Patents by Inventor Chi Gao

Chi Gao has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9445404
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, base station, and user equipment for transmitting a control channel. Grouping is performed, according to an aggregation level of the to-be-transmitted control channel, on sub-blocks in physical resource blocks configured by the base station for the to-be-transmitted control channel, then interleaving is performed, and then candidate control channels are mapped to the interleaved sub-blocks, so that any candidate control channel of the to-be-transmitted control channel is sent on consecutive time-frequency resources as possible, and meanwhile different candidate control channels are on different PRB pairs as possible. In this way, the base station may have better flexibility during actual sending of the ePDCCH, thereby not only achieving a precoding gain and facilitating better transmission of control information, but also achieving a larger scheduling gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiang Wu, Jianghua Liu, Chi Gao, Kunpeng Liu
  • Publication number: 20160261317
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting data, and the method includes: first setting at least two second resource groups in each first resource group of at least one first resource group, and setting at least two reference signals in each of the second resource groups; then encoding data to be transmitted and generating two data streams from the encoded data; then, mapping the two data streams onto an available resource element of two different antenna ports, in which the reference signals corresponding to the two different antenna ports are set on two different second resource groups; and finally, transmitting, on the available resource element of the two different antenna ports, data on the two antenna ports. The present invention is applicable to the field of communications systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Jianghua Liu, Qiang Wu, Chi Gao
  • Publication number: 20160105875
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for detecting and sending downlink control information and devices. The method for detecting downlink control information includes: acquiring a pilot port determining parameter that corresponds to downlink control information needing to be detected; determining, according to the pilot port determining parameter, a first-type pilot port that corresponds to the downlink control information; and detecting the downlink control information according to the first-type pilot port. In the embodiments of the present invention, user equipment can correctly detect downlink control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Kunpeng Liu, Chi Gao, Jianghua Liu
  • Patent number: 9306652
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting data, and the method includes: first setting at least two second resource groups in each first resource group of at least one first resource group, and setting at least two reference signals in each of the second resource groups; then encoding data to be transmitted and generating two data streams from the encoded data; then, mapping the two data streams onto an available resource element of two different antenna ports, in which the reference signals corresponding to the two different antenna ports are set on two different second resource groups; and finally, transmitting, on the available resource element of the two different antenna ports, data on the two antenna ports. The present invention is applicable to the field of communications systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianghua Liu, Qiang Wu, Chi Gao
  • Publication number: 20150201405
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for allocating control channel candidates, which relate to the communications field, and can allocate control channel candidates at different aggregation levels to K ePDCCH sets and reduce complexity of blind detection performed by a UE. The method includes: determining K sets for transmitting a control channel, where each set in the K sets includes at least one physical resource block pair; and allocating control channel candidates at each aggregation level to at least one set in the K sets according to at least one of aggregation levels supported by the control channel to be transmitted, the number of control channel candidates corresponding to each aggregation level, the K sets for transmitting the control channel, and types of the sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Jianqin Liu, Jianghua Liu, Qiang Wu, Chi Gao
  • Patent number: 9077406
    Abstract: A precoding processing method and user equipment are disclosed. The precoding processing method includes: selecting a codebook vector for performing precoding processing for data among a codebook set of Nt antennas, where the codebook set includes a first codebook vector ? [ A B ] of a uniform linear array and a second codebook vector ? [ A - B ] generated according to the first codebook vector, where A is a (Nt/2)×1 vector composed of a first half of elements of the first codebook vector, B is a (Nt/2)×1 vector composed of a last half of elements of the first codebook vector, and Nt is a positive even number; and sending an index number of the codebook vector to a base station, whereupon the base station uses the codebook vector corresponding to the index number to perform precoding processing for the data to be transmitted by the antennas. Embodiments of the present invention make the codebook set compatible with two types of antenna configuration modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongxing Zhou, Qiang Wu, Chi Gao
  • Publication number: 20150146670
    Abstract: This application provides an enhanced physical downlink control channel transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: in a physical resource block set, separately arranging first resource groups in each physical resource block pair PRB pair, where the first resource groups are resource element groups eREGs or REGs, and the physical resource block set includes at least one of the physical resource block pairs; numbering second resource groups according to a correspondence between the first resource groups and the second resource groups in the physical resource block set, where the second resource groups are control channel element eCCE groups or control channel candidates; determining numbers of the second resource groups for transmitting an E-PDCCH; and mapping, according to the determined numbers, the E-PDCCH to the corresponding first resource groups for transmission. The technical solution of this application resolves an E-PDCCH transmission problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Kunpeng LIU, Chi GAO, Jianghua LIU, Jianqin LIU
  • Publication number: 20150146672
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for transmitting and receiving a control channel, a base station, and a user equipment. The method for transmitting a control channel includes: determining m PRB pairs used for transmitting a control channel to be transmitted; when a distributed transmission mode is used for transmission, determining an aggregation level L of the control channel to be transmitted; determining, according to the aggregation level L, a first control channel candidate at the aggregation level L; and placing, on physical resources to which the first control channel candidate is mapped, control information of the control channel to be transmitted, and transmitting the control information. The present invention improves multiplexing efficiency of control channels of different modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Qiang Wu, Chi Gao, Jianqin Liu, Jianghua Liu
  • Publication number: 20150146666
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for transmitting and receiving a control channel, a base station, and a user equipment. The method for transmitting a control channel includes: determining m PRB pairs used for transmitting a control channel to be transmitted; when a distributed transmission mode is used for transmission, determining an aggregation level L of the control channel to be transmitted; determining, according to the aggregation level L, a first control channel candidate at the aggregation level L; and placing control information of the control channel to be transmitted, on physical resources to which the first control channel candidate is mapped, and transmitting the control information. The present invention improves multiplexing efficiency of control channels of different modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Qiang Wu, Chi Gao, Jianqin Liu, Jianghua Liu
  • Publication number: 20150131583
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for transmitting control information, a base station, and a user equipment. The method includes: sending control information to a user equipment UE by using an EPDCCH physical resource set, wherein the base station determines, according to a mapping rule, a physical resource for sending the control information, so that the UE determines, according to the mapping rule, a carrier to which the control information is applied, where a carrier bearing the control information is the same as or different from the carrier to which the control information is applied, and the mapping rule is a correspondence between a carrier and a physical resource. The foregoing method solves problems of large control information overheads and resource waste caused by lack of configuration of an EPDCCH which can support cross-carrier scheduling in an LTE system in the prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Jian WANG, Chi GAO, Qiang WU
  • Publication number: 20150098409
    Abstract: The application pertains to a method for transmitting a downlink control signal. A base station maps an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) sequentially to resource elements for transmitting the E-PDCCH in each orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol according to an order of OFDM symbols used by the E-PDCCH of a user equipment (UE). The E-PDCCH is sent to the UE from the base station by using the resource elements, where the E-PDCCH and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) invoked by the E-PDCCH are frequency-division multiplexed. Because the E-PDCCH is mapped sequentially to resource elements for transmitting the E-PDCCH in each OFDM symbol according to an order of OFDM symbols used by the E-PDCCH of the UE, different control channel elements of E-PDCCHs at different aggregation levels will not include a same E-PDCCH modulation symbol, thereby ensuring that the UE judges a start position of the E-PDCCH correctly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Huawei Device Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingyang LI, Chi GAO
  • Publication number: 20150049831
    Abstract: A precoding processing method and user equipment are disclosed. The precoding processing method includes: selecting a codebook vector for performing precoding processing for data among a codebook set of Nt antennas, where the codebook set includes a first codebook vector ? [ A B ] of a uniform linear array and a second codebook vector ? [ A - B ] generated according to the first codebook vector, where A is a (Nt/)×1 vector composed of a first half of elements of the first codebook vector, B is a (Nt/2)×1 vector composed of a last half of elements of the first codebook vector, and Nt is a positive even number; and sending an index number of the codebook vector to a base station, whereupon the base station uses the codebook vector corresponding to the index number to perform precoding processing for the data to be transmitted by the antennas. Embodiments of the present invention make the codebook set compatible with two types of antenna configuration modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Yongxing ZHOU, Qiang WU, Chi GAO
  • Publication number: 20150003393
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a control channel resource transmission method including: obtaining, by a user equipment, a configuration parameter in a candidate control channel set according to a preset protocol and/or higher-layer signaling sent by a base station, where the higher-layer signaling is used to notify the configuration parameter; determining an antenna port according to the obtained configuration parameter; receiving, by using the antenna port, a control channel or a control channel element sent by the base station; and determining, by the base station, the antenna port according to the same configuration parameter as that of the user equipment, and sending, by using the antenna port, the control channel or the control channel element to the user equipment. The embodiments of the present invention are applicable to control channel resource transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Liang XIA, Mingyu ZHOU, Chi GAO, Zhenfei TANG
  • Publication number: 20150003401
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, base station, and user equipment for transmitting a control channel. Grouping is performed, according to an aggregation level of the to-be-transmitted control channel, on sub-blocks in physical resource blocks configured by the base station for the to-be-transmitted control channel, then interleaving is performed, and then candidate control channels are mapped to the interleaved sub-blocks, so that any candidate control channel of the to-be-transmitted control channel is sent on consecutive time-frequency resources as possible, and meanwhile different candidate control channels are on different PRB pairs as possible. In this way, the base station may have better flexibility during actual sending of the ePDCCH, thereby not only achieving a precoding gain and facilitating better transmission of control information, but also achieving a larger scheduling gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Qiang Wu, Jianghua Liu, Chi Gao, Kunpeng Liu
  • Publication number: 20140355559
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a control channel resource transmission method, a base station and a user equipment which can ensure balance between performance of E-CCEs on a resource set, and further ensure scheduling and receiving performance of the E-CCEs. A control channel resource transmission method includes: mapping, by a base station, more than one enhanced control channel element E-CCE onto a resource set, where each E-CCE is mapped onto a corresponding first resource subset and a corresponding second resource subset respectively, so that each E-CCE occupies a resource of the same size or a difference between sizes of resources occupied by the E-CCEs is less than a preset threshold, where the E-CCEs are carried on the resource set for transmission; and transmitting the resource set that carries the E-CCEs to a user equipment; and demodulating, by the user equipment, the resource set and performing receiving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi GAO, Jianghua LIU, Qiang WU
  • Publication number: 20140355709
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting data, and the method includes: first setting at least two second resource groups in each first resource group of at least one first resource group, and setting at least two reference signals in each of the second resource groups; then encoding data to be transmitted and generating two data streams from the encoded data; then, mapping the two data streams onto an available resource element of two different antenna ports, in which the reference signals corresponding to the two different antenna ports are set on two different second resource groups; and finally, transmitting, on the available resource element of the two different antenna ports, data on the two antenna ports. The present invention is applicable to the field of communications systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Jianghua Liu, Qiang Wu, Chi Gao
  • Patent number: 8903004
    Abstract: A precoding processing method and user equipment are disclosed. The precoding processing method includes: selecting a codebook vector for performing precoding processing for data among a codebook set of Nt antennas, where the codebook set includes a first codebook vector ? [ A B ] of a uniform linear array and a second codebook vector ? [ A - B ] generated according to the first codebook vector, where A is a (Nt/2)×1 vector composed of a first half of elements of the first codebook vector, B is a (Nt/2)×1 vector composed of a last half of elements of the first codebook vector, and Nt is a positive even number; and sending an index number of the codebook vector to a base station, whereupon the base station uses the codebook vector corresponding to the index number to perform precoding processing for the data to be transmitted by the antennas. Embodiments of the present invention make the codebook set compatible with two types of antenna configuration modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongxing Zhou, Qiang Wu, Chi Gao
  • Publication number: 20140348141
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for transmitting control signaling. A base station determines a modulation mode adopted for one group of resources among multiple groups of resources. Different modulation modes are adopted for at least two groups of resources among the multiple groups of resources. The base station uses the modulation mode adopted for the one group of resources to modulate control signaling sent on the one group of resources. The base station sends the modulated control signaling to a UE on the one group of resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Mingyu Zhou, Chi Gao, Liang Xia
  • Publication number: 20140334408
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for mapping control channel resources, a base station, and a user equipment. The method for mapping control channel resources includes: determining, by a base station, the number of E-CCEs multiplexed in one resource set, where the E-CCEs are borne over REs for transmission in the resource set, and the E-CCEs constitute an E-PDCCH; sending the E-PDCCH to a user equipment according to the determined number of E-CCEs multiplexed in one resource set; and receiving, by the user equipment, the E-PDCCH, and obtaining the number of E-CCEs multiplexed in one resource set. The embodiments of the present invention apply to a resource mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Chi Gao, Liang Xia, Mingyu Zhou, Kunpeng Liu
  • Publication number: 20140314018
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide a pilot resource allocation method, where the method includes: determining, according to an aggregation level and multiplexing information of an enhanced control channel element E-CCE in a resource block pair, the number of resource elements REs that are allocated to and occupied by a demodulation pilot signal DMRS in the resource block pair. Various embodiments of the present invention further provide a corresponding user equipment. By implementing the method and device, the efficiency of time-frequency resource utilization can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi Gao, Mingyu Zhou, Liang Xia, Qiang Wu, Jianghua Liu