TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20090154411A1
• Filed: 09/15/2008
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kikuchi, Shohei, Tanabe, Yasuhiko
• Application Number:
  US12/210,646
• Publication Number:
  US 20090154411A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0417 Feedback systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03426 transmission using multiple-input and multiple-output channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03802 Signalling on the reverse channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0204 of multiple channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0228 with direct estimation from sounding signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0242 using matrix methods
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03343 Arrangements at the transmitter end

Abstract

A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive a signal from a base station; a channel estimation unit configured to estimate a state of a channel based on a received signal; a storage configured to store a codebook including channel state values; an index of search number acquisition unit configured to acquire index of search number of candidates to be selected from among the channel state values for a correlation calculation with the estimated state value; a candidate selecting unit configured to select candidates for which the correlation calculation should be performed from among the channel state values according to the index of search number; a correlation calculation unit configured to calculate a correlation between the estimated state value and each of selected candidates; a selection unit configured to select a candidate having a highest correlation value; and a reporting unit configured to report a selected candidate to the base station.

Claims

1. A terminal apparatus comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive a signal from a base station;

a channel estimation unit configured to estimate a state of a channel based on a received signal to obtain an estimated state value of the channel;

a storage configured to store a codebook including a plurality of channel state values;

an index of search number acquisition unit configured to acquire index of search number representing a number of candidates to be selected from among the channel state values in the codebook for a correlation calculation with the estimated state value;

a candidate selecting unit configured to select candidates for which the correlation calculation with the estimated state value should be performed from among the channel state values according to the index of search number;

a correlation calculation unit configured to calculate a correlation between the estimated state value and each of selected candidates;

a selection unit configured to select a candidate having a highest correlation value from among the selected candidates; and

a reporting unit configured to report a selected candidate to the base station.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the channel state values in the codebook are arranged in descending order of correlations with respect to a reference channel state value which is one of the channel state values.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the codebook includes 2^B channel state values,

the number of candidates is expressed by 2^P (P<

B),

the candidate selecting unit selects channel state values placed at intervals of 2<sup>B−

P</sup>−

1 in the codebook as the candidates.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the index of search number acquisition unit acquires the index of search number via a report from the base station.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the codebook includes 2^B channel state values,

the index of search number acquisition unit acquires any one of first to nth index of search number,

the first to nth index of search number are expressed by 2^P (P<

B) using different Ps, respectively

first to nth group each including plural candidates according to the first to nth number are provided beforehand;

an index of P bits is assigned to each of the candidates for each of the first to nth group,

the candidate selecting unit specifies a group associated with the acquired index of search number from among the first to nth group, and

the reporting unit reports an P bits index determined according to a specified group among the first to nth group, for the selected candidate.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a quality measuring unit configured to measure quality of the channel based on the received signal,

the index of search number acquisition unit calculates the index of search number according to measured quality of the channel.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a table configured to associate quality of the channel with index of search number,

wherein the index of search number acquisition unit acquires index of search number corresponding to measured quality of the channel from the table.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a quality information acquisition unit configured to acquire quality information indicating quality of the channel from the base station,

wherein the index of search number acquisition unit calculates the index of search number according to acquired quality of the channel.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising a table configured to associate quality of the channel with index of search number,

wherein the index of search number acquisition unit acquires the number of candidates with reference to the table based on the acquired quality of the channel.

10. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the codebook includes 2^B channel state values,

the index of search number acquisition unit acquires any one of first to nth index of search number,

the first to nth index of search number are expressed by 2^P (P<

B) using different Ps, respectively

first to nth group each including plural candidates are associated beforehand with the first to nth index of search number;

an index of P bits is assigned to each of the candidates for each of the first to nth group,

the candidate selecting unit specifies a group associated with the acquired index of search number from among the first to nth group, and

the reporting unit reports an P bits index determined according to a specified group among the first to nth group, for the selected candidate and reports the acquired index of search number.

11. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a control unit configured to control the candidate selecting unit,

the channel state values in the codebook are arranged in descending order of correlations with respect to a reference channel state value which is one of the channel state values,

the codebook includes 2^B channel state values,

the index of search number acquisition unit acquires a repetition parameter R (R<

B) representing the number of candidates, as the index of search number

(1) the candidate selecting unit substitutes an initial value p0 of less than R into a variable x, determines channel state values placed at intervals of 2<sup>B−

x</sup>−

1 in the codebook as candidates and the selection unit selects one candidate from selected candidates,

(2) the control unit adds 1 to x,

(3) the candidate selecting unit further selects channel state values arranged at intervals of 2<sup>B−

x</sup>−

1 with respect to the one candidate between the one candidate and adjacent candidates to the one candidate in the selected candidates and the selection unit further selects one candidate from among the one candidate and further selected candidates,

(4) the control unit repeats (2) and (3) until the value of x reaches R, and

the reporting unit reports an index of a candidate finally selected by the selection unit to the base station.

12. A communication method comprising:

receiving a signal from a base station;

estimating a state of a channel based on a received signal to obtain an estimated state value of the channel;

providing a codebook including a plurality of channel state values;

acquiring index of search number representing a number of candidates to be selected from among the channel state values in the codebook for a correlation calculation with the estimated state value;

selecting candidates for which the correlation calculation with the estimated state value should be performed from among the channel state values in the codebook according to the index of search number;

calculating a correlation between the estimated state value and each of selected candidates;

selecting a candidate having a highest correlation value from among the selected candidates; and

reporting a selected candidate to the base station.

13. A program storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to execute instructions to perform the steps of:

receiving a signal from a base station;

estimating a state of a channel based on a received signal to obtain an estimated state value of the channel;

reading out a codebook including a plurality of channel state values from a codebook storage;

acquiring index of search number representing a number of candidates to be selected from among the channel state values in the codebook for a correlation calculation with the estimated state value;

selecting candidates for which the correlation calculation with the estimated state value should be performed from among the channel state values in the codebook according to the index of search number;

calculating a correlation between the estimated state value and each of selected candidates;

selecting a candidate having a highest correlation value from among the selected candidates; and

reporting a selected candidate to the base station.

14. A base station for communicating with a terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus estimating a state of a channel to obtain an estimated state value of the channel and calculating a correlation between the estimated state value and each of candidates selected from a codebook which includes channel state values to detect a candidate having a high correlation with the estimated state value, comprising:

a quality measuring unit configured to measure quality of a channel between the base station and the terminal apparatus;

a storage configured to store a base station side codebook having same contents as the codebook of the terminal apparatus;

an index acquisition unit configured to acquire an index of the candidate detected by the terminal apparatus from the terminal apparatus;

a selecting unit configured to select a channel state value having an acquired index from the base station side codebook;

a weighted signal generation unit configured to multiply a transmission signal to the terminal apparatus by a weight depending on a selected channel state value to generate a weighted signal;

a transmission unit configured to transmit the weighted signal to the terminal apparatus;

an index of search number determining unit configured to determine index of search number representing a number of the candidates to be selected from the codebook in the terminal apparatus, based on measured quality of the channel; and

a reporting unit configured to report the index of search number to the terminal apparatus.

15. A communication method performed by a base station which communicates with a terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus estimating a state of a channel to obtain an estimated state value of the channel and calculating a correlation between the estimated state value and each of candidates selected from a codebook which includes channel state values to detect a candidate having a high correlation with the estimated state value, comprising:

measuring quality of a channel between the base station and the terminal apparatus;

providing a storage configured to store a base station side codebook having same contents as the codebook of the terminal apparatus;

acquiring an index of the candidate detected by the terminal apparatus from the terminal apparatus;

selecting a channel state value having an acquired index from the base station side codebook;

multiplying a transmission signal to the terminal apparatus by a weight depending on a selected channel state value to generate a weighted signal;

transmitting the weighted signal to the terminal apparatus;

determining index of search number representing a number of the candidates to be selected from the codebook in the terminal apparatus, based on measured quality of the channel; and

reporting the index of search number to the terminal apparatus.

16. A program storage medium storing a computer program for causing a base station which communicates with a terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus estimating a state of a channel to obtain an estimated state value of the channel and calculating a correlation between the estimated state value and each of candidates selected from a codebook which includes channel state values to detect a candidate having a high correlation with the estimated state value, to execute instructions the steps of:

measuring quality of a channel between the base station and the terminal apparatus;

reading out a base station side codebook identical to the codebook of the terminal apparatus, from a codebook storage;

acquiring an index of the candidate detected by the terminal apparatus from the terminal apparatus;

selecting a channel state value having an acquired index from the base station side codebook;

multiplying a transmission signal to the terminal apparatus by a weight depending on a selected channel state value to generate a weighted signal;

transmitting the weighted signal to the terminal apparatus;

determining index of search number representing a number of the candidates to be selected from the codebook in the terminal apparatus, based on measured quality of the channel; and

reporting the index of search number to the terminal apparatus.