METHOD FOR DESIGNING HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE PRECODER IN VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND DEVICE THEREFOR

• US 20180183505A1
• Filed: 01/14/2016
• Published: 06/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KIM, Heejin, KANG, Jiwon, KIM, Kitae, LEE, Kilbom, PARK, Kyungmin
• Granted Patent: US 10,200,099 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0408 using two or more beams, i.e. beam diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0452 Multi-user MIMO systems
• 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: H04B 7/0634 Antenna weights or vector/matrix coefficients
• 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 7/0695 using beam selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]

Abstract

The present specification relates to a method by which a terminal designs a hierarchical structure precoder in a vehicle-to-vehicle communication system. The method for designing a hierarchical structure precoder can comprise the steps of: receiving group information indicating a terminal group on the basis of a direction of a first-type beam; feeding back preference information on the first-type beam on the basis of the group information; receiving first-type beam information determined on the basis of the preference information; designing a hierarchical structure precoder including a first precoder and a second precoder, on the basis of the received first-type beam information; and feeding back channel information on the basis of the hierarchical structure precoder, wherein the first precoder can be precoder information on the first-type beam direction, and the second precoder can be precoder information on a second-type beam direction in the first-type beam direction.

Claims

1. A method of designing a hierarchical structure precoder by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving group information indicating a UE group based on a direction of a first type beam;

feeding back preference information on the first type beam based on the group information;

receiving information on the first type beam, determined based on the preference information;

designing the hierarchical structure precoder comprising a first precoder and a second precoder based on the received first type beam information; and

feeding back channel information based on the hierarchical structure precoder,

wherein the first precoder is precoder information on the first type beam direction and the second precoder is precoder information on a direction of a second type beam in the direction of the first type beam.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first type beam is a broad beam and the second type beam is a fine beam.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first precoder is information included in the received information on the first type beam.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the second precoder is precoder information designed based on the first precoder.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the second precoder is precoder information designed based on beam resolution of the second type beam.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the designed hierarchical structure precoder is a precoder designed based on any one of analog beamforming, digital beamforming, and hybrid beamforming.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein, when the designed hierarchical structure precoder is a precoder designed based on the hybrid beamforming, the first type beam is determined based on the analog beamforming and the second beam is determined based on the digital beamforming.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the first precoder is a precoder designed based on a first compensation value of the analog beamforming and the second precoder is a precoder designed based on a second compensation value of the digital beamforming.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the first precoder is a precoder for changing a boresight of the analog beamforming to zero degrees;

and

wherein the second precoder is a precoder for determining a direction of the hybrid beamforming based on the boresight of the analog beamforming, changed to zero degrees.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first type beam information is determined further using at least one of channel reciprocity based on a transmission signal of the UE or positional information of the UE.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the preference information is fed back only when the UE is a representative UE in the UE group indicated by the group information.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the information on the first type beam is received only when the UE is the representative UE in the UE group.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising transmitting the information of the first UE to another UE in the UE group.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the preference information fed back by the UE comprises a plurality of preference information items on the plurality of first type beams.

15. A user equipment (UE) for designing a hierarchical structure precoder, comprising:

a reception module configured to receive information from an external device;

a transmission module configured to transmit information to an external device; and

a processor configured to control the reception module and the transmission module,

wherein the processor receives group information indicating a UE group based on a direction of a first type beam using the reception module, feeds back preference information on the first type beam based on the group information using the transmission module, receives information on the first type beam, determined based on the preference information, using the reception module, designs the hierarchical structure precoder comprising a first precoder and a second precoder based on the received first type beam information, and feeds back channel information based on the hierarchical structure precoder using the transmission module; and

wherein the first precoder is precoder information on the first type beam direction and the second precoder is precoder information on a direction of a second type beam in the direction of the first type beam.