METHOD FOR CONFIGURING REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MIMO IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR

• US 20170310377A1
• Filed: 03/31/2015
• Published: 10/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KANG, Jiwon, KIM, Kitae, LEE, Kilbom, KIM, Heejin
• Granted Patent: US 10,122,431 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0413 MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0417 Feedback systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0452 Multi-user MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0478 Special codebook structures directed to feedback optimisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0479 for multi-dimensional arrays, e.g. horizontal or vertical pre-distortion matrix index [PMI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0626 Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0224 using sounding signals

Abstract

In the present application, a method for reporting channel status information (CSI) for multi-antenna-based beamforming by a terminal in a wireless communication system is disclosed. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving reference signal configuration information including two or more reference signal resources through an upper layer; receiving CSI process information through the upper layer; receiving a reference signal from a base station on the basis of the reference signal configuration information; and calculating the CSI on the basis of the CSI process information and the received reference signal and reporting the CSI to the base station, wherein the CSI process information includes a reference signal type indicator indicating a mapping relationship between the reference signal configuration information and multiple antennas.

Claims

1. A method of reporting channel status information (CSI) for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) based beamforming by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving reference signal configuration information including two or more reference signal resources through a higher layer;

receiving CSI process information through the higher layer;

receiving, from a base station, a reference signal based on the reference signal configuration information; and

reporting, to the base station, the CSI calculated based on the CSI process information and the received reference signal,

wherein the CSI process information includes a reference signal type indicator indicating a mapping relation between the reference signal configuration information and multiple antennas.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the reference signal type indicator indicates a first type reference signal configuration or a second type reference signal configuration.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein, if the reference signal type indicator indicates the first type reference signal configuration, the two or more reference signal resources correspond to all columns or all rows of the multiple antennas.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein, if the reference signal type indicator indicates the second type reference signal configuration, one of the two or more reference signal resources corresponds to a row in the multiple antennas and another reference signal resources corresponds to a column in the multiple antennas.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the two or more reference signal resources are distinguished by at least one of different subframe configurations or different resource element pattern configurations.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein, if the reference signal type indicator indicates the second type reference signal configuration, the CSI process information includes information on a vertical codebook and information on a horizontal codebook.

7. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the reference signal configuration information includes information on a total number of antenna ports of the multiple antennas, and

wherein each of the two or more reference signal resources includes information on a number of antenna ports for corresponding reference signal resource.

8. A method of receiving channel status information (CSI) for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) based beamforming by a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting reference signal configuration information including two or more reference signal resources to a user equipment (UE) through a higher layer;

transmitting CSI process information to the UE through the higher layer;

transmitting, to the UE, a reference signal based on the reference signal configuration information; and

receiving the CSI calculated based on the CSI process information and the received reference signal from the UE,

wherein the CSI process information includes a reference signal type indicator indicating a mapping relation between the reference signal configuration information and multiple antennas.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the reference signal type indicator indicates a first type reference signal configuration or a second type reference signal configuration.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein, if the reference signal type indicator indicates the first type reference signal configuration, the two or more reference signal resources correspond to all columns or all rows of the multiple antennas.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein, if the reference signal type indicator indicates the second type reference signal configuration, one of the two or more reference signal resources corresponds to a row in the multiple antennas and another reference signal resources corresponds to a column in the multiple antennas.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein the two or more reference signal resources are distinguished by at least one of different subframe configurations or different resource element pattern configurations.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein, if the reference signal type indicator indicates the second type reference signal configuration, the CSI process information includes information on a vertical codebook and information on a horizontal codebook.

14. The method according to claim 8,

wherein the reference signal configuration information includes information on a total number of antenna ports of the multiple antennas, and

wherein each of the two or more reference signal resources includes information on a number of antenna ports for corresponding reference signal resource.