QUALCOMM Incorporated
Downlink power adjustment in narrowband wireless communications

Abstract:

A device, such as a base station or user equipment (UE), may identify a narrowband reference signal (NB-RS) energy per resource element (EPRE) for a NB-RS to be transmitted in a wireless transmission. The device may identify a ratio of a narrowband physical downlink shared channel (N-PDSCH) EPRE to the NB-RS EPRE for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols containing neither a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) nor a NB-RS. In deployments where NB transmissions are transmitted in a guard-band adjacent to a wideband system bandwidth, a device may identify a second ratio for N-PDSCH EPRE to CRS EPRE within OFDM symbols containing CRS. In deployments where NB transmissions are transmitted in-band with the wideband system bandwidth, a device may identify a third ratio of NB-RS EPRE to CRS EPRE, and a fourth ratio of N-PDSCH EPRE to NB-RS EPRE within OFDM symbols containing NB-RS transmissions.