Method and apparatus of adaptively allocating transmission power for beamforming combined with orthogonal space-time block codes based on symbol error rate in distributed wireless communication system

• US 7,904,106 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2007
• Issued: 03/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Sang-Ho, Lee, Jae-Hoon, Hwang, Seong-Taek, Song, Ki-Uk, Han, Shuangfeng, Kim, Hoon, Cho, Jae-Hun
• Primary Examiner(s): Anderson; Matthew D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Safaipour; Bobbak
• Application Number:
  US11/974,402
• Publication Number:
  US 20080117961A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,243 Days
• Field of Search: 455/101, 455/102, 455/103, 455/562.1, 455/522, 370/318, 375/227, 375/299, 342/372, 342/368, 342/371
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/043 using best eigenmode, e.g. beam forming or beam steering
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0691 using subgroups of transmit antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0625 Transmitter arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0668 Orthogonal systems, e.g. using Alamouti codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/04 TPC
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/42 in systems with time, space, frequency or polarisation diversity

Abstract

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for adaptively allocating transmission power for beamforming combined with orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBC) in a distributed wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of sub-arrays for beamforming, which are geographically distributed and each of which comprises a plurality of distributed antennas placed in random groups; and a central processing unit for identifying performances of subsets by applying a predetermined power allocation scheme according to subsets which can be obtained by combining the sub-arrays, by means of a Nakagami fading parameter and information about large-scale fading of each of the sub-arrays, fed back from a receiving party, for determining a subset having a best performance as an optimal subset according to the identified performances, and for performing power allocation based on the subset set as the optimal subset.

Claims

1. An apparatus for adaptively allocating transmission power for beamforming combined with orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBC) in a distributed wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:

a plurality of geographically distributed sub-arrays for beamforming, each sub-array of said plurality comprising a plurality of distributed antennas placed in random groups;

and a central processing unit for

identification of a performance of each subset of the sub-arrays by applying a predetermined power allocation scheme thereto, each said subset being obtained by combining the sub-arrays using a Nakagami fading parameter and information about large-scale fading of each sub-array of the sub-arrays fed back from a receiving party,

determination of a subset having a best identified performance as an optimal subset according to the identified performances thereof, and

performance of power allocation based on the subset determined as the optimal subset,

wherein the each subset is a random combination of the plurality of sub-arrays.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the identification of a performance of each subset is performed through identification of a symbol error rate, in which a subset having a lowest identified symbol error rate is determined as the optimal subset.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the performance of the predetermined power allocation further comprises allocation of transmission power proportional to the Nakagami fading parameter “

m”

for each sub-array of the plurality of sub-arrays.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the identification of a performance of each subset further includes identification of a symbol error rate thereof in which a subset having a lowest rate identified symbol error rate is determined as the optimal subset.

5. A method for adaptively allocating transmission power for beamforming combined with orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBC) in a distributed wireless communication system including a plurality of geographically-distributed sub-arrays for beamforming, each of which comprises a plurality of distributed antennas placed in random groups, the method comprising the steps of:

estimating a direction-of-arrival (DOA) for each antenna sub-array of the plurality of geographically-distributed sub-arrays;

creating an array response vector for each antenna sub-array using the estimated DOA thereof;

obtaining at least one subset of each said antenna sub-array based on the array response vector;

determining an obtained subset having a lowest symbol error rate as an optimal subset;

allocating transmission power to each said at least one obtained subset based on the subset determined as the optimal subset; and

within each sub-array, performing beamforming combined with orthogonal space-time block codes using said allocated transmission power,

wherein the each subset is a random combination of the plurality of sub-arrays.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the obtaining step further comprises the steps of:

feeding back information from a receiving party about large-scale fading of each antenna sub-array, and

combining each antenna sub-array into at least one subset in accordance with the Nakagami fading parameter “

m”

of the antenna sub-array and the fed back information thereof, and

obtaining a symbol error rate for each at least one subset.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the allocating step further comprises the step of allocating transmission power to each obtained subset such, that said allocation is proportional to a Nakagami fading parameter “

m”

of each sub-array thereof.