Coverage Enhancement Requirement Signaling for Wireless Resource Allocation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current communication systems between user equipment and base stations result in resource wastage due to the need for additional communication resources to ensure accurate communication, particularly for devices with better communication statuses, while those with poorer statuses do not utilize their full potential.

Innovation Solution

User equipment and base stations implement an information processing method where user equipment obtain and report coverage enhancement requirements, allowing for adjusted communication parameters such as signal repetition times based on precision levels, to optimize resource allocation and reduce waste.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the base station adds additional communication resources to ensure accurate communication for all user equipment, then communication reliability for poor status devices is improved, but resource waste occurs for devices with better communication status

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication accuracyVSAvoidresource waste
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by differentiating communication resource allocation based on individual user equipment characteristics. The base station determines coverage enhancement requirements separately for each device and allocates resources accordingly, rather than using a uniform approach for all equipment. This ensures that devices with poor communication status receive additional resources while devices with good status use minimal resources, resolving the contradiction between reliability and resource waste.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamics by making communication resources adjustable and adaptive rather than fixed. The base station dynamically determines coverage enhancement requirements based on real-time communication status of each user equipment and adjusts resource allocation (such as signal repetition times) accordingly. This dynamic approach allows the system to optimize resource usage while maintaining communication reliability for all devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Productivity

If the base station uses uniform communication resources for all user equipment, then resource allocation simplicity is maintained, but communication efficiency decreases due to resource waste

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication efficiencyVSAvoidresource allocation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by modifying communication parameters (such as coverage enhancement requirements and signal repetition times) based on user equipment characteristics. The base station changes these parameters dynamically to match the communication status of each device, improving overall communication efficiency while managing complexity through systematic parameter adjustment rather than uniform resource allocation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If the base station allocates more communication resources to ensure coverage for all devices, then coverage enhancement is achieved, but resource utilization optimization is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecoverage enhancementVSAvoidresource utilization
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by tailoring communication resources to the specific needs of each user equipment device. The base station determines individual coverage enhancement requirements and allocates resources locally rather than uniformly, ensuring that each device receives exactly the resources it needs for reliable communication, thereby optimizing overall resource utilization while maintaining coverage enhancement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10791559B2Information processing method, user equipment, and base station
Publication Date: 2020.09.29 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments provide an information processing method, user equipment, and a base station, where the information processing method includes: a terminal sends a random access preamble sequence according to a first coverage enhancement requirement corresponding to a first precision to a base station. The terminal receives a coverage enhancement requirement indication message, wherein the coverage enhancement requirement indication message indicates a second coverage enhancement requirement corresponding to a second precision from the base station. The terminal communicates with the base station according to the second coverage enhancement requirement.