Wireless communication system and receiving device

• US 7,272,294 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2006
• Issued: 09/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Zhou, Liang, Nakamura, Michiharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Pak; Sung
• Assistant Examiner(s): Petkovsek; Daniel
• Application Number:
  US11/415,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20070196072A1
• Time in Patent Office: 504 Days
• Field of Search: 375/260, 375/316, 375/340, 385/147, 370/208
• US Class Current: 385/147
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0417 Feedback systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0626 Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0631 Receiver arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/065 by means of convolutional encoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03331 Arrangements for the joint estimation of multiple sequences

Abstract

The present invention is to provide a wireless communication system and a receiving device each capable of restraining a circuit scale and obtaining an excellent error rate performance. In a wireless communication system in which a transmitting device and a receiving device communicate in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system, the transmitting device includes a partition unit partitioning a transmission data sequence into a plurality of data streams and a mapping unit mapping the plurality of data streams to each of transmitting antennas by using, for a precoding matrix, columns, corresponding to a stream count of the plurality of data streams, of a right singular matrix acquired by singular value decomposition of a channel matrix, and the receiving device includes a decoding unit that Viterbi-decodes the received signals by weighting a path metric by using a weighting coefficient corresponding to a signal-to-noise ratio obtained from the present channel matrix.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system in which a transmitting device having a plurality of transmitting antennas and a receiving device having a plurality of receiving antennas communicate in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system,

said transmitting device comprising:

a status acquiring unit acquiring a channel matrix generated by previous signals from said receiving device;

a partition unit partitioning a transmission data sequence into a plurality of data streams; and

a mapping unit mapping each of the plurality of data streams to each of the plurality of transmitting antennas by using, for a precoding matrix, columns, corresponding to a stream count of the plurality of data streams, of a right singular matrix acquired by singular value decomposition of the channel matrix, and

said receiving device comprising;

an estimation unit estimating a present channel status from received signals and generating a present channel matrix representing the present channel status; and

a decoding unit Viterbi-decoding the received signals by weighting a path metric by using a weighting coefficient corresponding to a signal-to-noise ratio obtained from the present channel matrix.

2. A wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein said decoding unit sets, as the weighting coefficient, eigenvalues obtained by singular value decomposition of the present channel matrix.

3. A wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein said decoding unit uses the weighting coefficient corresponding to a signal-to-noise ratio calculated based on elements of a matrix obtained by multiplying the present channel matrix by the preceding matrix acquired by singular value decomposition of the channel matrix generated by the previous signals.

4. A wireless communication system according to claim 2,

said transmitting device further comprising

a modulating unit determining constellation of data symbols with respect to each of the plurality of data streams, and

said receiving device further comprising

a detecting unit detecting the constellation of the data symbols with respect to such received data streams that the received signals are demultiplexed into the signals corresponding to the stream count of the plurality of data streams.

5. A wireless communication system according to claim 4,

said transmitting device further comprising

a frequency mapping unit mapping the data symbols, with respect to each of the plurality of data streams, to subcarrier frequencies, and

said receiving device further comprising

an acquiring unit acquiring the data symbol from the subcarrier frequency with respect to each of the received data streams.

6. A receiving device communicating with a transmitting device partitioning a transmission data sequence into a plurality of data streams and transmitting the plurality of data streams by mapping to a plurality of transmitting antennas in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system, comprising:

an estimation unit estimating a present channel status from received signals and generating a present channel matrix representing the present channel status; and

a decoding unit Viterbi-decoding the received signals by weighting a path metric by using a weighting coefficient corresponding to a signal-to-noise ratio obtained from the present channel matrix.

7. A receiving device according to claim 6, wherein said decoding unit sets, as the weighting coefficient, eigenvalues obtained by singular value decomposition of the present channel matrix.

8. A receiving device according to claim 7, further comprising a detecting unit detecting the constellation of the data symbols with respect to such received data streams that the received signals are demultiplexed into the signals corresponding to the stream count of the plurality of data streams.

9. A receiving device according to claim 8, further comprising an acquiring unit acquiring the data symbol from the subcarrier frequency with respect to each of the received data streams.

10. A receiving device according to claim 6, wherein said decoding unit uses the weighting coefficient corresponding to a signal-to-noise ratio calculated based on elements of a matrix obtained by multiplying the present channel matrix by a partial matrix of a right singular matrix acquired by singular value decomposition of the channel matrix generated by the previous signals.