IP Library Granted Patent US 8,755,457
Granted Patent B2
US 8,755,457 · App. 13/521,453 · Granted Jun 17, 2014

Transmitter and MIMO multiplex transmission method

Inventor: Kenichi Higuchi (Saitama, JP)
Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc
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Patent No.
US 8,755,457
App. No.
13/521,453
Granted
Jun 17, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

In MIMO multiplex transmission accompanied by precoding, a reduction of peak power is realized while minimizing deterioration of transmission quality. The present MIMO multiplex transmission method includes a step of generating transmission data corresponding to a plurality of streams to be transmitted simultaneously, a step of performing precoding so that the transmission data is received by a receiver as data orthogonal to each other, a step of applying amplitude clipping to the precoded transmission data in stream units to suppress peaks of the entire transmission power, and a step of suppressing allocation of interference power caused by the amplitude clipping to streams in a good channel state.

Claims (18)

1. A transmitter comprising:

a transmission data generating section configured to generate transmission data simultaneously transmitted in a plurality of streams;

a precoding section configured to perform precoding so that the transmission data is received by a receiver as data orthogonal to each other;

a peak suppressing section configured to apply amplitude clipping to the precoded transmission data in stream units to suppress peaks of entire transmission power;

a filtering section configured to filter interference power leaking out of the band caused by the amplitude clipping of the peak suppressing section; and

an interference allocation controlling section configured to allocate in-band interference power caused by the amplitude clipping to streams in a poor channel state in a concentrated manner, wherein

the transmitter transmits, using MIMO multiplexing, the transmission data in the plurality of streams which are spatially multiplexed, according to the allocation of the in-band interference power by the interference allocation controlling section, and each of the plurality of streams has a frequency bandwidth.

2. The transmitter according to claim 1 , wherein the interference allocation controlling section allocates the in-band interference power to the streams in a poor channel state based on a repetition algorithm.

3. The transmitter according to claim 2 , wherein the interference allocation controlling section comprises a determining section configured to determine an end of repetition processing according to peak power after the peak suppression processing by the peak suppressing section or a repetition count by the repetition algorithm.

4. The transmitter according to claim 1 , wherein the precoding section applies one precoding matrix of a plurality of precoding matrixes to each frequency block of a plurality of frequency blocks in a frequency selective fading channel, and

the interference allocation controlling section allocates the in-band interference power caused by the amplitude clipping to the streams in a geed poor channel state for each of the frequency blocks.

5. A MIMO multiplex transmission method comprising the steps of:

generating transmission data to be simultaneously transmitted in a plurality of streams;

performing precoding so that the transmission data is received by a receiver as data orthogonal to each other;

applying amplitude clipping to the precoded transmission data in stream units to suppress peaks of the entire transmission power;

filtering interference power leaking out of the band caused by the amplitude clipping;

allocating in-band interference power caused by the amplitude clipping to streams in a poor channel state in a concentrated manner; and

transmitting, using MIMO multiplexing, the transmission data in the plurality of streams which are spatially multiplexed, according to the allocation of the in-band interference power, each of the plurality of streams having a frequency bandwidth.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 2, 2012
From: HIGUCHI, KENICHI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 028706/0364 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2010-004937 · Jan 13, 2010 · national
JP 2010-132421 · Jun 9, 2010 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120307937A1 · Dec 6, 2012