发明名称 |
Method and system for providing a power boost for a wireless communication link using a subset of subcarrier frequencies of the wireless communication link channel as a reduced bandwidth channel |
摘要 |
A method and system are provided for boosting power for a communications link between a base station and a user device, or user equipment, in a cellular communications network. In one embodiment, the communications link is a downlink between the base station and the user device established via a downlink channel having a full channel bandwidth including a number of sub-carrier frequencies. The base station determines whether a power boost is needed for a downlink to the user device. If so, the base station uses a subset of the sub-carrier frequencies from the full channel bandwidth as a reduced bandwidth channel, or sub-channel, for the downlink to the user device such that signal power is concentrated on the sub-carrier frequencies of the reduced channel bandwidth rather than spread across the sub-carrier frequencies of the full channel bandwidth. As a result, a power boost for the downlink is provided. |
申请公布号 |
US8825100(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2014.09.02 |
申请号 |
US200812336901 |
申请日期 |
2008.12.17 |
申请人 |
BlackBerry Limited |
发明人 |
Chang Chu-Rui;Fluet Jacques |
分类号 |
H04B7/00;H04B1/38;H04W52/34;H04W52/42;H04W52/24 |
主分类号 |
H04B7/00 |
代理机构 |
Fish & Richardson P.C. |
代理人 |
Fish & Richardson P.C. |
主权项 |
1. A method of operating a base station in a cellular communications network to provide a power boost for a communications link between the base station and a user device over a communications link channel having a full channel bandwidth including a plurality of sub-carrier frequencies, comprising:
receiving a wideband channel quality index from the user device; receiving a plurality of sub-band channel quality indices from the user device; determining whether a power boost is needed for a communications link between the base station and the user device based on the received wideband channel quality index; if a power boost is needed for the communications link between the base station and the user device, using a subset of the plurality of sub-carrier frequencies of the communications link channel as a reduced bandwidth channel for the communications link to the user device such that signal power is concentrated on the subset of the plurality of sub-carrier frequencies in the reduced bandwidth channel rather than distributed across the full channel bandwidth, thereby providing a power boost for the communications link to the user device, wherein the subset of the plurality of sub-carrier frequencies are determined based at least in part on the received the plurality of sub-band channel quality indices; and coordinating the subset of the plurality of sub-carrier frequencies of the communications link channel with at least one other base station, wherein the other base station uses a different subset of the plurality of sub-carrier frequencies, wherein the subset of the plurality of sub-carrier frequencies are coordinated based on an indication of a number of resource blocks, each resource block containing twelve sub-carrier frequencies. |
地址 |
Waterloo, Ontario CA |