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Patent US9484989 - System and method for autonomous combining - Google Patents
A user agent capable of carrying out autonomous combining. The user agent can be implemented as a processor configured to promote receiving a first signal from an access node and a second signal from a relay node. The processor may be further configured to combine the first and second signals....http://www.google.ca/patents/US9484989?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US9484989 - System and method for autonomous combining
Publication number US9484989 B2
Application number US 12/916,214
Also published as CA2747349A1, CA2747349C, CN102318219A, CN106230488A, EP2377251A1, US8040904, US20100150177, US20110044234, US20110310897, US20110310912, WO2010077421A1
Publication number 12916214, 916214, US 9484989 B2, US 9484989B2, US-B2-9484989, US9484989 B2, US9484989B2
Inventors Zhijun Cai, James Earl Womack, Yi Yu
Patent Citations (236), Non-Patent Citations (217), Classifications (3), Legal Events (3)
US 9484989 B2
A user agent capable of carrying out autonomous combining. The user agent can be implemented as a processor configured to promote receiving a first signal from an access node and a second signal from a relay node. The processor may be further configured to combine the first and second signals.
a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the storage device such that when executed, cause the transmitter to:
transmit an indication corresponding to one of a plurality of relay nodes to a user agent;
transmit a first transmission to the user agent, the first transmission containing a first data; and
transmit an instruction to the user agent to instruct the user agent to enable combining, wherein the user agents separately demodulates portions of the first transmission and a second transmission containing a second data from the one of a plurality of relay nodes and combines portions of the first and second data.
2. The access node of claim 1, wherein the indication comprises an address including a first set of bits and a second set of bits, wherein the first set of bits identifies the corresponding relay node and wherein the second set of bits identifies an address corresponding to the user agent.
3. The access node of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to execute instructions stored on the storage device such that when executed, cause the transmitter to:
transmit a signal to a particular user agent to instruct the particular user agent to disable autonomous combining.
4. The access node of claim 3, wherein the processor is further configured to execute instructions stored on the storage device such that when executed, cause the transmitter to:
transmit another signal to the particular user agent to instruct the particular user agent to re-enable autonomous combining to improve data reception from the access node.
5. The access node of claim 1, wherein the access node is configured to:
add a field to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal, wherein the field includes an index to identify a medium access control packet data unit (MAC PDU) at the user agent.
6. A method implemented in an access node, the method comprising:
transmitting an indication corresponding to one of a plurality of relay nodes to a user agent;
transmitting a first transmission to the user agent, the first transmission containing a first data; and
transmitting an instruction to the user agent to instruct the user agent to enable combining, wherein the user agents separately demodulates portions of the first transmission and a second transmission containing a second data from the one of a plurality of relay nodes and combines portions of the first and second data.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein the indication comprises an address including a first set of bits and a second set of bits, wherein the first set of bits identifies the corresponding relay node and wherein the second set of bits identifies a corresponding user agent within a donor cell of the corresponding relay node.
transmitting a signal to a particular user agent to instruct the particular user agent to disable autonomous combining.
transmitting another signal to the particular user agent to instruct the particular user agent to re-enable autonomous combining to improve data reception from the access node.
adding a field to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal, wherein the field includes an index to identify a medium access control packet data unit (MAC PDU) at the user agent.
11. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to implement a method in an access node, the method comprising:
12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the indication comprises an address including a first set of bits and a second set of bits, wherein the first set of bits identifies the corresponding relay node and wherein the second set of bits identifies a corresponding user agent within a donor cell of the corresponding relay node.
13. The computer readable medium of claim 11, the method further comprising:
15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, the method further comprising:
This is a divisional application of the prior filed and co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/337,214 filed Dec. 17, 2008 by Zhijun Cal, et al. and entitled “System And Method For Autonomous Combining” which is incorporated herein by reference as if reproduced in its entirety.
As telecommunications technology has evolved, more advanced network access equipment has been introduced that can provide services that were not possible previously. This network access equipment might include systems and devices that are improvements of the equivalent equipment in a traditional wireless telecommunications system. Such advanced or next generation equipment may be included in evolving wireless communications standards, such as long-term evolution (LTE). For example, an LTE system might include an enhanced node B (eNB), a wireless access point, or a similar component rather than a traditional base station. As used herein, the term “access node” will refer to any component of the wireless network, such as a traditional base station, a wireless access point, or an LTE eNB, that creates a geographical area of reception and transmission coverage allowing a UA or a relay node to access other components in a telecommunications system. In this document, the term “access node” and “access node” may be used interchangeably, but it is understood that an access node may comprise a plurality of hardware and software.
The term “access node” does not refer to a “relay node,” which is a component in a wireless network that is configured to extend or enhance the coverage created by an access node or another relay node. The access node and relay node are both radio components that may be present in a wireless communications network, and the terms “component” and “network node” may refer to an access node or relay node. It is understood that a component might operate as an access node or a relay node depending on its configuration and placement. However, a component is called a “relay node” only if it requires the wireless coverage of an access node to access other components in a wireless communications system. Additionally, two or more relay nodes may used serially to extend or enhance coverage created by an access node.
Relay nodes, generally, can be divided into three types: layer one relay nodes, layer two relay nodes, and layer three relay nodes. A layer one relay node is essentially a repeater that can retransmit a transmission without any modification other than amplification and slight delay. A layer two relay node can decode a transmission that it receives, re-encode the result of the decoding, and then transmit the re-encoded data. A layer three relay node can have full radio resource control capabilities and can thus function similarly to an access node. The radio resource control protocols used by a relay node may be the same as those used by an access node, and the relay node may have a unique cell identity typically used by an access node. For the purpose of this disclosure, a relay node is distinguished from an access node by the fact that it requires the presence of at least one access node (and the cell associated with that access node) to access other components in a telecommunications system. The illustrative embodiments are primarily concerned with layer two or layer three relay nodes. Therefore, as used herein, the term “relay node” will not refer to layer one relay nodes, unless specifically stated otherwise.
For example, the access node 202 sends a transport block to the relay node 200 in subframe “N.” Both the UA 204 and the relay node 200 receive the subframe. No non-acknowledgement/acknowledgement (NACK/ACK) signal may be transmitted from the UA 204 to the access node 202; though a NACK/ACK signal is transmitted from the relay node 200 to the access node 202.
The UA 204 will attempt to decode the transmission from the access node 202. Decoding requires that the UA 204 monitor the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of the relay link. Optionally, the UA 204 can perform error correction. The relay node 200 schedules the received transport block for transmission to the UA 204 on subframe “N”+“M,” wherein “M” is a relatively small number. The relay node 200 schedules the received transport block on the access link PDCCH in the same manner as the access node 202 did on the relay link. The UA may then wait for “M” subframes, more or less, to receive the transmission from the relay node 200. At that point, the UA may demodulate the separate signals and then implement autonomous combining of the resulting data, as described above.
In yet another embodiment, a new field may be added over the PDCCH signaling to identify the received MAC PDU index for appropriate autonomous combining. This new field on the PDCCH applies to both the relay link and the access link. The new field is used to identify the signals containing substantially the same data transmitted over the relay link or access link. For example, a 3 bit field is added to the PDCCH. When the access node 202 sends the first MAC PDU over the relay link to a relay node 200 using the UA's ID, this field is set to “000”. Once the relay node forwards the same MAC PDU to the UA 204, the same value “000” is used in this field. Therefore, the UA 204 can use this field to identify the signal that potentially can be combined. The retransmissions of the same MAC PDU will have the same value “000,” so the UA 204 can identify the potential signal for combining.
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