System, method, apparatus, and computer program for wireless communication

• US 7,627,045 B2
• Filed: 12/01/2004
• Issued: 12/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Redwood Technologies, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takano, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): TSE, YOUNG TOI
• Application Number:
  US11/000,238
• Publication Number:
  US 20050249303A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,826 Days
• Field of Search: 375/134, 375/145, 375/149, 375/260, 375/267, 370/208, 370/210
• US Class Current: 375/260
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0417 Feedback systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0634 Antenna weights or vector/matrix coefficients
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0697 using spatial multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0848 Joint weighting
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0862 receiver computing weights based on information from the transmitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0631 Receiver arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03808 Transmission of equaliser coefficients
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0204 of multiple channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0224 using sounding signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0248 Eigen-space methods
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/025 using least-mean-square [LMS] method
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03343 Arrangements at the transmitter end

Abstract

The disclosed invention enhances transmission efficiency by decreasing regions of reference signals which are attached to transmit packets from a transmitter during bidirectional SVD-MIMO communication. The transmitter transmits user data following a reference signal. At the other end, the receiver acquires a channel matrix, based on the reference signal attached preceding the user data, receives the user data, while weighting the data with receive weights derived from the channel matrix, adaptively estimates the channel matrix H as long as the user data is being received, and obtains transmit weights V′ for transmitting user data in the reverse direction from an adaptively estimated channel matrix H′.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system which carries out data transmission, using multiple spatially multiplexed communication channels between a transmitter and a receiver, comprising:

the transmitter configured to transmit user data following a reference signal for channel matrix acquisition, wherein said transmitter obtains transmit weights V for transmitting the user data in a forward direction to said receiver beforehand, weights the reference signal and the user data by V, and transmits the user data following the reference signal over the spatially multiplexed communication channels;

the receiver configured to acquire a channel matrix H, based on the reference signal attached preceding the user data, receive the user data, while weighting the user data with receive weights U derived from the channel matrix H, and adaptively estimate the channel matrix H as long as the user data is being received; and

a channel characteristics acquisition and adaptive estimation unit HV as a channel matrix from the reference signal weighted by V and continues to perform adaptive estimation of HV'"'"' as a channel matrix during the reception of the user data transmitted in the forward direction from said transmitter, and, when transmitting the user data in a reverse direction, following the reception of the user data, predetermines weights V'"'"' for data transmission in the reverse direction by obtaining a transposed matrix of H'"'"' by multiplying H'"'"'V by V^H and by singular value decomposition of the transposed matrix of H'"'"', where V^H corresponds to a matrix of antenna weighting factors at the transmitter.

2. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein both said transmitter and said receiver are equipped with multiple antennas, said transmitter allocates transmit data to multiple streams, weights the streams, and transmits the weighted streams from the transmit antennas, and said receiver weights the streams received by the receive antennas.

3. A wireless communication apparatus which receives data transmitted from a transmitting end, using multiple spatially multiplexed communication channels, said wireless communication apparatus comprising:

a receiving section which receives user data and a reference signal weighted by transmit weights V transmitted in a forward direction from said transmitting end;

a channel matrix acquisition unit which acquires a channel matrix H in the forward direction from said transmitting end and derives HV as a channel matrix from the reference signal weighted by the transmit weights V;

said receiving section configured to weight the user data with receive weights U derived from the acquired channel matrix H;

a channel matrix adaptive estimation unit which adaptively estimates the channel matrix H during reception of the user data transmitted in the forward direction from said transmitting end and continues to perform adaptive estimation of HV'"'"' as a channel matrix during the reception of the user data transmitted in the forward direction from said transmitting end;

a reverse transmit weight determination unit which predetermines weights V'"'"' for data transmission in a reverse direction by obtaining a transposed matrix of H'"'"' by multiplying H'"'"'V by V^H and by singular value decomposition of the transposed matrix of H'"'"', where V^H corresponds to a matrix of antenna weighting factors at the transmitter end; and

a transmitting section which weights the user data with the thus determined weights V'"'"' and transmits the user data in the reverse direction to said transmitting end.

4. A wireless communication method for receiving data transmitted from a transmitting end, using multiple spatially multiplexed communication channels, said wireless communication method comprising the steps of:

obtaining, at said transmitting end, transmit weights V for transmitting user data in a forward direction to a receiving end;

weighting a reference signal and the user data by the transmit weights V;

transmitting the user data following the reference signal over the spatially multiplexed communication channels;

acquiring a channel matrix H in the forward direction from said transmitting end;

deriving HV as a channel matrix from the reference signal weighted by the transmit weights V;

receiving the user data transmitted in the forward direction from said transmitting end and weighting the user data with receive weights U derived from the acquired channel matrix H;

adaptively estimating HV'"'"' as a channel matrix during the reception of the user data transmitted in the forward direction from said transmitting end;

determining transmit weights V'"'"' for data transmission in a reverse direction by obtaining a transposed matrix of H'"'"' by multiplying H'"'"'V by V^Hand by singular value decomposition of the transposed matrix of H'"'"', where V^H corresponds to a matrix of antenna weighting factors at the transmitting end; and

weighting the user data with the thus determined weights V'"'"' and transmitting the user data in the reverse direction to said transmitting end.

5. A computer readable medium embodying a program of instructions executable by a computer system to perform a method of receiving data transmitted from a transmitting end, using multiple spatially multiplexed communication channels, said method comprises the steps of:

receiving user data and a reference signal weighted by transmit weights V transmitted in a forward direction from said transmitting end;

acquiring a channel matrix H in the forward direction from said transmitting end and deriving HV as a channel matrix from the reference signal weighted by the transmit weights V;

weighting the user data with receive weights U derived from the acquired channel matrix H;

adaptively estimating the channel matrix H during reception of the user data transmitted in the forward direction from said transmitting end and continuing to perform adaptive estimation of HV'"'"' as a channel matrix during the reception of the user data transmitted in the forward direction from said transmitting end;

determining weights V'"'"' for data transmission in a reverse direction by obtaining a transposed matrix of H'"'"' by multiplying H'"'"'V by V^H and by singular value decomposition of the transposed matrix of H'"'"', where V^H corresponds to a matrix of antenna weighting factors at the transmitting end; and

weighting the user data with the thus determined weights V'"'"' and transmitting the user data in the reverse direction to said transmitting end.