Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080198946 | DATA TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD USING PHASE SHIFT BASED PRECODING AND TRANSCEIVER SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method for performing a precoding based on a generalized phase shift or a precoding based on an extended phase shift in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system employing several sub-carriers, and a transceiver for supporting the same are disclosed. A phase-shift-based precoding matrix is generalized by multiplying a diagonal matrix for a phase shift by a unitary matrix for maintaining orthogonality between sub-carriers. In this case, a diagonal matrix part may be extended by multiplying a precoding matrix for removing interference between sub-carriers by a diagonal matrix for a phase shift. By generalization and extension of the phase-shift-based precoding, a transceiver is more simplified, and communication efficiency increases. | 08-21-2008 |
20090059844 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DATA IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system comprises receiving feedback data on an uplink data channel, the feedback data comprising a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), wherein the value of the PMI corresponds to an index in a codebook, transmitting a precoding scheme for downlink data on a downlink control channel, wherein the preceding scheme is determined as one of at least two of a transmit diversity irrespective of the received PMI, an acknowledgement indicating preceding according to the received PMI and a new PMI indicating that it is used in precoding downlink data to be transmitted, and transmitting the downlink data on a downlink data channel after applying precoding according to the determined preceding scheme. | 03-05-2009 |
20090067531 | METHOD FOR REPORTING CHANNEL INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - There is provided a method of reporting downlink channel information to a base station in a multiple antenna system. The method includes reporting a single rank for overall subband, the overall subband comprising a plurality of subbands and reporting a CQI for the single rank for at least one subband. Radio resources required for reporting channel information can be reduced and signaling overheads can be minimized. | 03-12-2009 |
20090129495 | ALLOCATION OF RADIO RESOURCE IN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM - An uplink capacity is increased by a method in which more than two mobile stations simultaneously use a radio resource allocated to one mobile station. A method of allocating a radio resource in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system comprises receiving data associated with a radio resource allocation map from a base station, wherein the radio allocation map comprises control parameters for transmitting uplink data to the base station. The control parameters comprises orthogonal pilot pattern indicator for using orthogonal pilot patterns associated with supporting at least concurrent dual transmission by at least one mobile station, and for use in the same frequency band and same time duration. The orthogonal pilot patterns comprises at least a minus pilot being used for an uplink basic allocation unit. The mobile station then transmits uplink data to the base station by using the orthogonal pilot patterns. | 05-21-2009 |
20090168716 | METHOD FOR RESOURCE PARTITIONING WITH PREDEFINED PATTERN AND ADAPTIVE RESOURCE PARTITIONING METHOD - An adaptive resource partitioning method includes: selecting a predefined pattern-based partitioning method or an informed map-based partitioning method according to the number of channels used for resource allocation, data characteristics, and a channel environment variation, if the predefined pattern scheme is selected, selecting any of predefined patterns, partitioning distributed and localized resource allocation areas according to the selected pattern, and transmitting a pattern index of the selected pattern to a terminal, and if the informed map scheme is selected, partitioning distributed and localized resource allocation areas according to an arbitrary pattern, and transmitting bitmap control information indicating information of the partitioned areas to the terminal. So, it effectively obtains a diversity and a scheduling gain when distributed and localized resource allocations are simultaneously used, such that it increases flexibility of resource allocation, increases an available data transfer rate, and reduces an amount of necessary control information. | 07-02-2009 |
20090190543 | PACKET TRANSMISSION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A method of retransmitting packet data in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a link map information element from a transmitting station having three antennas to achieve space time transmit diversity, wherein first, second and third packet data are transmitted from first, second and third antenna of the transmitting station, respectively. The method also comprises transmitting a non-acknowledgement signal to the transmitting station if at least one packet data from the transmitting station is not properly decoded. The method also comprises receiving the packet data from the transmitting station, wherein at least two of retransmitted packet data are transmitted from different antennas of the transmitting station, and one of retransmitted packet data is transmitted from the same antenna of the transmitting station. The retransmitted packet data are received with an information element comprising a retransmission count associated with a number of retransmission made by the transmitting station. | 07-30-2009 |
20090199063 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING ACK/NACK SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting an acknowledgment (ACK)/non-acknowledgement (NACK) signal in a wireless communication system includes assigning at least one ACK channel among a plurality of ACK channels which share an ACK channel region for transmitting the ACK/NACK signal, and transmitting the ACK/NACK signal through the at least one ACK channel, wherein the ACK channel region includes at least one tile including a plurality of data subcarriers, and the ACK/NACK signal of each ACK channel is indicated by mapping different orthogonal vectors respectively to the plurality of ACK channels in the tile. | 08-06-2009 |
20090201951 | METHOD AND ADJUSTING TRANSMISSION TIMING AND TRANSMITTING CONTINUOUS PACKETS AND MOBILE STATION THEREOF - A method of adjusting transmission timing, a method of continuously transmitting packets, and a mobile station are provided. The method of adjusting the transmission timing includes adjusting the transmission timing according to a transmission timing adjustment command when the transmission timing adjustment command is received from a receiving side; and creating a cyclic prefix (CP) in consideration of a part of a CP of a next symbol which overlaps with a previous symbol on a time axis on the basis of the adjusted transmission timing. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent deterioration in reception performance and minimize reception complexity even when packet transmission timing is adjusted at a transmitting side using an OFDMA or analogous radio access scheme. | 08-13-2009 |
20090207822 | Method for transmitting and receiving signals using collaborative MIMO scheme - A method for reducing inter-cell interference and a method for transmitting a signal by a collaborative MIMO scheme, in a communication system having a multi-cell environment are disclosed. An example of a method for transmitting, by a mobile station, precoding information in a collaborative MIMO communication system includes determining a precoding matrix set including precoding matrices of one more base stations including a serving base station, based on signal strength of the serving base station, and transmitting information about the precoding matrix set to the serving base station. A mobile station in an edge of a cell performs a collaborative MIMO mode or inter-cell interference mitigation mode using the information about the precoding matrix set collaboratively with neighboring base stations. | 08-20-2009 |
20090207831 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION USING AN EXTENDED SUBHEADER - A method of transmitting feedback information is disclosed. More specifically, a mobile station (MS) receives a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) which includes a Medium Access Channel (MAC) header from a base station (BS). Thereafter, the MS determines from the received MAC header whether an extended subheader group appears after the MAC header, and also identifies a feedback request extended subheader from the extended subheader group. Lastly, the MS transmits the feedback information according to the feedback request extended subheader. | 08-20-2009 |
20090219910 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNALS USING MULTI-BAND RADIO FREQUENCIES - A method for transmitting and receiving signals using multi-band Radio Frequencies (RFs) is provided. The method transmits an information unit of a specific layer above a physical layer through a plurality of frequency allocation bands managed by the specific layer and transmits control information identifying each of the plurality of frequency allocation bands. The control information identifying each of the plurality of frequency allocation bands includes a second ID into which a first ID has been converted, the first ID identifying each of the plurality of frequency allocation bands in the physical layer, the second ID identifying each of the plurality of frequency allocation bands managed by the specific layer in the specific layer. To accomplish this, a timing offset is applied to the entirety of a frame or to a preamble (synchronous channel) so that the timing offset is used as the ID. Applying a timing offset to the entirety of a frame or to a preamble (synchronous channel) can achieve an advantage of PAPR reduction. | 09-03-2009 |
20090232163 | METHOD FOR GENERATING SUBFRAME INCLUDING RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION - A method for generating a subframe including resource distribution information is disclosed. The method for generating a subframe includes arranging resource allocation information in a subframe by sequentially allocating a localized permutation and a distributed permutation, and arranging a subframe control header including a resource unit index in a predetermined location by a system parameter, wherein the resource unit index indicates a frequency resource location of the resource allocation information. When both the localized permutation and the distributed permutation are used, a resource distribution method is transmitted to a user equipment. Therefore, an effect of the distributed permutation can be maximized without a great influence on the performance of the localized permutation, and a problem of decoding failure or latency can be prevented. | 09-17-2009 |
20090232235 | User scheduling method in multiple antenna system - A user scheduling method includes: determining a maximum temporary user set of a maximum capacity among temporary user sets obtained from combinations of M number of active users; and transmitting data to users belonging to the maximum temporary user set via multiple antennas by using a preceding matrix and a weight matrix with respect to the maximum temporary user set. Users to actually receive data can be selected from among active users in a multi-antenna system, and a corresponding precoding matrix and a weighting matrix can be obtained. | 09-17-2009 |
20090232239 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING A PILOT IN MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a pilot method in a multi-antenna system is provided. The method comprises generating a preceding matrix including a preceding vector, the preceding vector being applied to each of data streams to be transmitted, performing preceding procedure for a pilot by using the preceding matrix, and transmitting the precoded pilot, wherein transmission power of the precoded pilot is determined specifically to the each of the data streams. The transmission power of a precoded pilot can be controlled adaptively, individually and independently for each channel to improve channel estimation performance. | 09-17-2009 |
20090233560 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method for transmitting data in a multi-antenna system includes determining a candidate mode in which a maximum upperbound approximation of an average total data rate is maximized as a transmission mode, selecting a user equipment to receive data by using the transmission mode, and transmitting data to the selected user equipment. | 09-17-2009 |
20090239473 | Method for transmitting channel information in multiple antenna system - A method for transmitting channel information in a multi-antenna system, the method includes calculating channel quality information (CQI) with respect to each mode, comparing the CQI with respect to each mode to a threshold value with respect to each mode, and transmitting CQI with respect to a mode having higher CQI than the threshold value as channel information. Good performance can be achieved regardless of the number of users or an SNR of users. | 09-24-2009 |
20090245410 | Method for transmitting signals for reducing feedback overhead and method for transmitting feedback information for the same - A method for transmitting signals to reduce feedback overhead and a method for transmitting feedback information for the same are described. In transmitting signals through precoding, different codebook subsets are used in an open-loop transmission mode and a closed-loop transmission mode, thereby reducing feedback overhead. In this case, it is assumed that the codebook subsets for the respective transmission modes are optimized according to each transmission mode. | 10-01-2009 |
20090257383 | FEEDBACK METHOD FOR PERFORMING A FEEDBACK BY USING A CODEBOOK IN MIMO SYSTEM - A feedback method for performing a feedback by using a codebook in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system includes receiving, by the mobile station, a MIMO mode type information, generating feedback information by using the codebook selected according to the MIMO mode type information, and transmitting the feedback information to the base station. The codebook includes a SU-MIMO codebook and a MU-MIMO codebook, and the MU-MIMO codebook is formed by extracting codebook elements from the SU-MIMO codebook. As a result, the method maximizes a system throughput simultaneously while effectively reducing an amount of feedback information. | 10-15-2009 |
20090257384 | METHOD FOR MODE ADAPTATION IN MIMO SYSTEM - A mode adaptation method for performing mode switching between a single-user MIMO (SU-MIMO) mode and a multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) mode includes reporting, by a base station, a MIMO feedback mode to a mobile station, receiving a feedback information determined on the basis of the MIMO feedback mode from the mobile station; and determining a MIMO feedback mode based on the feedback information. The MIMO feedback mode indicates whether it is single-user MIMO or multi-user MIMO and includes a number of mobile stations (MSs) transferred at one time. As a result, the method maximizes a system throughput simultaneously while effectively reducing an amount of feedback information. | 10-15-2009 |
20090262854 | Method for transmitting and receiving downlink control information - A method for efficiently transmitting and receiving downlink control information is disclosed. The method includes, at an base station, receiving feedback information including a preceding matrix index (PMI) from an user equipment (UE) and transmitting precoding information having a predetermined bit number according to the number of antenna ports and a transmission mode of the base station. The preceding information of a predetermined transmission mode in the preceding information includes confirmation information indicating that the base station uses a PMI which is recently received from the UE. At this time, if the confirmation information is transmitted via a specific resource block (RB) of an n | 10-22-2009 |
20090268698 | METHOD FOR MODE ADAPTATION IN MIMO SYSTEM - A mode adaptation method for performing mode switching between a single-user MIMO (SU-MIMO) mode and a multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) mode includes receiving, by the base station, a preferred MIMO mode related information from a mobile station; determining a MIMO mode based on the preferred MIMO mode related information; reporting the MIMO mode to the mobile station; and receiving a feedback information of the MIMO mode from the mobile station. | 10-29-2009 |
20090285168 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING MINI RESOURCE UNIT AND TRANSMISSION FOR A DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE UNIT IN CONSIDERATION OF SPACE FREQUENCY BLOCK CODE - A method and device for wirelessly communicating between a mobile communication terminal and a base station, including exchanging a physical resource unit (PRU) between the base station and the mobile communication terminal, the PRU having a plurality of OFDMA symbols. Each 1 | 11-19-2009 |
20090303928 | Method for transmitting channel information in wireless communication system - A method for transmitting uplink channel information in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises transmitting an adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) band bitmap indicating at least one AMC band selected from a plurality of AMC bands with a first transmission period through a plurality of uplink control channels and transmitting a channel quality indicator (CQI) based on transmission of the AMC band bitmap with a second transmission period through any one of the plurality of uplink control channels. | 12-10-2009 |
20090304098 | Method of transmitting control signals in wireless communication system - A method of transmitting control signals in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises allocating at least one control signal in a control channel region comprising a plurality of tiles, each tile consisting of a plurality of consecutive subcarriers in a frequency domain on a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a time domain and transmitting the at least one control signal, wherein the number of the at least one control signal is determined based on the number of available sequences for the control channel region and the number of bit carried by each control signal. | 12-10-2009 |
20090323615 | COMMUNICATING NON-COHERENT DETECTABLE SIGNAL IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - The present invention relates to allocating a radio resource in a wireless communication system utilizing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Preferably, the present invention comprises receiving in a mobile station data associated with a radio resource allocation map from a base station, wherein the radio allocation map comprises control parameters for transmitting an uplink channel, wherein the uplink channel comprises at least one OFDM tile comprising a first set of subcarriers associated with representing at least part of an n-bit data payload, and a second set of subcarriers associated with representing at least part of a non-pilot m-bit data payload wherein each subcarrier carries a modulated data, and the first and the second set of subcarriers are exclusive to each other, and transmitting the uplink channel from the mobile station to the base station. | 12-31-2009 |
20100002607 | Collaborative mimo using sounding channel in multi-cell environment - A collaborative MIMO method using a sounding channel in a multi-cell environment is disclosed. The method includes acquiring, by a first base station providing a service for a first cell, first CSI of a first downlink channel between the first base station and a mobile station, transmitting, to a second base station, a signal including information requesting that the second base station providing a service for a second cell acquire second CSI of a second downlink channel between the second base station and the mobile station, and acquiring, by the second base station, the second CSI. The mobile station is served by the first base station. | 01-07-2010 |
20100002787 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION ANTENNAS USING PILOT SUBCARRIER ALLOCATION - A method for allocating pilot subcarriers in a resource block for a wideband wireless mobile communication system having four (4) transmission antennas using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDMA) modulation is disclosed. In this method, pilot subcarriers are allocated in the resource block so that a group of consecutive data subcarriers separated from adjacent other group of consecutive data subcarriers by the pilot subcarriers has even number of subcarriers within an OFDMA symbol. | 01-07-2010 |
20100009691 | PERMUTATION DEVICE AND METHOD HAVING IMPROVED RESOURCE GRANULARITY FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A device and method for permuting subcarriers in a subframe which is divided into a plurality of frequency partitions in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes mapping, at a mobile station, physical resource units for localized resource allocation to a frequency partition of the plurality of frequency partitions in units of N_1 number of resource units, and physical resource units for distributed resource allocation to the frequency partition in units of N_d number of resource units, N_1 being different from N_d; and spreading, at the mobile station, subcarriers of the physical resource units for distributed resource allocation across the whole distributed resource allocations. | 01-14-2010 |
20100014481 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNAL, SETTING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION PATTERN, AND SETTING AND ALLOCATING RESOURCE BLOCK - A method for transmitting a reference signal, a method for establishing a reference-signal transmission pattern, and a method for establishing a block are disclosed. The reference-signal density is adjusted according to the request degree of the channel estimation performance, and then the reference signal is transmitted to a destination. As a result, the apparatus prevents prevent resources from being unnecessarily wasted, and acquires a high channel estimation performance as necessary, resulting in an increased production yield of a system. | 01-21-2010 |
20100014608 | DATA TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD USING PHASE SHIFT BASED PRECODING AND TRANSCEIVER SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method for performing a precoding based on a generalized phase shift or a precoding based on an extended phase shift in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system employing several sub-carriers, and a transceiver for supporting the same are disclosed. A phase-shift-based precoding matrix is generalized by multiplying a diagonal matrix for a phase shift by a unitary matrix for maintaining orthogonality between sub-carriers. In this case, a diagonal matrix part may be extended by multiplying a precoding matrix for removing interference between sub-carriers by a diagonal matrix for a phase shift. By generalization and extension of the phase-shift-based precoding, a transceiver is more simplified, and communication efficiency increases. | 01-21-2010 |
20100017675 | SUPPORTING HYBRID AUTOMATIC RETRANSMISSION REQUEST IN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ACCESS RADIO ACCESS SYSTEM - A method of supporting a hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA) radio access system is disclosed. Preferably, the method comprises receiving a downlink data frame comprising a data map information element and a data burst comprising a plurality of layers, wherein each layer is encoded with a corresponding channel encoder, and wherein the data map information element is configured to support multiple antennas to achieve space time transmit diversity by providing control information associated with each one of the plurality of layers, wherein the control information comprises allocation of acknowledgement status channels corresponding to the plurality of layers, and transmitting in an uplink data frame a plurality of acknowledgement status, each acknowledgement status being associated with whether a corresponding layer of the plurality of layers is properly decoded. | 01-21-2010 |
20100020890 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION ANTENNAS USING PILOT SUBCARRIER ALLOCATION - A method of allocating pilot subcarriers in a resource block for a wideband wireless mobile communication system with multiple transmission antennas using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation is disclosed. In this method, pilot subcarriers are allocated to the resource block comprised of five (5) or seven (7) OFDM symbols so that only four (4) OFDM symbols of the resource block are allocated for pilot subcarriers. | 01-28-2010 |
20100020894 | METHOD FOR GENERATING CODEWORD IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for generating a codeword that is insensitive to variations of a channel and easily extensible is provided. The method includes obtaining a primary unit by taking a row vector from an N(E(N−1) simplex code and mapping a control signal to the codeword. The simplex code is obtained by removing a first row from an N(ENorthogonal matrix. The codeword is obtained by combining a plurality of primary units. | 01-28-2010 |
20100027696 | METHOD OF DATA TRANSMISSION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting data in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes encoding one or more input data according to a specific coding rate and modulating the input data according to a specific modulation scheme, applying virtual antenna signaling to the one or more encoded and modulated input data based on a specific spatial multiplexing rate, and performing spatial processing on the input data, to which the virtual antenna signaling has been applied, and then transmitting the input data to a receiving end. | 02-04-2010 |
20100031117 | Method for specifying transport block to codeword mapping and downlink signal transmission method using the same - A method for specifying a transport block-to-codeword mapping relationship and a method for transmitting a downlink signal using the same are described. If a swap flag has a first logic value, a first transport block is mapped to a first codeword and a second transport block is mapped to a second codeword. If the swap flag has a second logic value, the first transport block is mapped to the second codeword and the second transport block is mapped to the first codeword. If the size of any one of two transport blocks is 0, the swap flag is not used. | 02-04-2010 |
20100046356 | METHOD FOR MULTIPLEXING CONTROL SIGNALS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method for multiplexing control signals between a plurality of users when control signals for the plurality of users are allocated within one resource block. That is, a method for multiplexing control signals includes coding control signals for at least one user signals to correspond to a structure of a transmission block for the control signals among one or more dedicated resource block, multiplexing the control signals for the at least one user signals in the dedicated resource block, and transmitting the control signals, wherein the dedicated resource block is allocated for transmitting the control signals separately from data signals among a plurality of transmission resource blocks. A frequency division multiplexing (FDM) mode and a code division multiplexing (CDM) mode are used to multiplex the control signals for the plurality of users. | 02-25-2010 |
20100061482 | Method for transmitting data using phase shift based precoding and transceiver supporting the same - A method of transmitting data using cyclic delay in a multi-antenna system using a plurality of subcarriers and a transceiver supporting the same are disclosed. More particularly, a method of selecting a matrix (second matrix) for transforming a precoding matrix (first matrix) into a unitary matrix from a codebook by a prescribed reference is disclosed. An index for selecting the second matrix is calculated by a prescribed modulo operation in an open loop system or delivered as feedback information in a closed loop system. Diversity can be obtained by switching each column of the selected second matrix in accordance with time. In a multi-user system, a single second matrix can be determined by combining columns of the second matrix selected by each user. | 03-11-2010 |
20100067475 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM)/OFDM ACCESS (OFDMA) MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting feedback information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises a mobile station (MS) which determines whether to transmit feedback information to a base station (BS) without solicitation from the BS. After determining to do so, the MS transmits a request message to request the BS to allocate an uplink resource for transmitting at least one unsolicited header and thereafter receives the uplink resource allocation from the BS. Lastly, the MS transmits the at least one unsolicited header via the allocated uplink resource. | 03-18-2010 |
20100085912 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION - There is provided a method for enabling a user equipment to transmit feedback information. The method includes generating feedback data representing the feedback information, the feedback data expressed by a binary number having N bits, where N is an integer, the N bits comprising 2 levels, the feedback information represented by one of the 2 levels, wherein different types of the feedback information are assigned to different levels and transmitting the feedback data. Overheads incurred by transmission of feedback information can be reduced. | 04-08-2010 |
20100091680 | Method of transmitting control signal in wireless communication system - A method of transmitting a control signal in a wireless communication system includes receiving data or a control signal, and transmitting a feedback signal through a control channel in response to the data or the control signal, wherein the control channel comprises a plurality of mini-tiles in a plurality of tiles, each of which consists of at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in a time domain and at least one subcarrier in a frequency domain, and if the plurality of tiles have the same pilot pattern, the plurality of mini-tiles are cyclically selected from the plurality of tiles, and if the plurality of tiles have cyclically-arranged pilot patterns, the plurality of mini-tiles are selected at the same position from the plurality of tiles. | 04-15-2010 |
20100103949 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING REFERENCE SIGNALS IN MIMO SYSTEM - There is provided a method of allocating reference signals in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. The method includes allocating a first reference signal, a second reference signal and a third reference signal in a first OFDM symbol so that the first reference signal, the second reference signal and the third reference signal do not overlap with each other and allocating the first reference signal, the second reference signal and a fourth reference signal in a second OFDM symbol so that the first reference signal, the second reference signal and the fourth reference signal do not overlap with each other. The first reference signal and the second signal are allocated in a regular intervals in a single OFDM symbol. | 04-29-2010 |
20100110914 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR IN WIRELESS COMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a channel quality indicator (CQI) includes obtaining CQIs for each of a plurality of sub-bands, a sub-band comprising a plurality of sub-carriers, dividing the plurality of sub-bands into a plurality of layers according to a CQI of a sub-band, a layer comprising at least one sub-band, obtaining a representative value of a representative layer, the representative layer including a sub-band having maximum CQI and transmitting the representative value of the representative layer. Signaling overhead due to CQI feedback can be reduced. | 05-06-2010 |
20100111015 | Method for transmitting downlink control messages in cellular system - A method for transmitting control messages is disclosed. The method includes grouping a plurality of control messages for at least one user equipment based on at least one criteria of whether or not uplink ACK/NACK channel indexes are allowed to be implicitly used in the control messages, whether or not the user equipment corresponding to the control messages is able to implicitly use the uplink ACK/NACK channel indexes, sizes of Information Elements (IEs) of the control messages, whether or not the control messages are segmented into a predetermined number of subblocks, MCS levels applied to the control messages, sizes of allocated IEs of the control messages after applying the MCS levels, and frequency partitions in which the IEs of the control messages are present, and transmitting the grouped control messages. The control messages included in each of the groups generated by grouping are equal in at said least one criteria. | 05-06-2010 |
20100113047 | Method for informing user equipment of downlink control message construction information in cellular system - A method for transmitting control messages from a base station to a user equipment in a cellular system is disclosed. The method includes grouping a plurality of control messages for at least one user equipment based on at least one criteria of whether or not uplink ACK/NACK channel indexes are allowed to be implicitly used in the control messages, whether or not the user equipment corresponding to the control messages is able to implicitly use the uplink ACK/NACK channel indexes, sizes of Information Elements (IEs) of the control messages, whether or not the control messages are segmented into a predetermined number of subblocks, MCS levels applied to the control messages, sizes of allocated IEs of the control messages after applying the MCS levels, and frequency partitions in which the IEs of the control messages are present, and transmitting the grouped control messages. | 05-06-2010 |
20100115369 | ALLOCATING DATA BURSTS AND SUPPORTING HYBRID AUTO RETRANSMISSION REQUEST IN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ACCESS RADIO ACCESS SYSTEM - The present invention relates to allocating data regions in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access system. The present invention comprises receiving a message comprising information for locating a data region of a data map allocated to a mobile station identified in the message for transmitting and receiving information, and identifying the data region of the data map allocated to the identified mobile station by reading the received message, wherein the data region is identified independent of identifying data regions of another data map. | 05-06-2010 |
20100118818 | METHOD OF RESOLVING OVERLAPS IN DATA TRANSMISSION AND USER EQUIPMENT THEREFOR - A user equipment and corresponding method of transmitting symbols by the user equipment in a wireless communication system. The method includes: generating a first symbol and a second symbol, each symbol including a cyclic prefix and a data part; manipulating a part of the second symbol to be ignored in transmission so that the first symbol and a remaining part of the second symbol are transmitted without overlapping, when the first symbol and the second symbol are overlapped due to a transmission timing advance of the second symbol; and transmitting the first symbol and the second symbol at each transmission timing to the base station. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118821 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM)/ OFDM ACCESS (OFDMA) MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting feedback information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises a mobile station (MS) which determines whether to transmit feedback information to a base station (BS) without solicitation from the BS. After determining to do so, the MS transmits a request message to request the BS to allocate an uplink resource for transmitting at least one unsolicited header and thereafter receives the uplink resource allocation from the BS. Lastly, the MS transmits the at least one unsolicited header via the allocated uplink resource. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118822 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM)/ OFDM ACCESS (OFDMA) MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting feedback information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises a mobile station (MS) which determines whether to transmit feedback information to a base station (BS) without solicitation from the BS. After determining to do so, the MS transmits a request message to request the BS to allocate an uplink resource for transmitting at least one unsolicited header and thereafter receives the uplink resource allocation from the BS. Lastly, the MS transmits the at least one unsolicited header via the allocated uplink resource. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118823 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM)/ OFDM ACCESS (OFDMA) MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting feedback information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises a mobile station (MS) which determines whether to transmit feedback information to a base station (BS) without solicitation from the BS. After determining to do so, the MS transmits a request message to request the BS to allocate an uplink resource for transmitting at least one unsolicited header and thereafter receives the uplink resource allocation from the BS. Lastly, the MS transmits the at least one unsolicited header via the allocated uplink resource. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118824 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM)/ OFDM ACCESS (OFDMA) MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting feedback information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises a mobile station (MS) which determines whether to transmit feedback information to a base station (BS) without solicitation from the BS. After determining to do so, the MS transmits a request message to request the BS to allocate an uplink resource for transmitting at least one unsolicited header and thereafter receives the uplink resource allocation from the BS. Lastly, the MS transmits the at least one unsolicited header via the allocated uplink resource. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118997 | Method of controlling in a wireless communication system having multiple antennas - A method of controlling interference in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A method for controlling interference by a transmitter of a wireless communication system with multiple antennas comprises generating a base codebook subset including at least one precoding matrix selected from a base codebook; transmitting a base codebook subset indication, which represents the at least one precoding matrix included in the base codebook subset, to a receiver; and precoding data using the base codebook subset or the base codebook. | 05-13-2010 |
20100128594 | METHOD OF RESOLVING OVERLAPS IN DATA TRANSMISSION AND USER EQUIPMENT THEREFOR - A user equipment and method of transmitting symbols by the user equipment in a wireless communication system. The method includes: generating a first symbol by adding a cyclic prefix (CP) to a first inverse fourier transformed samples, the CP being copied from the first fourier transformed samples; generating a next consecutive second symbol by adding a CP to a second inverse fourier transformed samples, the CP being copied from the second fourier transformed samples; removing samples overlapped with the first symbol from the next consecutive second symbol when the next consecutive second symbol is to be advanced in transmission timing; and transmitting the first symbol and the next consecutive second symbol to a base station. | 05-27-2010 |
20100128693 | METHOD OF RESOLVING OVERLAPS IN DATA TRANSMISSION AND USER EQUIPMENT THEREFOR - A user equipment and corresponding method of transmitting symbol by the user equipment in a wireless communication. The user equipment transmits a plurality of symbols to a base station, each symbol including a cyclic prefix and a data part. The method includes: receiving a timing adjustment command from the base station, the timing adjustment command advancing a transmission timing of symbol after a predetermined time; and transmitting a timing adjusted symbol to the base station. A length of the timing adjusted symbol is varied so that the timing adjusted symbol does not include an overlapping part with a previous symbol. | 05-27-2010 |
20100142363 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus of transmitting control information in a wireless communication system is provided. A sequence corresponding to control information from a sequence set is determined. A reference modulation symbol set corresponding to a mini unit by modulating the sequence is generated. At least one reordered modulation symbol set is generated by reordering and repeating the reference modulation symbol set. The at least one reordered modulation symbol set is reordered in a unit of a subgroup. The reference modulation symbol set and the at least one reordered modulation symbol set are mapped to the plurality of mini units in the resource unit respectively. | 06-10-2010 |
20100166094 | Method for transmitting and receiving signals in open-loop spatial multiplexing mode - A method for transmitting and receiving signals in an open-loop spatial multiplexing transmission mode is described. If the number of transmit antennas is 2 and a rank is 2, a base station performs precoding according to a cyclic delay diversity scheme by a matrix in which a first matrix corresponding to an identity matrix, a second matrix corresponding to a diagonal matrix, and a third matrix corresponding to a unitary matrix are sequentially multiplied and transmits the precoded signals. This may be substantially the same as the case where the base station performs precoding using a matrix in which the second matrix corresponding to the diagonal matrix and the third matrix corresponding to the unitary matrix are multiplied and transmits the precoded signals. A user equipment estimates a transmission mode according to the received rank indicator and the number of transmit antennas and receives signals. | 07-01-2010 |
20100177727 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING RECEIVING A DATA IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a base station (BS) transmits downlink data to a first mobile station supporting a first system via a first zone of a frame and transmitting downlink data to a second mobile station supporting a second system via a second zone located behind the first zone by a frame offset on a time axis, wherein the first zone includes the odd number of OFDM symbols and wherein the frame offset is an offset between a start point of a frame for the first system and a start point of a frame for the second system. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177842 | CODEWORD GENERATION METHOD AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD USING THE SAME - A data transmission method includes encoding information bits to generate a codeword including a plurality of data symbols, the sum of the plurality of data symbols of the codeword being equal to zero, multiplexing a data symbol and a pilot with a subcarrier and transmitting multiplexed data symbol and pilot through the subcarrier. Since a data symbol and a pilot are multiplexed together to a subcarrier, channel estimation performance can be improved. | 07-15-2010 |
20100178927 | Method For Transmitting Pilot Allocation Information To User Equipment In A Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output System - A method for transmitting pilot allocation information from a base station for reception by at least one of a plurality of mobile stations participating in a Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) communication, the method including the steps of generating pilot allocation information for the one mobile station, and transmitting the pilot allocation information for reception by the one mobile station, wherein the pilot allocation information includes at least one of a total number K of pilot streams allocated to the plurality of mobile stations, an index k representing a first pilot stream of one or more pilot streams allocated to the one mobile station among a plurality of pilot streams defined for a pilot pattern selected for the MU-MIMO communication, a number M of the pilot streams allocated to the one mobile station, and bitmap information indicating the pilot streams allocated to the one mobile station among the plurality of pilot streams defined for the pilot pattern. | 07-15-2010 |
20100202372 | Method and apparatus of transmitting feedback message in wireless communication system - A method and apparatus of transmitting a feedback message in a wireless communication system is provided. A mobile station receives information on a first period and a second period from a base station and transmits a first feedback message in every first period or a second feedback message in every second period to the base station over a primary fast feedback channel (PFBCH). The first feedback message comprises a channel quality indicator (CQI) for a subband selected from a plurality of subbands, and the second feedback message comprises a subband index of the selected subband. | 08-12-2010 |
20100202373 | Method and apparatus of transmitting uplink control signal in wireless communication system - A method and apparatus of transmitting an uplink control signal in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment receives pieces of resource allocation information about a plurality of respective uplink control channels, and transmits the uplink control signal through one of the plurality of uplink control channels. Radio resources sequentially adjacent to each other on a basis of one reference uplink control channel, selected from the plurality of uplink control channels, are allocated to the respective uplink control channels. And the resource allocation information comprises size of the radio resources allocated to each of the plurality of uplink control channels within a resource region in which the plurality of uplink control channels is configured. | 08-12-2010 |
20100202433 | SUPPORTING HYBRID AUTOMATIC RETRANSMISSION REQUEST IN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ACCESS RADIO ACCESS SYSTEM - A method of supporting a hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA) radio access system is disclosed. Preferably, the method comprises receiving a downlink data frame comprising a data map information element and a data burst comprising a plurality of layers, wherein each layer is encoded with a corresponding channel encoder, and wherein the data map information element is configured to support multiple antennas to achieve space time transmit diversity by providing control information associated with each one of the plurality of layers, wherein the control information comprises allocation of acknowledgement status channels corresponding to the plurality of layers, and transmitting in an uplink data frame a plurality of acknowledgement status, each acknowledgement status being associated with whether a corresponding layer of the plurality of layers is properly decoded. | 08-12-2010 |
20100208669 | Method and apparatus of composing uplink control channel in wireless communication system - A method and apparatus of composing an uplink control channel in a wireless communication system is provided. Uplink radio resources including a plurality of symbols and a plurality of subcarriers is divided into a plurality of Feedback Mini-Tiles (FMTs) each having two consecutive subcarriers. Reordering FMTs (RFMTs) is selected from the plurality of FMTs. And a feedback channel is composed using the plurality of consecutive RFMTs. | 08-19-2010 |
20100226290 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING DATA BETWEEN MOBILE STATION AND BASE STATION, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL THEREOF - A method for transmitting and receiving data by a mobile station (MS), a method for transmitting and receiving data by a base station (BS), and a mobile communication terminal are provided. The method for transmitting and receiving data by an MS includes generating an uplink subframe by placing an uplink control channel so as to have a margin with a time allocated to a MAP of a downlink subframe and transmitting the uplink subframe to a BS. A new frame structure compatible with a full duplex FDD MS is applied in a mobile communication system. | 09-09-2010 |
20100226417 | DATA TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD USING PHASE SHIFT BASED PRECODING AND TRANSCEIVER SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method for performing a precoding based on a generalized phase shift or a precoding based on an extended phase shift in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system employing several sub-carriers, and a transceiver for supporting the same are disclosed. A phase-shift-based precoding matrix is generalized by multiplying a diagonal matrix for a phase shift by a unitary matrix for maintaining orthogonality between sub-carriers. In this case, a diagonal matrix part may be extended by multiplying a precoding matrix for removing an interference between sub-carriers by a diagonal matrix for a phase shift. By generalization and extension of the phase-shift-based precoding, a transceiver is more simplified, and a communication efficiency increases. | 09-09-2010 |
20100254339 | COMMUNICATING NON-COHERENT DETECTABLE SIGNAL IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - The present invention relates to allocating a radio resource in a wireless communication system utilizing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Preferably, the present invention comprises receiving in a mobile station data associated with a radio resource allocation map from a base station, wherein the radio allocation map comprises control parameters for transmitting an uplink channel, wherein the uplink channel comprises at least one OFDM tile comprising a first set of subcarriers associated with representing at least part of an n-bit data payload, and a second set of subcarriers associated with representing at least part of a non-pilot m-bit data payload wherein each subcarrier carries a modulated data, and the first and the second set of subcarriers are exclusive to each other, and transmitting the uplink channel from the mobile station to the base station. | 10-07-2010 |
20100254471 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING POWER INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting power information in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: determining energy per resource element (RE) to which a reference signal or data is mapped for downlink transmission; and transmitting power information of the reference signal and the data, wherein the reference signal comprises a channel state indication-reference signal (CSI-RS) for channel state measurement, power information of the CSI-RS is denoted by a ratio of power for a CSI-RS RE and power for a data RE of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol on which only data is transmitted or power for a cell-specific RS (CRS) RE used for channel state measurement and data demodulation of different OFDM symbols. | 10-07-2010 |
20100273514 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING CoMP OPERATION AND TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for performing a Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) operation and transmitting feedback information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes measuring interference levels or noise and interference variances of reference signals received from one or more neighbor cells, and transmitting to a serving Base Station (BS) information about the measured interference levels or noise and interference variances, and information about a Precoding Matrix Index (PMI) that a mobile station (MS) wants to restrict or recommend for a neighbor cell performing the CoMP operation. | 10-28-2010 |
20100278225 | Method for determining modulation and coding scheme - There is provided a method of determining a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS). The method includes predicting an error rate of a symbol and determining a MCS of the symbol using the error rate. Since a MCS level is determined using an estimated error rate and user data is scheduled, multi-user diversity gain can be obtained and the transmission rate can be improved. | 11-04-2010 |
20100278278 | METHOD FOR SETTING PRECODER IN OPEN LOOP MIMO SYSTEM - A feedback method of a user equipment in an open loop Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system is disclosed. The method includes, receiving one of a plurality of modes determined according to types of resources to be used for performing feedback from a base station, and selecting a precoding matrix from a codebook subset corresponding to the received mode, applying the selected precoding matrix, and transmitting feedback information. Different codebook subsets are configured with respect to the plurality of modes, and the codebook subset is configured by extracting a predetermined number of elements from a base codebook based on a predetermined criterion considering the characteristics of the modes. | 11-04-2010 |
20100298003 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING PILOT ALLOCATION INFORMATION TO USER EQUIPMENT IN A MULTI-USER MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT SYSTEM - A method for transmitting pilot allocation information from a base station for reception by at least one of a plurality of mobile stations participating in a Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) communication, the method including the steps of generating pilot allocation information for the one mobile station, and transmitting the pilot allocation information for reception by the one mobile station, wherein the pilot allocation information includes at least one of a total number K of pilot streams allocated to the plurality of mobile stations, an index k representing a first pilot stream of one or more pilot streams allocated to the one mobile station among a plurality of pilot streams defined for a pilot pattern selected for the MU-MIMO communication, a number M of the pilot streams allocated to the one mobile station, and bitmap information indicating the pilot streams allocated to the one mobile station among the plurality of pilot streams defined for the pilot pattern. | 11-25-2010 |
20100298031 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNALS USING MULTI-BAND RADIO FREQUENCIES - A method for transmitting an information unit of a specific layer above a physical layer through a plurality of frequency allocation bands managed by the specific layer and transmitting control information identifying each of the plurality of frequency allocation bands. The control information includes a second ID into which a first ID has been converted, the first ID identifying each of the plurality of frequency allocation bands in the physical layer, the second ID identifying each of the plurality of frequency allocation bands managed by the specific layer in the specific layer. To accomplish this, a timing offset is applied to the entirety of a frame or to a preamble (synchronous channel) so that the timing offset is used as the ID. Applying a timing offset to the entirety of a frame or to a preamble (synchronous channel) can achieve an advantage of PAPR reduction. | 11-25-2010 |
20100316154 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING VIRTUAL MULTIPLE ANTENNA TRANSMISSION IN UPLINK USING FEEDBACK INFORMATION AND MOBILE TERMINAL SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method and apparatus for performing virtual multiple antenna transmission using feedback information in a closed-loop multiple antenna system is provided. Virtual multiple antenna control information is fed back from a receiving end that has determined the virtual multiple antenna control information taking into consideration a communication condition of a transmitting end. Virtual multiple antenna transmission is performed in uplink using the feedback information. The transmitting end may also primarily determine at least part of the virtual antenna control information and transmit the determined information to the receiving end. This method allows adaptive virtual multiple antenna transmission suitable for a channel condition in closed-loop uplink, thereby improving the communication performance. | 12-16-2010 |
20100317382 | NETWORK ACCESS METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TERMINAL SUPPORTING THE SAME - With regard to any nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence disclosed in the international application and necessary to the claimed invention, the international search was carried out on the basis of: | 12-16-2010 |
20100322349 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA USING CYCLIC DELAY DIVERSITY - A method of transmitting data using cyclic delay in a multi-antenna system using a plurality of subcarriers is disclosed. Data is transmitted through a phase shift based precoding scheme enhanced from a related art phase shift diversity and a related art precoding scheme. A generalized cyclic delay diversity scheme is selectively applied to a phase shift based precoding scheme or a related art precoding scheme executed on a frequency domain is transferred to a time domain to be applied as a generalized cyclic delay diversity scheme. Accordingly, complexity of a receiver is reduced and communication efficiency can be enhanced. | 12-23-2010 |
20110009158 | METHOD OF EXECUTING HANDOVER IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are methods of executing a handover related operation in a power saving mode in accordance with handover triggering information. One of the methods of executing handover of a mobile station in a mobile communication system comprises determining an enabled status of at least one handover related operation in a specific operation mode between the mobile station (MS) and a network, receiving control information related to the at least one handover related operation from the net work, entering the specific operation mode, changing the enabled status of the at least one handover related operation in the specific operation mode, and performing the enabled handover related operation in accordance with the changed enabled status and the control information. | 01-13-2011 |
20110013615 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION - A method of transmitting uplink control information of a user equipment is provided. The method includes: generating the uplink control information repeatedly as many as uplink data transmission layers; modulating the uplink control information to generate a plurality of repeated modulation symbol; applying a precoding matrix to the plurality of repeated modulation symbols to generate a plurality of first precoded symbol; and transmitting the plurality of first precoded symbols respectively through a plurality of antennas in an uplink subframe comprising a plurality of single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbols in a time domain and a plurality of subcarriers in a frequency domain. | 01-20-2011 |
20110026419 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK POWER IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for controlling uplink transmit power in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method includes determining an uplink transmit power for each of the plurality of transmission channels, and sequentially allocating the determined uplink transmit powers to the transmission channels in a descending order of predetermined priority levels of the transmission channels, within a maximum available transmit power of the user equipment. The priority levels of the transmission channels are predetermined so that control channels, a sounding channel, a data channel, and a bandwidth request channel have priority levels in a descending order. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026627 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING MIDAMBLE - A method of transmitting a midamble for channel estimation of multiple antennas performed by a base station in a system having segregated uplink and downlink frequency bands is provided. The method includes transmitting midamble information indicating presence of the midamble within a downlink frame to a user equipment (UE), and transmitting the midamble on a single downlink subframe among at least one downlink subframe included in the downlink frame or on a common zone to the UE by using the multiple antennas. A scheduling overhead of a base station and other overheads can be reduced by decreasing the number of transmissions of a midamble on one downlink frame, and thus limited radio resources can be effectively used. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026637 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING PILOT SIGNAL IN A MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting a pilot signal in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system are disclosed. The method sets a power of pilot signal to be transmitted in a pilot pattern according to a predefined ratio of a total power of the pilot signal to a total power of data tones being transmitted together with the pilot signal on a subframe. | 02-03-2011 |
20110032897 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT CHANNEL - Various methods for efficiently transmitting data and various methods for allocating an ACK channel in a wireless access system are disclosed. In addition, various frame structures and MAC header structures for use in allocating an ACK channel are disclosed. A method for allocating an ACK channel includes receiving first data including ACK channel position information, transmitting an ACK signal on an ACK channel indicated by the ACK channel position information, and starting an ACK channel timer. | 02-10-2011 |
20110038320 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING MULTI-CELL SPECIFIC MESSAGE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for acquiring a multi-cell specific message in a wireless communication system includes receiving a downlink preamble, receiving the multi-cell specific message weighted with the downlink preamble, and decoding the weighted multi-cell specific message by using the received downlink preamble. Accordingly, since a preamble is used to transmit a multi-cell specific message, there is no need to transmit an additional signal in order to estimate a channel of the multi-cell specific message. In addition, a user equipment can acquire the multi-cell specific message by simply performing decoding. | 02-17-2011 |
20110043391 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF GENERATING CODEWORDS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for generating and transmitting codewords is provided. The method includes receiving information bits with a variable length, selecting vectors by the length of the information bits from a generator matrix, and generating a codeword based on the information bits and the generator matrix. Codewords with a certain length providing a coding performance with respect to received variable information bits can be obtained. | 02-24-2011 |
20110051834 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING OF DATA AND CONFIGURING A CODEBOOK IN MULTI ANTENNA SYSTEM - Methods of controlling a transmission power and configuring a codebook in a multi-antenna system to solve a transmission power unbalance between antennas are disclosed. The method of transmitting data in a multi-antenna system includes (A) transmitting one or more pilot signals within a first symbol region through a first antenna unit, and (B) transmitting one or more pilot signals within a second symbol region through a second antenna unit, wherein data within the first symbol region is transmitted through the second antenna unit, and data within the second symbol region is transmitted through the first antenna unit. According to the present invention, since a transmission power unbalance between antennas is solved, a transmission power can be uniformly assigned to each antenna and channel estimation can be easily performed. Moreover, a power amplifier having a uniform amplification range can be used and designed. | 03-03-2011 |
20110058527 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ALLOCATING A BROADCAST CHANNEL IN A WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for receiving a superframe header at a mobile station in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a sub-frame including the superframe header and a first data channel and decoding the received superframe header. Herein, the superframe header is located within a predetermined physical frequency band and the predetermined physical frequency band includes a synchronization channel. | 03-10-2011 |
20110064156 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION FOR PRECODING AND PRECODING METHOD - Precoding methods and method for performing precoding and methods of transmitting feedback information for precoding or transmitting a signal using a multi-codebook and method of transceiving precoding information in a multi-antenna system, where a signal transmitting method in a multi-antenna system, and more particularly, a method of transceiving precoding matrix information for a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system is disclosed. The present invention proposes a method of performing communications using an expanded unitary matrix generated from shifting a phase of a base unitary matrix. The present invention is applicable to single user MIMO, multi-user MIMO, beam forming, etc. | 03-17-2011 |
20110064159 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK SIGNAL IN A MIMO WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting a downlink signal in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication system is disclosed. A method for receiving a downlink signal from a base station to a user equipment in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system, which supports dual layer transmission based on first and second antenna ports, comprises receiving downlink control information (DCI) through a downlink control channel; and receiving downlink data through a downlink data channel, the downlink data including one or more of a first transport block and a second transport block, wherein the downlink control information includes a new data indicator (NDI) for each of the first and second transport blocks, and if the first transport block is disabled and the second transport block is enabled, the new data indicator for the first transport block indicates an antenna port through which the second transport block is received. | 03-17-2011 |
20110090976 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BEAM FORMING INFORMATION AND A METHOD FOR TRACKING POSITION OF A MOBILE STATION IN MULTI INPUT MULTI OUTPUT SYSTEM USING CODEBOOK-BASED BEAM FORMING SCHEME - A method for transmitting feedback information in a codebook-based multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is disclosed. For example, a method for transmitting beamforming information in a MIMO system using a codebook-based beamforming scheme includes receiving a signal and estimating a reception channel, and transmitting beamforming information selected through the estimated channel information from a codebook which is updated using phase shift matrices having a phase value as a parameter and using previous beamforming information. | 04-21-2011 |
20110098076 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK POWER IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for controlling uplink power in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The uplink power controlling method includes receiving target Signal-to-Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) parameters and an uplink noise and interference level from a base station, determining an uplink power based on a target SINR and an estimated average power level of noise and interference of a user equipment, the target SINR being determined using the target SINR parameters and the estimated average power level of noise and interference of the user equipment being calculated using the uplink noise and interference level, and receiving at least one of selectively transmitted first and second offsets from the base station and adjusting the uplink power based on the received at least one of the first and second offsets. | 04-28-2011 |
20110103218 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DOWNLINK SUBCHANNELIZATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of downlink subchannelization in a wireless communication system includes: transmitting a network entry and network discovery information including an open loop (OL) region parameter; and mapping a physical resource unit (PRU) to a contiguous resource unit (CRU) or a distributed resource unit (DRU) with respect to ith frequency partition based on the OL region parameter, wherein a permutation sequence used for mapping a PRU of the ith frequency partition (PRU | 05-05-2011 |
20110110405 | DATA TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD USING PHASE SHIFT BASED PRECODING AND TRANSCEIVER SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method for performing a precoding based on a generalized phase shift or a precoding based on an extended phase shift in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system employing several sub-carriers, and a transceiver for supporting the same are disclosed. A phase-shift-based precoding matrix is generalized by multiplying a diagonal matrix for a phase shift by a unitary matrix for maintaining orthogonality between sub-carriers. In this case, a diagonal matrix part may be extended by multiplying a precoding matrix for removing interference between sub-carriers by a diagonal matrix for a phase shift. By generalization and extension of the phase-shift-based precoding, a transceiver is more simplified, and communication efficiency increases. | 05-12-2011 |
20110111789 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION POWER IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING FRACTIONAL FREQUENCY REUSE - A method for acquiring FFR power pattern of Frequency Partitions (FPs) at a mobile station (MS) in a wireless communication system using Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a preamble from a base station (BS); and acquiring a FFR power pattern for a reuse-1 partition and reuse-N partitions using the received preamble, wherein the FFR power pattern is determined based on a segment identifier (ID), the reuse-N partitions include N frequency partitions, each frequency partition has a power level with a range of FP1_power level to FPN_power level, a power-boosted FP in the reuse-N partitions is a partition whose power level is the FP1_power level. | 05-12-2011 |
20110128917 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method for transmitting data in a multiple antenna system comprises the steps of: generating a transmission signal in plural antennas through the application of a precoding eight matrix to first and second antenna clusters including the plural antennas, and transmitting the transmission signal. The precoding weight matrix is a block diagonal matrix that is configured in a precoding weight corresponding to first and second antenna clusters respectively. The precoding weight of the first antenna cluster is selected according to a channel condition, and the precoding weight of the second antenna cluster is selected regardless of the channel condition but according to a rule. | 06-02-2011 |
20110135033 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of sending data in a multiple antenna system includes the steps of generating a transmission signal by applying channel-dependent precoding to a first antenna cluster and a second antenna cluster, each comprising a plurality of antennas, wherein the channel-dependent precoding is performed by a precoding weight matrix in which a precoding weight for each of the antenna clusters has a block diagonal form and the precoding weight is represented by P×V for a number of transmission antennas P, included in each of the antenna clusters, and a number of layers V applied to each of the antenna clusters (P and V are an integer greater than 0) and sending the transmission signal. | 06-09-2011 |
20110176442 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DATA IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of transmitting data in a multiple antenna system, including: transmitting a channel estimation signal including a first pilot for channel estimation of a first UE supporting multiple antennas and a second pilot for channel estimation of a second UE supporting a larger number of multiple antennas than that of the first UE; and receiving feedback data in response to the channel estimation signal. | 07-21-2011 |
20110200127 | Feedback Method and Apparatus for Multiple Base Stations in a Wireless Communication System Supporting Single Base Station MIMO Communication and Multiple Base Stations MIMO Communication - A feedback method for multiple base stations MIMO in a wireless communication system supporting a single base station MIMO (multiple input multiple output) communication and a multiple base stations MIMO communication is disclosed. The present invention includes the steps of transmitting feedback control information for the multiple base stations MIMO to a mobile station and receiving a multiple base stations MIMO feedback message for the multiple base stations MIMO feedback generated based on the feedback control information, wherein the feedback control information includes a target resource unit (TRU) indicating a frequency resource unit to be measured for a feedback. | 08-18-2011 |
20110206024 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK REQUEST AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING FEEDBACK REQUEST IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting a feedback request in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: transmitting feedback request control information to a user equipment (UE), wherein the feedback request control information includes a MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) feedback bitmap indicating at least one MIMO feedback mode to be applied to the UE and a common parameter, and the common parameter comprises a parameter commonly requested for the UE to generate feedback information in the at least one MIMO feedback mode. | 08-25-2011 |
20110244873 | METHOD FOR PILOT SYMBOL TRANSMISSION IN DOWNLINK MIMO SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a pilot signal in a downlink MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output) system that supports a first UE (User Equipment) supporting N number of transmission antennae out of a total of M transmission antennae and supports a second UE supporting said M (M>N) number of transmission antennae. Said method comprises a step wherein a pilot symbol is placed as an image in the resource block (RB) region on a subframe that enables the transmission of a user-specific pilot symbol to said second UE in a base station; and a step wherein the subframe whereon said pilot symbol has been placed as an image is transmitted, wherein said RB region includes a first region and a second region, and the first region and the second region each include a certain number of continuous OFDM symbols on a respective time axis, and on said first region is placed as an image a cell-specific pilot symbol with respect to the transmission antenna ports | 10-06-2011 |
20110255629 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DATA IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system comprises receiving feedback data on an uplink data channel, the feedback data comprising a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), wherein the value of the PMI corresponds to an index in a codebook, transmitting a precoding scheme for downlink data on a downlink control channel, wherein the precoding scheme is determined as one of at least two of a transmit diversity irrespective of the received PMI, an acknowledgement indicating precoding according to the received PMI and a new PMI indicating that it is used in precoding downlink data to be transmitted, and transmitting the downlink data on a downlink data channel after applying precoding according to the determined precoding scheme. | 10-20-2011 |
20110255635 | DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The present invention provides a data transmission device and method in a wireless communication system. The device comprises a processor which is connected with the M antennas and which is formed so as to generate data to be transmitted through the M antennas, on the basis of a precoding matrix; the precoding matrix is generated based on a plurality of matrices; and a first matrix, which is one matrix among the plurality of matrices, is selected from within a codebook for N antennas (where N10-20-2011 | |
20110268072 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for transmitting signals in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes N antennas, a processor coupled to the N antennas and configured to generate N transmit signals by performing precoding on R spatial streams for R spatial layers, and to transmit the N transmit signals respectively through the N antennas, wherein an information stream, a reference signal sequence, and a reference signal pattern are allocated to each of the R spatial layers, and the reference signal pattern is a time-frequency resource pattern used for transmission of the reference signal sequence, wherein each of the R spatial streams corresponds to one spatial layer, and wherein each of the R spatial streams is generated based on the information stream, reference signal sequence, and reference signal pattern allocated to a corresponding spatial layer. | 11-03-2011 |
20110274071 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING SIGNALS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for receiving and transmitting signals in a wireless communication system are provided. The method of receiving signals includes configuring a system mode and receiving the signals according to the system mode, wherein the system mode is either a first system mode or a second system mode, when the system mode is the first system mode, the signals are transmitted through a maximum of N transmit antennas, and when the system mode is the second system mode, the signals are transmitted through a maximum of M (N11-10-2011 | |
20110281536 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for transmitting a reference signal in a radio communication system are provided. The apparatus comprises: N antennas; and a processor which is connected to the N antennas and which generates K (wherein K11-17-2011 | |
20110305289 | METHOD FOR GENERATING DOWNLINK SIGNAL IN DOWNLINK MIMO SYSTEM - A method for generating a downlink signal in a downlink MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) comprises the steps of: mapping at least one transport block to at least one codeword; mapping at least one layer to each codeword; classifying at least one layer mapped to each codeword into a certain number of layer groups and performing layer permutation by the layer groups; and generating an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing) symbol using a signal which is permutated by the layer groups. A CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) is attached by the layer groups. | 12-15-2011 |
20110317780 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a synchronization signal in a multi-node system having a plurality of nodes and a base station for controlling the plurality of node is provided. The method includes: generating a synchronization signal sequence; and mapping the generated synchronization signal sequence to a resource element, and thereafter transmitting the mapped synchronization signal sequence to a user equipment via at least one node among the plurality of nodes, wherein the synchronization signal sequence is generated based on an identifier (ID) of a transmission node for transmitting the synchronization signal sequence. | 12-29-2011 |
20110319109 | Method and Apparatus for Transmitting Reference Signal in Multi-Node System - A method of transmitting a reference signal in a multi-node system including a plurality of nodes and a base station for controlling the plurality of nodes is provided. The method includes: transmitting node information to a user equipment; and transmitting the reference signal to the user equipment from at least one node among the plurality of nodes on the basis of the node information, wherein the node information includes information capable of identifying the reference signal transmitted from the at least one node, and wherein each of the plurality of nodes transmits a different reference signal. | 12-29-2011 |
20120008587 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes: generating R spatial streams each of which is generated on the basis of an information stream and a reference signal; generating N transmit streams on the basis of the R spatial streams and a precoding matrix (where R01-12-2012 | |
20120008613 | Feedback Method For Performing A Feedback By Using A Codebook In Mimo System - A feedback method for performing a feedback by using a codebook in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system includes receiving, by the mobile station, a MIMO mode type information, generating feedback information by using the codebook selected according to the MIMO mode type information, and transmitting the feedback information to the base station. The codebook includes a SU-MIMO codebook and a MU-MIMO codebook, and the MU-MIMO codebook is formed by extracting codebook elements from the SU-MIMO codebook. As a result, the method maximizes a system throughput simultaneously while effectively reducing an amount of feedback information. | 01-12-2012 |
20120009934 | METHOD FOR INFORMING USER EQUIPMENT OF DOWNLINK CONTROL MESSAGE CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION IN CELLULAR SYSTEM - A method for transmitting control messages from a base station to a user equipment in a cellular system is disclosed. The method includes grouping a plurality of control messages for at least one user equipment based on at least one criteria of whether or not uplink ACK/NACK channel indexes are allowed to be implicitly used in the control messages, whether or not the user equipment corresponding to the control messages is able to implicitly use the uplink ACK/NACK channel indexes, sizes of Information Elements (IEs) of the control messages, whether or not the control messages are segmented into a predetermined number of subblocks, MCS levels applied to the control messages, sizes of allocated IEs of the control messages after applying the MCS levels, and frequency partitions in which the IEs of the control messages are present, and transmitting the grouped control messages. | 01-12-2012 |
20120014477 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method for transmitting a reference signal in a multi-antenna system is provided. The method includes: selecting at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in a subframe containing a plurality of OFDM symbols; allocating a channel quality indication reference signal (CQI RS) capable of measuring a channel state for each of a plurality of antennas to the selected at least one OFDM symbol; and transmitting the CQI RS, wherein the CQI RS is allocated to an OFDM symbol which does not overlap with an OFDM symbol to which a common reference signal to be transmitted to all user equipments in a cell or a dedicated reference signal to be transmitted to a specific user equipment in the cell is allocated. | 01-19-2012 |
20120039195 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOVER BY CALCULATING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN A MOBILE USER EQUIPMENT AND AN INTERMEDIATE ACCESS POINT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for supporting a handover on the basis of the distance from an intermediate access point to a user equipment includes receiving uplink message set information of the user equipment from a serving base station of the user equipment; receiving the uplink message transmitted by predetermined transmitting power from the user equipment, and detecting the user equipment which has sent the uplink message on the basis of the uplink message set information; determining the receiving power by which said uplink message is received; calculating the distance between the intermediate access point and the detected user equipment by using said predetermined transmitting power and said receiving power; and performing a subsequent handover based on the distance calculated in the previous step. | 02-16-2012 |
20120039298 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a reference signal by a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: generating a plurality of reference signals for channel measurement, wherein the plurality of reference signals for channel measurement are different types; and transmitting the plurality of reference signals for channel measurement, wherein the plurality of reference signals for channel measurement are transmitted using one or more subframes as a duty cycle. | 02-16-2012 |
20120044830 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNALS USING COLLABORATIVE MIMO SCHEME - A method for reducing inter-cell interference and a method for transmitting a signal by a collaborative MIMO scheme, in a communication system having a multi-cell environment are disclosed. An example of a method for transmitting, by a mobile station, precoding information in a collaborative MIMO communication system includes determining a precoding matrix set including precoding matrices of one more base stations including a serving base station, based on signal strength of the serving base station, and transmitting information about the precoding matrix set to the serving base station. A mobile station in an edge of a cell performs a collaborative MIMO mode or inter-cell interference mitigation mode using the information about the precoding matrix set collaboratively with neighboring base stations. | 02-23-2012 |
20120093080 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system is disclosed. In the method of transmitting the data in the wireless communication system, a base station transmits downlink data to a first terminal supporting a first system through a first zone of a frame, and transmits downlink data to a second terminal supporting a second system through a second zone located at a location separated from the first zone backwardly by a frame offset on a time axis. The wireless communication system may support a bandwidth of 8.75 MHz, the frame offset is an offset between a start point of a frame for the first system and a start point of a frame for the second system, and the first zone includes 3+6*(frame offset−1) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. | 04-19-2012 |
20120106487 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION ANTENNAS USING PILOT SUBCARRIER ALLOCATION - A method of allocating pilot subcarriers in a resource block for a wideband wireless mobile communication system with multiple transmission antennas using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation is disclosed. In this method, pilot subcarriers are allocated to the resource block comprised of five (5) or seven (7) OFDM symbols so that only four (4) OFDM symbols of the resource block are allocated for pilot subcarriers. | 05-03-2012 |
20120106534 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION ANTENNAS USING PILOT SUBCARRIER ALLOCATION - A method for allocating pilot subcarriers in a resource block for a wideband wireless mobile communication system using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDMA) modulation is discussed. In this method, pilot subcarriers are allocated in the resource block so that a group of consecutive data subcarriers separated from adjacent other group of consecutive data subcarriers by the pilot subcarriers has even number of subcarriers within an OFDMA symbol. | 05-03-2012 |
20120108278 | METHOD FOR REDUCING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE - A method for reducing inter-cell interference and a method for transmitting a signal by a collaborative MIMO scheme, in a communication system having a multi-cell environment are disclosed. An example of a method for transmitting, by a mobile station, precoding information in a collaborative MIMO communication system includes determining a precoding matrix set including precoding matrices of one more base stations including a serving base station, based on signal strength of the serving base station, and transmitting information about the precoding matrix set to the serving base station. A mobile station in an edge of a cell performs a collaborative MIMO mode or inter-cell interference mitigation mode using the information about the precoding matrix set collaboratively with neighboring base stations. | 05-03-2012 |
20120113934 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EFFICIENTLY TRANSMITTING PRECODED REFERENCE SIGNAL IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a radio communication system and more particularly, a method and a device for efficiently transmitting precoded reference signals. The method for transmitting reference signals in multiple antenna transmission, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: determining a precoding vector for each of M layers (M≧3; M is a natural number); precoding a reference signal for each of the M layers in accordance with said precoding vector; multiplexing the precoded reference signals for N layers (N05-10-2012 | |
20120127963 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A method for transmitting a channel status information reference signals (CSI-RSs) for a maximum of eight antenna ports includes mapping the CSI-RSs for a maximum of eight antenna ports onto a data region of a downlink subframe having a normal cyclic prefix (CP) configuration according to a predetermined pattern; and transmitting the downlink subframe to which the CSI-RSs mapped, wherein the predetermined pattern defines the CSI-RSs to be mapped onto two OFDM symbols of the data region in the downlink subframe and mapped to at least one of four subcarrier positions in each of the two OFDM symbols, and wherein the four subcarrier positions defined by the predetermined pattern may be two consecutive subcarrier positions and two other consecutive subcarrier positions spaced apart by four subcarriers. | 05-24-2012 |
20120128088 | ADAPTIVE MULTIPLE ANTENNA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANTENNA TRANSMISSION POWER IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and an adaptive multiple antenna transmission method and apparatus in accordance with antenna transmission power are disclosed. A method of performing multiple antenna transmission from a terminal to a base station according to one embodiment of the present invention may include the steps of: determining a reference value for a transmission power of each of a plurality of transmit antennas of the terminal; grouping the plurality of transmit antennas into a first group of transmit antennas and a second group of transmit antennas in accordance with the determined reference value; and transmitting a signal to the base station through at least one of the first group of the transmit antennas and the second group of transmit antennas. | 05-24-2012 |
20120134334 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A method for transmitting a reference signal for a maximum of eight antenna ports includes mapping a portion of common reference signals (CRSs) for a maximum of four antenna ports into a downlink subframe that includes a 1 | 05-31-2012 |
20120134338 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING A SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS MULTI-USER MIMO TRANSMISSION - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and discloses a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a signal in a wireless communication system that supports multi-user MIMO transmission. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method in which a mobile station receives a signal in a wireless communication system that supports multi-user MIMO transmission, comprises: a step of receiving information on the entirety of the transmission rank of the multi-user MIMO transmission; a step of receiving a reference signal and data for demodulation for the mobile station on the basis of the information on the entirety of the transmission rank; a step of acquiring channel information on the mobile station from the reference signal for demodulation; and a step of demodulating said data on the basis of the acquired channel information. | 05-31-2012 |
20120140660 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - A method of performing cooperative transmission in a multi-node system including a Base Station (BS) and a plurality of nodes controlled by the BS is provided. The method comprises: transmitting a first signal generated using a first cell identifier (ID) from the plurality of nodes; and transmitting a second signal generated using a second cell ID from at least one of the plurality of nodes, wherein the first cell ID is identical with a cell ID used by the BS, and the second cell ID is different from the first cell ID. | 06-07-2012 |
20120170506 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING FRAME IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INCLUDING RELAY STATION - Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting a frame in a wireless communication system including a relay station. A base station sets a frame including a downlink (DL) access zone for transmitting a signal to the relay station and a DL relay zone for transmitting the signal to the relay station or a terminal, and transmits the frame. The DL access zone comprises a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) midamble for the terminal and the DL relay zone comprises an R-amble as an additional MIMO midamble. | 07-05-2012 |
20120184317 | Wireless Communication System for High-Speed Vehicle Travelling Over Fixed Path - The present invention discloses a method for transmitting a same pilot sequence from a transmitting end to a receiving end in a multi-antenna wireless communication system. In particular, the method comprises the steps of: setting an identical pilot pattern in a plurality of transmitting antennas, allocating respectively different pilot sequences to the set pilot patterns, and transmitting the allocated pilot sequences to the receiving end, wherein at least one of the transmitting antennas forms a valid communication link with one of the receiving antennas. Here, when there is a plurality of valid communication links, the plurality of communication links are mutually independent. | 07-19-2012 |
20120189041 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATION REFERENCE SIGNALS IN MIMO SYSTEM - A user equipment (UE) receiving a plurality of reference signals in a wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system includes a transceiver configured for receiving the plurality of reference signals for multiple antennas in a sub-frame, the sub-frame including a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a time domain over a plurality of sub-carriers in a frequency domain. A first array is repeated in the frequency domain on a first OFDM symbol of the sub-frame, a second array is repeated in the frequency domain on a second OFDM symbol of the sub-frame and a third array is repeated in the frequency domain on a third OFDM symbol of the sub-frame, and each of the first, second and third arrays consists of six contiguous symbols in the frequency domain. | 07-26-2012 |
20120195285 | TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR A DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL - The present invention relates a method in which a base station transmits a downlink signal by using a plurality of layers comprises the steps of: multiplexing and transmitting dedicated reference signals for the plurality of layers on the basis of a reference signal pattern, wherein 24 resource element positions comprised in the reference signal pattern are set as 6 groups, the 6 groups are set as 2 high-level groups, the reference signal for the plurality of layer is split and placed in the 2 high-level groups, and the reference signal for 2 or more layers placed in the same group is subjected to code-division multiplexing. | 08-02-2012 |
20120201187 | METHOD FOR TRANSCEIVING A DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL, AND BASE STATION AND USER EQUIPMENT USING SAME - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In detail, the present invention relates to a technique for transmitting a downlink reference signal in a wireless communication system in which one base station simultaneously transmits signals to a plurality of user equipment, and a control signal containing information on the allocation of a reference signal of specific user equipment and layer information for specifying the transport layer of the specific user equipment is transmitted to the specific user equipment, wherein the information on the allocation of the reference signal contains information for indicating whether or not a reference signal pattern, other than the reference signal pattern in which the reference signal of the specific user equipment is multiplexed, is transmitted in a predetermined resource region. | 08-09-2012 |
20120202541 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION IN CoMP, TERMINAL FOR PERFORMING SAME, METHOD FOR GENERATING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION AND BASE STATION APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SAME - Disclosed are a method for estimating a channel state in a CoMP operation of a terminal and a method for generating channel state information of a base station. A terminal can measure strength or an interference level of a signal of each cell using a reference signal received from each cell for performing the CoMP operation. In addition, the terminal can measure the sum of the interference levels of the cells which do not perform the CoMP operation using a region from which a reference signal of a serving cell of each cell is transmitted. In addition, the terminal can transmit to the serving base station the strength of the interference level of the signal of each cell for performing the measured CoMP operation and the sum of the interference levels of the cells which do not perform the CoMP operation. | 08-09-2012 |
20120207055 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION TO TERMINAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING CoMP TRANSMISSION - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system having at least one base station utilizing CoMP (Coordinated Multi-Point) transmission, wherein a terminal receives a reference signal from said at least one base station. If said at least one base station makes a transmission based on said reference signal through Coordinated beamforming (CB), information based on PMI (Precoding Matrix Index) corresponding to each base station is determined. Accordingly, if said at least one base station makes a transmission based on joint processing, phase set information is determined for phase correction of the formed beam. Thus, the present method transmits feedback information, comprising PMI set information based on CB and said phase set information, from said at least one base station to a server base station. | 08-16-2012 |
20120213310 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN MULITIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of sending data in a multiple antenna system includes the steps of generating a transmission signal by applying channel-dependent precoding to a first antenna cluster and a second antenna cluster, each comprising a plurality of antennas, wherein the channel-dependent precoding is performed by a precoding weight matrix in which a precoding weight for each of the antenna clusters has a block diagonal form and the precoding weight is represented by P×V for a number of transmission antennas P, included in each of the antenna clusters, and a number of layers V applied to each of the antenna clusters (P and V are an integer greater than 0) and sending the transmission signal. | 08-23-2012 |
20120218882 | EFFICIENT CONTROL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE ANTENNA TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUE - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and provides an efficient control information transmission method and apparatus for supporting a multiple antenna transmission technique. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transmitting downlink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information on a uplink multiple codeword transmission comprises the steps of: receiving the uplink multiple codeword transmission; generating HARQ information on each of multiple codewords, on the basis of the result of decoding each of the multiple codewords; modulating the HARQ information; and transmitting the modulated HARQ information through one or more physical HARQ indicator channels (PHICHs). | 08-30-2012 |
20120219084 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR A HIGH-SPEED OBJECT THAT MOVES ON A FIXED PATH - The present invention relates to a method for sending a data signal from a transmitter to a receiver in a multiple antenna wireless communication system. In particular, the method comprises: sending information about the number of transmission antennas of the transmitter to the receiver; receiving from the receiver information about the number of effective communication links of the transmitter and the receiver; determining a precoding matrix based on the information about the number of effective communication links; and receiving from the receiver the data signal using the precoding matrix, wherein transmission antennas of the transmitter and receiving antennas of the receiver respectively form effective communication links independent of each other. | 08-30-2012 |
20120220327 | METHOD AND A BASE STATION FOR TRANSMITTING A CSI-RS, AND A METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR RECEIVING THE CSI-RS - A base station in a wireless communication system transmits a CSI-RS of a cell every 1×N subframes or 1×N ms with muting CSI-RS REs of a neighboring cell every m×N subframes. A BS can estimate channel state of the neighboring cell with higher accuracy by using a CSI-RS of the neighboring cell received in the muted REs. | 08-30-2012 |
20120224555 | METHOD AND A BASE STATION FOR CONTROLLING DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION POWER, AND A METHOD AND A USER EQUIPMENT FOR RECEIVING A PDSCH - A ratio of data transmission power of a layer per RE to RS transmission power of the layer per RE is predefined according to rank. A BS determines downlink transmission power for a PDSCH according to the predefined rank and a UE assumes that the PDSCH and UE-specific RS(s) for the PDSCH is transmitted with power satisfying the ratio. | 09-06-2012 |
20120250592 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS BETWEEN A TERMINAL AND A BASE STATION VIA A FRAME IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INCLUDING A RELAY STATION - The present invention provides an embodiment of a method and system for applying a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) scheme to a system employing a relay station. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a frame including an access zone and a relay zone can be configured based on the HARQ timing which can be calculated based on the structure of the access zone and relay zone. Also, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the structure of the access zone and relay zone can be determined by multiplexing communication systems that support two kinds of systems different from each other. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the HARQ scheme can be applied even to a frame including an access zone and a relay zone, by calculating the HARQ timing. | 10-04-2012 |
20120257531 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL STATUS INFORMATION EFFICIENTLY IN A MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method for transmitting channel status information in a multi-carrier wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, may include: receiving, at a receiving terminal, signals transmitted on N (N≧2) number of carriers from a transmitting terminal to the receiving terminal; determining, at the receiving terminal, channel status information for each of the N number of carriers from the received signals; and transmitting the channel status information for each of the N number of carriers on M (1≦M≦N) number of carriers from the receiving terminal to the transmitting terminal. The channel status information for each of the N number of carriers may be transmitted according to a channel status information reporting period for each of the N number of carriers and a channel status information reporting period offset. | 10-11-2012 |
20120314676 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL QUALITY INFORMATION, USER EQUIPMENT, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MULTI-USER DATA, AND BASE STATION - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus which indicate, using multiple CQIs, channel quality in the event multiple users are scheduled in the same time/frequency area, and to a method and apparatus which estimate a channel state using said multiple CQIs. According to the embodiments of the present invention, a channel state can be estimated in a more accurate manner in a multi-user MIMO system. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314793 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD IN DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method for a random terminal to receive a signal from a base station in a distributed antenna system (DAS), and more specifically, to a method for a terminal for receiving a signal from a base station, comprising: selecting a precoding matrix corresponding to a terminal-specific, numbered antenna from a codebook for the DAS, which is based on control information about the terminal-specific antenna to be used for communication with the terminal from among a plurality of antennas which includes antennas that are isolated from each other by a predetermined distance; and processing the received signal by using the selected precoding matrix. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314806 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A SIGNAL IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method for configuring, for each of one or more ranks in the DAS (distributed antenna system), a codebook for a DAS, including pre-coding matrices for the DAS, wherein the matrices include information on at least one or more antennas used for communication with a specific terminal, from among the whole antenna of the base station which belongs to the DAS, and information on the ratio of electric power allocated to each of the antennas of the base station. The present invention also relates to a method for transmitting a signal which is pre-coded using the thus-configured pre-coding matrices for the DAS. | 12-13-2012 |
20120322492 | METHOD FOR TRANSCEIVING A SIGNAL, AND BASE STATION AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR SAME - The present invention relates to a method for mitigating inter-cell interference in a multi-cell DAS. In one embodiment of the present invention, user equipment estimates an interfering antenna of an adjacent cell on the basis of RS pattern information of the adjacent cell, provided by a base station of a serving cell, or the base station provides the user equipment with information which specifies an interfering cell of the adjacent cell. | 12-20-2012 |
20120329498 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE - An apparatus and method for controlling inter-cell interference is disclosed. The user equipment for controlling inter-cell interference in a wireless communication system includes an interference level measuring module configured to measure interference levels of neighboring cells using at least one of information about the number of antennas among antennas deployed in the neighboring cells, information about indexes of the effective antennas, and information about reference signal of the neighboring cells, an interference restriction request determination module configured to compare the interference levels of the neighboring cells with a predetermined threshold and to determine whether or not UE requests an interference restriction to the neighboring cells, and a transmitter configured to transmit information about one or more neighboring cells, to which the interference restriction request will be transmitted, to a serving base station. | 12-27-2012 |
20130010744 | METHOD AND APPARATUS IN WHICH USER EQUIPMENT TRANSMITS FEEDBACK INFORMATION IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - Provided is a method for transmitting feedback information of a UE in a distributed antenna system in which a plurality of antennas are distributedly disposed within a cell is provided. The method includes transmitting first feedback information used for a base station (BS) to allocate at least one of a plurality of antennas to a UE, to the BS; receiving antenna allocation information determined based on the first feedback information from the BS; and transmitting second feedback information indicating a channel state with respect to an antenna allocated according to the antenna allocation information to the BS. | 01-10-2013 |
20130021991 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN AN MIMO WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method in which a user equipment receives a downlink signal from a base station in a wireless communication system that supports downlink MIMO transmission according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: receiving downlink control information that includes information indicative of the number of layers (N, 1≦N≦8) where one or two enabled code words of the downlink MIMO transmission are mapped; on the basis of the downlink control information, receiving downlink data transmitted over the respective N layers and a UE-specific reference signal for each of the N layers; and decoding the downlink data on the basis of the UE-specific reference signals, wherein the information indicative of the number of layers can further include information on a code for identifying the UE-specific reference signals. | 01-24-2013 |
20130028129 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION OF A TERMINAL IN A MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting feedback information of a terminal in a multi-node system in which a plurality of antennas are distributed and disposed in a cell. The method comprises the steps of: transmitting first feedback information, indicating a state between a channel and at least one of antennas, to a base station; and transmitting second feedback information, indicating at least one antenna, to the base station. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028194 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a signal from a base station to a user equipment in a distributed antenna system (DAS) comprises equally broadcasting DA common broadcast information, which includes information required for initial access, into a cell through a plurality of DA groups of the base station; and independently broadcasting DA specific broadcast information, which includes information on the number of antennas of each DA group, through each DA group of the base station, wherein the DA group includes one or more DAs. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028218 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a signal from a base station to a user equipment in a multi-node system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of allocating a resource of a certain zone to each of nodes in accordance with a radio resource multiplexing scheme; and transmitting the signal to the user equipment by using a resource zone allocated to the node. | 01-31-2013 |
20130029680 | METHOD IN WHICH A TERMINAL COOPERATES WITH ANOTHER TERMINAL TO TRANSMIT DATA, AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING THE DATA - According to the disclosure of the present description, a method in which a terminal cooperates with another terminal to transmit data to a base station is provided. The method comprises the following steps: if data to be transmitted to a base station exists, mutually exchanging data with another cooperative terminal which belongs to the same cooperative cluster; transmitting, to the base station, a request message for an allocation of an uplink resource for transmitting the data; receiving, from the base station, a permission message for the uplink resource; and, upon receipt of the permission message, transmitting the data and data of said other terminal using the uplink resource in accordance with the permission message. | 01-31-2013 |
20130029711 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE OF TERMINAL IN DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - A data transmission and receiving method of a terminal in a distributed antenna system comprises the steps of: receiving information on antenna nodes within a cell from a base station; receiving channel measurement signals determined by each antenna node from the base station; determining a preferred antenna node by measuring the channel measurement signals; transmitting feedback information on the determined antenna node to the base station; receiving antenna allocation information determined on the basis of the feedback information; and receiving data from the base station through an antenna indicated by the antenna allocation information, wherein said antenna node includes at least one antenna. | 01-31-2013 |
20130034030 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING FRAME IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INCLUDING RELAY STATION - A method and apparatus of communicating by a relay station a wireless communication system including a relay station is provided. The method include communicating with at least one of a base station and a user equipment through a frequency division duplex (FDD) uplink (UL) frame configured by the base station, the FDD UL frame including a UL relay zone including a plurality of UL subframes and a UL access zone including a plurality of UL subframes. The UL relay zone is a sector used for the relay station to transmit a signal to the base station, and the UL access zone is a sector used for the relay station to receive a signal from the user equipment. The UL relay zone is located before the UL access zone within the FDD UL frame. | 02-07-2013 |
20130034074 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING A SIGNAL FROM A BASE STATION HAVING A PLURALITY OF ANTENNAS - In a communication system including a base station having a plurality of antennas, a first terminal supporting a first antenna system and a second terminal supporting a second antenna system, at least one of the first or second terminal acquires information that is contained in a signal received from the base station through a first wireless resource region and a second wireless resource region. The first terminal acquires the information contained in the first and second wireless resource regions through a signal transmitted by an antenna in a first group among the plurality of antennas. The second terminal acquires the information contained in the first wireless resource region through a signal transmitted by an antenna in the first group, and the information contained in the second wireless resource region through a signal transmitted by an antenna in the first group and/or in a second group among the plurality of antennas. | 02-07-2013 |
20130034182 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING ERRORS IN A MULTIPLE SUBCARRIERS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A method for correcting errors in a multiple antenna system based on a plurality of sub-carriers and a transmitting/receiving apparatus supporting the same are disclosed. The method includes determining a phase shift based precoding matrix phase shifted at a predetermined phase angle, initially transmitting each sub-carrier symbol to a receiver in a packet unit by using the phase shift based precoding matrix, reconstructing the phase shift based precoding matrix to reduce a spatial multiplexing rate it a negative reception acknowledgement (NACK) is received from the receiver, and retransmitting the initially transmitted sub-carrier symbol by using the reconstructed phase shift based precoding matrix or by changing the phase shift based precoding matrix using offset information fed back from the receiver or random offset information. | 02-07-2013 |
20130040676 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSCEIVING A SIGNAL IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a signal-transceiving apparatus for a base station in a distributed antenna system (DAS), comprising: a transmitting module for transmitting a signal; an antenna module which includes a plurality of antennas, and in which a predetermined number of pilot patterns are used in accordance with the size of the coverage area, which is a signal-transmitting range for each of the plurality of antennas, and in accordance with the number of overlapping antenna coverage areas; and a processor which transmits, via the transmitting module, a signal to a terminal using a pilot pattern corresponding to a portion of the plurality of antennas. The same pilot pattern is used for the antennas, the antenna coverage areas of which do not overlap, from among the plurality of antennas. | 02-14-2013 |
20130044722 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING ACK/NACK SIGNALS, AND BASE STATION AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR THE METHOD - According to one aspect of the present invention, values which are specifically defined for each user equipment are reflected when resource allocation/mapping of downlink/uplink ACK/NACK channels is performed, so as to vary uplink/downlink ACK/NACK information transmitting resources for each user equipment allocated to the same downlink/uplink resource. According to another aspect of the present invention, nodes for transmitting uplink/downlink ACK/NACK information vary for each user equipment allocated to the same downlink/uplink resource. According to the present invention, even when downlink/uplink signals for a plurality of user equipment are transmitted from the same resource, uplink/downlink ACK/NACK signals of the plurality of user equipment are transmitted from different resources, thereby reducing interferences among ACK/NACK signals of the plurality of user equipment. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044725 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES FOR UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for allocating a resource for an uplink control channel in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes allocating a first resource for an uplink control channel and a second resource for a dynamic ranging channel. The second resource is located right after the first resource. | 02-21-2013 |
20130053050 | METHOD IN WHICH USER EQUIPMENT TRANSMITS A SIGNAL IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM, AND USER EQUIPMENT USING SAME - A method in which user equipment transmits a signal in a distributed antenna system in which a plurality of antennas is distributed in a cell, comprises the following steps: receiving uplink antenna information from a base station; controlling uplink power on the basis of the uplink antenna information; and transmitting an uplink signal on the basis of the uplink power control, wherein the uplink antenna information indicates a receiving antenna of the base station that receives the uplink signal. | 02-28-2013 |
20130064230 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a signal from a base station to a user equipment in a multi-node system comprises down-link-transmitting a signal at a first zone of a radio frame by using centralized antennas (CAs); and downlink-transmitting a signal at a second zone used for a backhaul link of a relay in the radio frame by using distributed nodes, wherein the first zone and the second zone are multiplexed by time division. | 03-14-2013 |
20130070704 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION - A method for efficiently transmitting and receiving downlink control information is disclosed. The method includes, at a base station, receiving feedback information including a precoding matrix index (PMI) from a user equipment (UE) and transmitting precoding information having a predetermined bit number according to the number of antenna ports and a transmission mode of the base station. The precoding information of a predetermined transmission mode in the precoding information includes confirmation information indicating that the base station uses a PMI which is recently received from the UE. | 03-21-2013 |
20130077580 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSCEIVING SIGNALS IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a terminal which receives signals from a base station, and to a method in which the terminal receives signals from the base station in a distributed antenna system (DAS). The terminal receives, from the base station having a plurality of antennas, control information on one or more active transmission antennas allocated to the terminal, from among the plurality of antennas, and receives signals from the base station via said one or more active transmission antennas. | 03-28-2013 |
20130088995 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless communication system. The method for transmitting data involves allocating a first node set containing a plurality of nodes for the transmission of downlink signals and a second node set containing a plurality of nodes for the reception of uplink signals, and communicating with a terminal through the first node set and the second node set. In the event the uplink transmission and downlink transmission are performed by base stations or nodes that are different from each other, the operation of the base stations and of a terminal can be efficiently controlled. | 04-11-2013 |
20130094384 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING CHANNEL MEASUREMENT IN A DISTRIBUTED MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - The present description relates to a method for receiving a reference signal (RS) in a distributed multi-node system, comprising: a step of receiving, from a base station, channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration information which indicates the configuration of the channel state information reference signal the power of which is nonzero; and a step of receiving a channel state information reference signal for at least one node in a cell on the basis of the channel state information reference signal configuration information, wherein said channel state information reference signal with non-zero power has at least one configuration, and is received via at least one subframe. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094547 | INTERFERENCE REMOVAL METHOD IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM AND TERMINAL USING SAME - The present invention provides an interference removal method in a multi-node system. The interference removal method comprises receiving node information from a base station; receiving a first signal from an objective node and a second signal from an interference node; and removing interference due to the second signal by applying a receive filter to a receive signal including the first and the second signal, where the node information includes at least one of information about a reference signal included in the second signal and information about a pre-coding matrix applied to the second signal and the receive filter is determined based on the node information. | 04-18-2013 |
20130100875 | METHOD FOR ELIMINATING INTERFERENCE IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM AND TERMINAL USING METHOD THEREOF - An interference elimination method performed by a first terminal in a multi-node system comprises the steps of: receiving information from a node on a second precoding matrix which is applied to a second signal to be transmitted to a second terminal; receiving from the node a first signal to which a first precoding matrix is applied; and eliminating an interference signal contained in said first signal on the basis of the information on said second precoding matrix. | 04-25-2013 |
20130107841 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING ACK/NACK SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |
20130128767 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for transmitting feedback of a mobile station (MS) in a wireless communication system supporting a multi-carrier operation are provided. The method includes transmitting feedback information to a base station, and in this case, the feedback information is transmitted through a MAC control message and the feedback information includes carrier information of an activation carrier related to the MAC control message. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128832 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION AND BASE STATION, AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION AND USER EQUIPMENT - According to one aspect of the present invention, antennas or antenna nodes spaced away from each other by a predetermined distance or more are configured to be able to transmit control information of mutually different user equipment groups, thereby increasing the efficiency in the operation of control channels. In addition, according to another aspect of the present invention, a resource region for transmitting control information for an improved user equipment, which is a target of a multi-node cooperative transmission, is set differently from a resource region for transmitting control information for a legacy user equipment, thereby increasing the efficiency in the transmission of the control information for the improved user equipment. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128842 | PERMUTATION DEVICE AND METHOD HAVING IMPROVED RESOURCE GRANULARITY FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A device and method for permuting subcarriers in a subframe which is divided into a plurality of frequency partitions in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes mapping, at a mobile station, physical resource units for localized resource allocation to a frequency partition of the plurality of frequency partitions in units of N_1 number of resource units, and physical resource units for distributed resource allocation to the frequency partition in units of N_d number of resource units, N_1 being different from N_d; and spreading, at the mobile station, subcarriers of the physical resource units for distributed resource allocation across the whole distributed resource allocations. | 05-23-2013 |
20130170455 | METHOD FOR SPECIFYING TRANSPORT BLOCK TO CODEWORD MAPPING AND DOWNLINK SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD USING THE SAME - A method for specifying a transport block-to-codeword mapping relationship and a method for transmitting a downlink signal using the same are described. If a swap flag has a first logic value, a first transport block is mapped to a first codeword and a second transport block is mapped to a second codeword. If the swap flag has a second logic value, the first transport block is mapped to the second codeword and the second transport block is mapped to the first codeword. If the size of any one of two transport blocks is 0, the swap flag is not used. | 07-04-2013 |
20130194961 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN MULTIPLE NODE SYSTEM - Provided are a method of transmitting a signal of a multi-node system. The method includes: transmitting a first signal to a user equipment via the plurality nodes by applying a first power factor; receiving power feedback information as a feedback from the user equipment; and transmitting a second signal to the user equipment via at least one node among the plurality of nodes by applying a second power factor, wherein the first power factor and the second power factor are elements for determining transmit power to be applied to the plurality of nodes, wherein the power factor information includes information for transmit power applicable to each of the plurality of nodes by measuring the first signal, and wherein the second power factor is determined based on the power factor information. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195080 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN A MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting a signal of a multi-node system employing a plurality of nodes distributed geographically and a base station that can be controlled by being connected with each of the plurality of nodes. The method includes: mapping a plurality of codewords to a plurality of streams; mapping the plurality of streams to at least one node among the plurality of nodes; performing multiple input multiple output (MIMO) precoding to map the streams mapped to the at least one node to at least one transmit antennas; and transmitting a signal subjected to the MIMO precoding to a user equipment. | 08-01-2013 |
20130201953 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - Provided is a method of transmitting a signal of a multi-node system employing a plurality of nodes and a plurality of base stations that can be controlled by being connected with the plurality of nodes. The method includes: mapping at least one base station among the plurality of base stations to at least one node among the plurality of nodes; and transmitting by the at least one base station a signal to a user equipment via the mapped node, wherein the plurality of nodes are installed in a geographically distributed manner, and the node mapped to the at least one base station varies temporally. | 08-08-2013 |
20130215868 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING MIDAMBLE SIGNALS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Discloses are a method and a device for transmitting midamble signals in a wireless communication system. The method for transmitting the midamble signals comprises the steps of: generating each of midamble signals for eight transmission antennas; and transmitting said midamble signals to a terminal through said eight transmission antennas. Among the midamble signals for said eight transmission antennas, a first midamble group which includes midamble signals for certain four transmission antennas and a second midamble group which includes midamble signals for the rest of four transmission antennas are transmitted through different resources. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215985 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN ADAPTIVE MODULATION AND CODING SCHEME IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for performing an adaptive modulation and coding scheme in a mobile communication system. Including receiving a signal and selecting a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) level from an MCS subset of an MCS set considering information derived from the signal, by a mobile station. The MCS subset is selected in accordance with a service type related to the mobile station and the MCS subset is configured with one or more MCS levels, the MCS set is represented by 5 bits and the MCS subset is represented by 4 bits to indicate MCS value, respectively, and the 4 bits of the MCS subset is a part of the 5 bits of the MCS set. | 08-22-2013 |
20130223350 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING A SIGNAL IN A MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - Provided is a method for transmitting a signal in a multi-node system including a plurality of nodes, and a base station connected to each of the plurality of nodes for controlling the nodes. The method comprises the following steps: transmitting first node-setting information to a first terminal; transmitting second node-setting information to a second terminal; transmitting a signal to the first terminal through a first node group; and transmitting a signal to the second terminal through a second node group, wherein the first node-setting information and the second node-setting information include system parameters which are set differently for each terminal, and the first node group is determined on the basis of the first node-setting information, and the second node group is determined on the basis of the second node-setting information. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223548 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN MULTIPLE NODE SYSTEM - Provided is a signal transmission method of a multi-node system employing a plurality of nodes and a base station that can control each of the plurality of nodes. The method includes: transmitting per-node transmission information to a user equipment; transmitting at least one stream to the user equipment by applying a precoding matrix determined for each node in at least one node among the plurality of nodes; and receiving per-node feedback information from the user equipment, wherein the per-node feedback information includes information on a precoding matrix applicable to a node which transmits the at least one stream. | 08-29-2013 |
20130229985 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION FOR REDUCTION OF INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus of transmitting control information for reduction of inter-cell interference (ICI) in a wireless communication system is provided. The base station transmits one of precoding information and antenna information for every time frequency resource to a second base station based on a ICI reduction method determined by the base station. | 09-05-2013 |
20130258987 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - Provided are a method and apparatus for allocating resources in a multi-node system that includes a plurality of nodes and a base station connected to each of the nodes to control the nodes. The method comprises: partitioning radio resources into a node-common region and a node-specific region, and allocating the node-common region and the node-specific region to the plurality of nodes, wherein a common resource allocation scheme is applied to the plurality of nodes in the node-common region, and different resource allocation schemes are applied to the plurality of nodes in the node-specific region. | 10-03-2013 |
20130301467 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING SIGNAL IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - A method of receiving a signal of a user equipment in a multi-node system including a plurality of nodes and a base station for controlling the plurality of nodes is provided. The method includes: receiving a reference parameter from the base station; and receiving a node-specific signal from at least one node among the plurality of nodes, wherein a virtual cell parameter required for decoding of the node-specific signal is determined based on the reference parameter, and the node-specific signal is identified by each of the plurality of nodes. | 11-14-2013 |
20130308542 | CHANNEL STATUS INFORMATION FEEDBACK METHOD AND APPARATUS IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - Provided is a channel status information feedback method and apparatus of a terminal in a multi-node system, including a plurality of nodes and a base station which is connected to and can control each of the plurality of nodes. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining one precoding matrix index (PMI) for each cooperative node with respect to the entire target frequency band; obtaining a phase correction value to be applied to the PMI for said each cooperative node in each sub-band within the target frequency band; and feeding the calculated PMI and phase correction value back to the serving node. | 11-21-2013 |
20130308584 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DOWNLINK SUBCHANNELIZATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of downlink subchannelization in a wireless communication system includes: transmitting a network entry and network discovery information including an open loop (OL) region parameter; and mapping a physical resource unit (PRU) to a contiguous resource unit (CRU) or a distributed resource unit (DRU) with respect to ith frequency partition based on the OL region parameter, wherein a permutation sequence used for mapping a PRU of the ith frequency partition (PRU | 11-21-2013 |
20140003349 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING CONTROL INFORMATION BY TERMINAL IN MULTINODE SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
20140003379 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING CONTROL INFORMATION BY TERMINAL IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
20140016508 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNALS USING COLLABORATIVE MIMO SCHEME - A method for reducing inter-cell interference and a method for transmitting a signal by a collaborative MIMO scheme, in a communication system having a multi-cell environment are disclosed. An example of a method for transmitting, by a mobile station, precoding information in a collaborative MIMO communication system includes determining a precoding matrix set including precoding matrices of one more base stations including a serving base station, based on signal strength of the serving base station, and transmitting information about the precoding matrix set to the serving base station. A mobile station in an edge of a cell performs a collaborative MIMO mode or inter-cell interference mitigation mode using the information about the precoding matrix set collaboratively with neighboring base stations. | 01-16-2014 |
20140016589 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING UPLINK HARQ IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and an apparatus for a terminal performing uplink HARQ in a multi-node system comprising a plurality of nodes and a base station, which is connected to and can control each of the plurality of nodes. The method comprises the following steps: receiving information on control channel allocation from the base station; transmitting uplink data to at least one node from the plurality of nodes; and receiving from the at least one node an acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal with respect to the uplink data, based on the information on the control channel allocation. | 01-16-2014 |
20140016605 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ALLOCATING A BROADCAST CHANNEL IN A WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for receiving a superframe header at a mobile station in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a sub-frame including the superframe header and a first data channel and decoding the received superframe header. Herein, the superframe header is located within a predetermined physical frequency band and the pre-determined physical frequency band includes a synchronization channel. | 01-16-2014 |
20140064131 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and an apparatus for reporting a channel quality indicator (CQI) in a multi-node system. A terminal measures the CQI on the basis of a final interference power in which interference from at least one node among a plurality of nodes, from which the terminal receives signals, is reduced, and reports the measured CQI to a base station. Improvement of system performance, such as a data rate increase can be expected. | 03-06-2014 |
20140086187 | CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK METHOD AND APPARATUS IN A MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - A method and apparatus of feeding back channel state information in a multi-node system are provided. The method includes receiving a reference signal of N nodes, wherein N is a natural number equal to or more than 2, aligning the N nodes in an order of preferring the N nodes based on a result of measuring the reference signal, generating channel state information for the aligned nodes, and transmitting the generated channel state information to the base station, wherein the channel state information is generated with respect to N node combinations configured from the aligned nodes, and wherein the N node combinations are obtained by adding next highest-priority nodes to a first node combination one by one, the first node combination consisting a highest-priority node among the aligned nodes. | 03-27-2014 |
20140105055 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method and apparatus in which user equipment sends channel state information. The method includes receiving mapping information informing an uplink (UL) channel mapped to a reference signal; determining a valid downlink (DL) subframe based on the mapping information; measuring the reference signal in the valid DL subframe; and transmitting Channel State Information (CSI), generated based on the measurement, in a configured UL subframe, wherein the UL channel is placed in the configured UL subframe, and the valid DL subframe is a DL subframe including the reference signal mapped to the UL channel. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105319 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING ERRORS IN A MULTIPLE SUBCARRIERS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A method for correcting errors in a multiple antenna system based on a plurality of sub-carriers and a transmitting/receiving apparatus supporting the same are disclosed. The method includes determining a phase shift based precoding matrix phase shifted at a predetermined phase angle, initially transmitting each sub-carrier symbol to a receiver in a packet unit by using the phase shift based precoding matrix, reconstructing the phase shift based precoding matrix to reduce a spatial multiplexing rate if a negative reception acknowledgement (NACK) is received from the receiver, and retransmitting the initially transmitted sub-carrier symbol by using the reconstructed phase shift based precoding matrix or by changing the phase shift based precoding matrix using offset information fed back from the receiver or random offset information. | 04-17-2014 |
20140112283 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ALLOCATING A DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and device for allocating a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system. A base station allocates an enhanced physical control format indicator channel (e-PCFICH) to a control region of a plurality of resource blocks (RBs), transmits, to a terminal, an enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) indicator including information for indicating the start position of an e-PDCCH allocated to a data region of the plurality of RBs, and allocates the e-PDCCH to the data region of the plurality of RBs on the basis of the e-PDCCH indicator. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112287 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING REFERENCE SIGNAL PORT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and apparatus for allocating a DMRS (DeModulation Reference Signal) port in a wireless communication system. A base station: respectively allocates the DMRS port to a plurality of nodes by the number of layers used in each node; maps the DMRS port allocated to each node to a resource element within a RB (Resource Block); and transmits DMRS through the DMRS port allocated to each node. The plurality of nodes have the same cell ID (identifier) and the DMRS ports allocated to neighboring nodes in the plurality of nodes do not overlap each other. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112290 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL ALLOCATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and device for downlink control channel allocation in a wireless communication system. A base station allocates e-PDCCH (enhanced physical downlink control channel) to one slot in a subframe, and transmits a DMRS (demodulation reference signal) after allocating the DMRS to one of the slots for the e-PDCCH. | 04-24-2014 |
20140119317 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING A DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method and apparatus for allocating a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system. A base station allocates at least one control channel element (CCE), which contains a plurality of resource elements (REs), in a data region of one resource block (RB), allocates an enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) corresponding to said at least one CCE, and transmits a downlink control signal through the allocated e-PDCCH. | 05-01-2014 |
20140126476 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING APERIODIC CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method of user equipment transmitting aperiodic channel state information and user equipment using the method. The method includes receiving a channel state information request for a plurality of reference signals, receiving the plurality of reference signals, generating channel state information on each of the plurality of reference signals in response to the channel state information request, and transmitting the channel state information through a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), wherein the channel state information request is included in only some of subframes in which the plurality of reference signals is received. | 05-08-2014 |
20140126505 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL ALLOCATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and an apparatus for downlink control channel allocation in a wireless communication system. A base station allocates a downlink control channel which supports a multi-node system to a data region within an resource block (RB), and transmits a downlink control signal to a user equipment through the allocated downlink channel. The multi-node system comprises a plurality of nodes connected to one macro node, and the macro node and the plurality of nodes have the same cell identifier (ID). | 05-08-2014 |
20140126531 | METHOD OF USER EQUIPMENT SEARCHING FOR CONTROL INFORMATION IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - There are provided a method of user equipment searching for control information and an apparatus using the same. The method includes receiving information about the position of an Enhanced-Physical Control Format Indication Channel (E-PCFICH) from a base station, receiving an E-PCFICH based on the information about the position of the E-PCFICH, obtaining information about the frequency band of an Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (E-PDCCH) region through the E-PCFICH, and searching the E-PDCCH region for an E-PDCCH for the user equipment, wherein the E-PCFICH is transmitted in an OFDM symbol between a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), transmitted in the first N (N is one of natural numbers 1 to 4) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a subframe in the time domain, and the E-PDCCH region. | 05-08-2014 |
20140133346 | METHOD OF USER EQUIPMENT MONITORING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A MULTIPLE NODE SYSTEM AND USER EQUIPMENT USING THE METHOD - There are provided a method of user equipment monitoring control information and user equipment using the method. The method includes receiving information about a first reference position for a first Enhanced-Physical Control Format Indication Channel (E-PCFICH) from a Base Station (BS); detecting the first E-PCFICH in a resource indicated by the information about the first reference position; obtaining information about a reference position for a second E-PCFICH based on the information about the first reference position, wherein each of the first E-PCFICH and the second E-PCFICH is a control channel including information about the size of the frequency domain for an Enhanced-Physical Downlink Control Channel (E-PDCCH) for demodulating the control information by using a UE-specific Reference Signal (URS); and detecting the second E-PCFICH based on the obtained information about the reference position for the second E-PCFICH. | 05-15-2014 |
20140133429 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING A DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and apparatus for allocating a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system. A base station allocates a downlink control channel to cell-specific reference signal (CRS) resource elements (REs) capable of transmitting a CRS and transmits a downlink control signal to a terminal through the allocated downlink control channel. | 05-15-2014 |
20140140235 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INCLUDING HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - Provided are a method and apparatus for mitigating the interference of an interfering base station (eNB) in a heterogeneous network. The method comprises: transmitting threshold value information to an interfered eNB; receiving second feedback information, which takes into account interference caused by the interfering eNB to an interfered user equipment (UE) selected by the interfered eNB, from the interfered UE on the basis of the threshold value information and first feedback information; selecting a precoding matrix for minimizing interference to the interfered UE on the basis of the second feedback information; and applying the precoding matrix and transmitting a signal to an UE, to which the interfering eNB provides service. | 05-22-2014 |
20140140327 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING A DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A method for a base station to transmit a channel-state-information reference signal for up to 8 antenna ports includes mapping, in accordance with a predetermined pattern, the channel-state-information reference signal for up to 8 antenna ports onto a data region of a downlink subframe having an extended cyclic prefix (CP) structure, and transmitting the downlink subframe onto which the channel-state-information reference signal for up to 8 antenna ports has been mapped; and, in the predetermined pattern, the channel-state-information reference signal for up to 8 antenna ports in mapped onto 2 OFDM symbols on the data region of the downlink subframe, with a definition for mapping onto at least one of 4 subcarrier wave positions in each of the 2 OFDM symbols, and the 4 subcarrier wave positions defined in the predetermined pattern can be disposed at 3 subcarrier wave intervals. | 05-22-2014 |
20140161067 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION - A method of transmitting uplink control information of a user equipment is provided. The method includes: generating the uplink control information repeatedly as many as uplink data transmission layers; modulating the uplink control information to generate a plurality of repeated modulation symbol; applying a precoding matrix to the plurality of repeated modulation symbols to generate a plurality of first precoded symbol; and transmitting the plurality of first precoded symbols respectively through a plurality of antennas in an uplink subframe comprising a plurality of single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbols in a time domain and a plurality of subcarriers in a frequency domain. | 06-12-2014 |
20140161087 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIT MAPPING FOR DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for mapping a bit of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) in a wireless communication system are provided. A base station maps an e-PDCCH bit on a first region to which the e-PDCCH is allocated from a data region within a subframe, and maps a redundant bit of the e-PDCCH bit on a second region, which is between a control region and the first region within the subframe, including at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol (OFDM). The e-PDCCH bit is mapped from a k | 06-12-2014 |
20140169202 | METHOD OF MEASURING INTERFERENCE - A method of measuring interference to perform efficient data communication is disclosed. A method of measuring interference of neighboring cells comprises allocating one or more first resource elements, to which pilot signals are allocated, to predetermined symbol regions included in a first resource block; allocating one or more second resource elements for measuring interference of the neighboring cells to a first symbol region of the predetermined symbol regions; and measuring interference of the neighboring cells using the one or more second resource elements. | 06-19-2014 |
20140169327 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless communication system are provided. A base station transmits to a terminal a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) through a macro node, and transmits a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) through at least one radio remote head (RRH) having a cell identity (ID) that is identical to the macro node, so as not to overlap in with the PDCCH in a time domain. A time gap can be set between a last orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol to which the PDCCH is allocated and a first OFDM symbol to which the PDSCH is allocated. | 06-19-2014 |
20140177588 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for transmitting a synchronization signal in a wireless communication system are provided. A base station transmits a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) to a terminal through a macro node, and transmits a third synchronization signal (TSS) to the terminal through at least one radio remote head (RHH) having a cell identity (ID) that is identical to the macro node. The terminal performs synchronization based on at least one of the PSS, the SSS, and the TSS. | 06-26-2014 |
20140192700 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system method thereof are disclosed. In a terminal of a wireless communication system, the present invention includes receiving a physical downlink control channel (hereinafter abbreviated PDCCH), receiving a physical downlink shared channel (hereinafter abbreviated PDSCH), and demodulating the PDSCH by interpreting the PDCCH according to a type of a subframe including the PDCCH and the PDSCH. | 07-10-2014 |
20140198683 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN A DISTRIBUTED MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for channel estimation in a multi-node distributed system. A method for channel state estimation comprises the steps of: a terminal receiving channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) set-up information; and the terminal calculating interference on the basis of the CSI-RS set-up information and then transmitting channel state information (CSI) based on the interference, wherein the CSI-RS set-up information may include at least one of an external interference measurement field and an internal interference measurement field. Accordingly, during the external interference and internal interference measurements, the node for use in the interference measurements may be controlled by a base station so that interference is accurately measured and feedback of accurate channel information is enabled. | 07-17-2014 |
20140198871 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for transmitting a downlink reference signal in a wireless communication system that supports multiple antennas. The method for transmitting a reference signal for a maximum of eight antenna ports according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: in a base station, mapping part of a common reference signal for a maximum of four antenna ports into a downlink subframe that includes a 1 | 07-17-2014 |
20140204855 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK MESSAGE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a feedback message in wireless communication system is provided. The method includes selecting N best subbands of M subbands according to CQI, where both M and N are a natural number and M is larger than N, generating multiple input multiple output (MIMO) information comprising N codebook indexes and N differential CQIs and transmitting the feedback message comprising the MIMO information. | 07-24-2014 |
20140205035 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method for transmitting a reference signal in a multi-antenna system is provided. The method includes: selecting at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in a subframe containing a plurality of OFDM symbols; allocating a channel quality indication reference signal (CQI RS) capable of measuring a channel state for each of a plurality of antennas to the selected at least one OFDM symbol; and transmitting the CQI RS, wherein the CQI RS is allocated to an OFDM symbol which does not overlap with an OFDM symbol to which a common reference signal to be transmitted to all user equipments in a cell or a dedicated reference signal to be transmitted to a specific user equipment in the cell is allocated. | 07-24-2014 |
20140219213 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK SIGNAL IN A MIMO WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting a downlink signal in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication system is disclosed. A method for receiving a downlink signal from a base station to a user equipment in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system, which supports dual layer transmission based on first and second antenna ports, comprises receiving downlink control information (DCI) through a downlink control channel; and receiving downlink data through a downlink data channel, the downlink data including one or more of a first transport block and a second transport block, wherein the downlink control information includes a new data indicator (NDI) for each of the first and second transport blocks, and if the first transport block is disabled and the second transport block is enabled, the new data indicator for the first transport block indicates an antenna port through which the second transport block is received. | 08-07-2014 |
20140233663 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PRIMARY CELL INDICATION FOR ENHANCED CONTROL CHANNEL DEMODULATION - Method and apparatus of primary cell indication for enhanced control channel demodulation method and apparatus are disclosed. Control information receiving method in a multi-distributed node system includes demodulating a first cell identification (ID) based on a synchronization signal (SS), demodulating information indicating a second cell ID based on a radio resource control (RRC) message and demodulating enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) based on the second cell ID, Accordingly, it may be possible to reduce complexity that occurs when the optimal prediction motion vector is induced and to enhance efficiency. | 08-21-2014 |
20140241199 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING PLURALITY OF REFERENCE SIGNAL CONFIGURATIONS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method for operating a user equipment in a wireless communication system and the user equipment for performing same. The user equipment receives a plurality of channel state information (CSI) reference signal (RS) configurations for indicating different usages, and performs an action based on each of the CSI RS configurations. | 08-28-2014 |
20140241200 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING INTERFERENCE IN A WIRLESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and device for measuring interference in a wireless communication system. User equipment (UE) receives interference measuring indicators form a base station and measures interference based on the interference-measuring indicators by using all or some resource elements (RE) that correspond to zero-power channel state information (CSI) reference signal (RS) configurations. | 08-28-2014 |
20140247748 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANNEL INFORMATION FEEDBACK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and apparatus for a UE (user equipment) to provide reference signal feedback in a wireless communication system. The method includes: receiving, from a base station, CSI-RS configuration information for configuring CSI-RS (channel state information reference signal) patterns, the CSI-RS configuration information containing usage information; performing a first measurement for radio resource management on all CSI-RS patterns configured based on the CSI-RS configuration information; and performing a second measurement only on CSI-RS patterns corresponding to the usage information, the second measurement being determined by the usage indicated by the usage information. | 09-04-2014 |
20140254418 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATON SYSTEM - Provided are a method and apparatus for measuring interference in a wireless communication system. A terminal receives, from a base station, a zero-power channel state information (CSI) reference signal (RS) indicator that indicates whether or not to estimate interference using a zero-power CSI RS signal, and, according to the zero-power CSI RS indicator, measures interference on the basis of the zero-power CSI RS. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254419 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring interference in a wireless communication system. User equipment (UE) receives a common reference signal (CRS) from a first domain having the same cell identity and a channel state information (CSI) reference signal (RS) from a second domain including a configuration of the CSI RS designated by the UE. The UE measures interference for the second domain on the basis of the received CRS and CSI RS. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254570 | METHOD OF RESOLVING OVERLAPS IN DATA TRANSMISSION AND USER EQUIPMENT THEREFOR - A method of a user equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communication system and the user equipment are discussed. The method includes receiving a timing advance command for indicating a change of uplink timing relative to a current uplink timing in a subframe; and when uplink transmissions in a subframe n and a subframe n+1 are overlapped due to the timing advance command, transmitting the subframe n completely. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254705 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for transmitting feedback in a wireless communication system. A terminal transmits first CSI (channel state information) on a first node combination to a base station, or a terminal transmits second CSI on a second node combination to the base station. The total number of antenna ports in the first node combinations is one of two, four, or eight, and the total number of antenna ports in the second node combination is not two, four, and eight. | 09-11-2014 |
20140286188 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method for measuring interference by a user equipment (UE) in a multi-node system comprising inside a cell a base station and a plurality of nodes that are controlled by the base station, and the user equipment for same. The method comprises: receiving from the base station a node set-specific interference measurement region (NSIR) setting message from a node set that comprises a portion of the nodes from the plurality of nodes; and measuring the interference in a resource region that is indicated by the NSIR setting message, wherein the NSIR setting message is characterized by all of the nodes in the node set comprising information for setting an interference measurement region for transmitting a zero-power channel state information (CSI) reference signal (RS). | 09-25-2014 |
20140286189 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method for measuring interference by a user equipment (UE) in a multi-node system comprising inside a cell a base station and a plurality of nodes that are controlled by the base station, and the user equipment for same. The method comprises: receiving from the base station a cell-specific interference measurement setting message; and measuring the interference in a resource region indicated by the cell-specific interference measurement setting message, wherein the cell-specific interference measurement setting message is characterized by all of the nodes in the cell comprising information for setting a cell-specific interference measurement region for transmitting a zero-power channel state information (CSI) reference signal (RS). | 09-25-2014 |
20140286285 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL CHANNEL DECODING IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - Provided are a method and an apparatus for control channel decoding of a terminal in a multi-node system. The method sets a search space for searching a control channel and can perform the decoding by using different demodulation methods according to aggregation levels capable of constituting the control channel within the search space. In addition, the method determines the DCI format to be searched according to a transmission mode and can use different demodulation methods according to the determined DCI format. Furthermore, the method modulates DCI format to a first modulation degree when demodulating the DCI format, and can demodulate the DCI format to a second modulation degree when the DCI format is not detected. | 09-25-2014 |
20140286299 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING CONTROL CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method for searching for a control channel by a terminal in a wireless communication system and a terminal for using the method. The method determines whether an allocation unit constituting an enhanced-physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) is one or plural in number; and, if the allocation unit constituting the E-PDCCH is plural in number, searches for the E-PDCCH using a user equipment specific reference signal (URS) of an antenna port defined in one allocation unit from among the plurality of allocation units. | 09-25-2014 |
20140293942 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ALLOCATING SEARCH SPACE OF CONTROL CHANNEL IN SUBFRAME - Disclosed are a method and a device for allocating a search space of a control channel in a subframe. A method for monitoring downlink control information comprises the steps of: acquiring first control information on a first enhanced-physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) by monitoring a common search space in a first slot of a subframe; and acquiring second control information on a second e-PDCCH by monitoring a user equipment (UE)-specific search space in a second slot of the subframe. Thus, a terminal can obtain cell-specific information through an e-PDCCH even without a legacy physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). | 10-02-2014 |
20140293957 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING CONTROL CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and an apparatus for allocating a control channel in a wireless communication system. A base station allocates an enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) to a localized region within a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) region, allocates the e-PDCCH to a distributed region within the PDSCH region, and transmits a scheduling assignment via the allocated e-PDCCH. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295883 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING THE LOCATIONS OF TERMINALS IN A MULTINODE SYSTEM - Provided are a method and an apparatus for detecting the locations of terminals in a multi-node system. A plurality of nodes transmit location reference signals which are distinguished by node, and a terminal performs feedback of channel information on each node using the location reference signals. Various signaling for detecting the locations of the terminals may be performed for each node, that is, for each point, rather than cell-based signaling. | 10-02-2014 |
20140301238 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and an apparatus for measuring channel quality indicator in a wireless communication system. User equipment receives, from a base station, at least one of a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) which is cell-specifically transmitted and a channel state information reference signal (CSI RS). The user equipment also receives, from the base station, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) which is user equipment-specifically transmitted in an enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) region constituted in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) region. The terminal measures the CQI based on either at least one of the CRS and the CSI RS or the DMRS. | 10-09-2014 |
20140321414 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and device for decoding a channel in a wireless communication system. User equipment receives, from a base station, a candidate group of antenna ports including a plurality of antenna ports, and receives a reference signal from the base station onto enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) ports that correspond to all or some of the plurality of antennas in the candidate group of antenna ports. The user equipment blind-decodes the e-PDCCH configured in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), on the basis of the received reference signal. | 10-30-2014 |
20140334425 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN ADAPTIVE MODULATION AND CODING SCHEME IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for performing an adaptive modulation and coding scheme in a mobile communication system. Including receiving a signal and selecting a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) level from an MCS subset of an MCS set considering information derived from the signal, by a mobile station. The MCS subset is selected in accordance with a service type related to the mobile station and the MCS subset is configured with one or more MCS levels, the MCS set is represented by 5 bits and the MCS subset is represented by 4 bits to indicate MCS value, respectively, and the 4 bits of the MCS subset is a part of the 5 bits of the MCS set. | 11-13-2014 |
20140334453 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A method for transmitting a channel status information reference signals (CSI-RSs) for a maximum of eight antenna ports includes mapping the CSI-RSs for a maximum of eight antenna ports onto a data region of a downlink subframe having a normal cyclic prefix (CP) configuration according to a predetermined pattern; and transmitting the downlink subframe to which the CSI-RSs mapped, wherein the predetermined pattern defines the CSI-RSs to be mapped onto two OFDM symbols of the data region in the downlink subframe and mapped to at least one of four subcarrier positions in each of the two OFDM symbols, and wherein the four subcarrier positions defined by the predetermined pattern may be two consecutive subcarrier positions and two other consecutive subcarrier positions spaced apart by four subcarriers. | 11-13-2014 |
20140341096 | EFFICIENT CONTROL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE ANTENNA TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUE - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and provides an efficient control information transmission method and apparatus for supporting a multiple antenna transmission technique. A method is provided for transmitting downlink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information related to an uplink multiple codeword transmission and includes receiving the uplink multiple codeword transmission, generating HARQ information related to each of the multiple codewords based on a result of decoding each of the multiple codewords, modulating the HARQ information, and transmitting the modulated HARQ information via one or more physical HARQ indicator channels (PHICHs). | 11-20-2014 |
20140348063 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AN UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A MULTI-NODE SYSTEM AND TERMINAL USING SAME - The present invention relates to a method for transmitting an uplink reference signal in a multi-node system and a terminal using same. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a synchronization signal from a node; receiving parameters for a virtual cell identifier(ID) from the node; generating an uplink demodulation reference signal(DM-RS) using the parameters for the virtual cell ID; and transmitting the generated uplink DM-RS to the node, wherein a physical cell ID is a cell ID obtained from the synchronization signal, and the parameters for the virtual cell ID are parameters used for generating the uplink DM-RS in the replacement of the physical cell ID. | 11-27-2014 |
20140348092 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING FOR CONTROL CHANNEL IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - Provided are a method for searching for a control channel by a user terminal in a multi-node system and a user terminal using the method. The method comprises: setting a first common search space (CSS) and a second CSS, which are distinguishable, in a subframe comprising a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols; and searching for control information from the first CSS and/or the second CSS, wherein in the first CSS a first piece of control information that is cyclic redundancy check (CRC)-scrambled by a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) belonging to a first RNTI set is searched, and wherein in the second CSS a second piece of control information that is CRC-scrambled by an RNTI belonging to a second RNTI set is searched. | 11-27-2014 |
20140348093 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER EQUIPMENT SEARCHING CONTROL CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for searching for a user equipment searching for a control channel in a multi-node system. The method comprises: searching inside an E-PDCCH region for a first piece of downlink control information (DCI), which is determined according to a transmission mode; and searching inside the E-PDCCH region for a second piece of DCI, regardless of the transmission mode, wherein the E-PDCCH region is a control channel region to which the DCI, which is decoded on the basis of a user equipment-specific reference signal (URS), is transmitted from a subframe comprising a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. | 11-27-2014 |
20140355469 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method for measuring the interference of user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, and user equipment using the method. The method involves receiving an indication of a reference resource and an amount of interference correction from a base station, measuring an amount of interference in the reference resource, and correcting the measured amount of interference on the basis of the instructed amount of interference. The user equipment feeds back the corrected amount of interference and/or channel state information generated on the basis of the corrected amount of interference to the base station. | 12-04-2014 |
20140364113 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSCEIVING SIGNALS IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a terminal which receives signals from a base station, and to a method in which the terminal receives signals from the base station in a distributed antenna system (DAS). The terminal receives, from the base station having a plurality of antennas, control information on one or more active transmission antennas allocated to the terminal, from among the plurality of antennas, and receives signals from the base station via said one or more active transmission antennas. | 12-11-2014 |
20150043548 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION AND BASE STATION, AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION AND USER EQUIPMENT - According to one aspect of the present invention, antennas or antenna nodes spaced away from each other by a predetermined distance or more are configured to be able to transmit control information of mutually different user equipment groups, thereby increasing the efficiency in the operation of control channels. In addition, according to another aspect of the present invention, a resource region for transmitting control information for an improved user equipment, which is a target of a multi-node cooperative transmission, is set differently from a resource region for transmitting control information for a legacy user equipment, thereby increasing the efficiency in the transmission of the control information for the improved user equipment. | 02-12-2015 |
20150063485 | DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The present invention provides a data transmission device and method in a wireless communication system. The device comprises a processor which is connected with the M antennas and which is formed so as to generate data to be transmitted through the M antennas, on the basis of a precoding matrix; the precoding matrix is generated based on a plurality of matrices; and a first matrix, which is one matrix among the plurality of matrices, is selected from within a codebook for N antennas (where N03-05-2015 | |
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20150085822 | TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR A DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL - The present invention relates a method in which a base station transmits a downlink signal by using a plurality of layers comprises the steps of: multiplexing and transmitting dedicated reference signals for the plurality of layers on the basis of a reference signal pattern, wherein 24 resource element positions comprised in the reference signal pattern are set as 6 groups, the 6 groups are set as 2 high-level groups, the reference signal for the plurality of layer is split and placed in the 2 high-level groups, and the reference signal for 2 or more layers placed in the same group is subjected to code-division multiplexing. | 03-26-2015 |