Method and apparatus for joint processing and precoding mode selection based on limited feedback in mobile communication system

• US 9,385,799 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2012
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Ko, Eun-Seok, Kim, Yung-Soo, Lee, Sanghoon, Lee, Hojae
• Primary Examiner(s): Huang, David S
• Application Number:
  US13/405,189
• Publication Number:
  US 20120219043A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,593 Days
• Field of Search: 375/267
• 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: H04B 7/063 Parameters other than those covered in groups H04B7/0623 - H04B7/0634, e.g. channel matrix rank or transmit mode selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0632 Channel quality parameters, e.g. channel quality indicator [CQI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0639 Using selective indices, e.g. of a codebook, e.g. pre-distortion matrix index [PMI] or for beam selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0689 using different transmission schemes, at least one of them being a diversity transmission scheme

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a method of a base station configured to select a precoding mode in a mobile communication system. When channel estimate information is received from at least one terminal, the channel estimate information is collected, so that user grouping is performed according to one precoding scheme from among multiple precoding schemes. Individual user scheduling is performed according to each precoding scheme, so that a service candidate group set is generated. The selected precoding scheme is maximized according to a transmission capacity of a service candidate group set for each precoding scheme. Data is then transmitted to a determined candidate group set using the determined precoding scheme.

Claims

1. A method for selecting a precoding mode in a mobile communication system by a base station, the method comprising:

receiving channel estimate information from at least one terminal;

generating a user group according to a precoding scheme from among a plurality of precoding schemes based on the channel estimate information;

performing individual user scheduling of the generated user group according to each precoding scheme to generate a service candidate group set;

determining a precoding scheme that maximizes a transmission capacity of the service candidate group set for each precoding scheme, wherein the determination is based on an expected signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) degradation such that the SINR degradation comprises an interference to a multiple link between a transmission end and a reception end according to the determined precoding scheme; and

transmitting data to a determined candidate group set based on the determined precoding scheme.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising sharing the channel estimate information and the determined precoding scheme with one or more cooperating neighbor base stations via a backhaul network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the channel estimate information comprises at least one of a channel direction indicator (CDI), a channel quality indicator (CQI), and information regarding the determined precoding scheme.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising collecting the channel estimation information to generate the user group according to the precoding scheme by

collecting terminals that use the same precoding scheme to set respective initial candidate group sets according:

5. The method of claim 1, wherein performing individual user scheduling according to each precoding scheme to generate the service candidate group set further comprises:

performing individual user scheduling according to the precoding scheme to generate a service candidate group set where users up to a specified number of users have been selected.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the precoding scheme that maximizes the transmission capacity of the service candidate group set for each precoding scheme further comprises:

determining the precoding scheme based on;

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising estimating an inaccuracy degree of a codebook vector.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the determination of the precoding scheme that maximizes the transmission capacity of the service candidate group set for each precoding scheme is further based on the estimated inaccuracy degree of the codebook vector.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining the expected SINR degradation represented as:

10. The method of claim 9, wherein C is an arbitrary constant.

11. A base station configured to select a precoding mode in a mobile communication system, the base station comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive channel estimate information from at least one terminal;

a user grouping unit configured to generate a user group according to a precoding scheme from among a plurality of precoding schemes associated with each terminal of the at least one terminal based on the channel estimate information; and

a scheduler configured to perform individual user scheduling of the generated user group according to each precoding scheme to generate a service candidate group set, and determine a precoding scheme that maximizes a transmission capacity of a service candidate group set for each precoding scheme, wherein the determination is based on an expected signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) degradation such that the SINR degradation comprises an interference to a multiple link between a transmission end and a reception end according to the determined precoding scheme,

wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit data to a determined candidate group set based on the determined precoding scheme.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the scheduler shares the channel estimate information and the determined precoding scheme with cooperating neighbor base stations via a backhaul network.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the channel estimate information comprises at least one of a channel direction indicator (CDI), a channel quality indicator (CQI), and information regarding the determined precoding scheme.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the user grouping unit is configured to collect the channel estimate information to generate the user group according to the precoding scheme by collecting terminals that use the same precoding scheme to set respective initial candidate group sets according to:

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein when performing the individual user scheduling according to each precoding scheme to generate the service candidate group set, the scheduler is configured to perform individual user scheduling according to the determined precoding scheme to generate the service candidate group set where users up to a specified number of users have been selected.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein, when determining the precoding scheme maximizing the transmission capacity of the service candidate group set for each precoding scheme, the scheduler is configured to determine the precoding scheme according to:

17. The base station of claim 11, further configured to estimate an inaccuracy degree of a codebook vector.

18. The base station of claim 17, wherein the determination of the precoding scheme that maximizes the transmission capacity of the service candidate group set for each precoding scheme is further based on the estimated inaccuracy degree of the codebook vector.

19. The base station of claim 11, further configured to determine the expected SINR degradation based on:

20. The base station of claim 19, wherein C is an arbitrary constant.