Method and apparatus for generating and transmitting code sequence in a wireless communication system

• US 7,746,916 B2
• Filed: 11/28/2006
• Issued: 06/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Evolved Wireless LLC
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Han, Seung Hee, Kwon, Yeon Hyeon, Lee, Hyun Woo, Noh, Min Seok, Kim, Dong Cheol, Park, Hyun Hwa
• Primary Examiner(s): Payne, David C
• Assistant Examiner(s): DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A
• Application Number:
  US11/563,909
• Publication Number:
  US 20070177682A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,309 Days
• Field of Search: 370/203, 375/131, 375/142
• US Class Current: 375/142
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/10 Code generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2605 Symbol extensions, e.g. Zero Tail, Unique Word [UW]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2613 Structure of the reference signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/028 for synchronisation between service call and response

Abstract

A method of generating a code sequence in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes recognizing a desired length of the code sequence, generating a code sequence having a length different from the desired length, and modifying the length of the generated code sequence to equal the desired length. Here, the step of modifying includes discarding at least one element of the generated code sequence or inserting at least one null element to the generated code sequence.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting a code sequence from a transmitting party to a receiving party in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

acquiring a code sequence having a second length by a cyclic extension of a code sequence having a first length;

performing a circular shift to the code sequence having the second length; and

transmitting the circular shifted code sequence having the second length to the receiving party,

wherein the first length is a largest prime number smaller than the second length, and

wherein the cyclic extension of the code sequence having the first length is performed such that a part of the code sequence having the first length, having a length corresponding to a difference between the first length and the second length, is added to either a start or an end of the code sequence having the first length, and

wherein the circular shift is performed to the code sequence having the second length such that either a rear portion of the code sequence having the second length moves to a start of the code sequence having the second length, or a front portion of the code sequence having the second length moves to an end of the code sequence having the second length.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the part of the code sequence having the first length comprises at least a cyclic prefix or a cyclic postfix.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the cyclic extension is performed such that a cyclic postfix of the code sequence having the first length, having the length corresponding to the difference between the first length and the second length, is added to the end of the code sequence having the first length.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the code sequence having the first length is a Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the code sequence having the second length is transmitted as a reference signal sequence.

6. An apparatus for transmitting a code sequence in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:

a code sequence generator for generating a code sequence having a second length by cyclic extension of a code sequence having a first length, and performing a circular shift to the code sequence having the second length; and

a transmitting unit for transmitting the circular shifted code sequence having the second length,

wherein the first length is a largest prime number smaller than the second length,

wherein the cyclic extension of the code sequence having the first length is performed such that a part of the code sequence having the first length, having a length corresponding to a difference between the first length and the second length, is added to either a start or an end of the code sequence having the first length, and

wherein the circular shift is performed to the code sequence having the second length such that either a rear portion of the code sequence having the second length moves to a start of the code sequence having the second length, or a front portion of the code sequence having the second length moves to an end of the code sequence having the second length.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the part of the code sequence having the first length comprises at least a cyclic prefix or a cyclic postfix.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the cyclic extension is performed such that a cyclic postfix of the code sequence having the first length, having the length corresponding to the difference between the first length and the second length, is added to the end of the code sequence having the first length.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the code sequence having the first length is a Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence.

10. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the code sequence having the second length is transmitted as a reference signal sequence.

11. A method for transmitting a code sequence in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

performing a circular shift to a code sequence having a first length to produce a circularly-shifted code sequence having the first length;

performing a cyclic extension of the circularly-shifted code sequence having the first length, to produce a code sequence having a second length; and

transmitting the code sequence having the second length,

wherein the first length is a largest prime number smaller than the second length,

wherein performing the circular shift comprises either moving a rear portion of the code sequence having the first length to a start of the code sequence having the first length, or moving a front portion of the code sequence having the first length to an end of the code sequence having the first length, and

wherein performing the cyclic extension comprises adding a portion of the circularly-shifted code sequence having the first length, having a length corresponding to a difference between the first length and the second length, to either a start or an end of the circularly-shifted code sequence having the first length.