SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SIGNAL IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20090059819A1
• Filed: 08/28/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: PARK, Jung-Min, HWANG, Young-Ju, KIM, Kwang-Soon, SANG, Young-Jin, CHOI, Jin-Ghoo, JUNG, Sung-Yoon, KIM, Seong-Lyun
• Granted Patent: US 7,969,926 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/280
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/15542 Selecting at relay station its transmit and receive resources selection of wireless resources by user or terminal H04W72/02; arrangements affording multiple use of the transmission path by two-dimensional division of the resources H04L5/0003, or by allocating sub-channels H04L5/003
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/30 Special cell shapes, e.g. doughnuts or ring cells

Abstract

A system and method for transmitting and receiving signals in a communication system are provided, in which a BS communicates with a first MS located within an inner area of a cell during first and second time periods in TDD and communicates with a second MS located within an outer area of the cell during the first time period in FDD, and an RS detects signals transmitted between the BS and the second MS during the first time period and transmits the detected signals simultaneously to the BS and the second MS during the second time period.

Claims

1. A system for transmitting and receiving signals in a communication system, the system comprising:

a Base Station (BS) for communicating with a first Mobile Station (MS) located within an inner area of a cell during first and second time periods in Time Division Duplexing (TDD) and for communicating with a second MS located within an outer area of the cell during the first time period in Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD); and

a Relay Station (RS) for detecting signals transmitted between the BS and the second MS during the first time period and for transmitting the detected signals simultaneously to the BS and the second MS during the second time period.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the RS detects a first signal transmitted from the BS to the second MS and a second signal transmitted from the second MS to the BS during the first time period, combines the first signal with the second signal, and transmits the combined signal to the BS and the second MS during the second time period.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the BS communicates with the first MS on a first-type subchannel in one of first and second sub-frequency bands and communicates with the second MS on a second-type subchannel in a downlink subframe of the first sub-frequency band and a second-type subchannel in an uplink subframe of the second sub-frequency band, the first-type including a plurality of successive subcarriers along a frequency axis and the second-type subchannels each including a plurality of scattered subcarriers along the frequency axis.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the RS detects the signals transmitted between the BS and the second MS on the second-type subchannel in the downlink subframe of the first sub-frequency band and on the second-type subchannel in the uplink frame of the second sub-frequency band.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the RS transmits the detected signals on one of a second-type subchannel in the uplink subframe of the first sub-frequency band and a second-type subchannel in the uplink subframe of the second sub-frequency band.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the BS controls the size of the inner area of the cell and transmission powers for the first MS and the second MS to satisfy reception Signal-to-Noise Ratios (SNRs) requested by the first MS and the second MS.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the BS controls transmission powers for the first MS and the second MS to satisfy a reception SNR requested by the second MS.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the BS controls the size of the inner area of the cell to satisfy a reception SNR requested by the first MS.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the BS communicates with the first MS and second MS using one of a Reuse Partitioning (RP) based duplexing scheme and Partial Frequency Reuse (PFR) based duplexing scheme.

10. A method for transmitting and receiving signals in a communication system, the method comprising:

communicating, by a Base Station (BS), with a first Mobile Station (MS) located within an inner area of a cell during first and second time periods in Time Division Duplexing (TDD);

communicating, by the BS, with a second MS located within an outer area of the cell during the first time period in Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD);

detecting, by a Relay Station (RS), signals transmitted between the BS and the second MS during the first time period; and

transmitting, by the RS, the detected signals simultaneously to the BS and the second MS during the second time period.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the transmitting comprises:

detecting a first signal transmitted from the BS to the second MS and a second signal transmitted from the second MS to the BS during the first time period;

combining the first signal with the second signal; and

transmitting the combined signal to the BS and the second MS during the second time period.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the communicating with the first MS comprises communicating with the first MS on a first-type subchannel in one of first and second sub-frequency bands, and wherein the communicating with the second MS comprises communicating with the second MS on a second-type subchannel in a downlink subframe of the first sub-frequency band and a second-type subchannel in an uplink subframe of the second sub-frequency band, the first-type including a plurality of successive subcarriers along a frequency axis and the second-type subchannels each including a plurality of scattered subcarriers along the frequency axis.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising detecting, by the RS, signals transmitted between the BS and the second MS on the second-type subchannel in the downlink subframe of the first sub-frequency band and on the second-type subchannel in the uplink frame of the second sub-frequency band.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising transmitting, by the RS, the detected signals on one of a second-type subchannel in the uplink subframe of the first sub-frequency band and a second-type subchannel in the uplink subframe of the second sub-frequency band.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising controlling, by the BS, the size of the inner area of the cell and transmission powers for the first MS and the second MS to satisfy reception Signal-to-Noise Ratios (SNRs) requested by the first MS and the second MS.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising controlling, by the BS, transmission powers for the first MS and the second MS to satisfy a reception SNR requested by the second MS.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising controlling, by the BS, the size of the inner area of the cell to satisfy a reception SNR requested by the first MS.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the BS communicates with the first MS and second MS using one of a Reuse Partitioning (RP) based duplexing scheme and Partial Frequency Reuse (PFR) based duplexing scheme.