Radio Access Point Coordination for Wireless Resource Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

In wireless communication systems, the coexistence of User Equipment (UE) that supports Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission and Reception (CoMP) technology and UE that does not, within the same coverage area, leads to interference and challenges in coordinating radio access points, particularly for UE not suitable for reporting various interference environments.

Innovation Solution

A method and device that manage wireless resources by exchanging coordination-related information between radio access points, calculating participation ratios of UE in CoMP, and applying valid CoMP information to manage resources until an update is received, enabling UE not suitable for reporting interferences to harmoniously participate in coordination.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission and Reception (CoMP) technology is implemented for UE that supports it, then system performance and interference management are improved, but device complexity and coordination overhead increase due to the need for separate handling of CoMP-capable and non-CoMP-capable UE

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinterference managementVSAvoidcoordination overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the coverage area into CoMP coordination regions and non-CoMP regions, allowing different interference management strategies to be applied in each segment. This enables improved interference management for CoMP-capable UE while avoiding unnecessary coordination overhead for non-CoMP-capable UE, thus resolving the technical contradiction between reliability improvement and device complexity increase.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Measurement precision

If coordination information is exchanged between radio access points for all UE, then coordination accuracy is improved, but signaling overhead and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecoordination accuracyVSAvoidsignaling overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by providing detailed coordination information exchange only in regions where CoMP-capable UE are present, while using simplified or no coordination for regions with only non-CoMP-capable UE. This approach maintains high coordination accuracy where needed while significantly reducing signaling overhead and processing time overall, thus resolving the technical contradiction between measurement precision improvement and time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP3029980B1Method and device for performing coordination between radio access points in wireless communication system
Publication Date: 2020.05.06 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a method and a device for performing coordination between radio access points in a wireless communication system, and a method by which a radio access point manages a wireless resource of a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a measurement report message transmitted from the terminal; transmitting, to a communication element, measurement-related information according to the received measurement report message; receiving, from the communication element, a load information message including coordination pattern information generated on the basis of the measurement-related information; and managing the wireless resource of the terminal on the basis of the received coordinated pattern information.