Base station apparatus and transmission method
The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.
1. A base station apparatus comprising:
a codebook storing section configured to store an extended codebook which is generated by combining a first basic codebook and a second basic codebook along the column direction, wherein the first basic codebook includes N groups, each consisting of four basic pre-coding matrices that are orthogonal to each other (N is a natural number equal to or larger than 2), and wherein the second basic codebook is generated by applying phase offsets to the N groups respectively, each of the phase offsets applied to the N groups being different from each other;
a receiving section configured to receive information including an index (a pre-coding matrix indicator (PMI)) for identifying one pre-coding matrix from among the 4N pre-coding matrices included in the extended codebook, from a terminal apparatus; and
a transmitting section configured to pre-code data using a pre-coding matrix corresponding to the PMI included in the received information and to transmit the pre-coded data to the terminal apparatus.
2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the first basic codebook and the second basic codebook includes 4N basic pre-coding matrices each having four rows and one column; and
the extended codebook includes 4N pre-coding matrices each having eight rows and one column.
3. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
an angle difference between the basic pre-coding matrices w m (m is an integer) and w m+1 included in the first basic codebook is n times 2π/32 (n is an integer).
4. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the transmitting section transmits the pre-coded data using two layers;
the basic pre-coding matrices included in the first basic codebook include basic pre-coding matrix vectors w m (m is an integer) for one layer of the two layers and basic pre-coding matrix vectors w′ m for the other layer of the two layers; and
an angle difference between the vectors w m and w′ m is selected from 2π/32, 4π/32 and 6π/32.
5. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the transmitting section comprises a plurality of array antennas and
the received information includes a PMI for each of the plurality of array antennas.
6. A transmission method comprising:
storing an extended codebook which is generated by combining a first basic codebook and a second basic codebook along the column direction, wherein the first basic codebook includes N groups, each consisting of four basic pre-coding matrices that are orthogonal to each other (N is a natural number equal to or larger than 2), and wherein the second basic codebook is generated by applying phase offsets to the N groups, respectively, each of the phase offset applied to the N groups being different from each other;
receiving information including an index (a pre-coding matrix indicator (PMI)) for identifying one pre-coding matrix from among the 4N pre-coding matrices included in the extended codebook, from a terminal apparatus; and
pre-coding data using a pre-coding matrix corresponding to the PMI included in the received information and transmitting the pre-coded data to the terminal apparatus.
7. The transmission method according to claim 6 , wherein
each of the first basic codebook and the second basic codebook includes 4N basic pre-coding matrices each having four rows and one column; and
the extended codebook includes 4N pre-coding matrices each having eight rows and one column.
8. The transmission method according to claim 6 wherein
an angle difference between the basic pre-coding matrices w m (m is an integer) and w m+1 included in the first basic codebook is n times 2π/32 (n is an integer).
9. The transmission method according to claim 6 , wherein
the transmission of the pre-coded data is performed using two layers;
the basic pre-coding matrices included in the first basic codebook respectively include basic pre-coding matrix vectors w m (m is an integer) for one layer of the two layers and basic pre-coding matrix vectors w′ m for the other layer of the two layers; and
an angle difference between w m and w′ m is selected from 2π/32, 4π/32 and 6π/32.
10. The transmission method according to one of claim 6 , wherein
the transmission of the pre-coded data is performed by using a plurality of array antennas; and
the received information includes a PMI for each of the plurality of array antennas.