DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS

• US 20130058279A1
• Filed: 04/21/2011
• Published: 03/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Kakishima, Yuichi, Taoka, Hidekazu
• Granted Patent: US 8,848,647 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/024 Co-operative use of antennas of several sites, e.g. in co-ordinated multipoint or co-operative multiple-input multiple-output [MIMO] systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/04 using two or more spaced independent antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0417 Feedback systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0452 Multi-user MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/063 Parameters other than those covered in groups H04B7/0623 - H04B7/0634, e.g. channel matrix rank or transmit mode selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0639 Using selective indices, e.g. of a codebook, e.g. pre-distortion matrix index [PMI] or for beam selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0665 Feed forward of transmit weights to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0691 using subgroups of transmit antennas
• 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 2025/03777 characterised by the signalling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03343 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0051 of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0057 Physical resource allocation for CQI

Abstract

The data rate in MIMO transmission is increased to a maximum even when a number of transmitting antennas of a base station apparatus is different from the number of transmitting antennas of the base station apparatus supported by a mobile station apparatus. The base station apparatus (eNodeB) reports the number of transmitting antennas provided for the base station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus UE (ST11). The mobile station apparatus UE compares the reported number of transmitting antennas with a maximum number of supported antennas of the base station apparatus (eNodeB) supported by the mobile station apparatus UE, selects the smaller number of antennas as a number of virtual antennas (ST12), and reports the number of virtual antennas to the base station apparatus (eNodeB) (ST13). The base station apparatus (eNodeB) transmits a data channel signal in accordance with the reported number of virtual antennas (ST15).

Claims

1. A data transmitting method comprising:

a step of reporting the number of transmitting antennas of a base station apparatus to a mobile station apparatus;

a step of the mobile station apparatus comparing the number of transmitting antennas with a maximum number of supported antennas of the base station apparatus supported by the mobile station apparatus and selecting the smaller number of antennas as a number of virtual antennas;

a step of reporting the number of virtual antennas to the base station apparatus; and

a step of transmitting a data channel signal from the base station apparatus in accordance with the number of virtual antennas.

2. The data transmitting method according to claim 1, wherein the number of transmitting antennas is multiplexed with MIB (Master Information Block) information and transmitted to the mobile station apparatus and the number of virtual antennas is reported to the base station apparatus using an RRC message.

3. The data transmitting method according to claim 1, wherein the number of transmitting antennas is multiplexed with SIB (System Information Block) information and transmitted to the mobile station apparatus and the number of virtual antennas is reported to the base station apparatus using an RRC message.

4. The data transmitting method according to claim 1, wherein the number of transmitting antennas is multiplexed with RRC signaling information and transmitted to the mobile station apparatus, and the number of virtual antennas is reported to the base station apparatus using an RRC message.

5. The data transmitting method according to claim 4, wherein the number of transmitting antennas is multiplexed with information on the number of antenna ports of CSI-RS contained in the RRC signaling information and transmitted to the mobile station apparatus.

6. The data transmitting method according to claim 1, wherein the number of transmitting antennas is compared with the number of supported antennas contained in capability information stored in the mobile station apparatus and the number of virtual antennas is selected.

7. The data transmitting method according to claim 1, wherein a data channel signal is transmitted using transmission diversity using a common pilot channel signal until the base station apparatus transmits the data channel signal in accordance with the number of virtual antennas.

8. The data transmitting method according to claim 1, wherein the number of transmitting antennas is 8.

9. A base station apparatus comprising:

antenna information transmitting section configured to transmit the number of transmitting antennas provided for the base station apparatus to a mobile station apparatus;

receiving section configured to receive, from the mobile station apparatus, a number of virtual antennas made up of whichever is the smaller of the number of transmitting antennas and a maximum number of supported antennas of the base station apparatus supported by the mobile station apparatus; and

data transmitting section configured to transmit a data channel signal to the mobile station apparatus in accordance with the number of virtual antennas.

10. A mobile station apparatus comprising:

receiving section configured to receive a number of transmitting antennas of a base station apparatus;

selecting section configured to compare the number of transmitting antennas with a maximum number of supported antennas of the base station apparatus supported by the mobile station apparatus and select the smaller number of antennas as a number of virtual antennas; and

antenna information transmitting section configured to transmit the number of virtual antennas to the base station apparatus.