KR101110878B1 - Signal transmission method and signal reception method - Google Patents

Abstract

The signal transmission method according to the present invention comprises the steps of selecting a random access channel of a plurality of random access channels, transmitting data including a preamble and a message through the selected random access channel, whether the data is received or not Receiving the received response signal and retransmitting the data according to the received response signal. Therefore, by using the random access channel (In-Use Indication) to limit the access of the random access channel to increase the yield of the random access channel and shorten the bandwidth allocation process to reduce the data transmission delay.

OFDMA, ranging, random access channel

Description

Signal transmission method and signal reception method {THE MATHOD OF TRANSMITTING SIGNALS AND THE MATHOD OF RECIEVING SIGNALS}

The present invention relates to a signal transmission method and a signal reception method.

In the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (OFDMA) system of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11, the random access channel has an initial code ranging for first access to the system and enters a target cell during handover. Used for handover code ranging, periodic code ranging for periodically adjusting uplink time synchronization, and bandwidth request code ranging for bandwidth request. do.

In the case of bandwidth demand ranging, the procedure until the mobile station transmits data in the uplink is complicated. Therefore, even when transmitting small data in the uplink, it is uneconomical because a complicated bandwidth requirement ranging procedure is required.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in an effort to provide a signal transmission method capable of effectively transmitting data by increasing a utilization rate of an access channel of a random access channel and simplifying a bandwidth allocation step.

The signal transmission method according to the present invention comprises the steps of selecting a random access channel of a plurality of random access channels, transmitting data including a preamble and a message through the selected random access channel, whether the data is received or not Receiving the received response signal and retransmitting the data according to the received response signal.

The selecting of the random access channel may include receiving status information on the plurality of random access channels, and selecting one of the random access channels available through the status information.

Retransmitting the data may include retransmitting the data through the selected random access channel when the reception response signal indicates that only the preamble is received.

Retransmitting the data may include retransmitting the data by a hybrid automatic retransmission request.

When retransmitting the data, the selected random access channel may be blocked from use by other mobile stations.

Indexes of the plurality of random access channels may be set in different ways according to the base station.

The signal receiving method according to the present invention comprises the steps of allocating communication resources to a plurality of random access channels, broadcasting a response signal according to whether or not to receive data through each of the plurality of random access channels, the plurality of random access channels Receiving data including a preamble and a message through at least one random access channel of the random access to the at least two mobile stations when receiving the data through at least one random access channel from at least two mobile stations; Allocating channels in a predetermined order, and receiving the data from each of the mobile stations over the random access channel in accordance with the predetermined order.

The method may further include broadcasting status information on the plurality of random access channels, respectively.

If only the preamble is received from the at least two mobile stations, the method may further include blocking use of other mobile stations of the selected random access channel.

Indexes of the plurality of random access channels may be set in different ways according to the base station.

According to the present invention, by using the random access channel (In-Use Indication) to limit the access of the random access channel to increase the yield of the random access channel and shorten the bandwidth allocation process to reduce the data transmission delay. In addition, by using HARQ and various MCS levels on a random access channel, it is possible to increase the data transmission efficiency of the system.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, it means that it can further include other components, without excluding other components unless specifically stated otherwise. In addition, the terms “… unit”, “… unit”, “module”, etc. described in the specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, which may be implemented by hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software. have.

In the present specification, a mobile station (MS) is a terminal, a mobile terminal (MT), a subscriber station (SS), a portable subscriber station (PSS), a user equipment (User Equipment). , UE), an access terminal (AT), and the like, and may include all or some functions of a mobile mobile station, a subscriber station, a portable subscriber station, a user device, and the like.

In the present specification, a base station (BS) is an access point (AP), a radio access station (Radio Access Station, RAS), a Node B (Node B), a base transceiver station (Base Transceiver Station, BTS), MMR ( Mobile Multihop Relay) -BS and the like, and may include all or part of functions such as an access point, a radio access station, a Node B, a base transceiver station, and an MMR-BS.

1 shows a frame structure in an OFDMA system.

Referring to FIG. 1, one frame includes a down section and an up section.

The down section and the up section include a plurality of symbol sections according to time and frequency bands. In this case, a ranging channel is allocated to a plurality of symbol periods included in a plurality of frequency bands and a plurality of time bands from a start point of an uplink period.

For example, as shown in FIG. 1, a symbol section of three time bands from a start point of an uplink section and a B-1 frequency band from a third frequency band may be a ranging channel section.

Some of these are used as initial code ranging channels and handover code ranging channels, and others are used as periodic code ranging channels and bandwidth demanding code ranging channels.

A plurality of mobile stations jointly use a ranging channel and attempt to transmit to the ranging channel through a random access procedure. At this time, a pseudo noise code set is divided and used according to the purpose of ranging.

2 illustrates a bandwidth request ranging order according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the base station 10 transmits an uplink-MAP (UL-MAP) / Uplink Channel Descriptor (UCD) to the mobile station 20.

The mobile station 20 copies the received UL-MAP and selects a corresponding random access channel, symbol and code in the UL-MAP. The mobile station 20 transmits the selected bandwidth request ranging code (BW-REQ) to the base station 10 through the random access channel.

When a transmission collision occurs between a plurality of mobile stations 20, the base station 10 performs binary exponential random backoff to increase the delay time. This binary exponential backoff operation is performed according to the parameters of the UCD.

If the delay time is extended according to the binary exponential backoff, the mobile station 20 again selects the corresponding random access channel, symbol and code in the UL-MAP, and the base station 10 as a bandwidth request ranging code (BW-REQ). To transmit.

When the base station 10 receives the bandwidth request ranging code (BW-REQ) of the mobile station 20 without collision, the bandwidth request header (BW) is transmitted through the CDMA_Allocation Code Division Multiple Access_Allocation Information Element (IE) of the UL-MAP. Allocates an uplink region that can transmit the -REQ header) to the mobile station 20.

If this is properly received, the mobile station 20 transmits a bandwidth request header and a message (BW-REQ Header and / or User Data) including the bandwidth requirement to the base station 10 through the allocated uplink region.

The base station 10 receives the bandwidth request header and message (BW-REQ Header and / or User Data), drives the uplink scheduler, allocates a dedicated bandwidth to the uplink data area, and transmits it to the mobile station 20. The mobile station 20 may transmit data over the allocated dedicated bandwidth.

Hereinafter, a method of effectively transmitting a simple message will be described with reference to FIGS. 3A to 6C.

3A to 3C are structural diagrams of a contention-based random access channel according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The base station allocates some of the uplink available resources for a random access channel (RACH). The random access channel may be divided along the frequency axis in a fixed time range as shown in FIG. 3A, or may be divided along the time axis in a fixed frequency range as shown in FIG. 3B. In addition, the random access channel may be divided along the time axis and the frequency axis as shown in FIG. 3C.

The indexing method for this random access channel will be described later.

The mobile station transmits random access data (RA burst) to the base station through one random access channel arbitrarily selected among a plurality of random access channels allocated by the base station.

4 illustrates random access data according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, random access data transmitted by the mobile station includes a random access preamble (RA Preamble) and a random access message (RA massage).

The random access preamble includes a short pseudo noise code of a predetermined length. The pseudo noise code is a randomly selected one of a set of pseudo noise codes determined according to the number of slots occupied by random access data and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) used for transmitting a random access message.

The random access message is a general MAC PDU (Media Access Control Protocol Data Unit), and includes a mobile station's MAC identification (MAC ID) and data payload.

Alternatively, the random access preamble can be transmitted simultaneously at the same frequency and time using different codes by random access message and code division multiplexing.

The base station periodically transmits a fast random access control (RAC) signal according to the period of the corresponding random access channel to inform the use of each random access channel. The Fast RAC signal is a 1-bit digital signal. If the field of the Fast RAC signal is 0, the random access channel is available. If the field of the Fast RAC signal is 1, the random access channel is used for retransmission. Indicates the state.

Hereinafter, data transmission through a random access channel according to a reception state of a base station will be described with reference to FIGS. 5A to 5D.

5A through 5D illustrate a flow of a random access bandwidth request process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The base station 10 transmits a Fast RAC signal and a random access response (RA Response) to the mobile station 20 in response to the random access data received through the random access channel to dynamically control random transmission.

When the base station 10 successfully receives random access data from the mobile station 20, the base station 10 transmits a random access response including the MAC ID or the number of the random access channel included in the received message to the mobile station 20 for successful reception. The mobile station 20 is informed.

The random access response of the base station 10 includes information on the mobile station 20 transmitting the random transmission preamble code or the MAC ID of the random transmission message and the location information of the random access channel of the frame to which the designated mobile station 20 responds. can do.

If the response position is not specified, the mobile station transmitting in the previous frame performs the operation at the position selected by the random transmission preamble code or MAC ID in the frame in which the random access response is transmitted. Since the random access response is a response to the plurality of mobile stations 20 transmitted through the plurality of random access channels, the random access response may include a plurality of response information of the random access channel.

5A illustrates a case where there is no response from the base station.

Referring to FIG. 5A, the base station 10 broadcasts a field of a fast RAC signal for an available random access channel (RACH) as 0. Upon receiving this, the mobile station 20 selects any one random access preamble code (x) in the random access preamble code set corresponding to the required length and MCS level, and a plurality of random fields in which the field of the Fast RAC signal is 0. One channel RACH y is selected from the access channel RACH. The mobile station 20 sends the selected random access preamble code x and the random access message to the base station 10 through the selected random access channel RACH y.

In this case, when the base station 10 does not receive the random access data, that is, the random access preamble code (x) and the random access message through the random access channel (RACH y), the random access channel (RACH y) Broadcasts a field of the Fast RAC signal of the random access channel (RACH y) as 0 without a random access response to the broadcast channel.

When the mobile station 20 receives a field of the Fast RAC signal of the random access channel (RACH y) as 0, the mobile station 20 transmits data by performing the bandwidth request ranging procedure of FIG. 2 or selects another random access channel (RACH). Resend random access data.

5B illustrates a case where the base station 10 receives a random access preamble code for one mobile station 20. As shown in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 5B, as shown in FIG. 5A, the base station 10 broadcasts a field of the Fast RAC signal for an available random access channel (RACH) as 0, and the mobile station 20 transmits one random access preamble code ( x) and a random access message are transmitted through one random access channel (RACH y). When the base station 20 receives the random access preamble code x through the random access channel RACH y and does not receive the random access message, the base station 10 may perform a hybrid automatic request (HARQ). have.

That is, the base station 10 changes the Fast RAC signal to 1 and transmits the corresponding random access channel from the mobile station other than the mobile station 20 which has transmitted the random transmission preamble code x for the corresponding random access channel RACH y. Prohibit data transmission on RACH y). The base station 10 transmits a random access response (RA response) including the received random transmission preamble code (x) to instruct retransmission to the mobile station 20 that has transmitted the random transmission preamble code (x). The mobile station 20 which transmitted the random transmission preamble code x according to the random access response retransmits the same random access data. The base station 10 may increase the reception success rate by combining and decoding HARQ randomized access data and previously received random access data.

On the other hand, when the base station 10 receives only the random access preamble code x, the base station 10 enables the field of the Fast RAC signal of the random access channel (RACH y) to be 0 and uses the bandwidth request ranging of FIG. Random access data can be transmitted through the procedure.

On the other hand, a plurality of mobile stations can simultaneously transmit random access data through the same random access channel. The plurality of random access data collide with each other so that the base station fails to receive any random transmission message. However, when the mobile stations transmit different random transmission preamble codes, the base station may receive a plurality of preamble codes according to the situation of code reception power.

5C illustrates a case where the base station receives a plurality of random transmission preamble codes.

Referring to FIG. 5C, a plurality of mobile stations 30 and 40, for example, two mobile stations 30 and 40, transmit two random transmissions through one random access channel (RACH y) in which a field of the Fast RAC signal is zero. The preamble preamble codes x and w are transmitted to the base station 10, respectively.

If the base station 10 receives two random transmission preamble codes (x, w) through the random access channel (RACH y) and does not receive a random transmission message, the base station 10 does not perform HARQ.

The base station 10 sets the field of the Fast RAC signal of the random access channel (RACH y) to 1, and the random access channel (RACH y) in random order for each random access preamble code (x, w). A random access response (RA response) including the order information is transmitted to the plurality of mobile stations (30, 40).

The mobile stations 30 and 40 receive a random access response (RA response) and retransmit random access data to the base station 10 through the corresponding random access channel RACH y in a predetermined sequence of frames.

Meanwhile, the base station 10 may receive random access data from each mobile station by performing the bandwidth request ranging procedure of FIG. 2.

5d illustrates a case where the base station normally receives.

Referring to FIG. 5D, a plurality of mobile stations 30 and 40, for example, two mobile stations 30 and 40, are different random access channels (RACH y, RACH) among random access channels (RACH) having a Fast RAC signal of zero. z) is selected to transmit respective random access data through selected random access channels (RACH y, RACH z).

The base station 10 receives a plurality of random access data through different random access channels (RACH y, RACH z), respectively, and broadcasts a field of the Fast RAC signal of each random access channel (RACH y, RACH z) to 0. Then, a random access response (RA response) including the received MAC ID information is transmitted through each random access channel (RACH y, RACH z).

The plurality of mobile stations 30, 40 respectively receive a random access response (RA response) on the random access channels (RACH y, RACH z) to confirm normal transmission.

In this way, the data transmission efficiency can be improved by directly transmitting to the base station 10 through the random access channel (RACH) without a complicated bandwidth request ranging procedure for the simple data.

Meanwhile, in the IEEE 802.16 OFDMA system, the base station may transmit an uplink resource allocation used as a random access channel to a mobile station by means of a UL-MAP IE or a UCD message. Can be sent.

Hereinafter, an IE configuration according to an indexing method in a random access channel region will be described with reference to FIGS. 6A to 6C.

6A-6C illustrate a random access channel indexing method according to various embodiments of the present invention.

First, index allocation of a random access channel (RACH) in a frame may follow the existing IEEE 802.16e scheme. At this time, the number of random access channels (RACH) is up to 16.

As shown in FIG. 6A, a two-dimensional random access channel region is determined according to the allocation number of the random access channel including N1 OFDMA symbols and N2 subchannels. When the random access channel region is determined, the random access channel index in the random access channel region is determined in sequence as shown in FIG. 6A. Therefore, the index of the random access channel is distinguished only by the number of random access channels allocated per frame and the area shape of the random access channel.

In this case, resource allocation of the UL random access channel through the UL-MAP IE may be performed by the random access channel region IE shown in Table 1 using the UL-MAP extended-2 IE format.

[Table 1] RACH Region IE in Fixed Random Access Channel Indexing

Syntax Size Notes Extended UIUC 4 bits RA region = 0x xx Length 4 bits Length in bytes of Unspecified data field OFDMA symbol offset 8bits - Subchannel offset 8bits - No. OFDMA symbols 8bits - No. subchannels 8bits -

That is, the area occupied by the number of OFDMA symbols and the number of subchannels based on the start point of the OFDMA symbol and the start point of the subchannel becomes a random access channel region.

In addition, the MAP IE for Fast RAC signal can be configured as shown in Table 2. That is, the information on the random access channel that requires a response among the maximum 16 random access channels can be displayed on each bit.

[Table 2] Fast RAC IE in Fixed Random Access Channel Indexing

Syntax Size Notes Extended UIUC 4 bits RA response = 0x xx Length 4 bits Length in bytes of Unspecified data field Length of Fast RAC 4 bits Length in bits Fast RAC bitmap Nbits The 1 ^st LSB indicates the in-use state of RACH # 1,… , MSB indicates the in-use state of RACH #N
1 = in-use
0 = not in-use Padding bits 0-7 Pad till byte boundary

In addition, the MAP IE for the random access response is configured as shown in Table 3 using the Extended-2 UIUC. That is, it is set so that the presence or absence of the response to a plurality of random access channels can be displayed in each bit.

[Table 3] Random Access Response IE in Fixed Random Access Channel Indexing

Syntax Size Notes Extended-2 UIUC 4 bits RA response = 0x xx Length 8 bits Length in bytes of Unspecified data field Length of Response bitmap 4 bits Length in bits Response bitmap Nbits The 1 ^st LSB indicates the response of RACH # 1,… , MSB indicates the response of RACH #N
1 = response in RACH
0 = no response in RACH for (i = 0;
i <Length of Response bitmap;
++ i) { if (Response bitmap [i] == 1) { i th LSB of Response bitmap Type 1 bit 0 = CID of RA message
1 = Code ID of RA preamble  If (Type == 0) { CID 16 bits Normal CID } else { Code of RA preamble 8 bits } } Padding bits 0-7 Pad till byte boundary

Alternatively, the base station may determine the indexing allocation of the random access channel in the frame.

When a two-dimensional random access channel region consisting of N1 OFDMA symbols and N2 subchannels is determined according to the number of allocation of the random access channel, the base station freely designates an index of each random access channel in the random access channel region.

For example, the access rate may be different for each random access channel index group by setting an index group of a random access channel and setting a different frame period for each group.

If the random access channel index group to be allocated is {0,4,9,11,15,16,18,19,30,33,36,37}, the index is increased in the row direction, that is, in the time axis direction as shown in FIG. 6B. Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 6C, the index may increase in the column direction, that is, in the frequency axis direction.

By setting the index of the random access channel in this way, the base station can flexibly allocate the random access channel according to the frame, so that dynamic scheduling of the random access channel is possible in consideration of the priority of the mobile station group or the load state of the random access channel. Do.

Table 4 shows an example of a random access channel area IE when using this dynamic random access channel indexing scheme.

[Table 4] Random Access Channel Area IE and Fast RAC IE in Dynamic Random Access Channel Indexing

Syntax Size Notes Extended UIUC 4 bits RA region = 0x xx Length 8 bits Length in bytes of Unspecified data field OFDMA symbol offset 8bits - Subchannel offset 8bits - Number of OFDMA symbols 8bits - Number of subchannels 8bits - Number of RACHs 6 bits - for (i = 0;
i <Number of RACHs;
++ i) { RACH index 6bits Fast RAC 1 bit } Padding bits 0-7 Pad till byte boundary

Table 5 shows the configuration of the MAP IE for the random access response in the MAP.

A response value exists only for a random access channel with a response, and the responding mobile station is identified by the random access channel index of the random access channel requiring the response and the random access preamble code or the caller ID (CID) of the message.

[Table 5] Random access response IE in dynamic random access channel indexing

Syntax Size Notes Extended-2 UIUC 4 bits RA response = 0x xx Length 8 bits Length in bytes of Unspecified data field number of RA responses 6 bits - for (i = 0;
i <number of RA responses;
++ i) { RACH index 6bits Type 1 bit 0 = CID of RA message
1 = Code ID of RA preamble  If (Type == 0) { CID 16 bits Normal CID } else { Code of RA preamble 8bits } } Padding bits 0-7 Pad till byte boundary

According to the present invention, the base station allocates some of the uplink available resources for the random access channel, and the mobile station directly transmits the short length data packet through the random access channel allocated by the base station without a bandwidth request process. The base station may declare one or more random access channels periodically in the same frame or in different frames.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concepts of the present invention defined in the following claims are also provided. It belongs to the scope of rights.

1 shows a frame structure in an OFDMA system.

2 illustrates a bandwidth request ranging order according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3A to 3C are structural diagrams of a contention-based random access channel according to another embodiment of the present invention.

4 illustrates random access data according to another embodiment of the present invention.

5A through 5D illustrate a flow of a random access bandwidth request process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6A-6C illustrate a random access channel indexing method according to various embodiments of the present invention.

Claims (10)

Selecting one random access channel among the plurality of random access channels, Transmitting data including a preamble and a message through the selected random access channel; Receiving a reception response signal according to whether the data is received; and Retransmitting the data according to the received response signal Including, When retransmitting the data, the selected random access channel is blocked from using other mobile stations, Selecting the random access channel, Receiving status information for the plurality of random access channels; and Selecting one random access channel available through the state information; Containing Signal transmission method. delete The method of claim 1, Retransmitting the data If the reception response signal indicates that only the preamble is received, Retransmitting the data over the selected random access channel; Signal transmission method. The method of claim 3, Retransmitting the data Retransmitting the data by a hybrid automatic retransmission request. Signal transmission method. delete The method of claim 1, Indexes of the plurality of random access channels are set in different ways according to the base station Signal transmission method. Allocating communication resources to a plurality of random access channels; Broadcasting a response signal according to whether data is received through each of the plurality of random access channels; Receiving data including a preamble and a message through at least one random access channel of the plurality of random access channels; Allocating the random access channel to the at least two mobile stations in a predetermined order when receiving the data from at least two mobile stations through one random access channel; Receiving the data from each of the mobile stations over the random access channel in the predetermined order; Blocking the use of another mobile station of the selected random access channel when receiving only the preamble from the at least two mobile stations, and Broadcasting status information on the plurality of random access channels, respectively; Containing How to receive the signal. delete delete The method of claim 7, wherein Indexes of the plurality of random access channels are set in different ways according to the base station How to receive the signal.

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