METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSCEIVING DATA IN A MIMO SYSTEM

• US 20150222339A1
• Filed: 04/15/2015
• Published: 08/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: PARK, Jae Woo, OH, Jong Ee, LEE, IL-Gu, LEE, Sok-kyu, CHEONG, Min Ho, CHOI, Jee Yon, LEE, Jae Seung, KIM, Yun Joo
• Granted Patent: US 9,172,447 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0413 MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0452 Multi-user MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0003 by switching between different modulation schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0061 Error detection codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0072 Error control for data other than payload data, e.g. control data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0075 Transmission of coding parameters to receiver H04L1/0023 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0083 Formatting with frames or packets; Protocol or part of protocol for error control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/08 by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/18 Phase-modulated carrier systems, i.e. using phase-shift keying H04L27/32 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/20 Modulator circuits; Transmitter circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/323 in the physical layer [OSI layer 1]
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13215 Code checking, CRC
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transceiving data. A method in which a transmitting terminal transmits data to a receiving terminal in a MIMO system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the following steps: generating a data field containing the data; generating a signal field containing information on the data field; generating a data frame containing the data field and the signal field; and transmitting the data frame to the receiving terminal. According to the present invention, an end of the frame being transmitted is accurately notified to the receiving terminal in a communication system in which the frame is transmitted using MIMO, thereby decoding the frame in a more efficient manner at the receiving terminal.

Claims

1. A method for wireless local area network using Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) transmission, the method comprising,

generating a common signal field for all users including transmission duration information that indicates a duration of a Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU);

generating a user dedicated Very High Throughout Signal-B (VHT SIG-B) field including length information indicating a length of a Physical layer Service Data Unit (PSDU) and information about a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS);

generating VHT data including a service field and the PSDU; and

transmitting the PPDU including the common signal field, the VHT SIG-B field and the VHT data over an operating channel,

wherein the service field includes scrambler information and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC), the CRC being calculated over the VHT SIG-B field.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the VHT SIG-B field includes a block of bits, wherein a bit number of the block of bits is determined based on a channel bandwidth of the operating channel.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the bit number of the block of bits is 26 bits if the channel bandwidth is 20 MHz, the bit number of the block of bits is 27 bits if the channel bandwidth is 40 MHz and the bit number of the block of bits is 29 bits if the channel bandwidth is larger than 40 MHz.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the number of bits for the scrambler seed is 7 and the number of bits for the CRC is 8.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the block of bits is repeated a predetermined number of times in accordance with the channel bandwidth of the operating channel.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the block of bits is repeated twice if the channel width of the operating channel is 40 MHz.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the block of bits is repeated four times if the channel width of the operating channel is 80 MHz.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the repeated block of bits is repeated twice if the channel width of the operating channel is 160 MHz.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the PPDU includes a plurality of PSDUs and the transmission duration information indicates a duration of a longest PSDU having longest transmission duration among the plurality of PSDUs.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein for each of the plurality of PSDUs, padding bits are added to a PSDU when the PDSU has shorter transmission duration than the transmission duration.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the VHT SIG-B field is modulated with a binary phase shift keying (BPSK).

12. An apparatus for wireless local area network using Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) transmission, the apparatus comprising:

a signal field generator configured to;

generate a common signal field for all users including transmission duration information that indicates a duration of a Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU);

generate a user dedicated Very High Throughout Signal-B (VHT SIG-B) field including length information indicating a length of a Physical layer Service Data Unit (PSDU) and information about a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS);

generate VHT data including a service field and the PSDU; and

a transmitting unit configured to transmit the PPDU including the common signal field, the VHT SIG-B field and the VHT data over an operating channel,

wherein the service field includes scrambler information and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC), the CRC being calculated over the VHT SIG-B field.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the VHT SIG-B field includes a block of bits, wherein a bit number of the block of bits is determined based on a channel bandwidth of the operating channel.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the bit number of the block of bits is 26 bits if the channel bandwidth is 20 MHz, the bit number of the block of bits is 27 bits if the channel bandwidth is 40 MHz and the bit number of the block of bits is 29 bits if the channel bandwidth is larger than 40 MHz.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the number of bits for the scrambler seed is 7 and the number of bits for the CRC is 8.

16. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the block of bits is repeated a predetermined number of times in accordance with the channel bandwidth of the operating channel.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the block of bits is repeated twice if the channel width of the operating channel is 40 MHz.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the block of bits is repeated four times if the channel width of the operating channel is 80 MHz.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the repeated block of bits is repeated twice if the channel width of the operating channel is 160 MHz.