Distributed base station, communication system, and signal transmission method thereof
First Claim
1. A distributed base station (20) serving mobile stations, which comprises multiple antenna-RF processing units (21, 22, 23) and a central processing unit (24) remotely connected with said multiple antenna-RF processing units, each of the antenna-RF processing units having an antenna array formed by multiple antennas, said central processing unit comprising:
- an MIMO coding unit (241) for MIMO coding of data of each of the mobile stations so that data of each of the mobile stations generates multi-path data symbols;
a beam-forming unit (242) for multiplying each path data symbol of the multi-path data symbols of each of the mobile stations by a weighted coefficient vector corresponding to this path data symbol, to obtain beam-forming data of each path data symbol of each of the mobile stations; and
an overlapping unit (243) for, with respect to each antenna in said antenna-RF processing units, overlapping beam-forming data of the respective mobile stations for this antenna and feeding the overlapped beam-forming data to this antenna for transmission.
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a distributed base station serving mobile stations, which comprises multiple antenna-RF processing units and a central processing unit remotely connected with said multiple antenna-RF processing units. Each of the antenna-RF processing units has an antenna array formed by multiple antennas. Said central processing unit comprises: an MIMO coding unit for MIMO coding of data of each of the mobile stations so that data of each of the mobile stations generates multi-path data symbols; a beam-forming unit for multiplying each path data symbol of the multi-path data symbols of each of the mobile stations by a weighted coefficient vector corresponding to this path data symbol, to obtain beam-forming data of each path data symbol of each of the mobile stations; and an overlapping unit for, with respect to each antenna in said antenna-RF processing units, overlapping beam-forming data of the respective mobile stations for this antenna and feeding the overlapped beam-forming data to this antenna for transmission. The present invention further discloses a communication system having the above distributed base station and the corresponding signal transmission method.
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11 Claims
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1. A distributed base station (20) serving mobile stations, which comprises multiple antenna-RF processing units (21, 22, 23) and a central processing unit (24) remotely connected with said multiple antenna-RF processing units, each of the antenna-RF processing units having an antenna array formed by multiple antennas, said central processing unit comprising:
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an MIMO coding unit (241) for MIMO coding of data of each of the mobile stations so that data of each of the mobile stations generates multi-path data symbols;
a beam-forming unit (242) for multiplying each path data symbol of the multi-path data symbols of each of the mobile stations by a weighted coefficient vector corresponding to this path data symbol, to obtain beam-forming data of each path data symbol of each of the mobile stations; and
an overlapping unit (243) for, with respect to each antenna in said antenna-RF processing units, overlapping beam-forming data of the respective mobile stations for this antenna and feeding the overlapped beam-forming data to this antenna for transmission. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of signal transmission between a distributed base station and mobile stations, wherein said distributed base station (20) comprises multiple antenna-RF processing units (21, 22, 23) and a central processing unit (24) remotely connected with said multiple antenna-RF processing units, the method comprising the following steps:
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an MIMO coding step for MIMO coding of data of said base station for each of the mobile stations to divide data of each of the mobile stations into multi-path data symbols;
a beam-forming data obtaining step for multiplying each path data symbol of the multi-path data symbols of each of the mobile stations by a weighted coefficient vector corresponding to this path data symbol to obtain beam-forming data of each path data symbol of each of the mobile stations; and
an overlapping step for, with respect to each antenna in said antenna-RF processing units, overlapping beam-forming data of the respective mobile stations for this antenna and feeding the overlapped beam-forming data to this antenna for transmission. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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