Method and arrangement for CSI measurement
View Patent ↗There are proposed a base station and User Equipment, UE, for determining and applying separate Channel State Information, CSI, for flexible subframes in a wireless communication system applying time division duplex, TDD. The method in a UE comprises, for a flexible subframe, receiving ( 103 ) a signal from a base station, and determining ( 104 ) whether a reference signal for CSI measurement is comprised in the received signal. The method further comprises determining ( 106 ) CSI for the flexible sub-frame based on the reference signal when a reference signal for CSI measurement is comprised in the received signal, and reporting ( 107 ) the determined CSI to the base station.
1. A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) for determining separate channel state information (CSI) for a flexible subframe in a wireless communication system applying time division duplex (TDD), the method comprising:
for a flexible subframe:
receiving a signal from a base station within the flexible subframe;
determining whether a reference signal for CSI measurement is comprised in the received signal, wherein determining whether a reference signal for CSI measurement is comprised in the received signal comprises:
determining a power of the reference signal based on estimating a correlation between a known reference sequence and a sequence of the received signal, and
in response to a comparison of the determined power of the reference signal to a first threshold value, determining that the reference signal is comprised in the received signal;
determining CSI for the flexible subframe based on the reference signal when a reference signal for CSI measurement is comprised in the received signal, in response to determining that the UE is scheduled for downlink communication in the flexible subframe and that the UE is within an interval configured for determining CSI within flexible subframes; and
reporting the determined CSI to the base station;
wherein the determined CSI for the flexible subframe is reported to the base station in one or more uplink resources until at least one of the following is fulfilled:
a predefined time period has elapsed after the determining of the CSI for the flexible subframe, and
a more recent CSI for a subsequent flexible subframe is determined.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining of whether a reference signal for CSI measurement is comprised in the received signal further comprises comparing the estimate correlation with a second threshold value.
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the reporting is performed in one or more of:
an uplink resource configured to be reserved for reports of CSI related to flexible subframes; and
an uplink resource which is configured to be shared between reports of CSI related to flexible subframes and reports of CSI related to non-flexible subframes.
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the reference signal for CSI measurement is a Cell-specific Reference Signal (CRS) or a CSI-Reference Signal (CSI-RS).
5. User Equipment (UE) for determining separate channel state information, CSI, for a flexible subframe in a wireless communication system applying time division duplex (TDD), the UE comprising:
memory storing software; and
processing circuitry configured to execute the software to:
receive a signal from a base station in a flexible subframe;
determine whether a reference signal for CSI measurement is comprised in the received signal; and
determine CSI for the flexible subframe based on the reference signal when a reference signal for CSI measurement is comprised in the received signal, in response to determining that the UE is scheduled for downlink communication in the flexible subframe and that the UE is within an interval configured for determining CSI within flexible subframes; and
report the determined CSI to the base station;
wherein in determining whether a reference signal for CSI measurement is comprised in the received signal, the processing circuitry is further configured to execute the software to:
determine a power of the reference signal based on estimating a correlation between a known reference sequence and a sequence of the received signal, and
in response to a comparison of the determined power of the reference signal to a first threshold value, determine that the reference signal is comprised in the received signal; and
wherein the determined CSI for the flexible subframe is reported to the base station in one or more therefore configured uplink resources until at least one of the following is fulfilled:
a predefined time period has elapsed after the determining of the CSI for the flexible subframe, and
a more recent CSI for a subsequent flexible subframe is determined.
6. The User Equipment according to claim 5 , wherein the determining of whether a reference signal for CSI measurement is comprised in the received signal further comprises comparing the estimated correlation with a second threshold value.
7. The User Equipment according to claim 5 , wherein the determining of CSI is performed during therefore configured intervals.
8. The User Equipment according to claim 5 , wherein the reporting is performed in one or more of:
an uplink resource configured to be reserved for reports of CSI related to flexible subframes; and
an uplink resource which is configured to be shared between reports of CSI related to flexible subframes and reports of CSI related to non-flexible subframes.
9. The User Equipment according to claim 5 , wherein the reference signal for CSI measurement is a Cell-specific Reference Signal (CRS) or a CSI-Reference Signal (CSI-RS).