Method and apparatus of transmitting and receiving signal in a distributed antenna system

• US 9,001,717 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2011
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Chun, Jin Young, Kang, Ji Won, Kim, Su Nam, Ihm, Bin Chul
• Primary Examiner(s): Harper, Kevin C
• Application Number:
  US13/639,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20130028218A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,447 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/310
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0035 Resource allocation in a cooperative multipoint environment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/006 Quality of the received signal, e.g. BER, SNR, water filling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0073 Allocation arrangements that take into account other cell interferences for intercell interference mitigation or co-ordination in orthogonal multiplex systems H04J11/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/10 Dynamic resource partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/04 Error control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/541 using the level of interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/085 Access point devices with remote components

Abstract

A method of transmitting a signal from a base station to a user equipment in a multi-node system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of allocating a resource of a certain zone to each of nodes in accordance with a radio resource multiplexing scheme; and transmitting the signal to the user equipment by using a resource zone allocated to the node.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting a signal by a base station to a user equipment in a wireless access system supporting a distributed antenna system, the method comprising:

allocating a resource area to each of a plurality of distributed antenna (DA) groups in accordance with a radio resource multiplexing scheme;

transmitting, to the user equipment, DA power boosting information for a power boosting level, wherein the DA power boosting information is independently configured for each of the DA groups; and

transmitting the signal to the user equipment using the resource zone allocated to the DA group and based on the DA power boosting information,

wherein the resource area is applied by a different permutation scheme by each of the DA groups, and

wherein the permutation scheme is determined according to a DA index of the DA group.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of allocating the resource area includes dividing frequency resources to allow each DA group to use a frequency band different from that of another neighboring DA group.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein each of a number of centralized antennas (CAs) located in each cell-division zone uses its respective frequency band based on one or more cell-division zones constituting a cell zone where the base station provides a service.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of allocating the resource area includes dividing the other frequency band except for the frequency band allocated to the CA located in the same cell division zone as that of the DA group.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of allocating the resource area includes dividing all frequency bands used by the base station depending on the number of DA groups and allocating the divided frequency bands to each of the DA groups.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of allocating the resource area includes dividing the radio resource into time resources to allow each DA group to use the same frequency band as that of another neighboring DA group at different time bands.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of transmitting, to the user equipment, at least one of information on a DA group dedicated for the user equipment and information on a resource zone allocated to the DA group dedicated for the user equipment.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the permutation scheme has at least one different configuration for each of the DA groups among subband partitioning, miniband permutation, frequency partitioning, contiguous resource unit (CRU)/distributed resource unit (DRU) allocation, subcarrier permutation, random sequence generation for permutation, generation of minimum A-MAP logical resource unit (MLRU) and LRU mapping.

8. A method of receiving a signal by a user equipment from a base station in a wireless access system supporting a distributed antenna system, the method comprising:

receiving information on a specific one of a plurality of distributed antenna (DA) groups associated with the user equipment and information of a resource area allocated to the specific DA group;

receiving DA power boosting information for a power boosting level, wherein the DA power boosting information is independently configured for each of the DA groups; and

receiving the signal from the base station through the resource area allocated to the specific DA group and based on the DA power boosting information,

wherein the resource area is applied by a different permutation scheme by each of the DA groups, and

wherein the permutation scheme is determined according to a DA index of the DA group.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the resource area allocated to the specific DA group is a frequency resource area allocated by dividing a radio resource into frequency resources to allow each DA group to use a frequency band different from that of another neighboring DA group.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the resource area allocated to the specific DA group is a part of the other frequency resources except for the frequency resource used by a CA located in a specific cell division zone of the specific DA group when each of CAs located in each cell division zone uses its respective frequency band based on one or more cell division zones constituting a cell zone where the base station provides a service.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the resource area allocated to the specific DA group is a part of all frequency bands divided depending on the number of the DA groups.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the resource area allocated to the specific DA group is allocated by dividing the radio resource into time resources to allow each DA group to use the same frequency band as that of another neighboring DA group at different time bands.

16. The method of claim 8, wherein the permutation scheme has at least one different configuration for each of the DA groups among subband partitioning, miniband permutation, frequency partitioning, contiguous resource unit (CRU)/distributed resource unit (DRU) allocation, subcarrier permutation, random sequence generation for permutation, generation of minimum A-MAP logical resource unit (MLRU) and LRU mapping.

13. A base station for transmitting a signal in a wireless access system supporting a distributed antenna system, the base station comprising:

an antenna module including distributed antenna (DA) groups;

a processor configured to;

allocate a resource area to each of the distributed antenna groups in accordance with a radio resource multiplexing scheme;

transmit, to a user equipment, DA power boosting information for a power boosting level, wherein the DA power boosting information is independently configured for each of the DA groups; and

transmit the signal to the user equipment using the resource zone allocated to the DA group and based on the DA power boosting information,

wherein the resource area is applied by a different permutation scheme by each of the DA groups, and

wherein the permutation scheme is determined according to a DA index of the DA group.

14. A user equipment for receiving a signal from a base station in a wireless access system supporting a distributed antenna system, the user equipment comprising:

a receiving module for receiving the signal; and

a processor configured to;

receive information on a specific one of a plurality of distributed antenna (DA) groups associated with the user equipment and information of a resource area allocated to the specific DA group;

receive DA power boosting information for a power boosting level, wherein the DA power boosting information is independently configured for each of the DA groups; and

receive the signal from the base station through the resource area allocated to the specific DA group and based on the DA power boosting information,

wherein the resource area is applied by a different permutation scheme by each of the DA groups, and

wherein the permutation scheme is determined according to a DA index of the DA group.