MIMO preamble for initial access with an unknown number of transmit antennas

• US 9,252,862 B2
• Filed: 09/17/2008
• Issued: 02/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Dayal, Pranav, Naguib, Ayman Fawzy
• Primary Examiner(s): Fan, Chieh M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hassan, Sarah
• Application Number:
  US12/211,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20100067599A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,694 Days
• Field of Search: 375/260, 375/267, 370/328
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0667 of delayed versions of same signal using space-time coding H04L1/0618
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/261 Details of reference signals

Abstract

For certain embodiments, a preamble sequence associated with a particular number of transmit antennas may allow a receiving mobile station to determine the number of transmit antennas used for transmission. The preamble sequence may be selected from one of a set of Constant Amplitude and Zero Auto Correlation (CAZAC) sequences corresponding to all of the supported number of transmit antennas. As a result, a receiving station may be able to determine the sequence sent by correlation and, thereby determine the number of antennas used for transmission. Given the number of transmit antennas, the mobile station may then perform MIMO channel estimation during initial synchronization to recover the channel taps between each transmit and each receive antenna.

Claims

1. A method for wireless communications in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communications system, comprising:

receiving, at a receive antenna, a Constant Amplitude and Zero Auto Correlation (CAZAC) preamble sequence based on symbols transmitted from a plurality of transmit antennas during an initial synchronization with a base station, wherein the CAZAC preamble sequence indicates a number of transmit antennas;

correlating the received CAZAC preamble sequence with a plurality of known CAZAC preamble sequences, wherein each of the known CAZAC preamble sequences corresponds with a predefined number of transmit antennas;

identifying one of the plurality of known CAZAC preamble sequences as corresponding with the received CAZAC preamble sequence based on the correlation of the received CAZAC preamble sequence with the plurality of known CAZAC preamble sequences; and

identifying the number of transmit antennas, wherein the number of transmit antennas is the predefined number of transmit antennas associated with the identified known CAZAC preamble sequence.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the number of transmit antennas is the number of transmit antennas used to transmit the CAZAC preamble sequence.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the CAZAC preamble sequence is transmitted from the plurality of transmit antennas using a Cyclic Delay Diversity (CDD) transmission scheme.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing channel estimation for a plurality of pairs of the receive and transmit antennas.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

decoding the CAZAC preamble sequence;

wherein identifying the number of transmit antennas comprises determining the number of transmit antennas from content of the decoded CAZAC preamble sequence.

5. A method for wireless communications in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communications system, comprising:

determining a number of transmit antennas to use for a transmission of a primary synchronization signal during an initial synchronization with a mobile station;

selecting, from a plurality of Constant Amplitude and Zero Auto Correlation (CAZAC) preamble sequences corresponding to different numbers of transmit antennas, a CAZAC preamble sequence, wherein the selected CAZAC preamble sequence contains information about the determined number of transmit antennas, and wherein each of the plurality of CAZAC preamble sequences corresponds with a predefined number of transmit antennas; and

transmitting the selected CAZAC preamble sequence as the primary synchronization signal from the determined number of transmit antennas during the initial synchronization with the mobile station.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein transmitting the selected CAZAC preamble sequence as the primary synchronization signal from the determined number of transmit antennas comprises transmitting the CAZAC preamble sequence using a Cyclic Delay Diversity (CDD) transmission scheme.

7. A device for wireless communications in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communications system, comprising:

logic, implemented in hardware, for receiving, at a receive antenna, a Constant Amplitude and Zero Auto Correlation (CAZAC) preamble sequence based on symbols transmitted from a plurality of transmit antennas during an initial synchronization with a base station, wherein the CAZAC preamble sequence indicates a number of transmit antennas;

logic, implemented in hardware, for correlating the received CAZAC preamble sequence with a plurality of known CAZAC preamble sequences, wherein each of the known CAZAC preamble sequences corresponds with a predefined number of transmit antennas;

logic, implemented in hardware, for identifying one of the plurality of known CAZAC preamble sequences as corresponding to the received CAZAC preamble sequence based on the correlation of the received CAZAC preamble sequence with the plurality of known CAZAC preamble sequences; and

logic, implemented in hardware, for identifying the number of transmit antennas, wherein the number of transmit antennas is the predefined number of transmit antennas associated with the identified known CAZAC preamble sequence.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein the number of transmit antennas is the number of transmit antennas used to transmit the CAZAC preamble sequence.

9. The device of claim 7, wherein the CAZAC preamble sequence is transmitted from the plurality of transmit antennas using a Cyclic Delay Diversity (CDD) transmission scheme.

10. The device of claim 7, further comprising logic for performing channel estimation for a plurality of pairs of the receive and transmit antennas.

16. The device of claim 7, further comprising:

logic for decoding the CAZAC preamble sequence;

wherein the logic for identifying the number of transmit antennas comprises logic for determining the number of transmit antennas from content of the decoded CAZAC preamble sequence.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for wireless communications in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communications system, comprising:

code for receiving, at a receive antenna, a Constant Amplitude and Zero Auto Correlation (CAZAC) preamble sequence based on symbols transmitted from a plurality of transmit antennas during an initial synchronization with a base station, wherein the CAZAC preamble sequence indicates a number of transmit antennas;

code for correlating the received CAZAC preamble sequence with a plurality of known CAZAC preamble sequences, wherein each of the known CAZAC preamble sequences corresponds with a predefined number of transmit antennas;

code for identifying one of the plurality of known CAZAC preamble sequences as corresponding with the received CAZAC preamble sequence based on the correlation of the received CAZAC preamble sequence with the plurality of known CAZAC preamble sequences; and

code for identifying the number of transmit antennas, wherein the number of transmit antennas is the predefined number of transmit antennas associated with the identified known CAZAC preamble sequence.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the number of transmit antennas is the number of transmit antennas used to transmit the CAZAC preamble sequence.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the CAZAC preamble sequence is transmitted from the plurality of transmit antennas using a Cyclic Delay Diversity (CDD) transmission scheme.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, further comprising code for performing channel estimation for a plurality of pairs of the receive and transmit antennas.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, further comprising:

code for decoding the CAZAC preamble sequence;

wherein the code for identifying the number of transmit antennas comprises code for determining the number of transmit antennas from content of the decoded CAZAC preamble sequence.