METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL AND A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20100085934A1
• Filed: 02/03/2008
• Published: 04/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2007
• 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: Wang, Yingmin, Sun, Shaohui, Xie, Yongbin
• Granted Patent: US 8,289,919 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/330
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0021 in which codes are applied as a frequency-domain sequences, e.g. MC-CDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0044 allocation of payload

Abstract

A method, apparatus and system for transmitting signal, the method includes: using the weighting factor sequence, processing weighting repeating modulation for the basic cell block mapped by the data symbol block at the sending end, and obtaining a plurality of the repeating cell blocks corresponding to the said basic cell block; the sending end maps each repeating cell block to the appointed time-frequency position respectively, then sends the signals in the said time-frequency position; and the receiving end demodulates the plurality of data symbol blocks from the blocks, and incorporates the plurality of data symbol blocks; the said receiving end demodulates the incorporated data symbol blocks, and generates the received data. This scheme can be called for short as the block repeating spread diversity transmission technology, it is based on the information symbol in the time-frequency domain two-dimensional grid point. This scheme doesn'"'"'t restrict the modulating signal generation manner at bottom, it can form a new multiple address/multiple path transmission scheme, and can be incorporated with the other key technologies in the existing mobile communication.

Claims

1. A method for sending a signal, comprising:

performing weighting and repeating modulation on a basic block unit generated from the modulating and mapping of a data block by using a weighting factor sequence, to obtain a plurality of repeated block units corresponding to the basic block unit; and

mapping each of the repeated block units to a specified time-frequency location, and sending a signal at the specified time-frequency location.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

inserting pilot symbols into the basic block unit; and

data and the pilot in the basic block unit are processed using the same weighting factor sequence.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein, the weighting factor sequence is generated at random.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, a plurality of users or a plurality of channels send signals over the same time-frequency resource.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein, each of the users or each of the channels employs a different weighting factor sequence.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein, pilot symbols of different users/channels are transferred in a Time Division mode, a Frequency Division mode or a Code Division mode.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein, the time-frequency location corresponding to each repeated block unit is arranged according to a predetermined pattern.

3. (canceled)

9-21. -21. (canceled)

22. A method for receiving a signal, comprising:

receiving a signal, and adjusting repeated block units at a plurality of specified time-frequency locations to the same time-frequency location;

performing channel estimation according to pilot symbols, and combining the adjusted repeated block units according to a result of the channel estimation;

demodulating the combined repeated block units to obtain a data block; and

demodulating the data block to generate received data.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the pilot symbols are weighted pilot symbols in the repeated block units, and all of the repeated block units are combined directly according to the result of the channel estimation.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the pilot symbols are common pilot symbols or non-weighted dedicated pilot symbols in the repeated block units;

and

the data blocks are combined by weighting the repeated block units using the conjugate of a weighting factor sequence used for weighting the respective repeated block units, and combining the weighted repeated block units.

25. The method of claim 22, wherein the combining is selective combining, maximum ratio combining or equal gain combining.

26-29. -29. (canceled)

30. A communication apparatus, comprising:

a unit for partitioning and modulating data to be sent to generate data blocks;

a unit for modulating and mapping each of the data blocks to a physical resource block to generate a basic block unit;

a unit for performing weighting and repeating modulation on the basic block unit by using a weighting factor sequence, and mapping a plurality of repeated block units obtained from weighting and repeating modulation on the basic block unit to specified time-frequency locations, respectively; and

a unit for sending a signal at the specified time-frequency location and receiving a signal.

32. The communication apparatus of claim 30, further comprising:

a unit for demodulating the repeated block units at a plurality of specified time-frequency locations to obtain a plurality of data blocks after receiving the signal;

a unit for combining the plurality of data blocks; and

a unit for demodulating the combined data blocks to generate received data.

33. The communication apparatus of claim 30 further comprising:

a unit for adjusting the repeated block units at a plurality of specified time-frequency locations to the same time-frequency location after receiving the signal, performing channel estimation according to pilot symbols, and combining the adjusted repeated block units according to a result of the channel estimation;

a unit for demodulating the combined repeated block units to obtain a data block; and

a unit for demodulating the data block to generate received data.

34. The communication apparatus of claim 30, wherein the communication apparatus is a mobile terminal or a base station.

35. The communication apparatus of claim 34, wherein, the base station further comprises:

a unit for superposing signals in repeated block units at the same time-frequency location.

31. (canceled)

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46. A communication apparatus, comprising:

a unit for sending or receiving a signal;

a unit for adjusting repeated block units at a plurality of specified time-frequency locations to the same time-frequency location after receiving the signal;

a unit for performing channel estimation according to pilot symbols, and combining the adjusted repeated block units according to the channel estimation;

a unit for demodulating the combined repeated block units to obtain a data block; and

a unit for demodulating the data block to generate received data.

47. The communication apparatus of claim 46, wherein, the channel estimation is performed using pilot symbols subjected to weighting and repeating modulation in the repeated block unit, to obtain a channel response;

and, a plurality of data blocks obtained by demodulation are combined directly.

48. The communication apparatus of claim 46, wherein, the channel estimation is performed using common pilot symbols or non-weighted dedicated pilot symbols in the repeated block unit to obtain a channel response;

and the data blocks are combined by weighting the data blocks using the conjugate of the weighting factor sequence used for weighting the respective repeated block units, and combining the weighted data blocks.

49. The communication apparatus of claim 46, wherein the communication apparatus is a mobile terminal or a base station.

50-53. -53. (canceled)