METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL INFORMATION, DEVICE THEREOF, BASE STATION, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING FOR BASE STATION THEREOF

• US 20130094548A1
• Filed: 06/21/2011
• Published: 04/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: Park, Kyoungmin
• Application Number:
  US13/806,533
• Publication Number:
  US 20130094548A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0417 Feedback systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0456 Selection of precoding matrices or codebooks, e.g. using matrices antenna weighting
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0473 taking constraints in layer or codeword to antenna mapping into account
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0482 Adaptive codebooks
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0619 using feedback from receiving side feedback signaling for adaptive modulation/coding H04L1/0001
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0626 Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to transmission and reception using a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna in a wireless communication system in which a method includes: receiving a reference signal to estimate a channel; estimating a suitable pre-coding matrix from the estimated channel similar to a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) matrix which has at least two different DFT code books; providing a relatively large DFT matrix subset with a pre-coding matrix phase different from the set of said suitable pre-coding matrix; generating channel information which includes multiple access information on at least one DFT matrix which is small enough to be similar to said subset pre-coding matrix; and transmitting said channel information generated in said channel information generating step.

Claims

1. A transmission method of channel information by an apparatus in a

wireless communication system, the method comprising:

estimating a channel by receiving a reference signal;

estimating a precoding matrix suitable for the estimated channel from a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) codebook including two or more sets having different similarities of DFT matrixes, configuring a subset by DFT matrixes having a relatively large phase difference from the precoding matrix in a set including the precoding matrix, and generating channel information containing multiple access information on one or more DFT matrixes having a sufficiently low similarity with the precoding matrix within the subset; and

transmitting the channel information generated in generating the channel information into an air.

2. The transmission method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the multiple access information is an index (best companion indicator) corresponding to the one or more DFT matrixes having the sufficiently low similarity with the precoding matrix.

3. The transmission method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when a number of bits expressing indexes corresponding to DFT matrixes included in each set is n, a number of bits expressing indexes corresponding to DFT matrixes included in the subset is smaller than n.

4. The transmission method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in transmission of rank 2 or more of simultaneously transmitting two or more codewords through two or more layers, channels are estimated for each of the two or more layers in estimating the channel, and in generating the channel information, the subset is a common DFT matrix between DFT matrixes having a relatively large phase difference from each of two or more precoding matrixes and DFT matrixes adjacent to the common DFT matrix, in a set including the two or more precoding matrixes suitable for the channels estimated in estimating the channel.

5. The transmission method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the apparatus is a base station or a user equipment.

6. The transmission method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the DFT matrixes of the DFT codebook have a resolution of one of 4 Phase Shift Key (PSK), 8PSK, 16PSK, and 32PSK.

7. The transmission method as claimed in claim 1, wherein phase values of column elements of the DFT matrixes of the DFT codebook constantly increase.

8. The transmission method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the similarity is orthogonality or correlation.

9. The transmission method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the channel information contains channel state information on the precoding matrix corresponding to one of the DFT matrixes of the DFT codebook suitable for the estimated channel.

10. A channel information feedback apparatus in a wireless communication system, comprising:

a channel estimator for estimating a channel receiving by a reference signal;

a channel information generator for estimating a precoding matrix suitable for the channel estimated by the channel estimator from a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) codebook including two or more sets having different similarities of DFT matrixes, configuring a subset by DFT matrixes having a relatively large phase difference from the precoding matrix in a set including the precoding matrix, and generating channel information containing multiple access information on one or more DFT matrixes having a sufficiently low similarity with the precoding matrix within the subset; and

a feedback unit for feeding back the generated channel information.

11. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the multiple access information is an index (best companion indicator) corresponding to one or more DFT matrixes having a sufficiently low similarity with the precoding matrix.

12. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein, when a number of bits expressing indexes corresponding to DFT matrixes included in each set is n, a number of bits expressing indexes corresponding to DFT matrixes included in the subset is smaller than n.

13. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein, in transmission of rank 2 or more of simultaneously transmitting two or more codewords through two or more layers, the channel estimator estimates channels for each of the two or more layers in estimating the channel, and the subset is a common DFT matrix between DFT matrixes having relatively large phase difference from each of two or more precoding matrixes and DFT matrixes adjacent to the common DFT matrix, in a set including the two or more precoding matrixes suitable for the channels estimated in estimating the channel in generating the channel information.

14. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the DFT matrixes of the DFT codebook have a resolution of one of 4 Phase Shift Key (PSK), 8PSK, 16PSK, and 32PSK.

15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein phase values of column elements of the DFT matrixes of the DFT codebook constantly increase.

16. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the similarity is orthogonality or correlation.

17. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the channel information contains channel state information for the precoding matrix corresponding to one of the DFT matrixes of the DFT codebook suitable for the estimated channel.

18. A base station comprising:

a layer mapper for mapping a data symbol into a layer;

a precoder for receiving feedback of channel state information and multiple access information from one or more user equipments and precoding mapped symbols by using each precoding matrix;

a scheduler for, when the user equipment allows simultaneous accesses of the user equipment and one or more other user equipments, selecting a user equipment to receive data by using the channel state information and the multiple access information and generating precoding matrixes of the precoder; and

an antenna array including two or more antennas for propagating a precoded symbol into an air,

wherein, when a precoding matrix suitable for a channel estimated by receiving a reference signal by a user equipment is estimated in a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) codebook including two or more sets having different similarities of DFT matrixes and a subset is configured by DFT matrixes having a relatively large phase difference from the precoding matrix in a set including the precoding matrix, the multiple access information is information on one or more DFT matrixes having a sufficiently low similarity with the precoding matrix within the subset.

19. A transmission method of a base station, comprising:

mapping a data symbol into a layer;

receiving feedback of channel state information and multiple access information from one or more user equipments and precoding mapped symbols by using each precoding matrix;

when the user equipment allows simultaneous accesses of the user equipment and one or more other user equipments, selecting a user equipment to receive data by using the channel state information and the multiple access information and generating precoding matrixes of a precoder; and

propagating a precoded symbol into an air through an antenna array including two or more antennas,

wherein, when a precoding matrix suitable for a channel estimated by receiving a reference signal by a user equipment is estimated in a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) codebook including two or more sets having different similarities of DFT matrixes and a subset is configured by DFT matrixes having a relatively large phase difference from the precoding matrix in a set including the precoding matrix, the multiple access information is information on one or more DFT matrixes having a sufficiently low similarity with the precoding matrix within the subset.