METHOD FOR ALLOCATING PHICH AND GENERATING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN SYSTEM USING SINGLE-USER MIMO BASED ON MULTIPLE CODEWORDS WHEN TRANSMITTING UPLINK

• US 20150103796A1
• Filed: 12/18/2014
• Published: 04/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Chung, Jae Hoon, Kim, So Yeon, Kwon, Yeong Hyeon, Ko, Hyun Soo, Han, Seung Hee, Lee, Moon II
• Granted Patent: US 9,444,596 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/06 using space diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1861 Physical mapping arrangements for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0226 sounding signals per se
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2613 Structure of the reference signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0026 Division using four or more dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0051 of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/004 in the uplink, i.e. towards network

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for generating an uplink reference signal in a system supporting plural uplink-access transmission modes. The method comprises: a step for transmitting the reference signal configuration information about the configuration of a reference signal from a base station to a user device through an uplink grant PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel), and a step for receiving from the user device a sub-frame including the reference signal that is generated based on the reference signal configuration information. The reference signal configuration information is prepared for plural uplink access transmission modes and includes a cyclic shift value for the sequence of the reference signal. The reference signal is supposed to be transmitted to an uplink, and the user device is set up to be operated in the uplink-access transmission mode that corresponding to the reference signal configuration information.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A method for a user equipment (UE) to transmit multiple data units to a base station via multiple transmission antennas, the method comprising:

receiving, from the base station, downlink control information informing the UE of control information for transmitting uplink data to the base station, wherein the downlink control information comprises a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) cyclic shift index field having a predetermined length;

transmitting the multiple data units with multiple DMRSs to the base station via the multiple transmission antennas, wherein each of the multiple DMRSs is cyclic shifted with different cyclic shift values, and wherein a combination of different cyclic shift values for each of the multiple DMRSs is identified based on the DMRS cyclic shift index filed of the received downlink control information; and

receiving a Physical Hybrid automatic repeat request Indicator Channel (PHICH) carrying ACKnowledgement/Negative ACKnowledgement (ACK/NACK) with respect to each of the transmitted multiple data units from the base station.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein a number of different combinations of different cyclic shift values for each of the multiple DMRSs corresponds to a number of cases identifiable by the DMRS cyclic shift index field having the predetermined length.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the predetermined length of the DMRS cyclic shift index field is the same as a length of the DMRS cyclic shift index field for indicating cyclic shift value for one DMRS.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the predetermined length corresponds to a 3 bit length, and

wherein 8 combinations of different cyclic shift values for each of the multiple DMRSs are respectively predetermined based on the DMRS cyclic shift index field.

15. A method for a base station to receive multiple data units from multiple transmission antennas of a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

transmitting, to the UE, downlink control information informing the UE of control information for transmitting uplink data to the base station, wherein the downlink control information comprises a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) cyclic shift index field having a predetermined length;

receiving, from the UE, the multiple data units with multiple DMRSs transmitted from the multiple transmission antennas, wherein each of the multiple DMRSs is cyclic shifted with different cyclic shift values, and wherein a combination of different cyclic shift values for each of the multiple DMRSs is identified based on the DMRS cyclic shift index filed of the transmitted downlink control information; and

transmitting a Physical Hybrid automatic repeat request Indicator Channel (PHICH) carrying ACKnowledgement/Negative ACKnowledgement (ACK/NACK) with respect to each of the received multiple data units to the UE.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein a number of different combinations of different cyclic shift values for each of the multiple DMRSs corresponds to a number of cases identifiable by the DMRS cyclic shift index field having the predetermined length.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the predetermined length of the DMRS cyclic shift index field is the same as a length of the DMRS cyclic shift index field for indicating cyclic shift value for one DMRS.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the predetermined length corresponds to a 3 bit length, and

wherein 8 combinations of different cyclic shift values for each of the multiple DMRSs are respectively predetermined based on the DMRS cyclic shift index field.