Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving channel information in inter-vehicle communication system

• US 10,567,055 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2016
• Issued: 02/18/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Heejin, Kang, Jiwon, Kim, Kitae, Lee, Kilbom, Park, Kungmin
• Primary Examiner(s): Ngo, Ricky Q
• Assistant Examiner(s): Steiner, Stephen N
• Application Number:
  US15/576,016
• Publication Number:
  US 20180205432A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,398 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/24 with feedback of measurements to the transmitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/06 at the transmitting station
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/061 using feedback from receiving side
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/063 Parameters other than those covered in groups H04B7/0623 - H04B7/0634, e.g. channel matrix rank or transmit mode selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0632 Channel quality parameters, e.g. channel quality indicator [CQI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0634 Antenna weights or vector/matrix coefficients
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0639 Using selective indices, e.g. of a codebook, e.g. pre-distortion matrix index [PMI] or for beam selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/08 at the receiving station
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0802 using antenna selection H04B7/0868 takes precedence; antenna beam directivity switching H01Q3/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]

Abstract

The present specification relates to a method by which a terminal transmits channel information to a base station in an inter-vehicle communication system. The method for transmitting channel information can comprise the steps of: measuring channel information and feeding the same back to the base station; and receiving data on the basis of the channel information. The terminal comprises a plurality of distributed antenna units (DU), and when it is possible to select whether to activate each of the plurality of DUs, a plurality of channel information sets are measured according to the number and the location of activated DUs, and the channel information to be fed back can include the plurality of channel information sets.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting feedback information by a user equipment (UE) including a plurality of distributed antenna units (DUs) to a base station in a vehicular communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting to the base station, feedback information including at least one of a plurality of channel information sets; and

receiving from the base station, data based on the feedback information,

wherein a number of the plurality of channel information sets is determined according to a number of activated DUs, and wherein each of the plurality of channel information sets is determined according to locations of the activated DUs, when activation of each of the plurality of DUs included in the UE is selectable.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the number of the plurality of channel information sets is 2{circumflex over ( 

)}N, when the number of plurality of DUs included in the UE is N.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the channel information set includes information on a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), a channel quality indicator (CQI) and a rank indicator (RI).

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the channel information set further includes information on at least one multiuser-CQI (MU-CQI).

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the feedback information further includes information on at least one of a first combination of beams or a second combination of beams.

6. The method according to claim 5,

wherein the first combination of the beams is for minimizing interference with the UE based on the PMI, and

wherein the second combination of the beams is for maximizing interference with the UE based on the PMI.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the first combination of the beams and the second combination of the beams are determined based on precoder information of at least one neighboring UE.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

receiving from the at least one neighboring UE via the base station, the precoder information of the at least one neighboring UE, wherein the precoder information of the at least one neighboring UE is broadcasted by the base station.

9. A user equipment (UE) apparatus for transmitting feedback information in a vehicular communication system, the UE apparatus including a plurality of distributed antenna units (DUs) and comprising:

a transceiver;

a processor coupled with the transceiver and configured to;

transmit to a base station, the feedback information including at least one of a plurality of channel information sets; and

receive from the base station, data based on the feedback information,

wherein a number of the plurality of channel information sets is determined according to a number of activated DUs, and wherein each of the plurality of channel information sets is determined according to locations of the activated DUs, when activation of each of the plurality of DUs included in the UE is selectable.