IP Library Granted Patent US 9,713,105
Granted Patent B2
US 9,713,105 · App. 14/664,297 · Granted Jul 18, 2017

Method of efficiently reporting user equipment transmission power and apparatus thereof

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Patent No.
US 9,713,105
App. No.
14/664,297
Granted
Jul 18, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and an apparatus for efficiently transmitting or reporting a Power Headroom Report (PHR) of a User Equipment (UE) are provided. The method of transmitting the PHR of the UE in a mobile communication system includes configuring an extended PHR including an indicator corresponding to a variation factor of a maximum transmission power of the UE, and transmitting the extended PHR from the UE to a Base Station (BS). The BS may be notified of a maximum transmission power of the UE and a variation factor corresponding to the maximum transmission power in order to enable efficient scheduling.

Claims (21)

1. A method by a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting configuration information including a prohibit power headroom report (PHR) timer for the PHR and information indicating whether a PHR format for a user equipment (UE) is an extended PHR to the UE; and

receiving the PHR corresponding to the PHR format from the UE,

wherein the received PHR is the extended PHR including a maximum transmission power determined in a range between a upper bound of the maximum transmission power and a lower bound of the maximum transmission power, and an indicator indicating whether the UE applies a power management-maximum power reduction (P-MPR), if the PHR format is the extended PHR,

wherein the received PHR is a normal PHR without the indicator if the PHR format is not the extended PHR,

wherein the PHR is triggered at the UE, when the prohibit PHR timer is expired, and

wherein the indicator is set to 1 if the determined maximum transmission power is different from a maximum transmission power not applying a power back-off due to the power management.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the configuration information is transmitted using a media access control-mainconfig information element (MAC-MainConfig IE).

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the maximum transmission power is determined by the UE according to a first parameter provided from the base station and a second parameter previously set by the UE.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indicator is set to 0 if the maximum transmission power is not different from a maximum transmission power not applying the power back-off due to the power management.

5. A base station in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising:

a controller configured to:

transmit configuration information including a prohibit power headroom report (PHR) timer for the PHR and information indicating whether a PHR format for a user equipment (UE) is an extended PHR to the UE, and

receive the PHR corresponding to the PHR format from the UE,

wherein the received PHR is the extended PHR includes a maximum transmission power determined in a range between a upper bound of the maximum transmission power and a lower bound of the maximum transmission power, and an indicator indicating whether the UE applies a power management-maximum power reduction (P-MPR), if the PHR format is the extended PHR,

wherein the received PHR is a normal PHR without the indicator if the PHR format is not the extended PHR

wherein the PHR is triggered at the UE, when the prohibit PHR timer is expired, and

wherein the indicator is set to 1 if the maximum transmission power is different from a maximum transmission power not applying a power back-off due to the power management.

6. The base station of claim 5 , wherein the configuration information is transmitted using a media access control-mainconfig information element (MAC-MainConfig IE).

7. The base station of claim 5 , wherein the maximum transmission power is determined by the UE according to a first parameter provided from the base station and a second parameter previously set by the UE.

8. The base station of claim 5 , wherein the indicator is set to 0 if the maximum transmission power is not different from a maximum transmission power not applying the power back-off due to the power management.