Method for transmission of data and method for corresponding reception

• US 8,477,756 B2
• Filed: 11/17/2009
• Issued: 07/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bataan Licensing LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Guillouard, Samuel, Fontaine, Patrick, Guguen, Charline
• Primary Examiner(s): LI, GUANG W
• Application Number:
  US12/590,980
• Publication Number:
  US 20100220671A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,323 Days
• Field of Search: 370/347
• US Class Current: 370/347
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/024 Co-operative use of antennas of several sites, e.g. in co-ordinated multipoint or co-operative multiple-input multiple-output [MIMO] systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0413 MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0669 using different channel coding between antennas space-time coding H04L1/0618
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 Wireless traffic scheduling

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for transmission of data in a wireless network comprising a plurality of base stations broadcasting data at a same frequency and a plurality of mobile terminals. In order to overcome inter-cell transfer at the level of mobile terminals, the method comprises:

• • assignments of first and second sub-sets of base stations at respectively at least a first and at least a second mobile terminal, the assignments varying in time according to first and second parameters, the two sub-sets having at least one base station in common and each at least having a specific base station,
  • synchronized transmissions of respectively the base stations of the first and second sub-set of first and second specific data modulated with first and second modulations to respectively the at least first and second mobile terminals.

The invention also relates to the corresponding method for reception of data.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting data in a wireless network-having a plurality of base stations and at least two mobile terminals, the plurality of base stations broadcasting data at a same frequency, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

first assigning at least two base stations from among the plurality of base stations to at least a first mobile terminal,

forming a first sub-set of assigned base stations, the first assigning varying in time according to a first determined parameter belonging to a group of parameters,

second assigning, of at least two base stations from among the plurality of base stations to at least a second mobile terminal being different from the at least a first mobile terminal,

forming a second sub-set of assigned base stations, at least one base station of the first sub-set belonging to the second sub-set, at least one base station of the first sub-set not belonging to the second sub-set, and at least one base station of the second sub-set not belonging to the first sub-set, the second assigning varying in time according to a second determined parameter belonging to a group of parameters,

synchronized transmitting, by each base station of said first sub-set, of first specific data modulated with a same first modulation schema intended for said at least first mobile terminal,

synchronized transmitting, by each base station of said second sub-set, of second specific data modulated with a same second modulation schema intended for at least a second mobile terminal; and

allocating of first physical channels to the first sub-set and second physical channels to the second sub-set, the first and second physical channels being distinct, and wherein the first and second physical channels are determined according to the at least one base station belonging to the first sub-set and to the second sub-set.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first and second physical channels do not overlap.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said first and second parameters belong to the group comprising:

a number of assigned mobile terminals, a maximum number of assigned base stations, a link quality between a base station and the assigned mobile terminal, a bitrate efficiency of the base stations, and a localisation respectively of at least a first mobile terminal and at least a second mobile terminal.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising suppressing the assignment of at least one base station of the first sub-set according to the first parameter and/or at least one base station of the second sub-set according to the second parameter.

5. A method for receiving data in a wireless network having a plurality of base stations and at least two mobile terminals, the plurality of base stations broadcasting data at a same frequency, wherein the method comprises the following steps:

first assigning at least two base stations from among the plurality of base stations to at least a first mobile terminal,

forming a first sub-set of assigned base stations, the first assigning varying in time according to a first determined parameter belonging to a group of parameters,

second assigning at least two base stations from among the plurality of base stations to at least a second mobile terminal being different from the at least a first mobile terminal,

forming a second sub-set of assigned base stations, at least one base station of the first sub-set belonging to the second sub-set, at least one base station of the first sub-set not belonging to the second sub-set, and at least one base station of the second sub-set not belonging to the first sub-set, the second assigning varying in time according to a second determined parameter belonging to a group of parameters,

receiving the first specific data by said at least first mobile terminal, transmitted synchronously and modulated with a same first modulation schema by each base station of said first sub-set,

receiving the second specific data by said at least second mobile terminal, transmitted synchronously and modulated with a same second modulation schema by each base station of the second sub-set; and

allocating first physical channels to the first sub-set and second physical channels to the second sub-set, the first and second physical channels being distinct, and wherein the first and second physical channels are determined according to the at least one base station belonging to the first sub-set and to the second sub-set.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the first and second physical channels do not overlap.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein said first and second parameters belong to the group comprising:

a number of assigned mobile terminals, a maximum number of assigned base stations, a link quality between a base station and the assigned mobile terminal, a bitrate efficiency of the base stations, and a localisation respectively of at least a first mobile terminal and at least a second mobile terminal.

8. The method according to claim 5, further comprising a step of suppressing the assignment of at least one base station of the first sub-set according to the first parameter and/or at least one base station of the second sub-set according to the second parameter.