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Granted Patent B2
US 10,404,348 · App. 15/556,966 · Granted Sep 3, 2019

Method for reporting channel state and apparatus therefor

Inventors: Kunil Yum (Seoul, KR); Yunjung Yi (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04B7/0632H04B7/066H04L1/00H04L1/0026H04L1/0027H04L5/0048H04L5/0057H04L5/0091H04L27/0008H04B1/713H04L5/001H04L5/0023H04L5/0035H04L27/2042H04L27/362H04W24/10H04W72/0413
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Patent No.
US 10,404,348
App. No.
15/556,966
Granted
Sep 3, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for reporting a channel state in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention, wherein a terminal can retune between a plurality of narrowbands and receive data, and the method may comprise the steps of: receiving a configuration for reporting a channel state; calculating a channel quality indicator for all the plurality of narrowbands if a periodical broadband feedback mode is configured according to the configuration for reporting a channel state; and reporting the calculated channel quality indicator.

Claims (25)

1. A method for reporting a channel state by a terminal operating on one of a plurality of narrowbands in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, by the terminal, a configuration for channel state reporting;

calculating, by the terminal, a first channel quality indicator (CQI) for all of the plurality of narrowbands, when the configuration indicates that a periodic wideband feedback mode is configured for the terminal;

reporting, by the terminal, the calculated first CQI; and

reporting a second COI for a narrowband group including two or more narrowbands among the plurality of narrowbands, when the configuration indicates that a subband feedback mode is configured for the terminal,

wherein the narrowband group is predefined or indicated by higher-layer signaling, and

wherein, when at least a part of the narrowband group is not included in the plurality of narrowbands, a CQI for a narrowband of the narrowband group, not included in the plurality of narrowbands, is ignored at reporting the second CQI.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the calculating the first CQI includes performing a channel measurement in a reference resource configured for channel state reporting in each of the plurality of narrowbands.

3. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising uniformly using a result of the channel measurement performed in each of the plurality of narrowbands to calculate the first CQI.

4. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising using a result of the channel measurement performed in each of the plurality of narrowbands by applying different weights to results of channel measurement to calculate the first CQI.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the periodic wideband feedback mode is Mode 1-0 or Mode 1-1.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first CQI for all of the plurality of narrowbands is calculated using a cell-specific reference signal (CRS).

7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration for the channel state reporting,

wherein the CSI-RS configuration is for all of the plurality of narrowbands, and a CSI-RS transmission period is set to an integer multiple of a retuning period between the plurality of narrowbands.

8. A terminal for reporting a channel state in a wireless communication system, the terminal comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit operating on one of a plurality of narrowbands; and

a processor configured to control the RF unit,

wherein the processor is configured to:

receive a configuration for channel state reporting,

calculate a first channel quality indicator (CQI) for all of the plurality of narrowbands when the configuration indicates that a periodic wideband feedback mode is configured for the terminal,

report the calculated first CQI, and

report a second CQI for a narrowband group including two or more narrowbands among the plurality of narrowbands, when the configuration indicates that a subband feedback mode is configured for the terminal,

wherein the narrowband group is predefined or indicated by higher-layer signaling, and

wherein, when at least a part of the narrowband group is not included in the plurality of narrowbands, a CQI for a narrowband of the narrowband group, not included in the plurality of narrowbands, is ignored by the processor at reporting the second CQI.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 11, 2017
From: YUM, KUNIL; YI, YUNJUNG
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 043545/0974 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62144905 · Apr 8, 2015
Related Publication 20180069612A1 · Mar 8, 2018