Device and method for transmitting reference signal in multi-antenna system
View Patent ↗The present invention relates to a device and a method for transmitting a reference signal in a multi-antenna system. The present specification discloses a method for receiving a reference signal, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station, first channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration information including individual parameters necessary when a terminal receives a first CSI-RS from a horizontally adjacent horizontal representative antenna among the all of the transmission antennas of the base station and second CSI-RS configuration information including individual parameters necessary when the terminal receives a second CSI-RS from a vertically adjacent vertical representative antenna; and receiving the respective first and second CSI-RSs from the base station on the basis of the first CSI-RS configuration information and the second CSI-RS configuration information.
1. A method of receiving a reference signal (RS) by user equipment (UE) in a multiple antenna system, the method comprising:
defining, at a base station comprising an antenna array, a horizontal representative antenna consisting of a plurality of physical antennas close to an x-axis direction and a vertical representative antenna consisting of a plurality of physical antennas close to a y-axis direction;
receiving, from the base station, channel state information consisting of a first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration information including a first individual parameter used for the UE to receive a first CSI-RS from the horizontal representative antenna and a second CSI-RS configuration information including a second individual parameter used for the UE to receive a second CSI-RS from the vertical representative antenna among all of the transmission antennas of the base station to reduce CSI-RS overhead; and
receiving the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS based on the first and second CSI-RS configuration information, respectively,
wherein the first and second CSI-RS configuration information comprise an antenna port count information, a resource configuration information, a sub-frame configuration information, and an antenna port index,
wherein the first individual parameter used to receive the first CSI-RS comprises a number of an antenna port which is mapped to the vertical representative antenna, from among antenna ports mapped to the horizontal representative antenna, and
wherein a Radio Resource Configuration (RRC) connection reconfiguration message includes the first and second CSI-RS configuration information.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising reconfiguring a CSI-RS configuration regarding the UE based on the first and second CSI-RS configuration information.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
estimating a first channel using the first CSI-RS;
estimating a second channel using the second CSI-RS;
generating a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to the first estimated channel and a second PMI corresponding to the second estimated channel; and
transmitting the first PMI and the second PMI to the base station.
4. A user equipment (UE) for receiving a reference signal (RS) in a multiple antenna system, the UE comprising:
a receiver to receive, from a base station, channel state information consisting of a first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration information including first individual parameter used for the UE to receive a first CSI-RS from an horizontal representative antenna and a second CSI-RS configuration information including a second individual parameter used for the UE to receive a second CSI-RS from an vertical representative antenna among all of the transmission antennas of the base station to reduce CSI-RS overhead, wherein the base station comprises an antenna array wherein the horizontal representative antenna consists of a plurality of physical antennas close to an x-axis direction and the vertical representative antenna consists of a plurality of physical antennas close to a y-axis direction; and
a channel estimator to reconfigure a CSI-RS configuration regarding the UE based on the first and second CSI-RS configuration information,
wherein the receiver receives the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS based on the first and second CSI-RS configuration information, respectively, from the base station,
wherein the first and second CSI-RS configuration information comprise an antenna port count information, a resource configuration information, a sub-frame configuration information, and an antenna port index,
wherein the first individual parameter used to receive the first CSI-RS comprises the number of an antenna port which is mapped to the vertical representative antenna, from among antenna ports mapped to the horizontal representative antenna, and
wherein a Radio Resource Configuration (RRC) connection reconfiguration message includes the first and second CSI-RS configuration information.
5. The UE of claim 4 , wherein the channel estimator estimates a first channel using the first CSI-RS, and estimates a second channel using the second CSI-RS,
the UE further comprises a signal generator to generate a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to the first estimated channel and a second PMI corresponding to the second estimated channel, and
the receiver transmits the first PMI and the second PMI to the base station.
6. A method of transmitting a reference signal (RS) by a base station in a multiple antenna system, the method comprising:
defining a horizontal representative antenna consisting of a plurality of physical antennas close to an x-axis direction of an antenna array and a vertical representative antenna consisting of a plurality of physical antennas close to a y-axis direction of the antenna array;
generating channel state information consisting of a first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration information including a first individual parameter used for a user equipment (UE) to receive a first CSI-RS from the horizontal representative antenna and a second CSI-RS configuration information including a second individual parameter used for the UE to receive a second CSI-RS from the vertical representative antenna among all of the transmission antennas of a base station to reduce CSI- RS overhead;
transmitting the first and second CSI-RS configuration information to the UE; and
transmitting the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS to the UE based on the first and second CSI-RS configuration information, respectively,
wherein the first and second CSI-RS configuration information comprise an antenna port count information, a resource configuration information, a sub-frame configuration information, and an antenna port index,
wherein the first individual parameter used to transmit the first CSI-RS comprises the number of an antenna port which is mapped to the vertical representative antenna, from among antenna ports mapped to the horizontal representative antenna, and
wherein a Radio Resource Configuration (RRC) connection reconfiguration message includes the first and second CSI-RS configuration information.
7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising the UE reconfiguring a CSI-RS configuration regarding the UE based on the first and second CSI-RS configuration information.
8. The method of claim 6 , further comprising: receiving a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to a first estimated channel estimated according to the first CSI-RS and a second PMI corresponding to a second estimated channel estimated according to the second CSI-RS.
9. A base station for transmitting a reference signal (RS) in a multiple antenna system, the base station comprising:
transmission antennas;
an information generator to generate channel state information consisting of a first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration information including a first individual parameter used for a user equipment (UE) to receive a first CSI-RS from an horizontal representative antenna and a second CSI-RS configuration information including a second individual parameter used for the UE to receive a second CSI-RS from an vertical representative antenna among the transmission antennas to reduce CSI-RS overhead, wherein the horizontal representative antenna consists of a plurality of physical antennas close to an x-axis direction and the vertical representative antenna consists of a plurality of physical antennas close to a y-axis direction; and
a transmitter to transmit the first and second CSI-RS configuration information to the UE, and to transmit the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS to the UE based on the first and second CSI-RS configuration information, respectively,
wherein the first and second CSI-RS configuration information comprise an antenna port count information, a resource configuration information, a sub-frame configuration information, and an antenna port index,
wherein the first individual parameter used to receive the first CSI-RS comprises the number of an antenna port which is mapped to the vertical representative antenna, from among antenna ports mapped to the horizontal representative antenna, and
wherein a Radio Resource Configuration (RRC) connection reconfiguration message includes the first and second CSI-RS configuration information.
10. The base station of claim 9 , further comprising: a receiver to receive a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to a first estimated channel estimated according to the first CSI-RS and a second PMI corresponding to a second estimated channel estimated according to the second CSI-RS from the UE.
11. The base station of claim 10 , further comprising a precoder selector to determine whether to perform precoding based on one of the first PMI and the second PMI.