Method and apparatus for transmitting control information in WLAN system

• US 8,675,597 B2
• Filed: 09/08/2010
• Issued: 03/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Dae Won, Roh, Dong Wook, Kang, Byeong Woo, Seok, Yong Ho, Noh, Yu Jin, Kim, Bong Hoe
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Brian D
• Application Number:
  US13/320,709
• Publication Number:
  US 20120127940A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,287 Days
• Field of Search: 370/330, 370/336, 370/337, 370/338, 370/343
• US Class Current: 370/330
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0452 Multi-user MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0671 using different delays between antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0226 sounding signals per se
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03343 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

There is provided a method of transmitting control information in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system, comprising transmitting first control information by means of cyclic shift delay diversity beam-forming and transmitting second control information. The first control information comprises information necessary for each of a plurality of target stations of the second control information to receive the second control information. The second control information beamformed and transmitted to the plurality of target stations.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting control information by an access point in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system, the method comprising:

generating, by the access point, a first control sequence including a first very high throughput (VHT) control signal containing control information;

generating, by the access point, a second control sequence including at least one second VHT control signal, wherein when the second sequence is generated for a plurality of target stations the second control sequence includes a plurality of second VHT control signals each allowed for a specific target station among the plurality of target stations;

generating, by the access point, a first time domain signal by modulating the first control sequence;

generating, by the access point, a second time domain signal by modulating the second control sequence; and

transmitting, by the access point, the first time domain signal and the second time domain signal to the plurality of target stations,

wherein the first VHT control signal includes a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) indicator indicating whether the second time domain signal is to be transmitted by using a MU-MIMO scheme or a single-user multiple input multiple output (SU-MIMO) scheme.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

applying a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) steering matrix to the second control sequence to form a pre-coded second control signal before modulating the second control sequence when the MU-MIMO indicator indicates that the second time domain signal is to be transmitted by using the MU-MIMO scheme.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second VHT control signal includes a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index indicating a MCS used in the step of transmitting.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first VHT control signal includes size information indicating a size of the second VHT control signal.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first VHT control signal is transmitted over 48 data subcarriers in each of two orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and the second VHT control signal is transmitted over at least 52 data subcarriers in one OFDM symbol.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a number of bits for the first VHT control signal is 48 and a number of bits for the second VHT control signal is equal to or greater than 26.

7. A wireless apparatus of transmitting control information in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system, the apparatus comprising a processor configured to:

generate a first control sequence including a first very high throughput (VHT) control signal containing control information;

generate a second control sequence including at least one second VHT control signal, wherein when the second sequence is generated for a plurality of target stations, the second control sequence includes a plurality of second VHT control signals each allocated for a specific target station among the plurality of target stations;

generate a first time domain signal by modulating the first control sequence;

generate a second time domain signal by modulating the second control sequence; and

transmit the first time domain signal and the second time domain signal to the plurality of target stations,

wherein the first VHT control signal includes a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) indicator indicating whether the second time domain signal is to be transmitted by using a MU-MIMO scheme or a single-user multiple input multiple output (SU-MIMO) scheme.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, the processor further configured to:

apply a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) steering matrix to the second control sequence to form a pre-coded second control signal before modulating the second control sequence when the MU-MIMO indicator indicates that the second time domain signal is to be transmitted by using the MU-MIMO scheme.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the second VHT control signal includes a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index indicating a MCS used in the step of transmitting.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the first VHT control signal includes size information indicating a size of the second VHT control signal.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first VHT control signal is transmitted over 48 data subcarriers in each of two orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and the second VHT control signal is transmitted over at least 52 data subcarriers in one OFDM symbol.

12. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein a number of bits for the first VHT control signal is 48 and a number of bits for the second VHT control signal is equal to or greater than 26.