Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120082198 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR BEAMFORMING - The present invention provides a method for obtaining channel state information required for beamforming, comprising: estimating current channel state information according to a received signal; predicting future channel state information which is expected to be used by a transmitter in the next beamforming based on the current channel state information and historical channel state information; reading previous channel state information used by the transmitter in the current beamforming; determining feedback information based on the future channel state information and the previous channel state information; and sending the feedback information to the transmitter. The present invention further provides a method for performing beamforming, comprising: receiving feedback information from a receiver; reading previous channel state information used in the last beamforming; reconstructing channel state information based on the feedback information and the previous channel state information; and performing beamforming according to the reconstructed channel state information. | 04-05-2012 |
20120106474 | BEAMFORMING TRAINING METHODS, APPARATUSES AND SYSTEM FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for beamforming training at a service and control point and a user station, and a system for beamforming training for a wireless communication system. According to the present invention, a method for beamforming training at a service and control point may comprise: transmitting training sequences to multiple user stations by using switched transmit antenna weight vectors; determining optimum transmit antenna weight vectors of the service and control point based on channel information that is fed back from each user station of the multiple user stations and related to channel condition of own link and cross links of the each user station. According to the present invention, there is provided a spatial-reuse based simultaneous beamforming training technology, which may satisfy the demands of a dense-user application; moreover, has a high spectrum efficiency and saves beamforming training time. | 05-03-2012 |
20120195399 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECEIVING TERMINAL FOR LDPC DECODING - An apparatus and a method for Low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding are provided. The apparatus for LDPC decoding comprises a post effective noise variance estimation unit for estimating a post effective noise variance based on a preamble in a received signal, an LLR calculation unit for calculating an LLR based on the estimated post effective noise variance, and a decoding unit for performing LDPC decoding based on the calculated LLR. The post effective noise variance estimation unit comprises a channel frequency response estimation unit for estimating a channel frequency response based on the preamble in the received signal, a noise variance estimation unit for estimating a noise variance based on the preamble in the received signal, and a post effective noise variance calculation unit for calculating the post effective noise variance based on the channel frequency response and the noise variance. | 08-02-2012 |
20130058361 | SIGNAL FOR TRANSMISSION IN SINGLE-CARRIER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for generating a signal for transmission in a single-carrier communication system are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a reference signal inserter, which multiplexes data symbols with reference signal symbols in time domain to form a plurality of symbol blocks as the signal for transmission, wherein the plurality of symbol blocks include symbol blocks of a first type and symbol blocks of a second type, wherein each of the symbol blocks of the first type includes only data symbols, and wherein each of the symbol blocks of the second type includes both data symbols and reference signal symbols. | 03-07-2013 |
20130083865 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND BEAMFORMING TRAINING METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention provides a wireless communication system and a beamforming training method for a wireless communication system. A wireless communication system comprising: a plurality of transmitting stations each including a transmit antenna array, the plurality of transmitting stations transmitting training sequences via the respective transmit antenna arrays in the same period of time; and a plurality of receiving stations corresponding to the plurality of transmitting stations respectively and each including a receive antenna array, each of the plurality of receiving stations receiving the respective training sequences transmitted by the plurality of transmitting stations via the respective receive antenna array and acquiring channel information regarding channel conditions of the respective links between the receiving station and the respective ones of the plurality of transmitting stations, the channel information being used to determine at least one of optimized transmit antenna weight vectors of the transmit antenna arrays of the plurality of transmitting stations and optimized receive antenna weight vectors of the receive antenna arrays of the plurality of receiving stations. | 04-04-2013 |
20130089163 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PILOT SEQUENCE - A device for generating a pilot sequence is provided. The device includes: a mapping information determining unit configured to determine periodic mapping information of the pilot sequence on subcarriers; and a pilot sequence generating unit configured to generate the pilot sequence by calculating phase information of the pilot sequence to be generated based on the periodic mapping information. A method and a device for estimating channel information are also provided. | 04-11-2013 |
20130142091 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION - The present invention relates to method and apparatus for scheduling downlink transmission. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for scheduling downlink transmission in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: scheduling, in a channel measurement sub-frame, user equipments in a cell according to feedback information that was most recently received from the user equipments, wherein in the channel measurement sub-frame, the user equipments calculate feedback information to be reported; and scheduling, in response to receipt of the feedback information, the user equipments based on a result of scheduling corresponding to the channel measurement sub-frame. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided a scheduling apparatus, base station device and corresponding computer program product. | 06-06-2013 |
20130235835 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PERFORMING OUTER LOOP LINK ADAPTATION OPERATION - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus of performing outer loop link adaptation (OLLA) operation. This method may comprise: accelerating in an initial probing phase, increase of an OLLA scaling factor until obtaining a negative result regarding codeword selection; and fine modifying, in a fine modification phase, the scaling factor using an upturn factor and a downturn factor in response to the result regarding codeword selection so that a channel quality indication, which is modified using the scaling factor, is matched with its actual value. Compared with the prior art, the technical solution as provided in the present invention can quickly modify a CQI to match its actual value, thus this solution may effectively mitigate the CQI mismatch, improve the CQI feedback accuracy, and further enhance the cell throughput performance and frequency utilization. | 09-12-2013 |
20130242920 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING DOWNLINK HARQ - Embodiments of the invention provide a method for enhancing downlink HARQ. The method may comprise steps of: responsive to that a packet is unsuccessfully received, estimating a required channel quality for next retransmission of the packet; selecting a target subset of base stations from a cooperation set of base stations based on the required channel quality; and sending an indication of the target subset of base stations to a central unit. | 09-19-2013 |
20130259024 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRIMARY SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL DETECTION - The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for primary synchronization signal (PSS) detection. The method may comprise: performing a central-symmetrical preprocess on a receive vector by exploiting a central symmetry of the primary synchronization signal; and performing, based on the central-symmetrical preprocess, a non-coherent detection on the receive vector using local primary synchronization signals so as to detect the primary synchronization signal. The computation complexity in PSS detection may be significantly reduced by performing preprocess to the receive vector based on the central symmetry of the primary synchronization signal, thereby considerably enhancing the speed and performance of PSS search and further improving the cell search efficiency. | 10-03-2013 |
20130265960 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODIFYING CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATION - The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for modifying a channel quality indication (CQI). This method may comprise: calculating a scaling factor for the channel quality indication based on uplink channel information and an antenna virtualization pre-coding scheme; and modifying the channel quality indication reported by user equipment by using the scaling factor. According to the technical solutions of the present invention, the antenna virtualization factor is considered in performing CQI modification and. Thus, this solution can overcome the problem of CQI mismatch, enhance the completeness and accuracy of CQI feedback, and improve the cell throughput performance and frequency utilization. | 10-10-2013 |
20130272438 | METHOD, TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER FOR BEAMFORMING - Embodiments of the invention provide a method for beamforming based on Grassmannian predictive coding (GPC) in a MIMO system. The method may comprise steps of: estimating present channel direction information (CDI) according to a received signal; predicting future CDI based on the present CDI and at least one of previous CDIs; predicting future codebook based on present codebook and at least one of previous codebooks; selecting a codeword from the future codebook based on the future CSI; and feeding back an index of the selected codeword to the transmitter. | 10-17-2013 |
20130322396 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COORDINATING INTERFERENCE ON USER EQUIPMENT - Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method an apparatus for coordinating interference on a user equipment, the user equipment being served by a serving base station and interfered by an interfering base station. The method comprising steps of requesting for a limited access to the interfering base station; and responsive to an acknowledge message from the interfering base station, transmitting interference coordination information to the interfering base station. | 12-05-2013 |
20130343481 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING PRECODING MATRIX IN MIMO SYSTEM - A method for predicting precoding matrix (PM) in a MIMO System includes the steps of: obtaining a present PM based on a present transmission; fitting the present PM and previous PMs with a predefined model; and determining a forthcoming PM which is expected to be used in the next transmission based on the fitting. | 12-26-2013 |
20130344913 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING TRANSMISSION POWER OF A SECONDARY TRANSMITTER IN A HIERARCHICAL SPECTURM SHARING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining a transmission power of a secondary transmitter in a hierarchical spectrum sharing system. The method can comprise steps of obtaining channel quality information on a primary link from at least one primary receiver within a transmission range of the secondary transmitter; and determining the transmission power for the secondary transmitter based on the channel quality information, wherein the transmission power is matched with the channel quality indicated by the channel quality information. According to the embodiments of the present invention, a power control scheme is applied to the secondary transmitter based on the channel quality information on the primary link. In such a way, the secondary transmitter' throughput can be improved with controllable rate loss to the primary receiver and accordingly the spectrum efficiency for the whole system can be further upgraded. | 12-26-2013 |
20140192704 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING DOWNLINK CHANNEL MEASUREMENT AND METHOD AND APPARATUS PERFORMING DOWNLINK CHANNEL MEASUREMENT IN A RELAYING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for indicating downlink channel measurement and a method and apparatus for performing channel measurement. The method for indicating downlink channel measurement comprises: receiving information on interferes of a user equipment; generating, based on downlink subframe configuration information, a downlink channel measurement indication for each of possible combinations of the interferers, wherein the channel measurement indication is adapted to indicate a subframe group to be measured by a user equipment; and sending the downlink channel measurement indication to the user equipment so as to indicate the user equipment to perform corresponding downlink channel measurement. According to embodiments of the present invention, the subframe groups that are required to be measured by the user equipment may be determined with respect to possible combinations of interferers corresponding to different levels of interference. Thus, the user equipment may perform channel measurement for respective subframe groups. Therefore, the channel quality as determined in such way will be more accurate and reliable and better match the actual channel condition. Moreover, it also provides a possibility for the serving node to perform the scheduling more accurately and effectively. | 07-10-2014 |
20140328218 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING FEEDBACK TRANSMISSION RESOURCE AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON VALUES THEREOF - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for allocating feedback transmission resource and a method and apparatus for providing information on values thereof. According to the method of allocating feedback transmission resource, the feedback transmission resource is divided into a plurality of resource units, and the method can comprise receiving information on values of the plurality of resource units for the mobile stations; determining values of possible resource allocation status in each bidding round for the mobile stations from the received information on the values based on the sequential second price auction; and deriving an auction process of the resource units from the determined values of possible resource allocation status in each bidding round based on the sequential second price auction, so as to obtain a final resource unit allocation result for the mobile stations. With embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to improve performance in sum channel capacity and at the same time it can achieve preservation in fairness among MSs. In preferred embodiments of the present invention, the feedback transmission resource can be optimized between at least two kinds of feedback information such as channel station information and intercell interference information, which will further improve the system performance. | 11-06-2014 |
20140369219 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING CHANNEL QUALITY INFORMATION, BASE STATION AND NETWORK CENTRAL PROCESSING DEVICE - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for estimating channel quality information, a base station and a network central processing device. According to the embodiments of the present invention, a macro cell includes multiple transmission points, the method can comprise receiving the channel quality information which is measured by a user equipment based on a cell specific reference signal; obtaining channel matrix information the multiple transmission points; calculating beamforming information on a single cell transmission and a coordinated multi-point transmission based on the channel matrix information; and estimating the channel quality information for the single cell transmission and the coordinated multi-point transmission based on the channel quality information, the channel matrix information, and the beamforming information. With embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to provide coordinated multi-point gains with no overhead introduced and it is compatible with the existing available user equipments. | 12-18-2014 |
20140369281 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING AND CANCELLING CROSS-SUBFRAME CO-CHANNEL INTERFERENCE - Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for cancelling cross-subframe co-channel interference (CCI), the method comprising receiving a channel quality indicator (CQI) of a cross-subframe from a user equipment (UE), the cross-subframe is a downlink subframe that is interfered by an uplink subframe in a neighboring cell; determining if the UE should be scheduled during cross-subframes by comparing the CQI with an adaptive threshold; and scheduling the UE during the cross-subframes if the UE is determined to be scheduled. By means of determining the resources scheduling based on an adaptive threshold, CCI may be cancelled and the overall resource usage will be increased according to the present invention. Furthermore, the adaptive threshold scheme can be easily implemented in practice. | 12-18-2014 |
20140369283 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTER LOOP LINK ADAPTATION FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method for link adaptation in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: determining whether a UE operates in a SU-MIMO transmission mode or in a MU-MIMO transmission mode; applying, in responsive to determination that the UE operates in the SU-MIMO transmission mode, a SU-MIMO OLLA offset to a signal to interference and noise ratio adjusted with inner loop link adaptation; applying, in responsive to determination that the UE operates in the MU-MIMO transmission mode, a MU-MIMO OLLA offset to a signal to interference and noise ratio adjusted with inner loop link adaptation, wherein the MU-MIMO OLLA offset is based on the SU-MIMO OLLA offset and an extra offset which is indicative of inter-user interference, wherein the SU-MIMO OLLA offset and the extra offset are updated in responsive to receipt of an ACK/NACK message for a packet reported from the UE. | 12-18-2014 |
20140376369 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING UPLINK-DOWNLINK CONFIGURATION - Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting UL-DL configuration. In the method according to embodiments of the present invention, downlink traffic load and uplink traffic load for transmission between a BS and a UE in a TDD system may be obtained, a UL-DL traffic load relation may be determined based on the downlink traffic load and the uplink traffic load and a UL-DL configuration may be selected based on the UL-DL traffic load relation. | 12-25-2014 |
20140378150 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING D2D COMMUNICATION - Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for performing D2D communication in a communication system. The communication system at least comprises a BS and a UE in cellular communication with the BS, and wherein the D2D communication is performed between a D2D transmitter and a D2D receiver and interferes with the cellular communication. A method according to the disclosure may comprise steps of: obtaining MCS information on the cellular communication between the BS and the UE; and determining a transmitting power for the D2D communication based on the MCS information, so as to reduce the interference from the D2D communication to the cellular communication. | 12-25-2014 |
20140378154 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ALLOCATION OF RESOURCE BLOCKS - Provided are methods and corresponding apparatuses for allocation of resource blocks. A method for allocation of resource blocks comprises receiving, from a base station, information regarding a measurement location at which at least one identified resource block has been measured; and using, based upon a current location of a mobile relay node and the measurement location, the at least one identified resource block for communication between the mobile relay node and at least one user equipment connected therewith, wherein the at least one identified resource block is not used for communication between the base station and at least one user equipment connected therewith at the measurement location and a measurement of the at least one identified resource block is below a predetermined threshold. With the claimed inventions, interference in the high speed railway communication could be ameliorated and the spectrum efficiency would be improved. | 12-25-2014 |
20150009895 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING AND CANCELLING CROSS-SUBFRAME CO-CHANNEL INTERFERENCE - Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for cancelling cross-subframe co-channel interference (CCI). The method comprising receiving a channel quality indicators (CQI) of a cross-subframe from user equipment (UE), wherein the cross-subframe is a downlink subframe that is interfered by an uplink subframe in a neighboring cell; determining if the UE should be scheduled during cross-subframes based on at least the CQI; scheduling the UE during the cross-subframes if the UE is determined to be scheduled. By means of measuring and reporting CQIs on cross-subframe at UEs, base stations may determine more accurately if interferences at the cross-subframes are severe enough and if resources should be scheduled at the cross-subframe. | 01-08-2015 |
20150036561 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING COVERAGE - Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for enhancing coverage in a TDD system, wherein there is at least one TDD UL/DL configuration for subframes in the TDD system, and the at least one UL/DL configuration comprises at least one special subframe and at least one normal subframe. In the method according to embodiments of the present invention, whether a special subframe is to be applied in TTI bundling is determined first, and then a message with an indication indicating that a special subframe is to be applied in TTI bundling is sent to a UE in response to determining that a special subframe is to be applied in TTI bundling, such that the UE transmits TTI bundling packets on at least one special subframe. | 02-05-2015 |