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Granted Patent B2
US 9,801,141 · App. 15/352,369 · Granted Oct 24, 2017

Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink signals in wireless communication system

Inventors: Suckchel Yang (Seoul, KR); Joonkui Ahn (Seoul, KR); Dongyoun Seo (Seoul, KR); Yunjung Yi (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04W52/146H04L1/1861H04L5/001H04L5/0055H04L5/14H04L27/2607H04W52/281H04W52/325H04W52/34H04W52/367H04W52/58H04W72/0406H04W72/0413H04W72/0453H04W72/0446H04W88/02
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Patent No.
US 9,801,141
App. No.
15/352,369
Granted
Oct 24, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for a terminal controlling uplink power in a carrier aggregation-based wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: configuring a first cell and a second cell; transmitting a first PUCCH signal from subframe #n in the first cell; and transmitting a second PUCCH signal from subframe #n in the second cell, wherein when the sum of transmit power of the first PUCCH signal and transmit power of the second PUCCHJ signal exceeds a predetermined maximum transmit power configured to the terminal, the transmit power of the PUCCH signal having a lower priority from among the first UCCH signal and the second PUCCH signal is reduced or the transmission is dropped.

Claims (27)

1. A method for a user equipment (UE) to manage a transmission power for control information in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

determining a transmission power of a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) including first uplink control information (UCI) to be transmitted via a cell managed by a first base station (BS);

determining a transmission power of a second PUCCH including second UCI to be transmitted via a cell managed by a second BS, wherein the second BS is different from the first BS, and a radio resource control (RRC) function associated with the UE is managed and performed by the first BS only; and

when the UE reaches a maximum power limit due to overlap of the first PUCCH and the second PUCCH, reducing the transmission power of at least the first PUCCH or the second PUCCH as follows:

if the first UCI and the second UCI have different protection priorities, primarily reducing the transmission power of one of the first and second PUCCHs including UCI of a lower protection priority, and

if the first UCI and the second UCI have a same protection priority, primarily reducing the transmission power of the second PUCCH.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE has communication connectivity both with the first and second BSs.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE reaches the maximum power limit due to overlap of the first PUCCH and the second PUCCH, at least the first PUCCH or the second PUCCH are transmitted using reduced transmission power(s).

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein if the first UCI and the second UCI have different protection priorities, the transmission power of one of the first and second PUCCHs including UCI of the lower protection priority is first reduced, and

if the first UCI and the second UCI have the same protection priority, the transmission power of the second PUCCH for the second cell group is first reduced.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the protection priorities of UCI are defined as: hybrid ARQ acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK)>periodic channel status information (p-CSI).

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the protection priorities of UCI are defined as: hybrid ARQ acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK)=scheduling request (SR)>periodic channel status information (p-CSI).

7. A user equipment (UE) configured to manage a transmission power for control information in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to:

determine a transmission power of a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) including first uplink control information (UCI) to be transmitted via a cell managed by a first base station (BS);

determine a transmission power of a second PUCCH including second UCI to be transmitted via a cell managed by a second BS, wherein the second BS is different from the first BS, and a radio resource control (RRC) function associated with the UE is managed and performed by the first BS only; and

when the UE reaches a maximum power limit due to overlap of the first PUCCH and the second PUCCH, reducing the transmission power of at least the first PUCCH or the second PUCCH as follows:

if the first UCI and the second UCI have different protection priorities, primarily reducing the transmission power of one of the first and second PUCCHs including UCI of a lower protection priority, and

if the first UCI and the second UCI have a same protection priority, primarily reducing the transmission power of the second PUCCH.

8. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the UE has communication connectivity both with the first and second BSs.

9. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the UE reaches the maximum power limit due to overlap of the first PUCCH and the second PUCCH, at least the first PUCCH or the second PUCCH are transmitted using reduced transmission power(s).

10. The UE of claim 7 , wherein if the first UCI and the second UCI have different protection priorities, the transmission power of one of the first and second PUCCHs including UCI of the lower protection priority is first reduced, and

if the first UCI and the second UCI have the same protection priority, the transmission power of the second PUCCH for the second cell group is first reduced.

11. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the protection priorities of UCI are defined as: hybrid ARQ acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK)>periodic channel status information (p-CSI).

12. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the protection priorities of UCI are defined as: hybrid ARQ acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK)=scheduling request (SR)>periodic channel status information (p-CSI).

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 16, 2016
From: YANG, SUCKCHEL; AHN, JOONKUI; SEO, DONGYOUN; YI, YUNJUNG
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Continuity (12)
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