs the cell reselection or the measurement report with the information of the cell specific dynamic offset, thereby more accurately determining a cell having better actual performance. The cell specific dynamic offset may change dynamically due to being specific to the cell, and different cells generally have different dynamic offset values. - Specifically, the
information acquiring unit 101 can acquire the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of both the serving cell (the current cell) and the neighboring cell, or can acquire the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of only one of the serving cell and the neighboring cell. For example, in measurement report event configuration for cell handover, only cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell can be acquired, since the base station can naturally know a specific situation of the current cell and takes the situation of the current cell into account when making radio resource management decision. In cell reselection, for example, theinformation acquiring unit 101 can only acquire the cell specific dynamic offset of the current cell, for example, and the cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 can add the measurement result of the current cell with the cell specific dynamic offset, and compare the result with the measurement result of other cells, so as to determine a cell to be accessed, so that frequent cell reselection can be avoided. - The cell reselection/
measurement report unit 103 performs cell reselection air measurement report based on the cell specific dynamic offset and the measurement result of the measuringunit 102, according to a connection state of the user equipment such as whether the user equipment is in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state. For example, measurement report is performed in the RRC connected state, and cell reselection is performed in a RRC unconnected (idle) state. - In an example, the measurement result of the measuring
unit 102 includes a measurement value related to at least one of reference signal receiving. power (RSRP) and reference signal receiving quality (RSRQ). - For example, the cell reselection/
measurement report unit 103 may be configured to rank measured cells based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset and the measurement results described above, and determine a cell to be accessed based on a ranking result. As an example, the cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 can combine the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of each cell with a measurement result of the cell to acquire transmission performance of the cell, and determine a cell with the best transmission performance as the cell to be accessed. Alternatively, the cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 can determine a cell with the best transmission performance and where signaling transmission can he ensured as a cell to be accessed, an such an example is suitable for a situation where some signaling, for example control signaling such as PDCCH signaling would not be subjected to multi-antenna processing and thus would not benefit from the multi-antenna gain. Therefore, it is required that receiving quality of the user equipment for the signaling achieves a certain level, for example, the measurement result itself is required to achieve a certain threshold. - For example, in the cell reselection, the user equipment can rank the measured cells based on the acquired information of the cell specific dynamic offset and the measurement results, and select a cell with the best transmission performance to be accessed. It can be understood that an existing cell reselection rule can be further combined based on the cell reselection idea of the present disclosure, which is not limited in the present disclosure.
- In a specific example, the user equipment measures reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell, and acquires measurement values Qmeas,s and Qmeas,n represented by RSRP, and ranks the cells based on a cell reselection parameter including the cell specific dynamic offset notified by the base station according to the equations below:
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R s′ =Q meas,s +Q Hyst −Q offsettemp +Q offsetdyn,s (1) -
R s′ =Q meas,n −Q offset −Q offsettemp +Q offsetdyn,n (2) - Specifically, Rs′ represents a R reference value of the serving cell for participating in cell ranking, Rn′ represents a R reference value of the neighboring cell for participating in cell ranking, Qoffsetdyn,s represents a cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell, and Qoffsetdyn,n represents a cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell. In addition, as specified in technology standards TS36,331 and TS25,331 of 3GPP, QHyst (represents a hysteresis value of a ranking rule, Qoffset represents an offset or a frequency specific offset between the serving cell and the neighboring cell of OAM static configuration based on whether the two cells are intra-frequency cells or inter-frequency cells, respectively, Qoffsettempt represents a temporary offset value common for all cells. The user equipment ranks all cells meeting the S criterion based on the R reference values calculated according to the equation above, and selects an optimal cell ranked in the first place to execute the cell reselection operation in some examples.
- In another optional example, the user equipment calculates reference values Rs and Rn according to the R criterion in existing standard, for example, according to the equations below:
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R n =Q meas,n −Q offset −Q offsettemp (4) - Specifically, the same symbol in equations (3) and (4) has the same meaning as that in equations (1) and (2). Then, the user equipment selects multiple candidate neighboring cells having a reference value Rn greater than Rs of the serving cell, calculates Rn′ for the multiple candidate neighboring cells respectively, and performs cell ranking. A neighboring cell with the greatest Rn′ value is used as a reselection object, and therefore, a cell with the best actual transmission performance is reselected. In this example, the user equipment does not need to use the cell specific dynamic offset Qoffsettdyn,s of the serving cell, and therefore, it is possible not to set the cell specific dynamic offset value to reduce signaling overhead.
- Other combined or deformed way can be designed by those skilled in the art based on the conventional technology and the above example, for example, the user equipment receives, from the base station, only a difference between Qoffsetdyn,s and Qoffsetdyn,n as the cell specific dynamic offset of the corresponding neighboring cell, and calculates Rn′ with the difference between Qoffsetdyn,s and Qoffsetdyn,n while ranking the cells in combination with Rs, which are not enumerated here.
- Specifically, the
information acquiring unit 101 can acquire the information of the cell specific dynamic offset based on system information or historical information recorded in the user equipment. For example, the system information is acquired through a broadcast channel (for example BCCII), and the historical information refers to for example the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of a certain cell and the neighboring cell acquired from the cell when the user equipment accesses to the cell previously. Alternatively, the historical information may be the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of a cell recorded every time the user equipment accesses to the cell. Theinformation acquiring unit 101 uses the system information or the historical information as the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell in the case that the user equipment is in a RRC idle state, to perform for example cell reselection. - In addition, the
information acquiring unit 101 acquires the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell and the cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell by receiving. a RRC signaling from the base station of the serving cell. For example, theinformation acquiring unit 101 acquires an ID of the neighboring cell and the corresponding information of the cell specific dynamic offset when the user equipment establishes a RRC connection with the serving cell, for example, acquires the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of each cell in an information element System1nformationBlockType4 and/or SystemInformationBlockType5 of a RRC message. The information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell measured. currently is determined with the previously recorded information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell and the acquired ID of the neighboring cell in the RRC idle state. - The multi-antenna transmission performance gain in the above may include for example a pre-coding gain and/or a beam-forming gain of the cell. In addition, in an example, the cell specific dynamic offset is also related to a load of the cell, specifically, the greater the load is, the smaller the vale of the offset is.
- An example of applying the device for a user equipment side in wireless communications according to the present disclosure to measurement report is described below. Generally, a base station performs radio resource management (RRM) measurement configuration on the user equipment through high-layer signaling, and makes, based on RRM measurement results on a neighboring cell and the current cell fed back by the user equipment according to the configuration, a radio resource management decision such as cell handover, dual-connection starting or adjusting, carrier aggregation starting or carrier combination adjusting.
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information acquiring unit 101 is configured to acquire measurement configuration information from a serving cell of the user equipment in the case that a connection state of radio resource control (RRC) of the user equipment is connected. The measurement configuration information contains for example a cell specific dynamic offset and measurement report configuration about a report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account. - It should be noted that the report triggering event refers to an event newly defined in the present disclosure which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account, which will be described in detail hereinafter. In other words, the
information acquiring unit 101 acquires information on the measurement report configuration including a triggering condition and so on for the report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account and the related information of the cell specific dynamic offset from the serving cell (the base station). For example, the above measurement configuration information containing the information of the cell specific dynamic offset may be contained in a RRC signaling, specifically in a MeasObjectEUTRA (for example in CellsToAddMod) of the RRC signaling, and the information related to the measurement report configuration may be contained in measconfig IE. - As an example, the cell reselection/
measurement report unit 103 may include: a measurement report triggering module, configured to trigger a measurement report based at least on the cell specific dynamic offset the measurement result and the measurement report configuration. For example, in the case that the cell specific dynamic offset and the measurement result for one or more cells meet a measurement report event defined in the measurement report configuration, the measurement report triggering module incorporates an ID of the cell into the measurement report and triggers the measurement report, for example, reports a neighboring cell with the best transmission performance to the base station through the measurement report, to be switched to the neighboring cell. - As another example, the cell reselection/
measurement report unit 103 may include a measurement report generating module, configured to contain a measurement result of the neighboring cell meeting the report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account in the measurement report, In this case, rather than performing determination of a target cell on the side of the user equipment, the user equipment reports the measurement result to the base station. For example, the target cell is selected by the base station to perform a management operation such as cell handover, dual-connection, carrier aggregation or the like. - An example of applying a device for a user equipment side in wireless communications according to present disclosure to cell reselection. is described below, in the example, the user equipment is in a RRC idle state, and the
information acquiring unit 101 can acquire the information of the cell specific dynamic offset for example via the system information or the historical information described above. The cell reselection/measurement report unit 103 can determine, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset and the measurement result of the measuringunit 102, a cell with the best transmission performance as a cell to be accessed, for example, determine by a cell ranking way in the first embodiment. - In addition, as shown in
FIG. 2 , besides the components of thedevice 100 described with reference toFIG. 1 , thedevice 200 according to the embodiment may further include a capabilityflag transmitting unit 201, configured to transmit, after the cell reselection is completed, an equipment capability flag indicating that the cell specific dynamic offset is taken into account when determining to a target cell of the cell reselection. In this way, the target cell may preferably configure a multi-antenna transmission scheme for the user equipment. - For example, the capability
flag transmitting unit 201 may be configured to transmit the equipment capability flag in the RRC signaling. As another example, the capabilityflag transmitting unit 201 may be configured to transmit the equipment capability flag in random access request signaling. - The
device 100 and thedevice 200 described above take the information of the cell specific dynamic offset into account when performing the cell reselection or measurement report, thereby accurately reflecting actual performance of the cell and facilitating more accurate decision-making. -
FIG. 3 is a structural block diagram showing adevice 300 for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and thedevice 300 includes: an instruction ;veneratingunit 301, configured to generate instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the base station andlor a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management, so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and a radioresource management unit 302, configured to perform radio resource management on the user equipment based on the cell specific dynamic offset. - As described above, the multi-antenna transmission performance gain may include a pre-coding gain and/or a beam-forming gain of the cell. The cell specific dynamic offset may also be related to a load of the cell. The greater the load is, the smaller a value of the offset is Specifically, the multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and the load of the cell change dynamically based on an operating state of the corresponding cell, for example, the multi-antenna transmission performance of a cell where multiple antennas are deployed may change with the number of users served currently.
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device 300, theinstruction generating unit 301 generates instruction information containing the cell specific dynamic offset, and the radioresource management unit 302 performs radio resource management such as cell handover, dual-connection and carrier aggregation based on the cell specific dynamic offset. - As shown in a dash-line block of
FIG. 3 , thedevice 300 may further include acommunication unit 303 configured to transmit the instruction information to the user equipment served by the base station, and receive an access request and a measurement report from the user equipment. - In an example, the
instruction generating unit 301 contains the cell specific dynamic offset in system information, and thecommunication unit 303 transmits the system information containing the cell specific dynamic offset through a broadcast channel. For example, the system information is SIB, a dynamic offset item of the current cell (q-OffsetDyn) can he added in cellReselectionIinfoCommon in SystemInformationBlockType3, and a dynamic offset item of a intra-frequency neighboring cell (q-OffsetDyn) can be added in IntraFreqNeighCellInfo in SystemInformationBlockType4, and a dynamic offset item of a inter-frequency neighboring cell (q-OffsetDyn) can be added in InterFreqNeighCellInfo in SystemInformationBlockType5. For example, in the case that the user equipment in a RRC idle state, it can receive the system information so as to perform an operation such as cell reselection. - In another example, in the case that the user equipment is already in a RRC connected state, the
instruction generating unit 301 contains the cell specific dynamic offset in a RRC signaling, and thecommunication unit 303 transmits the RRC signaling containing the cell specific dynamic offset through a data channel. As described above, for example, the cell specific dynamic offset may be contained in MeasObjectEUTRA (for example in CellsToAddMod) of the RRC signaling, in addition, the cell specific dynamic (net may be contained in a system information block of the RRC, specifically, in the SysteminformationBlocklype3, the SystemInformationBlockpe4 or the SysteminformationBlockType5 described above. - In addition, the
instruction generating unit 301 may also contain the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement report configuration about a report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account in the measurement configuration information of the RRC signaling, for measurement report of the user equipment. That is, the transmitted RRC signaling further includes measurement report configuration for the user equipment. As described above, the information of the measurement report configuration may be contained in measconfig IE. In addition, the measconfig may further include a list of cells which the base station expects to he measured by the user equipment, parameters of respective measurement report events and the like. When the user equipment completes measuring the cells according to a requirement of the measurement configuration, it determines, based on a parameter of the event, whether the measurement result meets a corresponding report triggering event, and an ID of the cell, an ID of the report triggering event met by the measurement result and/or the particular measurement result are reported in the case that the measurement result meets the report triggering event. - As an example, the radio
resource management unit 302 determines the measurement result on the neighboring cell contained in the measurement report from the user equipment, and determines, based on the measurement result on the neighboring cell and the cell specific dynamic offset corresponding to the neighboring cell, a target access cell for the user equipment. In this example, the target access cell is determined on the side of the base station, In addition, the radioresource management unit 302 can determine, based on the report triggering event corresponding to the measurement result, the target access cell as at least one of a switch target cell, a dual-connection target cell or a carrier aggregation target cell of the user equipment. For example, a new report triggering event for handover, dual-connection and carrier aggregation, which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account may be set, and a unique ID is allocated to the new report triggering event. - It should be noted that the report triggering event described here is an event newly defined in the present disclosure which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account. For example, new events A7 and A8 can be defined, Specifically, A7 includes two entering conditions:
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Mn+Ofn+Ocn+Odn-Hys>Mp+Ofp+Ocp+Ods+Off (5) -
Mn+Ofn+Ocn-Hys>first threshold (6) - where Mn is a measurement result on the neighboring cell without taking the offset into account, Ofn, is a frequency specific offset for a frequency of the neighboring cell, Ocn is a static neighboring cell specific offset by OAM assignment, Odn is a cell specific dynamic offset of the neighboring cell introduced in the present disclosure, Hys is a hysteresis parameter of the event, MP is a measurement result on a primary cell without taking the offset into account, Ofp is a frequency specific offset of a primary frequency, Ocp is a static primary cell specific offset by OAM assignment, and Ods is a cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell introduced in the present disclosure, Off is an offset parameter for the event, and the first threshold may be set for example in the measconfig. In other words, in the case that the cell meets the two conditions of the event A7, an ID of the cell and an event ID of A7 and/or the measurement result can be reported. Specifically, the condition (6) ensures a signal quality of transmission of the neighboring cell, for example, which transmission is not subjected to the multi-antenna processing and thus fails to benefit from the multi-antenna transmission performance gain.
- In addition, a leaving condition for the event A7 is also set based on the idea of the present disclosure in a preferable example:
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Mn+Qfn+Ocn+Odn-Hys<Mp+Ofp+Ocp+Ods+Off (7) - Mn+Ofn+Ocn-Hys<0 (8), By means of this, the user equipment is configured to report a corresponding measurement result by triggering event A7 configuration based on the above measurement report, and the base station determines whether to perform the switch of the primary cell Pcell/PScell and selection of a switch target cell based on the measurement report under this event.
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Mn+Ocn-Hys>second threshold (10) - In addition, a leaving condition for the event AS is set according to the idea of the present disclosure in the preferable example:
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Mn+Ocn+Odn-Hys<Ms+Ocs+Ods+Off (11) -
Mn+Ocn-Hys<0 (12) - where the same symbol in these equations has the same meaning as that in equations (5) and (6), and the second threshold may also be set in measconfig for example. Similarly, the user equipment is configured to report a corresponding measurement result by triggering event A8 configuration based on the above measurement report, for example, can report an ID of the cell, an event ID of A8 and/or the measurement result. The base station determines, based on the measurement report under the event, whether to add, delete or replace a secondary cell Scell.
- Other combined or deformed way can be designed by those skilled in the art based on the conventional technology and the above example, for example, the user equipment receives only a difference between Qdn and Qds as the cell specific dynamic offset of the corresponding neighboring cell from the base station, which is not enumerated here.
- In addition, in the case that the
device 300 operates as a target access base station of the user equipment, thecommunication unit 303 may be further configured to receive, from the user equipment, an equipment capability flag indicating that the user equipment has taken the cell specific dynamic offset into account. In the case that the equipment capability flag indicates that the access request has taken the cell specific dynamic offset into account, the radioresource management unit 302 is configured to preferentially determine a multi-antenna transmission scheme for the user equipment. - For example, after the user equipment completes cell reselection, the above equipment capability flag is transmitted to a
communication unit 303 of a selected cell. In subsequent transmission, the radioresource management unit 302 determines a multi-antenna transmission scheme for the user equipment preferentially, since the equipment capability flag indicates that the multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell is taken into account when selecting the cell. - The
device 300 according to the embodiment implements radio resource management based on the cell specific dynamic offset, and improves resource utilization efficiency. -
FIG. 4 is a structural block diagram showing adevice 400 for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and thedevice 400 includes: acommunication unit 401, configured to interchange, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving cell used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and a radioresource management unit 402 configured to perform, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station. - In the
device 400, thecommunication unit 401 enables interchange of the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the respective serving cell with each other between neighboring base stations, so that the base station can provide the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the cells of the base station itself and the neighboring base station to a user equipment of a cell served by the base station. Alternatively, the base station performs radio resource management with the information of the cell specific dynamic offset. For example, the cell specific dynamic offset of each cell in the present disclosure changes dynamically based on an operating state of the cell, for example, the multi-antenna transmission performance gain can change with the number of the served users. Beam-firming can be used to improve transmission quality in the case that the number of users is small, and the transmission service of beam-forming can not be provided in the case that the number of users is great. The load of the cell also changes according to a particular transmission service state of the cell. Therefore, in the present disclosure, it is designed that the neighboring base stations directly interchange the information of the cell specific dynamic offsets with each other, thereby ensuring real time of the information, and improving accuracy of the radio resource management compared with a current way of acquiring a static characteristic of the neighboring cell by OAM configuration. - In an example of the present disclosure, rather than notifying the user equipment of the information of the cell specific dynamic offset, the base station overlaps the cell specific dynamic offset within the base station after receiving the measurement result from the user equipment, to perform the radio resource management operation such as cell handover.
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communication unit 401 corresponds to an X2 communication interface, and thecommunication unit 401 interchanges the information of the cell specific dynamic offset via an information bit in Cell Information Item of an X2 message. - The
device 400 according to the embodiment can implement radio resource management based on the cell specific dynamic offset, and improve resource utilization efficiency, - In the process of describing the device for a user equipment side and a base station side in wireless communications in the embodiments described above, obviously, some processing and methods are also disclosed. Hereinafter, an overview of the methods is given without repeating some details disclosed above. However, it should be noted that, although the methods are disclosed in a process of describing the device for a user equipment side and a base station side in wireless communications, the methods do not certainly employ or are not certainly executed by the aforementioned components. For example, the embodiments of the device for a user equipment side and a base station side in wireless communications may be partially or completely implemented with hardware and/or firmware, the method for a user equipment side and a base station side in wireless communications described below may be executed by a computer-executable program completely, although the hardware and/or firmware of the device for a user equipment side and a base station side in wireless communications can also be used in the methods.
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FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a method for a user equipment side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method includes: acquiring information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management (S11), wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; measuring reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell (S12); and performing, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment (S13). - Specifically, the multi-antenna transmission performance gain includes a pre-coding gain and/or a beam-forming gain of the cell. The cell specific dynamic offset can also be related to load of the cell, specifically, the greater the load is, the smaller a value of the offset is.
- In step S11, the information of the cell specific dynamic offset is acquired via system information or historical information recorded in the user equipment. In addition, the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell and the cell specific dynamic offset the neighboring cell can also be acquired by receiving RRC signaling from the base station of the serving cell.
- The measurement result acquired in step S12 may include a measurement value related to at least one of reference signal receiving power and reference signal receiving quality.
- In step S13, the measured cells can be ranked based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset and the measurement results, and a cell to be accessed is determined based on a ranking result.
- In the case that a radio resource control connection state of the user equipment is connected, measurement configuration information from the serving cell of the user equipment is acquired in step S11. The measurement configuration information includes the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement report configuration about a report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account. As described above, multiple new report triggering events which take the cell specific dynamic offset into account may be defined.
- As an example, the measurement configuration information containing the information of the cell specific dynamic offset is contained in the RRC signaling.
- In step S13, the measurement report is triggered based at least on the cell specific dynamic offset, the measurement result and the measurement report configuration. A measurement result on the neighboring cell which meets the report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account can also be contained in the measurement report.
- In the case that cell reselection is performed in step S13, as shown in a dash-line block of
FIG. 5 , the above method further includes step S14: transmitting, after the cell reselection is completed, an equipment capability flag indicating that the cell specific dynamic offset is taken into account when determining to a target cell of the cell reselection. For example, the equipment capability flag may be transmitted in the RRC signaling. -
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a method for a base station side in wireless communications according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and the method includes: generating instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the base station and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management (S21), so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and performing, based on the cell specific dynamic offset, radio resource management on the user equipment (S25). - Specifically, the multi-antenna transmission performance gain includes a pre-coding gain and/or abeam-farming gain of the cell. The cell specific dynamic offset is further related to the load of the cell, wherein the greater the load is, the small a value of the offset is.
- In an example, as shown in a dash-line block of
FIG. 6 , the above method further includes: transmitting the instruction information to the user equipment served by the base station (S22); and receiving an access request or a measurement report from the user equipment (523). - For example, the cell specific dynamic offset can be contained in the system information in step S21, and the system information containing the cell specific dynamic offset is transmitted on a broadcast channel in step S22.
- In addition, the cell specific dynamic offset can also be contained in a RRC signaling in step S21, and the RRC signaling containing the cell specific dynamic offset is transmitted on a data channel in step S22. For example, the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement report configuration about a report triggering event which takes the cell specific dynamic offset into account can be contained in measurement configuration information of the RRC signaling, for the measurement report of the user equipment.
- For example, when performing cell reselection, an access request from the user equipment is received in step S23. In this case, as shown in another dash-line block of
FIG. 6 , the method may further include step S24: receiving the equipment capability flag indicating that the user equipment has taken the cell specific dynamic offset into account from the user equipment. In the case that the equipment capability flag indicates that the access request has taken the cell specific dynamic offset into account, a multi-antenna transmission scheme is determined for the user equipment preferentially. - In addition, for example, in a scenario such as cell reselection, a measurement report is received from the user equipment in step S23, and the measurement report is reported by the user equipment based on the measurement configuration information. In an example, in step S25, a measurement result on the neighboring cell contained in the measurement report from the user equipment is determined, and a target access cell of the user equipment is determined based on the measurement result on the neighboring cell and the corresponding cell specific dynamic offset.
- In addition, the target access cell can also be determined as at least one of a switch target cell, a dual-connection target cell or a carrier aggregation target cell of the user equipment, based on a report triggering event corresponding to the measurement result.
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FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a method for a base station side in wireless communications according to another embodiment of the present disclosure, and the method includes: interchanging, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving cell used for radio resource management (S31), wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability includes at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and performing, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station (S32). - For example, the information of the cell specific dynamic offset is interchanged via an X2 communication interface in step S31, specifically, for example, the information of the cell specific dynamic offset can be interchanged by an information bit in Cell Information Item of an X2 message.
- It is to be noted that, the above methods can be performed separately or in combination with each other, and the detailed descriptions thereof are described in the first to the third embodiments and are not repeatedly described herein.
- The basic principle of the present invention has been described above in conjunction with particular embodiments. However, as can be appreciated by those ordinarily skilled in the art, all or any of the steps or components of the method and device according to the invention can be implemented in hardware, firmware, software or a combination thereof in any computing device (including a processor, a storage medium, etc.) or a network of computing devices by those ordinarily skilled in the art in light of the disclosure of the invention and making use of their general circuit designing knowledge or general programming skills.
- It can be understood by those skilled in the art that for example the information acquiring unit, the measuring unit, the cell reselection/measurement report unit, the instruction generating unit, the radio resource management unit and the like in the device described above may be implemented by one or more processors, and for example the capability flag transmitting unit, the communication unit and so on can be implemented by a circuit element such as an antenna, a filter, a modem, a codec and the like.
- Therefore, a device (1) a user equipment side in wireless communications is further provided according to the present disclosure. The device (1) includes: one or more processors configured to: acquire information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; measure reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell; and perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment.
- In some examples, the device (1) is a user equipment, and can further include: a transceiver configured to receive the information of the cell specific dynamic offset and transmit a random access request to the neighboring cell or transmit a measurement report to the serving cell.
- A device (2) for a base station side in wireless communications is further provided according to the present disclosure. The device (2) includes one or more processors configured to: generate instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the base station and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management, so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset, radio resource management on the user equipment.
- A device (3) for a base station side in wireless communications is further provided according to the present disclosure. The device (3) includes one or more processors configured to: interchange, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving cell used for radio resource management, wherein the to cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and perform, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station.
- In some examples, each of the devices (2) and the device (3) is a base station, and can further include a transceiver configured to transmit the information of the cell specific dynamic offset to the user equipment. Details related to the devices (1) to device (3) have been given in the above embodiments, which are not described repeatedly here anymore.
- In addition, an electronic apparatus (1) is further provided according to the present disclosure. The electronic apparatus (I) includes circuitry configured to: acquire information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the user equipment andlor a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the user equipment, which is used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capabil4 comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; measure reference signals of the serving cell and the neighboring cell; and perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset and measurement results on the serving cell and the neighboring cell, cell reselection or measurement reporting, according to a connection state of the user equipment,
- An electronic apparatus (2) is further provided according to the present disclosure.
- The electronic apparatus (2) includes circuitry configured to: generate instruction information containing a cell specific dynamic offset of a serving cell of the base station and/or a cell specific dynamic offset of a neighboring cell of the base station, which is used for radio resource management, so as to instruct a user equipment served by the base station, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a corresponding cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and perform, based on the cell specific dynamic offset, radio resource management on the user equipment.
- An electronic apparatus (3) is also provided according to the present disclosure. The electronic apparatus (3) includes circuitry configured to: interchange, with a neighboring base station, information of a cell specific dynamic offset of a respective serving cell used for radio resource management, wherein the cell specific dynamic offset is related to transmission capability of a respective cell, and the transmission capability comprises at least one of a multi-antenna transmission performance gain of the cell and a load condition of the cell; and perform, based on the information of the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the base station and the cell specific dynamic offset of the serving cell of the neighboring base station, radio resource management on a user equipment of the base station.
- Moreover, the present invention further discloses a program product in which machine-readable instruction codes are stored. The aforementioned methods according to the embodiments can be implemented when the instruction codes are read and executed by a machine.
- Accordingly, a memory medium for carrying the program product in which machine-readable instruction codes are stored is also covered in the present invention. The memory medium includes but is not limited to soft disc, optical disc, magnetic optical disc, memory card, memoty stick and the like.
- In the ewe where the present application is realized by software or firmware, a program constituting the software is installed in a computer with a dedicated hardware structure (e.g. the
general computer 800 shown inFIG. 18 ) from a storage medium or network, wherein the computer is capable of implementing various functions when installed with various programs. - In
FIG. 8 , a central processing unit (CPU) 1801 executes various processing according to a program stored in a read-only memory (ROM) 1802 or a program loaded to a random access memory (RAM) 1803 from amemory section 1808. The data needed for the various processing of theCPU 1801 may be stored in theRAM 1803 as needed. TheCPU 1801. theROM 1802 and theRAM 1803 are linked with each other via abus 1804. An input/output interface 1805 is also linked to thebus 1804. - The following components are linked to the input/output interface 1805: an input section 1806 (including keyboard, mouse and the like), an output section 1807 (including displays such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), a liquid crystal display (LCD), a loudspeaker and the like), a memory section 1808 (including hard disc and the like), and a communication section 1809 (including a network interface card such as a LAN card, modem and the like). The
communication section 1809 performs communication processing via a network such as the Internet. Adriver 1810 may also be linked to the input/output interface 1805. If needed, a removable medium 1811, for example, a magnetic disc, an optical disc, a magnetic optical disc, a semiconductor memory and the like, may be installed in thedriver 1810, so that the computer program read therefrom is installed in thememory section 1808 as appropriate. - In the case where the foregoing series of processing is achieved by software, programs forming the software are installed from a network such as the Internet or a memory medium such as the
removable medium 1811. - It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the memory medium is not limited to the removable medium 1811 shown in
FIG. 8 , which has program stored therein and is distributed separately from the apparatus so as to provide the programs to users. The removable medium 1811 may be, for example, a magnetic disc (including floppy disc (registered trademark)), a compact disc (including compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) and digital versatile disc (DVD), a magneto optical disc (including mini disc (MD)(registered trademark)), and a semiconductor memory. Alternatively, the memory medium may be the hard discs included inROM 1802 and thememory section 1808 in which programs are stored, and can be distributed to users along with the device in which they are incorporated. - The technology in the present disclosure can he applied to various products. For example, the
devices devices devices devices - For example, the
devices terminal device 300 may also be implemented as a terminal (also referred to as a machine type communication (MTC) terminal) that performs machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. Furthermore, thedevices - [I. Application Example Regarding Base Station]
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FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a first example of a schematic configuration of an eNB to which the technology of the present disclosure may be applied. AneNB 800 includes one ormore antennas 810 and abase station apparatus 820. Eachantenna 810 and thebase station apparatus 820 may be connected to each other via an RF cable. - Each of the
antennas 810 includes a single or multiple antenna elements (such as multiple antenna elements included in an MIMO antenna), and is used for thebase station apparatus 820 to transmit and receive radio signals. TheeNB 800 may include themultiple antennas 810, as illustrated inFIG. 9 . For example, themultiple antennas 810 may be compatible with multiple frequency bands used by theeNB 800. AlthoughFIG. 9 illustrates the example in which theeNB 800 includes themultiple antennas 810, theeNB 800 may also include asingle antenna 810. - The
base station apparatus 820 includes acontroller 821, amemory 822, anetwork interface 823, and a radio communication interface 825. - The
controller 821 may be, for example, a CPU or a DSP, and operates various functions of a higher layer of thebase station apparatus 820. For example, thecontroller 821 generates a data packet from data in signals processed by the radio communication interface 825, and transfers the generated packet via thenetwork interface 823. Thecontroller 821 may bundle data from multiple base band processors to generate the bundled packet, and transfer the generated bundled packet. Thecontroller 821 may have logical functions of performing control such as radio resource control, radio bearer control, mobility management, admission control, and scheduling. The control may be performed in corporation with an eNB or a core network node in the vicinity. Thememory 822 includes RAM and ROM, and stores a program that is executed by thecontroller 821, and various types of control data (such as a terminal list, transmission power data, and scheduling data). - The
network interface 823 is a communication interface for connecting thebase station apparatus 820 to acore network 824. Thecontroller 821 may communicate with a core network node or another eNB via thenetwork interface 823. In that case, theeNB 800, and the core network node or the other eNB may be connected to each other through a logical interface (such as an Si interface and an X2 interface). Thenetwork interface 823 may also be a wired communication interface or a radio communication interface for radio backhaul. If thenetwork interface 823 is a radio communication interface, thenetwork interface 823 may use a higher frequency hand for radio communication than a frequency band used by the radio communication interface 825. - The radio communication interface 825 supports any cellular communication scheme such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced, and provides radio connection to a terminal positioned in a cell of the
eNB 800 via theantenna 810. The radio communication interface 825 may typically include, for example, a baseband (BB) processor 826 and an RF circuit 827. The BB processor 826 may perform, for example, encoding/decoding, modulating/demodulating, and multiplexing/demultiplexing, and performs various types of signal processing of layers (such as LI, medium access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC), and a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP)). The BB processor 826 may have a part or all of the above-described logical functions instead of thecontroller 821. The BB processor 826 may be a memory that stores a communication control program, or a module that includes a processor and a related circuit configured to execute the program. Updating the program may allow the functions of the BB processor 826 to be changed. The module may be a card or a blade that is inserted into a slot of thebase station apparatus 820. Alternatively, the module may also be a chip that is mounted on the card or the blade. Meanwhile, the RF circuit 827 may include, for example, a mixer, a filter, and an amplifier, and transmits and receives radio signals via theantenna 810. - As shown in
FIG. 9 , the radio communication interface 825 may include the multiple BB processors 826. For example, the multiple BB processors 826 may be compatible with multiple frequency bands used by theeNB 800. The radio communication interface 825 may include the multiple RF circuits 827, as illustrated inFIG. 9 . For example, the multiple RF circuits 827 may be compatible with multiple antenna elements, AlthoughFIG. 9 illustrates the example in which the radio communication interface 825 includes the multiple BB processors 826 and the multiple RE circuits 827, the radio communication interface 825 may also include a single BB processor 826 or a single RF circuit 827. - in the
eNB 800 shown inFIG. 9 , the communication unit shown inFIG. 3 andFIG. 4 may be implemented by a wireless communication interface 825 and the wireless communication interface 855 andlor the wireless communication interface 863. At least part of the functions may be implemented by thecontroller 821. For example, thecontroller 821 may execute an operation to generate the instruction information containing the cell specific dynamic offset by executing the function of the instruction generating unit. Thecontroller 821 may execute an operation to perform wireless resource management based on the cell specific dynamic offset by executing the function of the radio resource management unit. - [II. Application Example Regarding Terminal Device]
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FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a schematic configuration of asmartphone 900 to which the technology of the present disclosure may be applied. Thesmartphone 900 includes aprocessor 901, amemory 902, astorage 903, anexternal connection interface 904, acamera 906, asensor 907, amicrophone 908, an input device 909, adisplay device 910, aspeaker 911, aradio communication interface 912, one or more antenna switches 915, one ormore antennas 916, abus 917, abattery 918, and an auxiliary controller 919. - The
processor 901 may be, for example, a CPU or a system on a chip (SoC), and controls functions of an application layer and another layer of thesmartphone 900. Thememory 902 includes RAM and ROM, and stores a program that is executed by theprocessor 901, and data Thestorage 903 may include a storage medium such as a semiconductor memory and a hard disk, Theexternal connection interface 904 is an interface for connecting an external device such as a memory card and a universal serial bus (USB) device to thesmartphone 900. - The
camera 906 includes an image sensor such as a charge coupled device (CCD) and a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), and generates a captured image. Thesensor 907 may include a group of sensors such as a measurement sensor, a gyro sensor, a geomagnetic sensor, and an acceleration sensor. Themicrophone 908 converts sounds that are input to thesmartphone 900 to audio signals. The input device 909 includes, for example, a touch sensor configured to detect touch onto a screen of thedisplay device 910, a keypad, a keyboard, a button, or a switch, and receives an operation or an information input from a user. Thedisplay device 910 includes a screen such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display, and displays an output image of thesmartphone 900. Thespeaker 911 converts audio signals that are output from thesmartphone 900 to sounds. - The
radio communication interface 912 supports any cellular communication scheme such as LET and LIE-Advanced, and performs radio communication. Theradio communication interface 912 may typically include, for example, aBB processor 913 and anRF circuit 914. TheBB processor 913 may perform, for example, encoding/decoding, modulating/demodulating, and multiplexing/demultiplexing, and performs various types of signal processing for radio communication. Meanwhile, theRF circuit 914 may include, for example, a mixer, a filter, and an amplifier, and transmits and receives radio signals via theantenna 916. Theradio communication interface 912 may be a one chip module having theBB processor 913 and theRF circuit 914 integrated thereon. Theradio communication interface 912 may include themultiple BB processors 913 and themultiple RF circuits 914, as illustrated inFIG. 10 . AlthoughFIG. 10 illustrates the example in which theradio communication interface 912 includes themultiple BB processors 913 and themultiple RF circuits 914, theradio communication interface 912 may also include asingle BB processor 913 or asingle RF circuit 914. - Furthermore, in addition to a cellular communication scheme, the
radio communication interface 912 may support another type of radio communication scheme such as a short-distance wireless communication scheme, a near field communication scheme, and a radio local area network (LAN) scheme. In that case, theradio communication interface 912 may include theBB processor 913 and theRF circuit 914 for each radio communication scheme. - Each of the antenna switches 915 switches connection destinations of the
antennas 916 among multiple circuits (such as circuits for different radio communication schemes) included in theradio communication interface 912. - Each of the
antennas 916 includes a single or multiple antenna elements (such as multiple antenna elements included in an MIMO antenna), and is used for theradio communication interface 912 to transmit and receive radio signals. Thesmartphone 900 may include themultiple antennas 916, as illustrated inFIG. 10 . AlthoughFIG. 10 illustrates the example in which thesmartphone 900 includes themultiple antennas 916, thesmartphone 900 may also include asingle antenna 916. - Furthermore, the
smartphone 900 may include theantenna 916 for each radio communication scheme. In that case, the antenna switches 915 may be omitted from the configuration of thesmartphone 900. - The
bus 917 connects theprocessor 901, thememory 902, thestorage 903, theexternal connection interface 904. thecamera 906, thesensor 907, themicrophone 908, the input device 909, thedisplay device 910, thespeaker 911, theradio communication interface 912, and the auxiliary controller 919 to each other. Thebattery 918 supplies power to blocks of thesmartphone 900 illustrated inFIG. 10 via feeder lines, which are partially shown as dashed lines in the figure. The auxiliary controller 919 operates a minimum necessary function of thesmartphone 900, for example, in a sleep mode. - In the
smart phone 900 shown inFIG. 10 , the information acquiring unit and the capability flag transmitting unit shown inFIG. 1 andFIG. 2 can be implemented by thewireless communication interface 912. At least part of the functions may be realized by theprocessor 901 and the auxiliary controller 919. For example, theprocessor 901 or the auxiliary controller 919 may execute an operation to measure a reference signal by executing a function of the measuring unit, and theprocessor 901 or the auxiliary controller 919 may execute an operation to perform cell reselection or measurement report based on the cell specific dynamic offset and the measurement result by executing the function of the cell reselection/measurement report unit. - To be further noted, in the apparatus, method and system according to the invention, the respective components or steps can be decomposed and/or recombined. These decompositions and/or recombinations shall be regarded as equivalent schemes of the invention. Moreover, the above series of processing steps can naturally be performed temporally in the sequence as described above but will not be limited thereto, and some of the steps can be performed in parallel or independently from each other.
- Finally, to be further noted, the term “include”, “comprise” or any variant thereof is intended to encompass nonexclusive inclusion so that a process, method, article or device including a series of elements includes not only those elements but also other elements which have been not listed definitely or an element(s) inherent to the process, method, article or device. Moreover, the expression “comprising a(n) . . . ” in which an element is defined will not preclude presence of an additional identical element(s) in a process, method, article or device comprising the defined element(s)” unless further defined.
- Although the embodiments of the invention have been described above in detail in connection with the drawings, it shall be appreciated that the embodiments as described above are merely illustrative but not limitative of the invention. Those skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations to the above embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the invention is defined merely by the appended claims and their equivalents.
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