FIXED STATION RECEIVER FOR MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMAND UPLINK ADAPTATION METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120002710A1
• Filed: 01/31/2011
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: PARK, Ok-Sun, PARK, Gi Yoon, KO, Young Jo, KIM, Daeho
• Granted Patent: US 8,565,332 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0001 Systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality, e.g. power backoff adaptive data allocation for multicarrier modulation H04L5/0044; controlling transmission power for radio systems H04W52/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/20 using signal quality detector
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0204 of multiple channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0224 using sounding signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03343 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT

Abstract

Provided are a fixed station receiver for a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) communication system and an uplink adaptation method thereof. In the uplink adaptation method, a sounding reference signal (SRS) is received from a terminal including a plurality of transmission antennas. A complex channel matrix (H) corresponding to a channel response and a noise variance (σ²) corresponding to a noise power is calculated from the sounding reference signal. A signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR) on each transmission symbol is calculated with reference to the complex channel matrix (H) and the noise variance (σ²). A pre-coding matrix of the terminal is selected with reference to the signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR).

Claims

1. An uplink adaptation method comprising:

receiving a sounding reference signal (SRS) from a terminal including a plurality of transmission antennas;

calculating a complex channel matrix (H) corresponding to a channel response or a noise variance (σ

²) corresponding to a noise power from the sounding reference signal;

calculating a signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR) on each transmission symbol with reference to the complex channel matrix (H) or the noise variance (σ

²); and

selecting a pre-coding matrix of the terminal with reference to the signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR).

2. The uplink adaptation method of claim 1, wherein the sounding reference signal (SRS) is periodically delivered.

3. The uplink adaptation method of claim 2, wherein the sounding reference signal (SRS) is transmitted to any one selected from the plurality of transmission antennas.

4. The uplink adaptation method of claim 3, further comprising storing a final channel state on the selected antenna every transmission period of the sounding reference signal.

5. The uplink adaptation method of claim 4, wherein the complex channel matrix (H) is configured from the final channel state.

6. The uplink adaptation method of claim 1, wherein the selecting of the pre-coding matrix comprises selecting any one of pre-coding matrixes for providing the largest channel capacity with reference to a value of the signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR).

7. The uplink adaptation method of claim 1, further comprising determining any one of the plurality of antennas for transmitting the sounding reference signal every transmission period of the sounding reference signal.

8. The uplink adaptation method of claim 1, further comprising feedbacking the selected pre-coding matrix to the terminal.

9. The uplink adaptation method of claim 8, wherein the selected pre-coding matrix is provided to the terminal via a downlink control channel.

10. The uplink adaptation method of claim 8, wherein the selected pre-coding matrix is mapped in a pre-coding matrix index to be feedbacked to the terminal.

11. A base station receiving device of a communication system supporting Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO), the device comprising:

one or more receiving antennas receiving a sounding reference signal (SRS) from a terminal;

a fast Fourier transformer processing a received signal of the receiving antenna; and

a sounding reference signal processing unit calculating a signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR) on each transmission symbol received from a sounding reference signal delivered from the fast Fourier transformer to select a pre-coding matrix of the terminal.

12. The base station receiving device of claim 11, wherein the sounding reference signal processing unit calculates a complex channel matrix (H) corresponding to a channel response and a noise variance (σ

²) corresponding to a noise power.

13. The base station receiving device of claim 12, wherein the sounding reference signal processing unit calculates the signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR) on each transmission symbol using the complex channel matrix (H) and the noise variance (σ

²).