US 9,439,217 B2Granted

Transmit power control for physical random access channels

AssigneeSun Patent Trust

InventorsMartin Feuersaenger, Joachim Loehr, Takahisa Aoyama

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Abstract

The invention relates to methods for adjusting the transmit power utilized by a mobile terminal for uplink transmissions, and to methods for adjusting the transmit power used by a mobile terminal for one or more RACH procedures. The invention is also providing apparatus and system for performing these methods, and computer readable media the instructions of which cause the apparatus and system to perform the methods described herein. In order to allow for adjusting the transmit power of uplink transmissions on uplink component carriers, the invention suggests introducing a power scaling for uplink PRACH transmissions performing RACH procedures on an uplink component carrier. The power scaling is proposed on the basis of a prioritization among multiple uplink transmissions or on the basis of the uplink component carriers on which RACH procedures are performed.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A communication apparatus comprising:

a receiver which, in operation, receives a transport block over a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) of a first component carrier which belongs to a first timing advance group (TAG), and receives a random access preamble transmitted over a physical random access channel (PRACH) of a second component carrier which belongs to a second TAG, the second TAG being different from the first TAG, wherein power for the PUSCH transmission is determined for each subframe at a terminal apparatus, and wherein when a total transmission power exceeds a maximum output power configured for the terminal apparatus PMAX, the power for the PUSCH transmission is adjusted at the terminal apparatus so that the adjusted total transmission power does not exceed PMAX on an overlapped portion of the PUSCH transmission on a first subframe of the first component carrier and the PRACH transmission on a second subframe of the second component carrier, the second subframe being a subframe with a time offset from the first subframe along a time axis, wherein the power for the PRACH transmission is kept unadjusted;
and
a transmitter which, in operation, transmits a random access response in response to the random access preamble.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/657,891Filed 13 Mar 2015 · continuation
Priority: EP PCT/EP2010/0021191 Apr 2010
Published: US 2015/0189675 A12 Jul 2015
Granted: 6 Sep 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04W 52/325
TPC of broadcast or control channels: power control of control or pilot channels
H04W 52/281
Using user profile, e.g. mobile speed, priority or network state, e.g. standby, idle or non-transmission: taking into account user or data type…
H04W 52/327
TPC of broadcast or control channels: power control of multicast channels
H04W 52/346
TPC management, i.e. sharing limited amount of power among users or channels or data types, e.g. cell loading: distributing total power among…

Family

PCT/EP2011/001658Parent of this continuation · filed 1 Apr 2011
US 2015/0189675 A1Pre-grant publication · published 2 Jul 2015
Application13/637,607Parent of this continuation
US 9,008,050 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2013/0058315 A1Published application
US 9,439,217 B2This patent

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