Granted Patent B2

US 12,199,923 · App. 16/338,339 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

Inventors: Yijian Chen (Shenzhen, CN); YUNgok Li (Shenzhen, CN); Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, CN); Nan Zhang (Shenzhen, CN); Hao Wu (Shenzhen, CN)

Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION

H04L5/0073H04B17/336H04L1/0026H04L5/0051H04W24/10

Abstract

Claims (40)

1. An interference measurement method, comprising:

determining an interference measurement resource and an interference measurement receiving mode corresponding to the interference measurement resource; wherein the interference measurement receiving mode includes at least one of: a receiving beam of a receiving antenna of a plurality of receiving antennas in an user equipment, a range of receiving direction of the receiving beam, or a receiving weight set between at least two receiving antennas of a same polarization direction or different polarization directions of the plurality of receiving antennas; and

performing an interference measurement according to the interference measurement resource and the interference measurement receiving mode;

wherein performing the interference measurement comprises:

receiving and measuring an interference signal transmitted on the interference measurement resource according to the interference measurement resource receiving mode; dividing interference measurement resources into a plurality of groups; and respectively configuring indication signaling of receiving modes for measure interference pilot resources in a plurality of groups of the interference measurement resources;

wherein the indication signaling of the interference measurement receiving modes is configured to indicate the user equipment to receive the interference measurement resource from at least one weight in a set of receiving weight codebook.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the interference measurement receiving mode is determined according to a configured receiving mode of a first type of signal.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the first type of signal comprises one of followings: a downlink measurement pilot, a downlink demodulation pilot, an uplink demodulation pilot, an uplink measurement pilot and an uplink random access signal.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein a resource location of the first type of signal associated with the interference measurement receiving mode is determined according to a convention or indication information.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the resource location of the first type of signal comprises: a port, a time domain location; and the indication information is configured by a network-side device.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the interference measurement receiving mode is determined according to a beam selected and fed back by the user equipment.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the interference measurement receiving mode is determined according to a time domain location to which an interference measurement resource belongs.

8. An interference measurement indication method, comprising:

determining an interference measurement resource and an interference measurement receiving mode corresponding to the interference measurement resource; wherein the interference measurement receiving mode includes at least one of: a receiving beam of a receiving antenna of a plurality of receiving antennas in an user equipment; a range of receiving direction of the receiving beam, or a receiving weight set between at least two receiving antennas of a same polarization direction or different polarization directions of the plurality of receiving antennas; and

sending an interference measurement resource configuration corresponding to the interference measurement resource and an interference measurement receiving mode configuration corresponding to the interference measurement receiving mode to a user equipment, to enable the user equipment to determine the interference measurement resource and the interference measurement resource receiving mode corresponding to the interference measurement resource, and receive and measure an interference signal transmitted on the interference measurement resource according to the interference measurement resource receiving mode;

dividing interference measurement resources into a plurality of groups; and respectively configuring indication signaling of receiving modes for measure interference pilot resources in a plurality of groups of the interference measurement resources;

wherein the indication signaling of the interference measurement receiving modes is configured to indicate the user equipment to receive the interference measurement resource from at least one weight in a set of receiving weight codebook.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein a grouping mode comprises at least one of followings: grouping the interference measurement resources in time domain; grouping the interference measurement resources in frequency domain; grouping a plurality of sets of interference measurement resources; and configuring, by a network-side device, indication information corresponding to the grouping mode.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the indication signaling is configured to indicate a type of a first type of signal associated with the interference measurement receiving mode; and the interference measurement receiving mode is determined according to a receiving mode corresponding to the associated first type of signal.

11. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the indication signaling is configured to indicate a resource location of a first type of signal associated with the interference measurement receiving mode; and the interference measurement receiving mode is determined according to a receiving mode corresponding to the associated first type of signal.

12. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the indication signaling is configured to indicate a transmitting beam associated with the interference measurement receiving mode.

13. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the indication signaling is configured to indicate a feedback beam associated with the interference measurement receiving mode.

14. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the indication signaling is configured to indicate a bundling relationship of receiving modes among the plurality of sets of interference measurement resources.

15. An interference measurement apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory for storing instructions executable by the processor;

wherein the processor is configured to:

determine an interference measurement resource and an interference measurement receiving mode corresponding to the interference measurement resource; wherein the interference measurement receiving mode includes at least one of: a receiving beam of the receiving antenna of a plurality of receiving antennas in an user equipment, a range of receiving direction of the receiving beam, or a receiving weight set between at least two receiving antennas of a same polarization direction or different polarization directions of the plurality of receiving antennas; and

perform an interference measurement according to the interference measurement resource and the interference measurement receiving mode;

wherein the processor is configured to realize performing the interference measurement by: receiving and measuring an interference signal transmitted on the interference measurement resource according to the interference measurement resource receiving mode;

dividing interference measurement resources into a plurality of groups; and respectively configuring indication signaling of receiving modes for measure interference pilot resources in a plurality of groups of the interference measurement resources;

wherein the indication signaling of the interference measurement receiving modes is configured to indicate the user equipment to receive the interference measurement resource from at least one weight in a set of receiving weight codebook.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein the interference receiving mode is determined by at least one of followings:

determined according to configuration signaling of a network-side device; determined according to a configured receiving mode of a first type of signal; a resource location of a first type of signal associated with the interference measurement receiving mode is determined according to a convention or indication information; determined according to a transmitting beam configured by a network-side device; determined according to a beam selected and fed back by user equipment; and determined according to a time domain location to which an interference measurement resource belongs.

17. An interference measurement indication apparatus, comprising:

a processor;

a memory for storing instructions executable by the processor;

wherein the processor is configured to perform the interference measurement method according to claim 8 .

18. The apparatus according to claim 17 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

divide the interference measurement resources into a plurality of groups; and respectively configure indication signaling of receiving modes for measurement interference pilot resources in a plurality of groups of the interference measurement resources.

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