IP Library Granted Patent US 9,326,172
Granted Patent B2
US 9,326,172 · App. 14/246,868 · Granted Apr 26, 2016

Uplink transmission power determining method and user equipment

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Patent No.
US 9,326,172
App. No.
14/246,868
Granted
Apr 26, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink transmission power determining method and a user equipment. A user equipment determines a transmission situation of at least one of: a PUCCH, a PUSCH, and an SRS on another cell except a secondary cell in a subframe corresponding to a preamble to be transmitted on the secondary cell, so that the user equipment can determine an uplink transmission power of the user equipment according to the determined transmission situation, thereby solving a problem that it is not provided in the prior art that how a user equipment determines an uplink transmission power of the user equipment when random access is executed through a secondary cell.

Claims (25)

1. A method to determine uplink transmission power, comprising:

determining, by a user equipment, a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) needs to be transmitted on a first cell rather than a secondary cell in a second subframe rather than a first subframe among subframes corresponding to a random access preamble to be transmitted on the secondary cell;

determining, by the user equipment, a transmission power of the random access preamble according to a first formula

P PRACH ( i )=min{ P CMAX,c ,PREAMBLE_RECEIVED_TARGET_POWER+ PL c };

and

determining, by the user equipment, a transmission power of the PUCCH according to a second formula

P PUCCH ( i )=min{ P PUCCH _ 0 ,(P CMAX ( i )− P PRACH ( i ))}

wherein i represents a subframe; P PRACH (i) represents the transmission power of the random access preamble; P CMAX (i) represents a maximum allowable power of the secondary cell; PREAMBLE_RECEIVED_TARGET_POWER represents a target received power of the random access preamble; and PL c represents a target path loss of the secondary cell;

wherein P PUCCH (i) represents the transmission power of the PUCCH;

P PUCCH _ 0 represents a transmission power of the PUCCH obtained by the user equipment by performing uplink power control;

transmitting the random access preamble in the first subframe on the secondary cell to achieve uplink synchronization in the secondary cell using the determined transmission power P PRACH (i) and

transmitting the PUCCH on the first cell and in the second subframe using the determined transmission power P PUCCH (i).

2. A user equipment, comprising:

a processor, configured to determine a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) needs to be transmitted on a first cell rather than a secondary cell in a second subframe rather than a first subframe among subframes corresponding to a random access preamble to be transmitted on the secondary cell; and

a memory coupled to the processor;

wherein the processor is further configured to determine a transmission power of the random access preamble according to a first formula

P PRACH ( i )=min{ P CMAX,c ,PREAMBLE_RECEIVED_TARGET_POWER+PL c };

and

determine a transmission power of the PUCCH according to a second formula

P PUCCH ( i )=min{ P PUCCH _ 0 ,( P CMAX ( i )− P PRACH ( i ))}

wherein i represents a subframe; P PRACH (i) represents the transmission power of the random access preamble; P CMAX (i) represents a maximum allowable power of the secondary cell; PREAMBLE_RECEIVED_TARGET_POWER represents a target received power of the random access preamble; and PL c , represents a target path loss of the secondary cell;

wherein P PUCCH (i) represents the transmission power of the PUCCH;

P PUCCH _ 0 represents a transmission power of the PUCCH obtained by the user equipment by performing uplink power control;

transmitting the random access preamble in the first subframe on the secondary cell to achieve uplink synchronization in the secondary cell using the determined transmission power P PRACH (i) and

transmitting the PUCCH on the first cell and in the second subframe using the determined transmission power P PUCCH (i).

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 13, 2021
From: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
To: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 055919/0344 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 7, 2014
From: LI, YUANJIE
To: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 032619/0803 →