Patents Assigned to NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20210111927
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to downlink/uplink data transmission in a wireless communication system. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for downlink data transmission in a wireless communication system which comprises transmitting an indication for a new-type reference signal to a user equipment, wherein the new-type reference signal has an identical location in frequency domain to a legacy reference signal; and transmitting the new-type reference signal and the legacy reference signal to the user equipment for using in channel estimation. In a case of more than one antenna port, the new-type reference signal may be designed to have a different location in time domain from a legacy reference signal to avoid interference to other antenna ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Zhennian Sun, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 10944594
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to downlink/uplink data transmission in a wireless communication system. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for downlink data transmission in a wireless communication system which comprises transmitting an indication for a new-type reference signal to a user equipment, wherein the new-type reference signal has an identical location in frequency domain to a legacy reference signal; and transmitting the new-type reference signal and the legacy reference signal to the user equipment for using in channel estimation. In a case of more than one antenna port, the new-type reference signal may be designed to have a different location in time domain from a legacy reference signal to avoid interference to other antenna ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Zhennian Sun, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 10904039
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to downlink/uplink data transmission in a wireless communication system. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for downlink data transmission in a wireless communication system which comprises transmitting an indication for a new-type reference signal to a user equipment, wherein the new-type reference signal has an identical location in frequency domain to a legacy reference signal; and transmitting the new-type reference signal and the legacy reference signal to the user equipment for using in channel estimation. In a case of more than one antenna port, the new-type reference signal may be designed to have a different location in time domain from a legacy reference signal to avoid interference to other antenna ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Zhennian Sun, Ming Lei
  • Publication number: 20200014563
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to downlink/uplink data transmission in a wireless communication system. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for downlink data transmission in a wireless communication system which comprises transmitting an indication for a new-type reference signal to a user equipment, wherein the new-type reference signal has an identical location in frequency domain to a legacy reference signal; and transmitting the new-type reference signal and the legacy reference signal to the user equipment for using in channel estimation. In a case of more than one antenna port, the new-type reference signal may be designed to have a different location in time domain from a legacy reference signal to avoid interference to other antenna ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang WANG, Zhennian Sun, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 9998267
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to uplink data transmission in a wireless communication system. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for uplink data transmission in a wireless communication system. The method comprises transmitting an indication for new-type reference signals to a user equipment, wherein the new-type reference signals have a reduced density of reference signals in frequency domain, and resource elements not used by reference signals in symbols for the new-type reference signals are used for coverage enhancement; receiving the new-type reference signals; and performing channel estimation based on the new-type reference signals. With embodiments of the present disclosure, it may reduce the density of reference signals in frequency domain, which means the overhead will not be increased substantially and besides saved resource element may be used to implement the coverage enhancement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Zhennian Sun, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 9949215
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for resource sharing for D2D and cellular communications in a multicell network. The method comprises steps of: acquiring CSI on channels relating to D2D pair and a plurality of cellular users that potentially share resources with the D2D pair; and determining D2D transmit powers of the D2D pair on a plurality of frequency bands allocated to the plurality of cellular users and cellular transmit powers of the plurality of cellular users based on the CSI, to improve throughput of the multicell network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaofeng Li, Ming Lei, Jiaheng Wang, Daohua Zhu, Hua Zhang, Chunming Zhao
  • Patent number: 9807776
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for cross-subframe interference coordination in a dynamic TDD system. The method comprises steps of: obtaining UL-DL configurations employed by a plurality of cells in the dynamic TDD system; and determining, based on the UL-DL configurations, a beamforming vector of at least one interfering cell which has cross-subframe interference on at least one interfered cell, so as to reduce the cross-subframe interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: NEC(CHINA) CO., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dalin Zhu, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 9769840
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for scheduling a UE in a communication system comprising D2D communication and cellular communication. The cellular communication is performed between a base station (BS) and at least one UE, and the D2D communication is performed between a D2D transmitter and a D2D receiver. According to the method of the present invention, an outage margin of the D2D communication is obtained, wherein the outage margin indicates the margin that the communication from the D2D transmitter to the D2D receiver is in outage; and a target transmission power of the at least one UE is determined based on the outage margin to perform cellular scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaofeng Li, Yu Zhang, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 9730083
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for three-dimensional beamforming. The method may comprise: mapping vertical virtual antenna ports to physical antenna ports based on vertical reference signals to obtain mapped vertical reference signals; transmitting the mapped vertical reference signals to a user equipment; receiving a tilting indicator from the user equipment, wherein the tilting indicator is obtained based on the mapped vertical reference signals at the user equipment; determining a tilting vector based on the received tilting indicator, wherein the tilting vector indicates adjustment for traffic data in antenna vertical tilting; and adjusting traffic data with the tilting vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 9680541
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for channel estimation and feedback in a three dimensional multiple input multiple output (3D-MIMO) system. A method may comprise: transmitting a plurality of reference signals for a plurality of columns in an antenna array; receiving indication information on configuration adjustment of a precoding information feedback, wherein the indication information is based on measurement on the plurality of reference signals; and adjusting a configuration of the precoding information feedback based on the indication information so that a multiple vertical precoding information feedback is enabled when it can obtain a performance gain. Especially, the multiple vertical precoding information feedback may represent feeding back a plurality of vertical precoding matrix indicators for the plurality of columns in the antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuangxin Jiang, Chaofeng Li, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 9578665
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for performing D2D communication in a communication system. The communication system may at least comprise a base station (BS), a D2D transmitter and a D2D receiver. The D2D transmitter transmits D2D data to the D2D receiver in a D2D communication. According to the method of the present invention, D2D data may be received from the D2D transmitter; and the received D2D data may be transmitted to the D2D receiver in response to receiving a negative message from the D2D receiver, wherein the negative message indicates that the D2D receiver fails to receive the D2D data from the D2D transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaofeng Li, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 9554388
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus of resource sharing for D2D and cellular communications. The method may comprise: determining a cellular user set containing potential cellular users that may share resources with a D2D pair; and determining transmit power of the D2D pair on a frequency band of at least one cellular user in the cellular user set and transmit power of the at least one cellular user through maximizing throughput of the D2D pair with a quality of service (QoS) constraint and a power budget constraint of each of the potential cellular users and a transmit power constraint of the D2D pair. With embodiments of the present disclosure, it may provide a non-orthogonal resource sharing solution in which a D2D pair can reuse resources of the cellular users as more as possible while the QoS of all the cellular users are guaranteed, whereby the performance of the D2D user may be improved greatly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaofeng Li, Ming Lei, Jiaheng Wang, Daohua Zhu, Chunming Zhao, Zhi Ding
  • Patent number: 9553705
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for allocating feedback transmission resource and a method and apparatus for providing information on values thereof. According to the method of allocating feedback transmission resource, the feedback transmission resource is divided into a plurality of resource units, and the method can comprise receiving information on values of the plurality of resource units for the mobile stations; determining values of possible resource allocation status in each bidding round for the mobile stations from the received information on the values based on the sequential second price auction; and deriving an auction process of the resource units from the determined values of possible resource allocation status in each bidding round based on the sequential second price auction, so as to obtain a final resource unit allocation result for the mobile stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dalin Zhu, Ming Lei, Lingyang Song, Zhongshan Zhang, Tianyu Wang
  • Patent number: 9532371
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for scheduling a UE, wherein a BS serves the UE and employs a non-normal subframe to coordinate inter-cell interference, and wherein transmission power in the non-normal subframe is lower than that in a normal subframe. In the method according to embodiments of the present invention, channel quality information for the non-normal subframe may be adjusted based on information on transmission power of downlink packets and reference signals; and a target MCS may be determined according to the adjusted channel quality information, so that the BS schedules the UE based on the target MCS in the non-normal subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Lei Jiang, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 9531465
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for obtaining a CQI in a communication system, wherein the communication system comprises a UE, a CoMP measurement set including more than one BS/point, and one or more outside BSs/points which is outside the CoMP measurement set, and wherein the UE is served by a serving BS/point in the CoMP measurement set and interfered by at least one interfering BS/point in the CoMP measurement set and the one or more outside BSs/points. In the method according to embodiments of the present invention, a first interference from at least one outside BS/point which is outside the CoMP measurement set to the UE is estimated; a second interference from at least one interfering BS/point in the CoMP measurement set to the UE is estimated; and a target CQI based on the first interference and the second interference is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 9521677
    Abstract: Provided are methods and corresponding apparatuses for allocation of resource blocks. A method for allocation of resource blocks comprises receiving, from a base station, information regarding a measurement location at which at least one identified resource block has been measured; and using, based upon a current location of a mobile relay node and the measurement location, the at least one identified resource block for communication between the mobile relay node and at least one user equipment connected therewith, wherein the at least one identified resource block is not used for communication between the base station and at least one user equipment connected therewith at the measurement location and a measurement of the at least one identified resource block is below a predetermined threshold. With the claimed inventions, interference in the high speed railway communication could be ameliorated and the spectrum efficiency would be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Su Yi, Ming Lei, Shaoyi Xu
  • Patent number: 9485142
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for reconfiguring DL-UL resource allocation in a TDD system. The method includes steps of: a) obtaining traffic condition about DL and UL data to be transmitted; b) estimating system-wise transmission capability and/or UE-wise transmission capability, wherein the system-wise transmission capability accounts for DL transmission capability and UL transmission capability of the TDD system, and the UE-wise transmission capability accounts for transmission capabilities of different UEs; and c) reconfiguring the DL-UL resource allocation according to the obtained traffic condition and the estimated system-wise transmission capability and/or UE-wise transmission capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dalin Zhu, Zhennian Sun, Su Yi, Gang Wang, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 9479312
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for interference control have been disclosed. A method for a base station in a wireless communication system, comprising: obtaining a system setting of the wireless communication system; selecting a transmission mode based at least in part on the system setting, wherein the transmission mode is one of an Interference Cancellation IC transmission mode and a Beamforming BF transmission mode; and configuring the selected transmission mode. The total system throughput may be maximized by dynamically switching the transmission mode between IC and BF at the base station. Further, the proposed switching mechanism may be applied to various communication networks where downlink interference may occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaofeng Li, Ming Lei, Wei Xu, Le Liang, Hua Zhang, Shi Jin
  • Patent number: 9450718
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for estimating channel quality information, a base station and a network central processing device. According to the embodiments of the present invention, a macro cell includes multiple transmission points, the method can comprise receiving the channel quality information which is measured by a user equipment based on a cell specific reference signal; obtaining channel matrix information the multiple transmission points; calculating beamforming information on a single cell transmission and a coordinated multi-point transmission based on the channel matrix information; and estimating the channel quality information for the single cell transmission and the coordinated multi-point transmission based on the channel quality information, the channel matrix information, and the beamforming information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Ming Lei
  • Publication number: 20160248552
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for coverage enhancement in a wireless communication system. In a method according to embodiments of the present invention, a PHICH resource set including a plurality of PHICH resources is determined, and an ACK/NACK message is spread by using the plurality of PHICH resources, such that spreading results of the ACK/NACK message are sent to a UE in the plurality of PHICH resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: NEC (CHINA) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gang WANG, Zhennian SUN, Ming LEI