Quasi co-located antenna ports for channel estimation
First Claim
1. A method of operation of a base station of a cellular communications network, comprising:
- providing, via a radio subsystem of the base station, a downlink subframe comprising a plurality of reference signals corresponding to a plurality of antenna ports, wherein downlink control channel physical resources forming a search space of the wireless device are divided into one or more sets and wherein the downlink subframe is provided according to one or more predefined rules, the one or more predefined rules comprising a rule that at least some antenna ports within the same set of downlink control channel physical resources in a configured search space of a wireless device are to be quasi co-located with respect to one or more large-scale channel properties.
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Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for estimating one or more channel properties of a downlink from a cellular communications network based on quasi co-located antenna ports with respect to the one or more channel properties. In one embodiment, a wireless device receives a downlink subframe including a downlink control channel from the cellular communications network. The wireless device estimates one or more large-scale channel properties for an antenna port of interest in the downlink control channel based on a subset of reference signals that correspond to antenna ports in the cellular communications network that are quasi co-located with the antenna port of interest with respect to the one or more large-scale channel properties. As a result of using the quasi co-located antenna ports, estimation of the one or more large-scale channel properties is substantially improved.
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1. A method of operation of a base station of a cellular communications network, comprising:
providing, via a radio subsystem of the base station, a downlink subframe comprising a plurality of reference signals corresponding to a plurality of antenna ports, wherein downlink control channel physical resources forming a search space of the wireless device are divided into one or more sets and wherein the downlink subframe is provided according to one or more predefined rules, the one or more predefined rules comprising a rule that at least some antenna ports within the same set of downlink control channel physical resources in a configured search space of a wireless device are to be quasi co-located with respect to one or more large-scale channel properties. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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