Radio communication system, radio base station apparatus, user terminal and radio communication method

• US 9,337,907 B2
• Filed: 11/01/2012
• Issued: 05/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Nagata, Satoshi, Kishiyama, Yoshihisa, Takeda, Kazuaki, She, Xiaoming
• Primary Examiner(s): WILSON, ROBERT W
• Application Number:
  US14/356,289
• Publication Number:
  US 20140307630A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,286 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: H04L 25/0202 Channel estimation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0224 using sounding signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0226 sounding signals per se
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0051 of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 Setup of multiple wireless link connections

Abstract

To enable a user terminal to determine a cell of a downlink signal also in a heterogeneous environment using the same cell identification information, and thereby enable reception accuracy to be maintained, a radio communication method of the invention is characterized in that a radio base station apparatus generates a reference signal sequence by using a pseudo random sequence including user specific information, and transmits the reference signal sequence to a user terminal, and that the user terminal performs signal processing using the reference signal sequence transmitted from the radio base station apparatus.

Claims

1. A user terminal receiving signals CoMP (Coordinated Multi-Point) transmitted from a plurality of radio base station apparatuses, the user terminal comprising:

a reception circuit that receives downlink control information including 1-bit given information used in initialization of a pseudo random sequence; and

a signal processing circuit that performs signal processing using a reference signal sequence which is generated by using the pseudo random sequence initialized with use of an equation including a term defined based on the given information,

wherein, when the given information is “

1”

, the term is user-specific information other than cell identification information.

2. The user terminal according to claim 1, wherein, when the given information is “

0”

, the term is different information from that when the given information is “

1”

.

3. The user terminal according to claim 1, wherein the reference signal sequence is a demodulation reference signal and the signal processing circuit comprises a demodulation circuit that demodulates a reception signal.

4. The user terminal according to claim 2, wherein the reference signal sequence is a demodulation reference signal and the signal processing circuit comprises a demodulation circuit that demodulates a reception signal.

5. A radio base station apparatus communicating with a user terminal that receives signals CoMP (Coordinated Multi-Point)-transmitted from a plurality of radio base station apparatuses, the radio base station apparatus comprising:

a generation circuit that initializes a pseudo random sequence using an equation including a term defined based on 1-bit given information and generates a reference signal sequence using the pseudo random sequence; and

a transmission circuit that transmits the reference signal sequence to the user terminal and transmits downlink control information including the given information to the user terminal,

wherein, when the given information is “

1”

, the term is user-specific information other than cell identification information.

6. A radio communication system comprising a plurality of radio base station apparatuses and a user terminal that receives signals CoMP (Coordinated Multi-Point)-transmitted from the plurality of radio base station apparatuses,

the user terminal comprising:

a reception circuit that receives downlink control information including 1-bit given information used in initialization of a pseudo random sequence; and

a signal processing circuit that performs signal processing using a reference signal sequence which is generated by using the pseudo random sequence initialized with use of an equation including a term defined based on the given information,

wherein, when the given information is “

1”

, the term is user-specific information other than cell identification information.

7. A radio communication method in a user terminal that receives signals COMP (Coordinated Multi-Point)-transmitted from a plurality of radio base station apparatuses, the radio communication method comprising the steps of:

receiving, by the user terminal, downlink control information including 1-bit given information used in initialization of a pseudo random sequence; and

performing, by the user terminal, signal processing using a reference signal sequence which is generated by using the pseudo random sequence initialized with use of an equation including a term defined based on the given information,

wherein, when the given information is “

1”

, the term is user-specific information other than cell identification information.