IP Library Granted Patent US 9,936,411
Granted Patent B2
US 9,936,411 · App. 14/760,850 · Granted Apr 3, 2018

Method for radio resource measurement in wireless access system supporting carrier aggregation, and apparatus supporting same

Inventors: Bonghoe Kim (Seoul, KR); Byounghoon Kim (Seoul, KR); Yunjung Yi (Seoul, KR); Joonkui Ahn (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
H04W24/10H04L5/0048H04L5/0053H04W56/001
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Patent No.
US 9,936,411
App. No.
14/760,850
Granted
Apr 3, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to methods for making radio resource measurements in synchronized cells when quasi co-location is applied, and to apparatuses supporting same. A method for a terminal for making radio resource measurements (RRM) in a wireless access system according to one embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: receiving an upper level signal comprising a reference signal for channel state information (CSI-RS) of a first cell, and quasi co-location (QCL) information for a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) and/or CSI-RS of a second cell; receiving the CRS and/or CSI-RS of the second cell on the basis of the QCL information; and measuring a first RRM for the first cell by means of the CRS and/or the CSI-RS of the second cell.

Claims (40)

1. A method for performing a Radio Resource Measurement (RRM) by a User Equipment (UE) in a radio access system, the method comprising:

receiving a higher layer signal including information about Quasi Co-Location (QCL) between a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) of a first cell and at least one of a Cell-specific Reference Signal (CRS) and a CSI-RS of a second cell;

receiving the at least one of the CRS and the CSI-RS of the second cell based on the information about QCL;

selecting the at least one of the CRS and the CSI-RS of the second cell indicated by the information about QCL; and

performing a first RRM for the first cell using the selected at least one of the CRS and the CSI-RS of the second cell.

2. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein synchronization for the first cell is maintained using a synchronization signal transmitted in the second cell.

3. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising

performing a second RRM for the first cell using the CSI-RS of the first cell.

4. The method according to claim 3 ,

wherein the first RRM includes one or more of a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurement and a Path Loss (PL) measurement, and

the second RRM includes one or more of a Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) and a PL measurement.

5. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first cell is a synchronized cell in which a synchronization signal is not transmitted,

the second cell is a synchronization reference cell in which the synchronization signal is transmitted, and

the UE does not receive a downlink signal from the first cell while the UE receives the CRS and/or the CSI-RS from the second cell.

6. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first cell is a New Carrier Type (NCT) to which one or more of a synchronization signal, a CRS, a downlink broadcast channel, and a downlink control channel are not allocated, and

the second cell is a legacy serving cell.

7. A User Equipment (UE) for performing a Radio Resource Measurement (RRM) in a radio access system, the UE comprising:

a transmitter;

a receiver; and

a processor supporting the RRM, wherein the processor:

receives a higher layer signal including information about Quasi Co-Location (QCL) between a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) of a first cell and at least one of a Cell-specific Reference Signal (CRS) and a CSI-RS of a second cell through the receiver;

receives the at least one of the CRS and the CSI-RS of the second cell based on the information about QCL through the receiver;

selects the at least one of the CRS and the CSI-RS of the second cell indicated by the information about QCL; and

performs a first RRM for the first cell using the selected at least one of the CRS and the CSI-RS of the second cell.

8. The UE according to claim 7 ,

wherein synchronization for the first cell is maintained using a synchronization signal transmitted in the second cell.

9. The UE according to claim 7 , wherein the processor further performs a second RRM for the first cell using the CSI-RS of the first cell.

10. The UE according to claim 9 ,

wherein the first RRM includes one or more of a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurement and a Path Loss (PL) measurement, and

the second RRM includes one or more of a Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) and a PL measurement.

11. The UE according to claim 7 ,

wherein the first cell is a synchronized cell in which a synchronization signal is not transmitted,

the second cell is a synchronization reference cell in which the synchronization signal is transmitted, and

the UE does not receive a downlink signal from the first cell while the UE receives the CRS and/or the CSI-RS from the second cell.

12. The UE according to claim 7 ,

wherein the first cell is a New Carrier Type (NCT) to which one or more of a synchronization signal, a CRS, a downlink broadcast channel, and a downlink control channel are not allocated, and

the second cell is a legacy serving cell.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 14, 2015
From: KIM, BONGHOE; KIM, BYOUNGHOON; YI, YUNJUNG; AHN, JOONKUI
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 036080/0831 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61756474 · Jan 25, 2013
Related Publication 20150358848A1 · Dec 10, 2015