Wireless communication system, wireless communication device and wireless communication method, and computer program thereof

• US 20050141631A1
• Filed: 09/16/2004
• Published: 06/30/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takano, Hiroaki
• Application Number:
  US10/941,809
• Publication Number:
  US 20050141631A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/267
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0417 Feedback systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0615 of weighted versions of same signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0842 Weighted combining
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0656 Cyclotomic systems, e.g. Bell Labs Layered Space-Time [BLAST]

Abstract

The invention realizes an SVD-MIMO transmission having resistance to the variations in the channel characteristic, which saves the feedback from the receiver to the transmitter. The receiver updates the current one into a new channel matrix H_new every 100 OFDM symbols, and performs the reception processing by updating the current one into a new decoding weight matrix U_new acquired by the singular value decomposition of the channel matrix H_new. On the other hand, the transmitter continues to use the original transmission weight matrix V. The diagonal matrix D is turned into a non-diagonal matrix because of the variations in the channel characteristic, where the elements except for the diagonal elements take the values except for zero. This shows that cross talks are generated at this moment. The receiver acquires the cross talk gains, and cancels the cross talk signals of the reception signal to thereby realize the signal transmission without cross talks in consequence.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system in which a transmitter having multiple antennas and a receiver having multiple antennas make a pair to multiplex signals for communication, wherein:

the transmitter transmits a reference signal; and

the receiver, receiving the reference signal, calculates a channel matrix H, performs the singular value decomposition of the channel matrix H into UDV^H to acquire a reception weight matrix U^H, a diagonal matrix D, and a transmission weight matrix V, and processes a reception signal using the reception weight matrix U^H, and, when cross talks are generated between channels, the receiver calculates cross talk gains, estimates cross talk signals from the cross talk gains, and cancels the cross talk signals of the reception signal.

2. A wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter transmits the reference signal each time the transmitter transmits data of a predetermined length.

3. A wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein:

the diagonal matrix D is turned into a non-diagonal matrix D_error having the cross talk gains to the channels each as non-diagonal elements by the generation of cross talks; and

the receiver, using a channel matrix H_new newly acquired when cross talks are generated, U_new acquired by performing the singular value decomposition of the new channel matrix H_new, and the transmission weight matrix V calculated from the original channel matrix H, calculates the non-diagonal matrix D_error according to the following formula, and thereby calculates the cross talk gains (here, U_new⁻

is the general inverse matrix of U_new, and V^H−

is the general inverse matrix of V^H).

D_error=U_new⁻

H_newV^H−

 

 

[expression 1]

4. A wireless communication system according to claim 3, wherein the receiver cancels the cross talk signals of the reception signal by calculating a general inverse matrix D_error⁻

of the non-diagonal matrix D_error, and multiplying a resultant signal after the reception signal having been received with the reception weight matrix U_new by the inverse matrix D_error⁻

according to the following formula.

y=D_error⁻

U_new^HH_newVx  

 

[expression 2]

5. A wireless communication system according to claim 3, wherein the receiver cancels the cross talk signals of the reception signal, by estimating the cross talk signals from the cross talk gains to the channels each, and subtracting the cross talk signals from the reception signal.

6. A wireless communication device having multiple antennas, which receives multiplexed signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas, the communication device comprising:

a communication unit that transmits and receives signals;

a channel estimator that calculates a channel matrix H from a reference signal transmitted from the transmitter;

a singular value decomposition unit that performs the singular value decomposition of the channel matrix H into UDV^H to acquire a reception weight matrix U, a diagonal matrix D, and a transmission weight matrix V;

a reception signal processor that processes a reception signal by using the reception weight matrix U;

a cross talk estimator that estimates cross talk gains to the channels each; and

a cross talk remover that estimates cross talk signals based on the cross talk gains, and removes the cross talk signals from the reception signal processed by the reception signal processor.

7. A wireless communication device according to claim 6, wherein the singular value decomposition unit, the cross talk estimator, and the cross talk remover are put into operation in response to the reference signal transmitted from the transmitter.

8. A wireless communication device according to claim 6, wherein:

the diagonal matrix D is turned into a non-diagonal matrix D_error having the cross talk gains to the channels each as non-diagonal elements by the generation of cross talks; and

the cross talk estimator, using a channel matrix H_new newly acquired when cross talks are generated, U_new acquired by performing the singular value decomposition of the new channel matrix H_new, and the transmission weight matrix V calculated from the original channel matrix H, calculates the non-diagonal matrix D_error according to the following formula, and thereby calculates the cross talk gains (here, U_new⁻

is the general inverse matrix of U_new, and V^H−

is the general inverse matrix of V^H).

D_error=U_new⁻

H_newV^H−

 

 

[expression 3]

9. A wireless communication device according to claim 6, wherein the cross talk remover removes the cross talk signals from the reception signal by calculating a general inverse matrix D_error⁻

of the non-diagonal matrix D_error, and multiplying a resultant signal after the reception signal having been received with the reception weight matrix U_new by the inverse matrix D_error⁻

according to the following formula.

y=D_error⁻

U_new^HH_newVx  

 

[expression 4]

10. A wireless communication device according to claim 6, wherein the cross talk remover removes the cross talk signals from the reception signal, by estimating the cross talk signals from the cross talk gains to the channels each, and subtracting the cross talk signals from the reception signal.

11. A wireless communication method for receiving multiplexed signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas by using multiple antennas, comprising:

a channel estimating step that calculates a channel matrix H from a reference signal transmitted from the transmitter;

a singular value decomposition step that performs the singular value decomposition of the channel matrix H into UDV^H to acquire a reception weight matrix U, a diagonal matrix D, and a transmission weight matrix V;

a reception signal processing step that processes a reception signal by using the reception weight matrix U;

a cross talk estimating step that estimates cross talk gains to the channels each; and

a cross talk removing step that estimates cross talk signals based on the cross talk gains, and removes the cross talk signals from the reception signal processed by the reception signal processing step.

12. A wireless communication method according to claim 11, wherein the singular value decomposition step, the cross talk estimating step, and the cross talk removing step are put into operation in response to the reference signal transmitted from the transmitter.

13. A wireless communication method according to claim 11, wherein:

the diagonal matrix D is turned into a non-diagonal matrix D_error having the cross talk gains to the channels each as non-diagonal elements by the generation of cross talks; and

the cross talk estimating step, using a channel matrix H_new newly acquired when cross talks are generated, U_new acquired by performing the singular value decomposition of the new channel matrix H_new, and the transmission weight matrix V calculated from the original channel matrix H, calculates the non-diagonal matrix D_error according to the following formula, and thereby calculates the cross talk gains (here, U_new⁻

is the general inverse matrix of U_new, and V^H−

is the general inverse matrix of V_H).

D_error=U_new⁻

H_newV^H−

 

 

[expression 3]

14. A wireless communication device according to claim 13, wherein the cross talk removing step removes the cross talk signals from the reception signal by calculating a general inverse matrix D_error⁻

of the non-diagonal matrix D_error, and multiplying a resultant signal after the reception signal having been received with the reception weight matrix U_new by the inverse matrix D_error⁻

according to the following formula.

y=D_error⁻

U_new^HH_newVx  

 

[expression 4]

15. A wireless communication device according to claim 13, wherein the cross talk removing step removes the cross talk signals from the reception signal, by estimating the cross talk signals from the cross talk gains to the channels each, and subtracting the cross talk signals from the reception signal.

16. A computer program described in a computer-readable format, in a manner that the processing for receiving multiplexed signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas with multiple antennas is executed on a computer system, comprising:

a channel estimating step that calculates a channel matrix H from a reference signal transmitted from the transmitter;

a singular value decomposition stop that performs the singular value decomposition of the channel matrix H into UDV^H to acquire a reception weight matrix U^H, a diagonal matrix D, and a transmission weight matrix V;

a reception signal processing step that processes a reception signal by using the reception weight matrix U^H;

a cross talk estimating step that estimates cross talk gains to the channels each; and

a cross talk removing step that estimates cross talk signals based on the cross talk gains, and removes the cross talk signals from the reception signal processed in the reception signal processing step.