IP Library Granted Patent US 12,309,714
Granted Patent B2
US 12,309,714 · App. 17/628,407 · Granted May 20, 2025

Terminal, system, and communication method for transmission power control for a sidelink reference signal

Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Yanru Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W52/325H04W52/10H04W52/242H04W72/1263H04W92/18
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Patent No.
US 12,309,714
App. No.
17/628,407
Granted
May 20, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal includes a control unit that sets, when data transmitted on a sidelink shared channel is frequency division multiplexed with a sidelink reference signal in a symbol to which the sidelink shared channel is mapped, a first value of α transmit power for transmitting the reference signal to a same value as or a different value from a second value of α transmit power for transmitting the data; and a transmitting unit that transmits the reference signal and the data, wherein the transmitting unit applies the first value of the transmit power to the reference signal and applies the second value of the transmit power to the data.

Claims (20)

1. A terminal comprising:

a processor that adjusts, in a shared channel in a device-to-device communication, transmission power per resource element for transmission data and transmission power per resource element for at least one of a demodulation reference signal associated with the shared channel in the device-to-device communication or a phase tracking reference signal associated with the shared channel in the device-to-device communication, so that the transmission power per resource element for the transmission data and at least one of the transmission power per resource element for the demodulation reference signal or the transmission power per resource element for the phase tracking reference signal are a same value; and

a transmitter that transmits the transmission data and the at least one of the demodulation reference signal or the phase tracking reference signal by using the transmission power adjusted by the processor,

wherein total transmission power of transmission power per resource element for the shared channel in the device-to-device communication includes at least one of the transmission power for the transmission data, the transmission power for the demodulation reference signal, or the transmission power for the phase tracking reference signal, and

wherein the processor adjusts the transmission power for the transmission data, the transmission power for the demodulation reference signal, and the transmission power for the phase tracking reference signal, so that transmission power per resource element for the transmission data summed over all transmit ports used for the transmissions and at least one of transmission power per resource element for the demodulation reference signal summed over all the transmit ports or transmission power per resource element for the phase tracking reference signal summed over all the transmit ports are a same value.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the processor maps a sidelink control signal and the demodulation reference signal onto a radio resource, so that the sidelink control information does not overlap the demodulation reference signal in a time domain.

3. A system comprising:

a first terminal; and

a second terminal,

wherein the first terminal includes:

a processor that adjusts, in a shared channel in a device to-device communication, transmission power per resource element for transmission data and transmission power per resource element for at least one of a demodulation reference signal associated with the shared channel in the device-to-device communication or a phase tracking reference signal associated with the shared channel in the device-to-device communication, so that the transmission power per resource element for the transmission data and at least one of the transmission power per resource element for the demodulation reference signal or the transmission power per resource element for the phase tracking reference signal are a same value, and

a transmitter that transmits the transmission data and the at least one of the demodulation reference signal or the phase tracking reference signal by using the transmission power adjusted by the processor,

wherein total transmission power of transmission power per resource element for the shared channel in the device-to-device communication includes at least one of the transmission power for the transmission data, the transmission power for the demodulation reference signal, or the transmission power for the phase tracking reference signal, and

wherein the processor adjusts the transmission power for the transmission data, the transmission power for the demodulation reference signal, and the transmission power for the phase tracking reference signal, so that transmission power per resource element for the transmission data summed over all transmit ports used for the transmissions and at least one of transmission power per resource element for the demodulation reference signal summed over all the transmit ports or transmission power per resource element for the phase tracking reference signal summed over all the transmit ports are a same value, and

wherein the second terminal includes a receiver that receives the transmission data and the at least one of the demodulation reference signal or the phase tracking reference signal in the shared channel in the device-to-device communication transmitted by the first terminal.

4. A communication method executed by a terminal, the method comprising:

adjusting, in a shared channel in a device-to-device communication, transmission power per resource element for transmission data and transmission power per resource element for at least one of a demodulation reference signal associated with the shared channel in the device-to-device communication or a phase tracking reference signal associated with the shared channel in the device-to-device communication, so that the transmission power per resource element for the transmission data and at least one of the transmission power per resource element for the demodulation reference signal or the transmission power per resource element for the phase tracking reference signal are a same value; and

transmitting the transmission data and the at least one of the demodulation reference signal or the phase tracking reference signal by using the transmission power adjusted by the adjusting,

wherein total transmission power of transmission power per resource element for the shared channel in the device-to-device communication includes at least one of the transmission power for the transmission data, the transmission power for the demodulation reference signal, or the transmission power for the phase tracking reference signal, and

wherein the terminal adjusts the transmission power for the transmission data, the transmission power for the demodulation reference signal, and the transmission power for the phase tracking reference signal, so that transmission power per resource element for the transmission data summed over all transmit ports used for the transmissions and at least one of transmission power per resource element for the demodulation reference signal summed over all the transmit ports, for or transmission power per resource element for the phase tracking reference signal summed over all the transmit ports are a same value.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 3, 2022
From: YOSHIOKA, SHOHEI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; WANG, YANRU
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 059159/0918 →
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220417867A1 · Dec 29, 2022
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