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US 9,306,712 · App. 14/115,325 · Granted Apr 5, 2016

Method of scrambling signals, transmission point device and user equipment using the method

Inventors: Zhi Zhang (Beijing, CN); Ming Xu (Beijing, CN); Masayuki Hoshino (Kanagawa, JP); Daichi Imamura (Beijing, CN); Akihiko Nishio (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
H04L5/0016H04L25/0226
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Patent No.
US 9,306,712
App. No.
14/115,325
Granted
Apr 5, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

Method of scrambling signals, transmission point device and user equipment using the method are provided. The method is for scrambling signals assigned on predetermined radio resources of at least one layer of resource blocks with the same time and frequency resources, and comprises the steps of: sending an ID table to a user equipment through higher layer signaling, the ID table being a subset of the whole ID space and containing available IDs for the user equipment; notifying the user equipment an ID in the ID table to be used through physical layer signaling or UE specific higher layer signaling; generating a random seed based on the notified ID; initializing a scrambling sequence by the random seed; and scrambling the signals with the initialized scrambling sequence. The method of the disclosure, by combining physical layer signaling and higher layer signaling, may notify the used group ID and the blind detection space to a UE, the blind detection for the UE is enabled and the signaling overhead is reduced.

Claims (29)

1. A transmission apparatus comprising:

circuitry, which, in operation:

selects a random seed out of a first random seed generated based on a cell ID and a second random seed generated based on a second ID that is dedicatedly notified to a user equipment (UE);

initializes a sequence, which is used for a reference signal, with the selected random seed; and

generates the reference signal using the sequence; and

transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the reference signal;

wherein the first random seed is generated by

c init =(└ n s /2┘+1)·(2cell_id+1)·2 16 +SCID

wherein Cinit is the first random seed, ns is a slot number, cell_id is the cell ID, and SCID is 0 or 1, and

said transmitter, in operation, implicitly notifies a selection of the random seed out of the first random seed and the second random seed using the SCID.

2. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of second IDs are included in two sets, and said transmitter, in operation, notifies one set out of the two sets to the UE.

3. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second ID is dedicated to the UE.

4. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second ID is a group ID shareable by a plurality of UEs.

5. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry, in operation, scrambles the reference signal using the sequence.

6. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the reference signal is a demodulation reference signal (DMRS).

7. A transmission method comprising:

selecting a random seed out of a first random seed generated based on a cell ID and a second random seed generated based on a second ID that is dedicatedly notified to a user equipment (UE);

initializing a sequence, which is used for a reference signal, with the selected random seed;

generating the reference signal using the sequence; and

transmitting the reference signal,

wherein the first random seed is generated by

c init =(└ n s /2┘+1)·(2cell_id+1)·2 16 +SCID

wherein Cinit is the first random seed, ns is a slot number, cell_id is the cell ID, and SCID is 0 or 1, and

a selection of the random seed out of the first random seed and the second random seed is notified using the SCID.

8. The transmission method according to claim 7 , wherein a plurality of second IDs are included in two sets, and one set out of the two sets is notified to the UE.

9. The transmission method according to claim 7 , wherein the second ID is dedicated to the UE.

10. The transmission method according to claim 7 , wherein the second ID is a group ID shareable by a plurality of UEs.

11. The transmission method according to claim 7 , wherein the reference signal is scrambled using the sequence.

12. The transmission method according to claim 7 , wherein the reference signal is a demodulation reference signal (DMRS).

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 29, 2016
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
To: SUN PATENT TRUST
Reel/Frame 038299/0156 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 27, 2014
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Reel/Frame 033033/0163 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 25, 2014
From: ZHANG, ZHI; XU, MING; HOSHINO, MASAYUKI; IMAMURA, DAICHI; NISHIO, AKIHIKO
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032512/0934 →
Priority Claims (1)
WO PCT/CN2011/077203 · Jul 15, 2011 · international
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20140071936A1 · Mar 13, 2014