METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A SINGLE CARRIER FDMA SYSTEM

• US 20080212464A1
• Filed: 02/13/2008
• Published: 09/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Young-Bum, Cho, Joon-Young, Lee, Ju-Ho, Huh, Youn-Hyoung
• Granted Patent: US 7,952,991 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/210
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2602 Signal structure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/26035 Maintenance of orthogonality, e.g. for signals exchanged between cells or users, or by using covering codes or sequences using different training sequence per antenna H04B7/0684; code allocation H04J13/16

Abstract

Provided is a method and an apparatus for transmitting a large quantity of control information in a mobile communication system. When there is no uplink data to be transmitted, a UE spreads second control information, a quantity of which is less than or equal to a pre-defined threshold, by using a ZC sequence cyclic-shifted according to resource blocks, each of which indicates at least one time interval used for a transmission of the second control information. When there is uplink data to be transmitted, the UE performs TDM of the uplink data with third control information. When there is no uplink data to be transmitted and the quantity of control information exceeds a pre-defined threshold, or when the first control information includes various types of information, the UE spreads the first control information in a time domain by the orthogonal codes.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting control information in a Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) system, the method comprising the steps of:

generating first control information to be transmitted;

spreading control information symbols including the first control information by an orthogonal code that has a spreading factor according to a quantity of the first control information and that has a different index allocated to a User Equipment (UE) by a Node B;

performing a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) on the spread signal and mapping the Discrete Fourier Transformed signal to a first frequency region allocated for a transmission of the first control information, thereby generating a frequency domain signal;

mapping the frequency domain signal to SC-FDMA symbols through Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT); and

adding Cyclic Prefix (CP) for preventing inter-symbol interference to the SC-FDMA symbols and then transmitting a CP-added signal to the Node B.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the orthogonal code includes one of Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor (OVSF) codes and Walsh codes.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising scrambling the spread signal by using a different scrambling code according to a cell before performing the DFT.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein when there is no uplink data to be transmitted and the quantity of control information exceeds a pre-defined threshold or when the first control information includes various types of information, the first control information is spread in a time domain by the orthogonal code.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising, when there is no uplink data to be transmitted, spreading second control information, a quantity of which is less than or equal to the pre-defined threshold, by using a Zadoff Chu (ZC) sequence cyclic-shifted according to resource blocks, each of which indicates at least one time interval used for a transmission of the second control information, and then transmitting the spread second control information through a second frequency region different from the first frequency region.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising, when there is uplink data to be transmitted, performing Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) of the uplink data with third control information, and then transmitting the Time Division Multiplexed data and third control information through a third frequency region different from the first frequency region and the second frequency region.

7. A User Equipment (UE) apparatus for transmitting control information in a Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) system, the UE apparatus comprising:

a control signal generator for spreading control information symbols including first control information to be transmitted by an orthogonal code that has a spreading factor according to a quantity of the first control information and has a different index allocated to a User Equipment (UE) by a Node B;

a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) block for performing DFT on a spread signal;

a mapper for mapping the Discrete Fourier Transformed signal to a first frequency region allocated for a transmission of the first control information, thereby generating a frequency domain signal;

an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) block for mapping the frequency domain signal to SC-FDMA symbols through IFFT; and

a Cyclic Prefix (CP) adder for adding CP for preventing inter-symbol interference to the SC-FDMA symbols and then transmitting a CP-added signal to the Node B.

8. The UE apparatus of claim 7, wherein the orthogonal code includes one of Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor (OVSF) codes and Walsh codes.

9. The UE apparatus of claim 7, wherein the control channel signal generator scrambles the spread signal by using a different scrambling code according to a cell before performing the DFT.

10. The UE apparatus of claim 7, wherein when there is no uplink data to be transmitted and a quantity of control information exceeds a pre-defined threshold or when the first control information includes various types of information, the first control information is spread in a time domain by the orthogonal code.

11. The UE apparatus of claim 10, wherein:

when there is no uplink data to be transmitted, the control channel signal generator generates a control channel signal by spreading second control information, a quantity of which is less than or equal to the pre-defined threshold, by using a Zadoff Chu (ZC) sequence cyclic-shifted according to resource blocks, each of which indicates at least one time interval used for a transmission of the second control information;

the DFT block performs DFT on the control channel signal; and

the mapper maps the Discrete Fourier Transformed control channel signal to a second frequency region different from the first frequency region.

12. The UE apparatus of claim 11, further comprising a multiplexer for, when there is uplink data to be transmitted, performing Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) of the uplink data with third control information,

wherein the DFT block performs DFT on the control channel signal;

and

the mapper maps the multiplexed and Discrete Fourier Transformed control channel signal to a third frequency region different from the first frequency region and the second frequency region.

13. A method for receiving control information in a Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) system, the method comprising the steps of:

extracting SC-FDMA symbols from a received signal by removing Cyclic Prefix (CP) for preventing inter-symbol interference from the received signal;

performing a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the SC-FDMA symbols;

demapping a signal mapped to a first frequency region allocated for a transmission of first control information from a Fast Fourier Transformed signal;

converting the demapped signal to a time domain signal through Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT);

extracting a control channel signal by demultiplexing the time domain signal; and

acquiring the first control information by despreading the control channel signal by an orthogonal code that has a spreading factor according to a quantity of the first control information and has a different index allocated to a User Equipment (UE).

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the orthogonal code includes one of Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor (OVSF) codes and Walsh codes.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising descrambling the control channel signal by using different scrambling code according to a cell before despreading the control channel signal by the orthogonal codes.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein when there is no received uplink data and a quantity of the control information exceeds a pre-defined threshold or when the first control information includes various types of information, the first control information is acquired by spreading the control channel signal by the orthogonal code.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising, when there is no received uplink data, acquiring second control information, a quantity of which is less than or equal to the pre-defined threshold, by despreading a signal mapped to a second frequency region different from the first frequency region by using a Zadoff Chu (ZC) sequence.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising, when there is received uplink data, performing Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) on a signal mapped to a third frequency region different from the first frequency region and the second frequency region, thereby extracting third control information.

19. A Node B apparatus for receiving control information in a Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) system, the Node B comprising:

a Cyclic Prefix (CP) remover for extracting SC-FDMA symbols from a received signal by removing CP for preventing inter-symbol interference from the received signal;

a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) block performing an FFT on the SC-FDMA symbols;

a demapper for demapping a signal mapped to a first frequency region allocated for a transmission of first control information from an Fast Fourier Transformed signal;

an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) block for converting the demapped signal to a time domain signal through IFFT;

a demultiplexer for extracting a control channel signal by demultiplexing the time domain signal; and

a control channel signal receiver for acquiring the first control information by despreading the control channel signal by an orthogonal code that has a spreading factor according to a quantity of the first control information and has a different index allocated to a User Equipment (UE).

20. The Node B apparatus of claim 19, wherein the orthogonal code includes one of Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor (OVSF) codes and Walsh codes.

21. The Node B apparatus of claim 19, wherein the control channel signal receiver descrambles the control channel signal by using different scrambling code according to a cell before despreading the control channel signal by the orthogonal codes.

22. The Node B apparatus of claim 19, wherein when there is no received uplink data and a quantity of the control information exceeds a pre-defined threshold or when the first control information includes various types of information, the first control information is acquired by despreading the control channel signal by the orthogonal code.

23. The Node B apparatus of claim 22, wherein:

when there is no received uplink data, the demapper demaps a signal mapped to a second frequency region different from the first frequency region; and

the control channel signal receiver despreads the signal mapped to the second frequency region by using a Zadoff Chu (ZC) sequence, thereby acquiring second control information, a quantity of which is less than or equal to the pre-defined threshold.

24. The Node B apparatus of claim 23, wherein:

when there is received uplink data, the demapper demaps a signal mapped to a third frequency region different from the first frequency region and the second frequency region; and

the demultiplexer performs Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) on the signal mapped to the third frequency region, thereby extracting third control information.