IP Library Granted Patent US 8,295,213
Granted Patent B2
US 8,295,213 · App. 12/677,718 · Granted Oct 23, 2012

Method, system and apparatus for uplink space transmission of TDD system

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Patent No.
US 8,295,213
App. No.
12/677,718
Granted
Oct 23, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for uplink transmission based on a time division duplex (TDD) system is provided. In the method, a terminal measures downlink channel state information, estimates the state information of the uplink spatial channel using the channel reciprocity of the TDD system, and selects an uplink spatial pre-coding matrix using the state information of the uplink spatial channel based on a certain criterion, the terminal executes spatial pre-coding using the selected pre-coding matrix, and transmits the data stream to a base station via terminal transmit antennae. A terminal, a base station and a system which are based on the method are also provided. The invention uses the reciprocity of the TDD system channel fully to achieve the maximal channel capacity, thereby optimizes the uplink spatial-transmission.

Claims (37)

1. A method for uplink spatial transmission based on a time division duplex system, comprising:

a terminal receiving common reference symbols transmitted by a base station, measuring downlink spatial channel state information based on the common reference symbols, and estimating uplink spatial channel state information based on the measured downlink spatial channel state information; and

the terminal selecting an uplink spatial pre-coding matrix that maximizes channel capacity of the system based on the estimated uplink spatial channel state information; and

the terminal executing spatial pre-coding using the selected spatial pre-coding matrix, and transmitting spatially pre-coded data streams to the base station via terminal antennae.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further includes:

the base station demodulating the received data streams, and measuring the uplink spatial channel state information based on reference symbols for measuring uplink spatial channel in the data streams; and

the base station calculating a channel quality indicator for each radio bearer based on the measured uplink spatial channel state information, and allocating uplink resources based on the calculated channel quality indicator.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink spatial pre-coding matrix is selected using maximal channel capacity criterion or maximal Signal-to-Interference-and-Noise Ratio criterion.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the uplink spatial pre-coding matrix is selected using maximal channel capacity criterion or maximal Signal-to-Interference-and-Noise Ratio criterion.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data stream includes:

spatially pre-coded data symbols and reference symbols for demodulating the data symbols, as well as reference symbols that are not spatially pre-coded for measuring an uplink channel.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein said estimating is based on channel reciprocity of the time division duplex system and the measured downlink spatial channel state information.

7. A terminal for accomplishing uplink spatial transmission, comprising:

a signal receiving module;

a channel managing module;

a spatial pre-coding module; and

a signal transmitting module;

wherein the signal receiving module is configured for receiving common reference symbols transmitted by a base station, and transmitting the common reference symbols to the channel managing module;

wherein the channel managing module is configured for measuring downlink spatial channel state information based on the common reference symbols received by the signal receiving module, and estimating uplink spatial channel state information based on the downlink spatial channel state information, and then transmitting the uplink spatial channel state information to the spatial pre-coding module;

wherein the spatial pre-coding module is configured for selecting an uplink spatial pre-coding matrix based on the uplink spatial channel state information estimated by the channel managing module to perform spatial pre-coding, and transmitting data streams to the signal transmitting module; and

wherein the signal transmitting module is configured for transmitting the data streams from the spatial pre-coding module to the base station via terminal antennae.

8. The terminal of claim 7 , wherein the data streams include:

spatially pre-coded data symbols and reference symbols for demodulating the data symbols, as well as reference symbols that are not spatially pre-coded for measuring an uplink channel.

9. The terminal of claim 7 , wherein the spatial pre-coding module estimates the uplink spatial channel state information based on channel reciprocity of a time division duplex system and the measured downlink spatial channel state information.

10. A base station for accomplishing uplink spatial transmission, comprising:

a signal receiving module;

a channel managing module; and

a data stream demodulating module;

wherein the signal receiving module is configured for receiving data streams transmitted by a terminal, and transmitting the data streams to the channel managing module and the data stream demodulating module, respectively;

wherein the channel managing module is configured for measuring uplink spatial channel state information based on reference symbols for measuring uplink channel in the data streams received by the signal receiving module, and calculating a channel quality indicator for each radio bearer; and

wherein the data stream demodulating module is configured for executing coherent demodulation to spatially pre-coded data symbols in the data streams received by the signal receiving module to restore original data streams.

11. The base station of claim 10 , further comprising:

a resource allocating module for allocating uplink resources based on the channel quality indicator.

12. The base station of claim 10 , wherein the data streams include:

the spatially pre-coded data symbols and reference symbols for demodulating the data symbols, as well as reference symbols that are not spatially pre-coded for measuring the uplink channel.

13. The base station of claim 11 , wherein the data streams include:

the spatially pre-coded data symbols and reference symbols for demodulating the data symbols, as well as reference symbols that are not spatially pre-coded for measuring the uplink channel.

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CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 8, 2021
From: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
To: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
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From: WU, QUNYING; SUN, SHAOHUI; SUO, SHIQUANG
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From: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO. LTD.
To: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 12, 2010
From: WU, QUNYING; SUN, SHAOHUI; SUO, SHIQUANG
To: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
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