Patents by Inventor Senbao Guo

Senbao Guo 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: 9398581
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for transmitting downlink control information. The method comprises: according to a predefined condition, the downlink control information carried on an ePDCCH onto at least one PRB pair, the predefined condition comprising at least one of: an ePDCCH aggregation level, a subframe cyclic prefix type, a format of downlink control information carried on the ePDCCH, an ePDCCH transmission mode, and mapping mode indication information; and the downlink control information carried on the at least of PRB pairs is transmitted. By mapping according to one or more predefined conditions, the present disclosure achieves mapping from the ePDCCH to the physical resource pair, and ensures the ePDCCH to obtain frequency domain diversity gain and scheduling gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Dai, Kexue Lu, Yijian Chen, Senbao Guo, Yunfeng Sun
  • Publication number: 20160192348
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining resources in a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) are disclosed. The method includes: an apparatus determining a channel resource index of the PUCCH according to physical resources of an enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (ePDCCH), wherein, the PUCCH is used for carrying positive acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information about a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) indicated by the ePDCCH; and the physical resources of the ePDCCH include: any one or more of a physical resource block, an enhanced control channel element and an antenna port index. The embodiments of the present document can ensure the compatibility between an LTE-Advanced system and an LTE Release-8 system, and facilitate improving the system capacity and the scheduling flexibility of the LTE-Advanced system, thereby enabling an LTE-Advanced terminal to obtain a maximum frequency selectivity gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Dai, Yijian Chen, Senbao Guo, Yunfeng Sun, Zhisong Zuo
  • Patent number: 9379827
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for notifying and determining an antenna port location relationship are disclosed. A network side configures an indication signaling of a CSI-RS referenced by a DMRS, and/or a first enabling indication signaling used for indicating whether the indication signaling of the CSI-RS referenced by the DMRS is enabled; or the network side further configures an indication signaling of a CRS referenced by each set of CSI-RSs which are quasi-co-located, and/or a second enabling indication signaling used for indicating whether the indication signaling of the CRS referenced by each set of CSI-RSs which are quasi-co-located is enabled. In the above scheme, a terminal is enabled to determine a reference signal port referenced in time-frequency synchronization, thereby providing a time-frequency synchronization precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yunfeng Sun, Senbao Guo, Yu Ngok Li, Yijian Chen
  • Patent number: 9350507
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure is a method for notification of scrambling code identification signalling group, and the present disclosure comprises: a network side transmits a scrambling code identification signalling group to a receiver; the receiver generates a corresponding scrambling code sequence of a demodulation pilot according to the scrambling code identification signalling group, generates a pilot symbol sequence according to the scrambling code sequence of the demodulation pilot, and performs channel estimation according to the pilot symbol sequence. The present disclosure also provides a system for implementing the notification of scrambling code identification signalling group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yunfeng Sun, Chenchen Zhang, Min Ren, Wei Gou
  • Publication number: 20160142197
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a transmission method and a reception method for data and control information, an eNB and a user equipment, wherein the transmission method includes: an eNB transmitting data and/or downlink control information to a user equipment within a service range in TDD special subframes in accordance with specific rules; wherein the specific rules are pre-configured in the eNB or pre-indicated by the eNB to the user equipment via a high-layer signaling; wherein, a serving cell in which the user equipment is located currently performs a coordinated multiple-point (CoMP) transmission with one or more other cells and has an independent TDD special subframe configuration compared with other cells. The eNB includes a memory module and a transmitting module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Senbao GUO, Bo DAI, Yunfeng SUN, Junfeng ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9331770
    Abstract: The present document provides a precoding method and system for open loop spatial multiplexing and a precoding indication method. The method includes: in transmission resources, a base station precodes N-layer data to be sent by using w a = [ u a a ยท u a ] , wherein ua is a vector or matrix related to a transmission resource location i; ? is a real number or a complex number related to the transmission resource location i; and N is an integer less than or equal to the number of base station transmission antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yijian Chen, Yu Ngok Li, Yunfeng Sun, Junfeng Zhang, Senbao Guo
  • Publication number: 20160119901
    Abstract: A method of using synchronization signal as demodulation reference signal is performed at an eNB in case that the demodulation reference signal is punctured by synchronization signal in a wireless communication network. The method comprises: determining whether there is a resource element collision between the demodulation reference signal and the synchronization signal; in accordance with a determination that there is a resource element collision between the two signals: using the synchronization signal as the demodulation reference signal in a PRB pair containing the synchronization signal; and transmitting the synchronization signal as the demodulation reference signal to a UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Wenfeng ZHANG, Senbao GUO, Yunfeng SUN, Shuqiang XIA
  • Publication number: 20160087774
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a method, a system and a device for selecting Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) pattern information, wherein the method includes that a base station selects DMRS pattern information on the basis of a preset first rule, and informs a terminal of the selected DMRS pattern information; and the base station sends a DMRS to the terminal according to the selected DMRS pattern information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yunfeng Sun, Junfeng Zhang, Zhisong Zuo
  • Publication number: 20160073239
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for configuring a Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH), a method and system for acquiring a PMCH configuration and a method and system for sending and receiving subframes based on the PMCH configuration. The configuration method includes the following step: a base station configuring information for the PMCH or a Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (MBMS) through a high-layer signalling and/or a predefinition and/or a Multicast Control Channel (MCCH). The configured information is at least one of a transmission band, a frequency-domain location, an initial location of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of the PMCH, a transmission subframe cluster of the PMCH, a number of transmission layers or used port indexes and a number of ports of the PMCH and MBMS reference signal pattern information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yunfeng Sun, Bo Dai, Junfeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160029238
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for determining indication signalling of a pilot signal for channel measurement, and method and device for feeding back CSI. The method for determining indication signalling of pilot signal for channel measurement includes: a NodeB sends DL control signalling, which includes transmission resource configuration information of a non-periodic CSI-RS, to a terminal, wherein the transmission resource configuration information of the non-periodic CSI-RS is used for determining a location of the non-periodic CSI-RS, and the non-periodic CSI-RS is used for instructing the terminal to perform channel measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Yijian CHEN, Bo DAI, YuNgok LI, Yunfeng SUN, Senbao GUO
  • Publication number: 20160013906
    Abstract: Provided are resource mapping and receiving methods and devices and signalling notification and acquisition methods and devices. The resource mapping method includes that: an evolved NodeB (eNB) maps a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) onto multiple resource elements in a manner of frequency division multiplexing and/or time division multiplexing and/or code division multiplexing; and/or the eNB maps an Interference Measure Resource (IMR) onto multiple resource elements in a manner of frequency division multiplexing and/or time division multiplexing. By the technical solution, the effects of improving measurement performance of a system, ensuring more accurate adaptive transmission and improving spectral efficiency of the system are further achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Senbao GUO, Yunfeng SUN, Bo DAI, Junfeng ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9236995
    Abstract: A method and device for sending an aggregated CQI are provided by the disclosure. The method includes a terminal side receiving CSI-RS configuration information and/or interference measurement information sent from a base station side, the terminal side determining a sending sequence of aggregated CQI of each aggregated CSI-RS configuration resource and/or interference measurement resource according to a receiving sequence of the CSI-RS configuration information and/or interference measurement information, wherein each aggregated CSI-RS configuration resource and/or interference measurement resource is aggregated of at least one configuration CSI-RS configuration resource and/or interference measurement resource corresponding to the CSI-RS configuration information and/or interference measurement information, the terminal side sending the aggregated CQI to the base station according to the sending sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yunfeng Sun, Junfeng Zhang, Yu Ngok Li
  • Patent number: 9236980
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving a control channel, a base station and a terminal relate to a long term evolution advanced system. The method for transmitting a control channel disclosed by the present document includes: a base station side configuring, for a terminal side, detection-limited subframe cluster information of a control channel, so as to notify the terminal side of the manner by which the base station side transmits the control channel. The present document also discloses a method for receiving a control channel, a base station and a terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yijian Chen, Bo Dai, Yunfeng Sun, Junfeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150381395
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), a base station and a user equipment, related to the LTE Advanced system. The method for transmitting the DMRS disclosed in the present document includes: a base station transmitting a plurality of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) ports through frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and/or code division multiplexing (CDM) and/or time division multiplexing (TDM). The embodiment of the present invention further discloses a base station and a user equipment. The technical scheme of the present application greatly boosts the DMRS demodulation performance, especially taking into account its use in the 256QAM modulation method in future, balances interpolation performance of various PRB Pairs in one sub-frame, and it avoids a collision between a DMRS and a RCRS, a PSS/SSS as well as a CSI-RS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yunfeng Sun, Zhisong Zuo, Wenfeng Zhang, Junfeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150349867
    Abstract: The present document relates to a method for processing channel state information (CSI), base station and terminal. The method for processing channel state information includes: a base station configuring a plurality of CSI processes for a terminal, each CSI process at least including information of a channel measurement part and information of an interference measurement part; when the base station configures corresponding CSI reference processes for partial or all CSI processes, at least limiting a rank indicator (RI) of the CSI processes for calculating a CSI report to be consistent with an RI of the CSI reference processes by configuring the CSI reference processes; and for the CSI processes configured with the CSI reference processes, the base station receiving the CSI report of the CSI processes according to the RI, or the RI and a PTI, or the RI and a PMI0 corresponding to the CSI reference processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Senbao GUO, Yu Ngok LI, Yunfeng SUN, Junfeng ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20150341958
    Abstract: A method for notifying a downlink demodulation pilot control signaling, includes: a base station side notifying a user equipment (UE) side of an index of a virtual signaling group and/or index of port offset signaling group used when generating a downlink pilot sequence and/or mapping the generated downlink pilot sequence through at least one of the following information: UE-specific or common high layer signaling; antenna indication information of DL_Grant; new data indication information in a Disable TB signaling in the DL_Grant; scrambling indication information in the DL_Grant; in a UE-specific or common search space, an aggregation level of the DL_Grant, a relative position of a first control channel element of the DL_Grant in the UE-specific or common search space, a subframe number where the DL_Grant is located and a system frame number where the DL_Grant is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Senbao GUO, Yunfeng SUN, Junfeng ZHANG, Dongli CHEN, Wenfeng ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20150334683
    Abstract: A downlink control information configuration and acquisition method, base station and terminal. The base station configures a plurality of sets of received information for the terminal via dedicated high-layer signalling of the terminal, and the base station indicates which set of the plurality of sets of received information is to be used by the terminal to receive a DMRS and/or physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) using at least one of the following pieces of information: LVRB/DVRB bits allocated by a centralized/distributed virtual resource block in the DCI Format 1A; a control channel mode in which the DCI Format 1A is located: a PDCCH and an ePDCCH; an ePDCCH transmission mode in which the DCI Format 1A is located: a diversity transmission mode and a centralized transmission mode; and an ePDCCH cluster in which the DCI Format 1A is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Senbao GUO, Yunfeng SUN, Junfeng ZHANG, Dongli CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150295694
    Abstract: A method and terminal for determining channel state information are disclosed. The method includes: a terminal receiving an aperiodic channel state information CSI request, determining a parameter X according to a capability of the terminal processing a CSI process and/or the number of CSI processes y configured currently, and updating up to X aperiodic CSI according to the parameter X; wherein the parameter X is: a total number of CSI processes or reports required to be updated by the terminal at the same moment in one or more aperiodic CSI requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Yu Ngok Li, Jun Xu, Senbao Guo, Junfeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 9130710
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method and system for processing control channel information. A receiving side is notified, by a network side via one or more types of the following signaling, of the information required to receive or perform blind detection for a control channel, wherein the signaling part comprises at least: a Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, a System Information Block (SIB)x (x=2, 3) signaling, and a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) signaling located at the first n (n=1, 2, 3, 4) Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. In the control channel information processing technology of the disclosure, the receiving side can be notified, via signaling configuration, of at least the time domain or frequency domain location occupied by the control channel. This scheme allows for full utilization of space division technology, thus reducing the load on a physical downlink control channel, and reducing interference between control channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yunfeng Sun, Yuhong Gong, Dongli Chen, Junfeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150236801
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for notifying and determining an antenna port location relationship are disclosed. A network side configures an indication signaling of a CSI-RS referenced by a DMRS, and/or a first enabling indication signaling used for indicating whether the indication signaling of the CSI-RS referenced by the DMRS is enabled; or the network side further configures an indication signaling of a CRS referenced by each set of CSI-RSs which are quasi-co-located, and/or a second enabling indication signaling used for indicating whether the indication signaling of the CRS referenced by each set of CSI-RSs which are quasi-co-located is enabled. In the above scheme, a terminal is enabled to determine a reference signal port referenced in time-frequency synchronization, thereby providing a time-frequency synchronization precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yunfeng Sun, Senbao Guo, Yu Ngok Li, Yijian Chen