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• the present invention relates to Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) in wireless communication system.
• MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output
• a method or a system comprising: A base station in the multi-user Multiple-Input Multiple- Output (MU-MIMO) , comprising: a layer mapper mapping a codeword to the layers where the codeword comprise the information on non-transparent MU-MIMO; a precoder precoding a mapped set of symbols using a precoding matrix; a resource element mapper mapping a precoded set of symbols for each antenna port to resource elements; and an OFDM signal generator generating an OFDM signal for each antenna port to specific terminal among all the terminals.
• MU-MIMO Multiple-Input Multiple- Output
• a method in the multi-user Multiple-Input Mult iple-Output comprising: signaling an information on multi-user scheduling for non-transparent MU-MIMO; generating an information related to DM-RS; and sending the information on multi-user scheduling for the non-transparent MU-MIMO and the information related to DM-RS.
• a terminal in the multi-user Multiple-Input Mult iple-Output comprising, * a RF receiver complex-valued time-domain OFDM signal for each antenna port from the base station; a decoder decoding the received complex-valued time-domain OFDM signal into the original information where the decoded information includes the signaled information on multi-user scheduling for non-transparent MU-MIMO and patterned DM-RSs from the base station; and a controller configured to control interference cancellation using the signaled information and patterned DM-RSs.
• MU-MIMO Multiple-Input Mult iple-Output
• FIG.l is a system configuration of MU-MIMO(Multi-User Multi-Input Multi- Output) wireless communication system.
• FIG.2 is the block diagram of a base station according to the other embodiment
• FIG.3 is list of information on non-transparent MU-MIMO according to another embodiment .
• FIG. 4 is a pattern of DM-RS in the resource block for rank 2 and 4.
• FIG.5 is the diagram of a RS resource allocator and a RS generator according to another embodiment.
• FIG.6 is the flowchart of a method for DL control signaling of non- transparent MU-MIMO according to another embodiment.
• FIG.7 is the block diagram of a terminal according to another embodiment
• FIG.8 is the flowchart of a method for operating received control signal and DM-RS in MU-MIMO wireless communication system.
• MIMO multiple-input and multiple-output
• SU-MIMO single-user MIMO
• MU-MIMO multi-user MIMO
• single-user MIMO In single-user MIMO(SU-MIMO) , all the spatial layers within allocated resource blocks are addressed to the same mobile terminal or UE. In the case of multi-user MIMO(MU-MIMO) , different spatial layers can be addressed to different mobile terminals or UEs. Under correlated antenna scenarios, multi-user MIMO(MU-MIMO) can improve cell capacity as orthogonal spatial beams can be created for mobile terminals at different spatial locations in the eel 1.
• the LTE(Long Term Evolution) system supports multi-user MIMO(MU-MIMO) for the correlated channel conditions with single layer transmission to the mobile terminal.
• the LTE(Long Term Evolution) system does not limit the number of mobile terminals that can be scheduled using the same resource blocks.
• FIG.l is a system configuration of MU-MIMO(Multi-User Multi-Input Multi- Output) wireless communication system according to one embodiment.
• a multi-user MIMO(MU-MIMO) wireless communication system 100 is a set of advanced MIMO technologies that exploit the availability of multiple independent radio terminals 120 to 140 in order to enhance the communication capabilities of each individual terminal.
• MU-MIMO multi-user MIMO
• different spatial layers of a base station 110 can be addressed to different mobile terminals or UEs 120 to 140.
• the base station 110 refers to a fixed station communicating with the terminals 120 to 140.
• the base station 110 may be a Node-B, eNB(evolved Node-B), BTS(Base Transceiver System), Access Point or Relay Node.
• the terminals 120 to 140 refer to the user terminal in wireless communication system.
• the terminals 120 and 130 may be UE(User Equipment) of CDMA, LTE and HSPA, MS(Mobile Station) of GSM, UT(User Terminal), SSCSubscriber Station) or a wireless device and so on.
• the term layer is synonymous with stream. For spatial multiplexing, at least two layers must be used. The number of layers of the base station 110 is always less than or equal to the number of antennas.
• the multi-user MIMO(MU-MIMO) wireless communication system 100 is non- transparent applied to several embodiment.
• non-transparent in respect of MU-MIMO wireless communication system 100 means that one terminal 120 receiving a data transmission knows at least whether or not another terminal 130 is co-scheduled in the same resource blocks.
• downlink signaling needs to indicate to one terminal 120 whether a downlink data transmission to another terminal 130 is taking place in the same resource block.
• no downlink signaling is provided to indicate to a terminal whether a downlink transmission to another terminal is taking place in the same resource block.
• the terminals 120 to 140 must be informed of which DM-RS pattern is being used.
• the base station 110 can inform the terminals 120 to 140 of the DMRS pattern used either by dynamic signaling or by higher layer signaling.
• the terminals 120 to 140 can know other scheduled terminal' s information.
• non-transparent MU-MIMO 100 assistance may be given to the terminals 120 to 140 to support more advanced receiver processing. This can include techniques such as selecting optimised MMSE combining weights in the receiver, or non-linear interference cancellation techniques.
• MIM0-SDMA multiple access MIMO
• MIM0-SDMA many transmit antenna MIM0-SDMA
• Cooperative MIMO Network MIMO
• Ad-hoc MIMO are all family terminologies within MU-MIMO applied to several embodiments as described below.
• FIG.2 is the block diagram of a base station in MU-MIMO wireless communication system according to the other embodiment.
• the base station 200 in MU-MIMO wireless communication system comprises a channel encoder 210, a scrambler 220, a modulation mapper 230, a layer mapper 240, a precoder 250, a resource element mapper 260, a RS-related apparatus 270 and a OFDM signal generator 280.
• the channel encoder 210, the scrambler 220 and the modulation mapper 230 may be omitted or combined with other elements.
• the channel encoder 210 encodes the data from the higher layer and control information into coded bits.
• the control information includes not only general information on downlink scheduling assignments, uplink scheduling grants and power control commands but also information on non-transparent MU-MIMO.
• the information on non-transparent MU-MIMO included in coded control information by the channel encoder 210 is described below referring to FIG.3.
• FIG.3 is list of DL signaling information to support non-transparent MU-MIMO according to another embodiment .
• the information on non-transparent MU-MIMO included in coded control information by the channel encoder 210 comprises only total rank of the base station 110, and the specific scheduled terminal' s rank and antenna ports information.
• the information on non-transparent MU-MIMO included in coded control information by the channel encoder 210 comprises only total rank of the base station 110, and the specific scheduled terminal' s rank and antenna ports information.
• non-transparent MU-MIMO 100 only total rank of the base station 110 and the specific scheduled terminal' s rank and antenna ports information are transmitted by the DL signaling. Based on this DL signaling, each terminal 120 to 140 included in the MU-MIMO 100 knows total rank of the base station 110 and its own information.
• Antenna ports information refers to an index of layer for specific terminal.
• each of terminals 120 to 140 knows the total interference information based on the total rank and its own information. In this case, each terminal 120 to 140 may be informed of which DM-RS pattern is being used. DM-RS pattern is described below in detail as shown in FIG. It is good for the interference mitigation at the terminal side. So it can also have better performance than the transparent MU-MIMO. The overhead is greatly reduced.
• the total rank of the base station 110 is less than or equal to each terminal rank. If the total rank is higher than the rank of the terminal, it can be known that the wireless communication system is MU-MIMO. If the total rank is the same as the rank of the rank of theterminal, it can be known that the wireless communication system is SU-MIM0.
• the information on non-transparent MU- MIMO 100 included in the control information in order to support non- transparent MU-MIMO 100 may comprise all the scheduled terminals' information such as number of scheduled terminals, rank of each terminal and antenna ports of each terminals, which are transmitted to all the scheduled terminals.
• the scrambler 220 scrambles coded bits in each of the codewords to be transmitted on a physical channel.
• the modulation mapper 230 modulates scrambled bits to generate complex- valued modulation symbols.
• the layer mapper 240 maps the complex-valued modulation symbols onto one or several transmission layers.
• the precoder 250 precodes the complex-valued modulation symbols on each layer for transmission on the antenna ports.
• the precoder 250 precodes data and control information( i and 2 ) by means of each of precoding matrices ⁇ and ) .
• the resource element mapper 260 maps complex-valued modulation symbols for each antenna port to resource elements.
• the RS related apparatus 270 generally generate a downlink reference signal (RS) such as DM-RS(demodulation reference signal) and provides the generated the reference signal with resource element mapper 260 to perform allocation function into time-frequency resource.
• RS downlink reference signal
• DM-RS may be used in order to transfer the precoding matrix ' from the base station 110 to the terminals 120 to 140 in the MIMO wireless communication system 100.
• the terminals 120 to 140 can recover the information ' for its own data when it know the precoding matrix ' .
• each terminal must also know on which layer it is going to receive the transmission, and use the appropriate DM-RS port for channel estimation and demodulation.
• FIG. 4 is a pattern of DM-RS in the resource block for rank 2 and 4.
• DM-RS is allocated into the resource blocks with special DM-RS pattern.
• the top view of FIG.4 shows special DM-RS pattern for rank 2 with two transmission layers.
• DM-RS pattern for rank 2 DM-RSs of layers 0 and 1 are repeatedly allocated into the same 12 REs(Resource elements) of each resource block with different walsh code.
• the bottom view of FIG.4 shows special DM-RS pattern for rank 4 with four transmission layers.
• DM-RS pattern for rank 4 DM-RSs of layers 0 and 1 are repeatedly allocated into the same 12 REs(Resource elements) of each resource block and DM-RSs of layers 2 and 3 are repeatedly allocated into another same 12 REs of each resource block.
• each terminal must also know on which layer it is going to receive the transmission based on the information for non-transparent MU-MIMO as shown in FIG.3 and table 1. Based on the DM-RS pattern as shown in FIG.4, each of the terminals 120 to
• the 140 can know its own precoding matrix ' from the base station 110 and then can recover the information ⁇ for its own data when it know the precoding
• FIG.5 is the diagram of a RS resource allocator and a RS generator of the RS-related apparatus 270 in FIG.3 according to another embodiment.
• the RS related apparatus 270 may comprise a RS generator 510 and a RS resource allocator 520.
• the RS generator 510 generates the downlink DM-RS(demodulation reference signal).
• the RS resource allocator 520 provides the generated the downlink DM-RS with resource element mapper 260 to perform allocation function into time-frequency resource with special DM-RS pattern as shown in FIG.4.
• each of the terminals 120 to 140 If the total rank and it' s own rank and the number of antenna ports is known at each of the terminals 120 to 140, each of the terminals 120 to 140
• each of the terminals 120 to 140 cancels the interference and recovers the information ' for its own data by using the total rank, specific terminal' s own rank and antenna port and DM-RS pattern, referring to FIG.8.
• the OFDM signal generator 280 generates com lex-valued time-domain OFDM signal for each antenna port.
• FIG.6 is the flowchart of a method for DL control signaling of non- transparent MU-MIMO according to another embodiment.
• a method for DL control signaling of non-transparent MU- MIMO signals control information including information on non-transparent MU-MIMO at S620.
• the control information includes general information on downlink scheduling assignments, uplink scheduling grants and power control commands as well as information for non-transparent MU-MIMO.
• the control information including the information for non-transparent MU-MIMO may be transmitted from the base station to the terminal via a control channel, for example PDCCH(Physical Downlink Control Channel).
• the specific DCI format may contain the control information including the information for non-transparent MU-MIMO.
• signaling the control information means either generating the control information or generating and sending the control information.
• the information on non- transparent MU-MIMO included in the control information may comprise only total rank of the base station 110, and the specific scheduled terminal' s rank and antenna ports information as shown in FIG.3 and table 1.
• the specific scheduled terminal' s rank and antenna ports information are transmitted by the DL signaling.
• the information on non-transparent MU- MIMO 100 included in the control information in order to support non- transparent MU-MIMO 100 may comprise all the scheduled terminals' information such as number of scheduled terminals, rank of each terminal and antenna ports of each terminals, which are transmitted to all the scheduled terminals.
• the downlink DM-RS(demodulation reference signal) is generated and patterned into time-frequency resource with special DM-RS pattern as shown in FIG. at S620.
• DM-RS may be used in order to transfer the precoding matrix C' from the base station 110 to the terminals 120 to 140 in the MIMO wireless communication system 100.
• the terminals 120 to 140 can recover the information ' for its own data when it know the precoding matrix ; .
• DM-RSs of layers 0 and 1 are repeatedly allocated into the same 12 REs(Resource elements) of each resource block.
• DM-RSs of layers 0 and 1 are repeatedly allocated into the same 12 REsCResource elements) of each resource block and DM-RSs of layers 2 and 3 are repeatedly allocated into another same 12 REs of each resource block.
• each terminal must also know on which layer it is going to receive the transmission based on the information on non-transparent MU-MIMO as shown in FIG.3 and table 1. Based on the DM-RS pattern as shown in FIG.4, each of the terminals 120 to
• the 140 can know its own precoding matrix ' from the base station 110 and then can recover the information for its own data when it know the precoding matrix C' .
• signaled information and patterned DM-RSs are transferred from the base station 110 to the terminals 120 to 140 in form of complex-valued time- domain OFDM signal for each antenna port at S630.
• the terminal (UE1) is in rank 2 with antenna port 1 and 2
• the terminal 2(UE2) is in rank 2 with antenna port 3 and 4
• the terminal 3(UE3) is in rank 1 with antenna 5.
• the information on non- transparent MU-MIMO for the terminals is shown in the table 1.
• FIG.7 is the block diagram of a terminal according to another embodiment.
• a terminal according to another embodiment 700 comprises a RF receiver 710, a decoder 720 and a controller 730.
• the RF receiver 710 receives complex-valued time-domain OFDM signal for each antenna port from the base station.
• the decoder 720 decodes the received complex-valued time-domain OFDM signal into the original information such as the data and the control information.
• the decoded information includes the signaled information on non-transparent MU-MIMO as shown in FIG.3 and patterned DM-RSs as shown in FIG.4 from the base station 110 to the terminals 120 to 140.
• the controller 730 is configured to control interference cancellation using the signaled information and patterned DM-RSs.
• FIG.8 is the flowchart of a method for operating received control signal and DM-RS in MU-MIMO wireless communication system.
• the terminal 700 receives the signaled information as shown in FIG.3 and patterned DM-RSs as shown in FIG. from the base station 110 to the terminals 120 to 140 by means of complex-valued time-domain OFDM signal for each antenna port as S810. Next, the terminal 700 separate its own data from all the data by means of interference cancellation technique at S820.
• the terminal 700 can know the total rank and its own rank and the number of antenna ports from signaled information on non-transparent MU-MIMO. It will be described below that each of the terminals 120 to 140 cancels the interference and recovers the information ⁇ for its own data by using the total rank, specific terminal' s own rank and antenna port as well as DM-RS pattern at terminal' s perspective.
• R DMRS total md There is the relation between DMRS pattern rank and the total rank by the following table 6.
• the terminal 700 can know it is in MU-MIMO. If the total rank is the same as the rank of the terminal 700, the terminal 700 can know it is in SU-MIM0. If it is assumed that the rank of the terminal i is ' , then the following expression is derived.
• the rank of the interference is the total rank minus this terminal' s own rank. If it is assumed that total interference rank is interference f or the terminal i and the number of the terminal 700 in MU-MIMO is N, then the following expression is derived.
• the received signal can be expressed as follows.
• H NrX t channel matrix at the terminal i
• ⁇ 1' is the - ⁇ x -3 ⁇ 4 precoding matrix for the terminal i.
• n is the noise at the terminal.
• the channel matrix H can be known from the well-known downlink channel estimation. Because each terminal 700 included in the MU-MIMO 100 can also know the antenna ports information of orthogonal DMRS based on this DL signaling, the precoding matrix c 1 . for the terminal i can be known from its own antenna ports information of orthogonal DMRS.
• the antenna port of all the interference can also be known even if the terminal 700 do not know the interference of which terminals is derived.
• the terminal 700 can perfectly remove the interference from all the other terminals
• ⁇ is the variance of the noise.
• the 1 by MMSE can make the non-transparent MU-MIMO have much better performance than the zero forcing detection. It is the optimal linear detection for the non- transparent MU-MIMO.
• the UE In proposed scheme, only total rank of the base station and the specific scheduled terminal' s rank and antenna ports information are transmitted by the DL signaling. If the total rank is higher than the rank of UE, the UE can know he is in MU-MIMO. If the total rank is the same as the rank of UE, the UE can know he is in SU-MIMO. If the UE is in MU-MIMO, the rank of the interference is the total rand minus this terminal' s own rank. If the number of received antenna is larger than atai , He can perfectly remove the interference from all the other terminals in theory.
• the methods and systems as shown and described herein may be implemented in software stored on a computer-readable medium and executed as a computer program on a general purpose or special purpose computer to perform certain tasks.
• recovering the transmitted signals, demodulating and decoding the recovered signals, and so on may be implemented within one or more application specific integrated circuits(ASICs) , digital signal processors(DSPs) , digital signal processing devices (DSPDs), programmable logic devices(PLDs) , field programmable gate arrays(FPGAs) , processors, controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors, other electronic units designed to perform the functions described herein, or a combination thereof.
• ASICs application specific integrated circuits
• DSPs digital signal processors
• DSPDs digital signal processing devices
• PLDs programmable logic devices
• FPGAs field programmable gate arrays
• processors controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors, other electronic units designed to perform the functions described herein, or a combination thereof.
• a software implementation may be used, whereby some or all of the signal processing steps at each of the transmitter and receiver may be implemented with modulesCe.g. , procedures, functions, and so on) that perform
• the separation of functionality into modules is for illustrative purposes, and alternative embodiments may merge the functionality of multiple software modules into a single module.or may impose an alternate decomposition of functionality of modules.
• the software code may be executed by a processor or controller, with the code and any underlying or processed data being stored in any machine-readable or computer-readable storage medium, such as an on-board or external memory unit .

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