IP Library Granted Patent US 11,317,355
Granted Patent B2
US 11,317,355 · App. 16/872,975 · Granted Apr 26, 2022

System and method for wireless power control

Inventors: Jialing Liu (Palatine, IL); Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, IL); Qian Cheng (Naperville, IL)
Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
H04W52/146H04W52/08H04W52/10H04W52/241H04W52/242H04W52/245H04W72/042H04W52/50H04W72/0473
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Patent No.
US 11,317,355
App. No.
16/872,975
Granted
Apr 26, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving at least one of a configuration of a first group of one or more downlink (DL) signals, a configuration of a second group of one or more open-loop power control (PC) parameters, a configuration of a third group of one or more closed-loop PC parameters, or a configuration of a fourth group of one or more loop states, receiving a configuration of a PC setting, wherein the PC setting is associated with at least one of a subset of the first group, a subset of the second group, a subset of the third group, or a subset of the fourth group, selecting a transmit power level in accordance with the PC setting and a pathloss, wherein the pathloss is determined in accordance with a DL reference signal (SS) and a synchronization signal (SS).

Claims (39)

1. A method for closed-loop power control (PC), the method comprising:

receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a PC configuration associated with a subset of closed-loop PC parameters of the UE and a subset of downlink (DL) signals received by the UE, wherein the PC configuration is used for power control of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission;

determining, by the UE, a transmit power level for the PUSCH transmission in accordance with the subset of closed-loop PC parameters and a pathloss estimate calculated based on the subset of DL signals; and

transmitting, by the UE, the PUSCH transmission at the transmit power level.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the pathloss estimate is calculated in accordance with a difference between DL transmit power level(s) associated with the subset of DL signals and reference signal received power (RSRP) level(s) associated with the subset of DL signals.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

receiving, by the UE, indication(s) of the DL transmit power level(s) associated with the subset of DL signals.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the DL transmit power level(s) is received via system information block (SIB) signal(s).

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the subset of DL signals include reference signal(s).

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the subset of DL signals excludes channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs).

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the subset of DL signals include a synchronization signal(s) and at least one physical broadcast channel (PBCH) demodulation reference signal (DMRS).

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the subset of DL signals include channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs).

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the subset of DL signals excludes synchronization signal(s).

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the subset of closed-loop PC parameters is associated with one transmit PC (TPC) command configuration from a set of TPC command configurations of the UE via an index, each TPC command configuration from the set of TPC command configurations is associated with a different index.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein at least one TPC command configuration from the set of TPC command configurations is excluded from the subset of closed-loop PC parameters.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the subset of closed-loop PC parameters include one PC adjustment state configuration from a set of PC adjustment state configurations of the UE via an index, each PC adjustment state configuration from the set of PC adjustment state configurations is associated with a different index.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein at least one PC adjustment state configuration from the set of PC adjustment state configurations is excluded from the subset of closed-loop PC parameters.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PC configuration is associated with a unique identifier.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PC configuration from a set of PC configurations is indicated to the UE via a DCI.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the subset of closed-loop PC parameters consists of a single closed-loop PC parameter such that the PC configuration associates the single closed-loop PC parameter with the subset of DL signals.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the subset of DL signals consists of a single DL reference signal such that the PC configuration associates the subset of closed-loop PC parameters with a single DL reference signal.

18. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving DL signals from a base station, the subset of DL signals consisting of one or more of the DL signals received from the base station.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the subset of DL signals excludes at least one of the DL signals received from the base station.

20. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming including instructions to:

receive a PC configuration associated with a subset of closed-loop PC parameters of the UE and a subset of downlink (DL) signals received by the UE, wherein the PC configuration is used for power control of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission;

determine a transmit power level for the PUSCH transmission in accordance with the subset of closed-loop PC parameters and a pathloss estimate calculated based on the subset of DL signals; and

transmit the PUSCH transmission at the transmit power level.

21. The UE of claim 20 , wherein the subset of closed-loop PC parameters is associated with one transmit PC (TPC) command configuration from a set of TPC command configurations of the UE via an index, each TPC command configuration from the set of TPC command configurations is associated with a different index.

22. The UE of claim 21 , wherein at least one TPC command configuration from the set of TPC command configurations is excluded from the subset of closed-loop PC parameters.

23. The UE of claim 20 , wherein the subset of closed-loop PC parameters include one PC adjustment state configuration from a set of PC adjustment state configurations of the UE via an index, each PC adjustment state configuration from the set of PC adjustment state configurations is associated with a different index.

24. The UE of claim 23 , wherein at least one PC adjustment state configuration from the set of PC adjustment state configurations is excluded from the subset of closed-loop PC parameters.

25. The UE of claim 20 , wherein the subset of closed-loop PC parameters consists of a single closed-loop PC parameter such that the PC configuration associates the single closed-loop PC parameter with the subset of DL signals.

26. The UE of claim 20 , wherein the subset of DL signals consists of a single DL reference signal such that the PC configuration associates the subset of closed-loop PC parameters with a single DL reference signal.

27. A method for closed-loop power control (PC), the method comprising:

transmitting, by a base station to a user equipment (UE), a PC configuration associated with a subset of closed-loop PC parameters of the UE and a subset of downlink (DL) signals received by the UE, wherein the PC configuration is used for power control of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission; and

receiving, by the base station, the PUSCH transmission from the UE, the PUSCH in accordance with the PC configuration, a transmit power level of the PUSCH transmission in accordance with the subset of closed-loop PC parameters based on a pathloss estimate calculated from the subset of DL signals.

Continuity (5)
Continuation 16538331 · Aug 12, 2019
Continuation 15977872 · May 11, 2018
Provisional Application 62558190 · Sep 13, 2017
Provisional Application 62506435 · May 15, 2017
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