METHOD FOR REALIZING FREQUENCY DOMAIN SCHEDULING IN THE TIME DIVISION DUPLEX SYSTEM AND THE SYSTEM THEREOF

• US 20090052357A1
• Filed: 08/14/2007
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Company Limited (China Information Communication Technology Group Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Company Limited (China Information Communication Technology Group Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Suo, Shiqiang, Wang, Yingmin, Xiong, Qinling
• Granted Patent: US 7,733,765 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/280
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03414 Multicarrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03426 transmission using multiple-input and multiple-output channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03343 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/261 Details of reference signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/006 Quality of the received signal, e.g. BER, SNR, water filling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1484 operating bytewise

Abstract

A method and system for achieving frequency domain scheduling in a time division duplex system is disclosed, the method comprising: a first device transmits a non pre-coded reference symbol to a second device; from the reference symbol, the second device obtains a channel impulse response matrix experienced by the reference symbol transmitted from the first device, and according to the channel impulse response matrix, obtains linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix of candidate physical resource blocks used in transmitting data to the first device; from the channel impulse response matrix and the linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix, the second device obtains the channel quality indication of the candidate physical resource blocks; and performs the frequency domain scheduling according to the channel quality indication. The use of the method not only solves the problem in the prior art that the frequency domain scheduling is unable to be performed when a channel sounding method is employed, but also the contradiction in the use of the frequency domain scheduling and the linear spatial domain pre-coding. A communication system is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method for achieving frequency domain scheduling in a time division duplex system, wherein the method comprising the steps of:

a first device transmits a non pre-coded reference symbol to a second device;

from the reference symbol, the second device obtains a channel impulse response matrix experienced by the reference transmitted from the first device, and from the channel impulse response matrix, obtains linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix used in the candidate physical resource blocks to transmit data to the first device;

from the channel impulse response matrix and the linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix, the second device obtains the channel quality indication of the candidate physical resource blocks;

the frequency domain scheduling is performed according to the channel quality indication.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the frequency domain scheduling is performed by the second device according to the channel quality indication.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the second device further allocates a physical resource block for the first device from the candidate physical resource blocks according to the amount of data transmitted to the first device, and uses the linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix corresponding to the allocated physical resource block to perform the linear spatial domain pre-coding.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the second device modulates and codes the data bits transmitted to the first device to form a data symbol according to the channel quality indication corresponding to the physical resource block allocated to the first device, and uses the linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix corresponding to the allocated physical resource block to perform the linear spatial domain pre-coding on the data symbol and the corresponding reference symbol.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein when multiple physical resource blocks successive on the frequency domain and/or time domain are allocated to the first device, use the linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix corresponding to each allocated physical resource block respectively to perform the pre-coding on the data symbol and the reference symbol transmitted on this physical resource block;

or average the linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix corresponding to each allocated physical resource block, and perform the pre-coding on the data symbol and the reference symbol according to the averaged pre-coding matrix.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second device transmits the channel quality indication to the first device, and the first device performs the frequency domain scheduling according to the channel quality indication.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the channel impulse response matrix corresponding to each sub-carrier in a physical resource block calculated from the reference symbol is averaged, and the averaged channel impulse response matrix is conjugate transposed to the channel impulse response matrix of the corresponding physical resource block in order to obtain a linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein when the channel impulse response matrix is obtained from the mutually orthogonal reference symbols transmitted by multiple antennas, singular value decomposition is performed on the averaged channel impulse response matrix to obtain a linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein when the channel impulse response matrix is obtained, from either the reference symbol transmitted by one antenna or repeated reference symbols transmitted by multiple antennas, a beam-forming method is employed to obtain a linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix from the averaged channel impulse response matrix.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the obtaining of the channel quality indication of the physical resource block comprising the steps of:

obtaining the equivalent channel matrix of each sub-carrier according to the linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix and the channel impulse response matrix corresponding to each sub-carrier in a physical resource block;

determining the receiving signal-to-noise ratio on each sub-carrier according to the equivalent channel matrix; and

obtaining the equivalent signal-to-noise ratio on the corresponding physical resource block according to the receiving signal-to-noise ratio of each sub-carrier, and determining the channel quality indication on the physical resource block according to the equivalent signal-to-noise ratio.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the receiving signal-to-noise ratio of each sub-carrier is the product of the square of 2-norm of the equivalent channel matrix and the transmission signal-to-noise ratio.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the transmission signal-to-noise ratio is the ratio between the transmission power at the second device side and the noise and/or interference power received at the first device side;

or the transmission signal-to-noise ratio is the product of the ratio between the two transmission powers of the second device and the transmission signal-to-noise ratio of the first transmission power of the two transmission powers.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein the reference symbol and the data symbol are transmitted together;

or the reference symbol is transmitted separately.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the reference symbol is distributed discretely on an available frequency band.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein when there are two groups of the reference symbols, the two groups of the reference symbols cover different frequency band ranges.

16. A communication system, wherein the system comprising:

a first device for transmitting a non pre-coded reference symbol;

a second device for obtaining a channel impulse response matrix experienced by the reference symbol transmitted from the first device from the reference symbol, and for obtaining the linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix of the candidate physical resource block used in transmitting data to the first device from the channel impulse response matrix, and for obtaining the channel quality indication of the corresponding physical resource block from the channel impulse response matrix and the linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix, and for performing the frequency domain scheduling according to the channel quality indication.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the second device comprising:

a unit for obtaining a channel impulse response matrix from a non pre-coded reference symbol;

a unit for obtaining a pre-coding matrix on the corresponding physical resource block from the channel impulse response matrix;

a unit for obtaining a channel quality indication on the corresponding physical resource block from the pre-coding matrix and the channel impulse response matrix;

a unit for allocating a physical resource block to the first device from the candidate physical resource blocks, according to the magnitude of the data block transmitted to the first device and the channel quality indication.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the second device further comprising:

a unit for modulating and coding the data bits transmitted to the first device and forming a data symbol according to the channel quality indication corresponding to the physical resource block allocated to the first device;

a unit for performing the linear spatial domain pre-coding on the data symbol and the corresponding reference symbol, according to the linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix corresponding to the physical resource block allocated to the first device.

19. A communication system, wherein the system comprising:

a first device for transmitting a non pre-coded reference symbol and performing frequency domain scheduling according to the channel quality indication fed back by a second device;

a second device for obtaining a channel impulse response matrix experienced by the reference symbol transmitted from the first device from the reference symbol, and for obtaining the linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix of the candidate physical resource block used in transmitting data to the first device from the impulse response matrix, and for obtaining the channel quality indication of the corresponding candidate physical resource block from the channel impulse response matrix and the linear spatial domain pre-coding matrix, and for transmitting the channel quality indication to the first device.