Method for transmitting signal in multiple node system

• US 9,398,539 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2011
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kang, Ji Won, Chun, Jin Young, Kim, Su Nam, Ihm, Bin Chul, Park, Sung Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Li, Guang
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pacheco, Sasha Cintron
• Application Number:
  US13/880,661
• Publication Number:
  US 20130194961A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,733 Days
• Field of Search: 375/295, 370/329, 455/561.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0473 taking constraints in layer or codeword to antenna mapping into account
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0003 by switching between different modulation schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0009 by adapting the channel coding H04L1/1812 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0031 Multiple signaling transmission H04L1/1664, F15 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/06 using space diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/143 Downlink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/241 taking into account channel quality metrics, e.g. SIR, SNR, CIR, Eb/lo
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/245 taking into account received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/42 in systems with time, space, frequency or polarisation diversity

Abstract

Provided are a method of transmitting a signal of a multi-node system. The method includes: transmitting a first signal to a user equipment via the plurality nodes by applying a first power factor; receiving power feedback information as a feedback from the user equipment; and transmitting a second signal to the user equipment via at least one node among the plurality of nodes by applying a second power factor, wherein the first power factor and the second power factor are elements for determining transmit power to be applied to the plurality of nodes, wherein the power factor information includes information for transmit power applicable to each of the plurality of nodes by measuring the first signal, and wherein the second power factor is determined based on the power factor information.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting a signal of a multi-node system employing a plurality of nodes and a base station for connecting with each of the plurality of nodes, the method comprising:

transmitting a first signal to a user equipment via the plurality nodes by applying a first power factor;

receiving power factor information as a feedback from the user equipment; and

transmitting a second signal to the user equipment via at least one node among the plurality of nodes by applying a second power factor,

wherein the first power factor and the second power factor are elements for determining transmit power to be applied to the plurality of nodes,

wherein the power factor information includes information for transmit power applicable to each of the plurality of nodes by measuring the first signal,

wherein the second power factor is determined based on the power factor information,

wherein the power factor information includes a node index for indicating a specific node among the plurality of nodes and a power control field for requesting an increase or decrease of transmit power of the specific node,

wherein the second signal includes codewords, and a same modulation and coding scheme (MCS) is applied to the codewords,

wherein the plurality of nodes represent a plurality of antennas or antenna groups which is separated from a distributed antenna system (DAS),

wherein the power factor information includes information on one MCS commonly applied to all nodes which transmit the second signal, and

wherein a matrix index is used to indicate a matrix selected in a codebook, which is a set of matrices for specifying a predetermined power factor of each node of the plurality of nodes.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the power factor information includes a power factor preferred by the user equipment for each of the plurality of nodes.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the power factor preferred by the user equipment is provided in an index form of a predetermined table between the base station and the user equipment.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second power factor increases the transmit power for a node of which a channel state is below a threshold and decreases the transmit power for a node of which a channel state is above the threshold among the plurality of nodes.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second power factor determines the transmit power to zero for a node of which a channel state is below a threshold and increases the transmit power for a node of which a channel state is above the threshold among the plurality of nodes.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting information indicating the first power factor or the second power factor to the user equipment.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the information indicating the first power factor or the second power factor is included in control information transmitted by the base station.

8. A method of transmitting a signal of a user equipment in a multi-node system employing a plurality of nodes and a base station for connecting with each of the plurality of nodes, the method comprising:

receiving a first signal to which a first power factor is applied via the plurality of nodes;

feeding back power factor information to the base station; and

receiving a second signal to which a second power factor is applied via at least one node among the plurality of nodes,

wherein the first power factor and the second power factor are elements for determining transmit power to be applied to the plurality of nodes,

wherein the power factor information includes information for transmit power applicable to each of the plurality of nodes by measuring the first signal,

wherein the second power factor is determined based on the power factor information,

wherein the power factor information includes a node index for indicating a specific node among the plurality of nodes and a power control field for requesting an increase or decrease of transmit power of the specific node,

wherein the second signal includes codewords, and a same modulation and coding scheme (MCS) is applied to the codewords,

wherein the plurality of nodes represent a plurality of antennas or antenna groups which is separated from a distributed antenna system (DAS),

wherein the power factor information includes information on one MCS commonly applied to all nodes which transmit the second signal, and

wherein a matrix index is used to indicate a matrix selected in a codebook, which is a set of matrices for specifying a predetermined power factor of each node of the plurality of nodes.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the power factor information includes a power factor preferred by the user equipment for each of the plurality of nodes.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the power factor preferred by the user equipment is provided in an index form of a predetermined table between the base station and the user equipment.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising feeding back information on a precoding matrix applicable to the plurality of nodes.