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US 7,623,587 · App. 11/038,675 · Granted Nov 24, 2009

Method for transmitting/receiving signal in MIMO system

Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 7,623,587
App. No.
11/038,675
Granted
Nov 24, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a method for transmitting a signal in a mobile communications system using a plurality of transmit/receive antennas. A method for transmitting a signal in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: a receiving end's calculating a signal to interference noise ratio (SINR) with respect to every antenna pairs configuring STTD pairs to be transmittable from a transmitting end; feedbacking information indicating an antenna pair having the greatest SINR to the transmitting end; and the transmitting end's performing a D-STTD transmission through the antenna pair determined by the feedbacked information. A method for transmitting a signal in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: a receiving end's feedbacking information of an antenna pair and/or an eigenvector (weight vector) of a channel matrix with respect to transmit antennas included in the space-time multiplexing (STTD) pair to a transmitting end; and the transmitting end's forming beam by multiplying a symbol with respect to each STTD pair by the eigenvector, and thereafter transmitting the beam through each transmit antenna (in case of using two antennas) or a transmit antenna pair (in case of using more than four antennas) determined by the information of the antenna pair.

Claims (13)

1. A method for communicating a signal in a system for transmitting a symbol for which a space-time multiplexing (STTD) and a beamforming have been performed by a transmitting end, and having more than four transmit antennas, the method comprising:

calculating a signal to interference noise ratio (SINR) with respect to transmit antenna pairs;

determining two pairs of transmit antennas at least one of which has a greatest SINR among the transmit antenna pairs;

calculating an eigenvector of a channel matrix with respect to the determined two pairs of transmit antennas;

feeding back information on the determined two pairs of transmit antennas and the eigenvector to the transmitting end; and

receiving the symbol according to the determined two pairs of transmit antennas using the eigenvector as a weight vector,

wherein the channel matrix comprises a correlation value between the more than four transmit antennas, a correlation value between receive antennas, and a channel value in a radio channel circumstance.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the transmit antenna pairs has a largest instantaneous maximum reception data amount.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the determined two pairs of antennas has the greatest SINR.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the antenna pair determination information is transmitted by a separate feedback signal designated between the transmitting end and a receiving end.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the antenna pair determination information is combined with other information designated for transmission between the transmitting end and a receiving end.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the other information comprises a modulation and coding set (MCS) for use in each antenna pair.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the antenna pair determination information is managed and transmitted as a table type.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 19, 2005
From: SHIM, DONG-HEE; LEE, HEE-JOUNG; HUH, KANG-SUK
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2004-0008446 · Feb 9, 2004 · national
KR 10-2004-0008450 · Feb 9, 2004 · national
Continuity (3)
Provisional Application 6053771400 · Jan 20, 2004
Provisional Application 6054593400 · Feb 20, 2004
Related Publication 20050157807A1 · Jul 21, 2005