System Information Resource Allocation for Coverage Enhancement

The patent applies local quality by differentiating resource allocation for system information transmission based on coverage enhancement grades. Different cells or terminal groups with different coverage requirements are assigned different repetition counts and resource configurations. This allows terminals in poor coverage areas to receive enhanced transmission resources while terminals in good coverage areas use standard resources, thus improving coverage performance for needy terminals without increasing system overhead uniformly across the entire network.

The patent uses copying by transmitting system information multiple times through repetition in the time domain. Instead of deploying additional physical infrastructure equipment like relay stations or access points in hard-to-reach areas, the system creates temporal copies of the system information blocks and transmits them across multiple subframes and radio frames. This allows terminals in low-coverage areas to accumulate sufficient signal energy through repeated reception and combining, achieving reliable communication without the high capital expenditure of additional hardware deployment.

The patent applies dynamics by making the MIB transmission configuration adaptive rather than fixed. The system dynamically adjusts the number of repetitions, resource allocation, and transmission parameters based on the coverage enhancement grade of different terminals or cells. Terminals experiencing poor coverage can request or be assigned higher repetition counts and more frequent transmissions, while terminals in good coverage areas benefit from reduced transmission frequency. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to optimize between overhead reduction and coverage performance improvement based on actual channel conditions.