Method and device for transmitting a plurality of data symbols

• US 8,098,750 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2008
• Issued: 01/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
• Inventors: Mueck, Markus Dominik, Bienas, Maik
• Primary Examiner(s): Corrielus, Jean B
• Application Number:
  US12/170,747
• Publication Number:
  US 20100008447A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,286 Days
• Field of Search: 375259-260, 375/267, 375/295, 375/299
• US Class Current: 375/260
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0625 Transmitter arrangements

Abstract

A method for transmitting a plurality of data symbols using a plurality of transmit antennas and a plurality of transmission resources is described, in which transmission symbols are generated and associated with the transmit antennas and transmission resources in such a way, such that if this association is represented in the form of a matrix, this matrix can be represented as the combination of two matrices comprising as components the data symbols multiplied with at least partially different weighting factors.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting a plurality of data symbols using a plurality of transmit antennas and a plurality of transmission resources comprising:

generating a plurality of transmission symbols from the plurality of data symbols; and

associating each transmission symbol with one of the plurality of transmit antennas and one of the plurality of transmission resources;

wherein the transmission symbols are generated and associated with the transmit antennas and transmission resources such that the transmission symbols are written in the form of a first matrix with a sub-vector in a first dimension for each of the plurality of antennas and a sub-vector in a second dimension for each of the plurality of the transmission resources, such that each component of the matrix holds the transmission symbol that is transmitted using the antenna corresponding to sub-vector in the first dimension in which the component is positioned and using the transmission resource corresponding to the sub-vector in the second dimension in which the component is positioned, and the first matrix is represented as a combination of a second matrix and a third matrix, and

wherein for each of the second matrix and the third matrix, each component of the matrix is equal to one of the data symbols or the complex conjugate of a data symbol to be transmitted multiplied by a weighting factor and the matrix is divisible into sub-matrices of dimension at least 2×

2 such that, for each two sub-matrices having only column sub-vectors of the same columns or row sub-vectors of the same rows, at least one component of one of the two sub-matrices differs from the corresponding component of the other of the two sub-matrices at least in the phase or the absolute value of the weighting factor.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data symbols are complex valued.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the weighting factors are complex valued.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein four or more transmit antennas are used for transmission.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein two or more receiving antennas are used for transmission.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein four transmit antennas and two receiving antennas are used for transmission.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first matrix is represented as the sum of the second matrix and the third matrix.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first matrix is represented as a modulo sum of the second matrix and the third matrix.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the transmission symbols are received using a plurality of receiving antennas and wherein the first matrix and the second matrix are based on multi-antenna precoding matrices for multi antenna systems having the same number of transmit antennas as in the plurality of transmit antennas and having less receiving antennas as in the plurality of receiving antennas.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the second matrix and the third matrix are based on multi-antenna precoding matrices according to ABBA Code, Extended Alamouti Code.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein at least one of the second matrix and the third matrix are based on the matrix or a transpose of the matrix

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the second matrix is equal to a multi-antenna precoding matrix for multi antenna systems having the same number of transmit antennas as in the plurality of transmit antennas and having half the number of receiving antennas as in the plurality of receiving antennas multiplied by complex constants component by component.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the third matrix is equal to a multi-antenna precoding matrix for multi antenna systems having the same number of transmit antennas as in the plurality of transmit antennas and having half the number of receiving antennas as in the plurality of receiving antennas multiplied by complex constants component by component.

14. The method according to claim 1, further comprising grouping the plurality of data symbols to a plurality of blocks of data symbols, generating a block of transmission symbols for each block of data symbols and associating, for each block, each transmission symbol with an antenna and a transmission resource such that the association of the transmission symbols of the block of transmission blocks is represented by the first matrix.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein for a block of transmission symbols, every two transmission symbols are associated with at least a different antenna or a different transmission resource.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein the weighting factors of the data symbols according to the second matrix and the weighting factors of the data symbols according the third matrix are constant for different blocks of data symbols of the plurality of blocks of data symbols.

17. The method according to claim 14, wherein the code combination type of combination of the second matrix and the third matrix is constant for different blocks of data symbols of the plurality of blocks of data symbols.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein the transmission resources are carrier-signals or time slots.

19. The method according to claim 1, being used in a radio communication system.

20. The method according to claim 1, wherein for each of the second matrix and the third matrix,

each component of the matrix is equal to one of the data symbols or the complex conjugate of a data symbol to be transmitted multiplied by a weighting factor, and

the matrix is divisible into sub-matrices of dimension at least 2×

2 such that, for each two sub-matrices not being in the same diagonal of sub-matrices of the sub-divided matrix, at least one component of one of the two sub-matrices differs from the corresponding component of the other of the two sub-matrices in the phase or the absolute value of the weighting factor.

21. The method according to claim 1, wherein for each of the second matrix and the third matrix,

each component of the matrix is equal to one of the data symbols or the complex conjugate of a data symbol to be transmitted multiplied by a weighting factor, and

the matrix is divisible into sub-matrices of dimension at least 2×

2 such that, for each two sub-matrices being in the same diagonal of sub-matrices of the sub-divided matrix, each components of one of the two sub-matrices comprises the same weighting factor as the corresponding component of the other of the two sub-matrices except for multiplication with −

1 and complex conjugation.

22. The method according to claim 1, wherein for the first matrix and the second matrix it holds that if two components of the matrix are equal or the complex conjugate of a data symbol multiplied with a weighting factor and the data symbols are the same, the weighting factors are the same except for complex conjugation and sign.

23. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a computer program having a program code, which, when executed by a computer, makes the computer perform a method for transmitting a plurality of data symbols using a plurality of transmit antennas and a plurality of transmission resources comprising:

generating a plurality of transmission symbols from the plurality of data symbols; and

associating each transmission symbol with one of the plurality of transmit antennas and one of the plurality of transmission resources,

wherein the transmission symbols are generated and associated with the transmit antennas and transmission resources such that the transmission symbols are written in the form of a first matrix with a sub-vector in a first dimension for each of the plurality of antennas and a sub-vector in a second dimension for each of the plurality of the transmission resources, such that each component of the matrix holds the transmission symbol that is transmitted using the antenna corresponding to sub-vector in the first dimension in which the component is positioned and using the transmission resource corresponding to the sub-vector in the second dimension in which the component is positioned, and the first matrix is represented as a combination of a second matrix and a third matrix, and

wherein for each of the second matrix and the third matrix, each component of the matrix is equal to one of the data symbols or the complex conjugate of a data symbol to be transmitted multiplied by a weighting factor and the matrix is divisible into sub-matrices of dimension at least 2×

2 such that, for each two sub-matrices having only column sub-vectors of the same columns or row sub-vectors of the same rows, at least one component of one of the two sub-matrices differs from the corresponding component of the other of the two sub-matrices in at least the phase or the absolute value of the weighting factor.

24. A method for transmitting a plurality of data symbols using a plurality of transmit antennas, a plurality of transmission resources, and a plurality of receiving antennas comprising:

generating a plurality of transmission symbols from the plurality of data symbols; and

associating each transmission symbol with one of the plurality of transmit antennas and one of the plurality of transmission resources,

wherein the transmission symbols are generated and associated with the transmit antennas and transmission resources such that the transmission symbols are written in the form of a first matrix with a sub-vector in a first dimension for each of the plurality of antennas and a sub-vector in a second dimension for each of the plurality of the transmission resources, such that each component of the matrix holds the transmission symbol that is transmitted using the antenna corresponding to sub-vector in the first dimension in which the component is positioned and using the transmission resource corresponding to the sub-vector in the second dimension in which the component is positioned, the first matrix is represented as a combination of two multi antenna precoding matrices for a transmission system with the same number of transmit antennas as in the plurality of transmit antennas and with less receiving antennas as in the number of receiving antennas.