IP Library Granted Patent US 8,665,990
Granted Patent B2
US 8,665,990 · App. 13/718,177 · Granted Mar 4, 2014

Method and apparatus for multi-antenna transmission in uplink

Inventors: Fengjun Xi (Huntington Station, NY); Lujing Cai (Morganville, NJ); Hong Zhang (Manalapan, NJ); Benoit Pelletier (Montreal, CA)
Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 8,665,990
App. No.
13/718,177
Granted
Mar 4, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

Method and apparatus for uplink transmission using multiple antennas are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) performs space time transmit diversity (STTD) encoding on an input stream of a physical channel configured for STTD. Each physical channel may be mapped to either an in-phase (I) branch or a quadrature-phase (Q) branch. The WTRU may perform the STTD encoding either in a binary domain or in a complex domain. Additionally, the WTRU may perform pre-coding on at least one physical channel including the E-DPDCH with the pre-coding weights, and transmitting the pre-coded output streams via a plurality of antennas. The pre-coding may be performed either after or before spreading operation.

Claims (15)

1. A method implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for uplink transmission using multiple antennas, the method comprising:

generating a first data stream including an E-DCH dedicated physical data channel (E-DPDCH) and a first dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH);

generating a second data stream including a second DPCCH;

determining pre-coding weights for closed loop transmit diversity;

multiplying the pre-coding weights to the first data stream and the second data stream to generate a plurality of output streams; and

transmitting the output streams via a plurality of antennas, wherein the first DPCCH and the second DPCCH carry a same pilot sequence and are transmitted using different channelization codes.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the first data stream includes at least one of an E-DCH dedicated physical control channel (E-DPCCH), a high speed dedicated physical control channel (HS-DPCCH), or a dedicated physical data channel (DPDCH).

3. The method of claim 1 wherein a pre-coding weight matrix of the pre-coding weights is diagonal.

4. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for uplink transmission using multiple antennas, the WTRU comprising:

a physical layer processing block configured to generate a first data stream including an E-DCH dedicated physical data channel (E-DPDCH) and a first dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH), and generate a second data stream including a second DPCCH;

a weight generating block configured to generate pre-coding weights for closed loop transmit diversity;

a pre-coding block configured to multiply the pre-coding weights to the first data stream and the second data stream to generate a plurality of output streams; and

a plurality of antennas for transmitting the output streams, wherein the first DPCCH and the second DPCCH carry a same pilot sequence and are transmitted using different channelization codes.

5. The WTRU of claim 4 wherein the first data stream includes at least one of an E-DCH dedicated physical control channel (E-DPCCH), a high speed dedicated physical control channel (HS-DPCCH), or a dedicated physical data channel (DPDCH).

6. The WTRU of claim 4 wherein a pre-coding weight matrix of the pre-coding weights is diagonal.

Continuity (5)
Continuation 12894556 · Sep 30, 2010
Provisional Application 61247123 · Sep 30, 2009
Provisional Application 61248313 · Oct 2, 2009
Provisional Application 61356320 · Jun 18, 2010
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