R1-091263 CoMP Coordinated Scheduling for LTE-Advanced.docVIP

3GPP TSG RAN WG1 meeting #56bis R1-091263 Seoul, Republic of Korea, March 23-27, 2009 Agenda Item: 15.2 Source: Huawei Title: CoMP Coordinated Scheduling for LTE-Advanced Document for: Discussion and Decision Introduction As we know, coordinated multi-point transmission/reception can improve the coverage of high data rates and system spectral efficiency, but at the cost of increasing the interference between coordinated cells. Thus coordinated scheduling and/or beamforming has been regarded as an important technique branch in DL CoMP system[1]. Until now, several companies have proposed schemes that manage interference by some means of cooperation between eNB’s. As described in appendix B, a coordinated beamforming scheme was proposed to solve the flashlight effect where the channel quality changes between UE measurement and eNB transmission, due to the changes in the beam pattern of the interfering neighbouring cells. This beam cooperation could be done either explicitly where the UE is aware of the cooperation (closed-loop), or implicitly where the UE is not aware of the cooperation (open-loop). The implicit option is clearly the simpler option and can be implemented with very little standards impact. More specifically, the implicit options in [2-4] relies on the eNB arbitrarily changing beam patterns and relying on the UE’s CQI reporting to determine the UE’s preference without the UE “knowing” about the beam patterns. This requires a tight linkage between the CQI report and a specific subband of a specific subframe where the measurement was taken. Indeed this relationship has already been loosely specified for Rel.8 in[7]: 7.2.3 Channel quality indicator (CQI) definition The CQI indices and their interpretations are given in Table 7.2.3-1. Based on an unrestricted observation interval in time and frequency, the UE shall derive for each CQI value reported in uplink subframe n the highest CQI index between 1 and 15 in Table 7.2.3-1 which satisfie