# US 2021/0345352 A1 · Electronic device and method for wireless communication, and computer-readable storage medium > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0345352 A1 - Document ID: US20210345352A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/283,022 - Filed: 2019-10-17 - Published: 2021-11-04 - Earliest claimed: 2018-10-24 - Assignees: Sony Group Corporation - Applicants: Sony Group Corporation - Inventors: Youping ZHAO; Yu ZHAO; Chen SUN; Xin GUO - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210345352A1 ## CPC - H04L 27/0006: {Assessment of spectral gaps suitable for allocating digitally modulated signals, e.g. for carrier allocation in cognitive radio (for spectrum sharing between different networks H04W16/14)} - H04W 72/541: using the level of interference - H04L 5/14: Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex - H04W 16/14: Spectrum sharing arrangements {between different networks} - H04W 24/02: Arrangements for optimising operational condition - H04W 24/08: Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic - H04W 24/10: Scheduling measurement reports {; Arrangements for measurement reports} - H04W 16/22: Traffic simulation tools or models - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract The present invention provides an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: determine a first resource application system and a second application system which interfere with each other in management ranges of spectrum management apparatuses and respectively use different wireless access technologies; and determine, according to the interference situation between the first resource application system and the second resource application system, the width of a guard band between spectrum resources allocated for the first resource application system and the second resource application system. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An electronic apparatus for wireless communications, comprising: processing circuitry, configured to: determine a first resource utilization system and a second resource utilization system within a management range of a spectrum management device, which interfere with each other and adopt different radio access technologies respectively; and determine, based on interference conditions between the first resource utilization system and the second resource utilization system, a width of a guard band between spectrum resources allocated to the first resource utilization system and those allocated to the second resource utilization system. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine the first resource utilization system and the second resource utilization system using an interference overlapping map, wherein in the interference overlapping map, an edge is connected between a first vertex representing the first resource utilization system and a second vertex representing the second resource utilization system. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine the width of the guard band based on a measurement result of interference measuring performed by a terminal device located in an overlapping region of the first resource utilization system and the second resource utilization system. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the measurement result comprises one or more of the following: co-channel interferences, adjacent channel interferences, a co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio, an adjacent channel interferences-to-noise ratio, an out of band emission model of the first resource utilization system and/or the second resource utilization system. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine the width of the guard band so that interferences the first resource utilization system is subjected to from the second resource utilization system is kept within a predetermined range. ### Claim 6 (canceled) ### Claim 7 (depends on 4) The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the terminal device is a terminal device served by the first resource utilization system; the measurement result comprises a co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio and an adjacent-channel interferences-to-noise ratio of the terminal device, and an out of band emission model of the second resource utilization system; and the processing circuitry is configured to: calculate a difference between the co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio and a co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold and a difference between the adjacent-channel interferences-to-noise ratio and an adjacent-channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold, as an interference margin; and determine the width of the guard band based on the interference margin and the out of band emission model. ### Claim 8 (canceled) ### Claim 9 (depends on 2) The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to set, based on the width of the guard band, a weight for the edge between the first vertex and the second vertex in the interference overlapping map. ### Claim 10 (canceled) ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The electronic apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to update the interference overlapping map based on the weight, and allocate spectrum resources based on the updated interference overlapping map. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to first allocate spectrum resources to a resource utilization system corresponding to an edge with a high weight in the interference overlapping map. ### Claim 13 (depends on 9) The electronic apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to acquire a second weight set by another spectrum management device for the edge between the first vertex and the second vertex, and set the weight for the edge based on the width of the guard band and the second weight. ### Claim 14 (canceled) ### Claim 15 (depends on 3) The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to instruct one of the first resource utilization system and the second resource utilization system to perform measurement configuration on one or more terminal devices located in the overlapping region. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The electronic apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to provide one or more of the following to a base station of one of the first resource utilization system and the second resource utilization system for the measurement configuration: a measurement frequency list, measurement time, measurement duration, a physical quantity to be measured, a measurement result reporting format, a reporting rule, a co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold, and an adjacent channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold. ### Claim at position 17 -27. (canceled) ### Claim 28 An electronic apparatus for wireless communications, comprising: processing circuitry, configured to: select a terminal device located in an overlapping region of a serving resource utilization system with another resource utilization system, wherein the serving resource utilization system and the other resource utilization system adopt different radio access technologies; and generate a measurement configuration for use by the terminal device to perform interferences measuring. ### Claim 29 (depends on 28) The electronic apparatus according to claim 28, wherein the measurement configuration comprises one or more of the following: a measurement frequency list, measurement time, measurement duration, a physical quantity to be measured, a measurement result reporting format, a reporting rule, a co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold, and an adjacent channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold, wherein the measurement time is respectively located in an uplink time slot of a time division duplex frame, a downlink time slot of a time division duplex frame, and a guard period of a special sub-frame of the time division duplex frame, wherein the physical quantity to be measured comprises one or more of the following: a received signal strength indicator, reference signal received power, reference signal received quality, and a time domain sampling signal, wherein the reporting rule indicates one or more of the following: periodic reporting, and reporting when a predetermined condition is met. ### Claim at position 20 -32. (canceled) ### Claim 33 (depends on 28) The electronic apparatus according to claim 28, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to acquire a measurement result from the terminal device and provide the measurement result to a spectrum management device, or wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to acquire the measurement result from the terminal device, calculate a co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio, an adjacent-channel interferences-to-noise ratio, and an out of band emission model of the other resource utilization system according to the measurement result, and provide a calculation result to the spectrum management device. ### Claim 34 (canceled) ### Claim 35 An electronic apparatus for wireless communications, comprising: processing circuitry, configured to: acquire a measurement configuration from a base station, the measurement configuration being utilized for measuring interferences induced by another resource utilization system adopting a different radio access technology; and perform measuring and reporting of a measurement result according to the measurement configuration. ### Claim 36 (depends on 35) The electronic apparatus according to claim 35, wherein the measurement configuration comprises one or more of the following: a measurement frequency list, measurement time, measurement duration, a physical quantity to be measured, a measurement result reporting format, a reporting rule, a co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold, and an adjacent channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold. ### Claim 37 (depends on 36) The electronic apparatus according to claim 36, wherein the physical quantity to be measured comprises a time-domain sampling signal; and the processing circuitry is configured to perform a fast Fourier transform on the time-domain sampling signal, and report power spectral density at each frequency point obtained through the fast Fourier transform to the base station. ### Claim 38 (depends on 36) The electronic apparatus according to claim 36, wherein the measurement configuration comprises a co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold and an adjacent-channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold; and the processing circuitry is configured to calculate a co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio and an adjacent-channel interferences-to-noise ratio according to the measurement result, and compare the calculated co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio and adjacent-channel interferences-to-noise ratio with the co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold and the adjacent-channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold, respectively; and report the measurement result only in a case that the calculated co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio is higher than the co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold and/or the calculated adjacent-channel interferences-to-noise ratio is higher than the adjacent-channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold. ### Claim 39 (depends on 38) The electronic apparatus according to claim 38, wherein the measurement result comprises an interference margin, which is a difference between the co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio and the co-channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold and/or a difference between the adjacent channel interferences-to-noise ratio and the adjacent channel interferences-to-noise ratio threshold. ### Claim at position 28 -44. (canceled)