Method of mapping CSI-RS ports to antenna units, base station and user equipment
The present disclosure provides a communication method of mapping CSI-RS ports to antenna units arranged in an antenna array system, a base station, and a user equipment, the communication method comprises steps of: selecting a group of antenna units to map to the CSI-RS ports in a first CSI-RS transmission period or a first frequency resource region; and selecting another group of antenna units to map to the CSI-RS ports in a second CSI-RS transmission period or a second frequency resource region. By the method, base station, and user equipment according to the present disclosure, each antenna unit would get a relatively fair opportunity for transmitting the CSI-RS signals or get a fairly good channel estimation performance in UE side.
1. A base station comprising:
a processor, which, in operation, sets channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) ports by aggregating a pair of CSI-RS resource groups selected from a set of pairs of CSI-RS resource groups,
the pair of CSI-RS resource groups including a first group and a second group,
the first group and the second group each have eight CSI-RS ports,
the pair of CSI-RS resource groups having a total number of sixteen CSI-RS ports,
the first group reflecting antennas with a first direction, and
the second group reflecting antennas with a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction; and
a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits, to a single user equipment (UE), CSI-RSs using the set CSI-RS ports,
wherein the processor, in operation, selects first antenna units to which CSI-RS ports of a first pair of CSI-RS resource groups of the set of pairs of CSI-RS resource groups are mapped in at least one of a first CSI-RS transmission period and a first frequency resource region, and selects second antenna units to which CSI-RS ports of a second pair of CSI-RS resource groups of the set of pairs of CSI-RS resource groups are mapped in at least one of a second CSI-RS transmission period and a second frequency resource region, and
wherein the processor selects the second antenna units at least by cyclically shifting the first antenna units, wherein the processor applies the same first cyclic shift to antenna positions of the first antenna units that are in the first direction, and the processor applies the same second cyclic shift to antenna positions of the first antenna units that are in the second direction.
2. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the total number of the set CSI-RS ports is sixteen (16).
3. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the CSI-RS ports have a one to one correspondence to antenna units in an antenna array.
4. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the first group reflects antennas with a vertical direction and the second group reflects antennas with a horizontal direction.
5. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the transmitter, in operation, transmits information about the set CSI-RS ports by at least one of radio resource control (RRC) signaling and downlink control information (DCI) signaling.
6. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the CSI-RS ports of the first group reflect a first channel vector, and the CSI-RS ports the second group reflect a second channel vector which is orthogonal or quasi-orthogonal to the first channel vector.
7. The base station of claim 6 , wherein at least one of the CSI-RS ports of the first group reflecting the first channel vector and the CSI-RS ports of the second group reflecting the second channel vector are dividedly distributed in at least one of a frequency domain and a time domain.
8. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the processor, in operation, selects the first antenna units and the second antenna units differently in at least one of CSI-RS transmission periods and frequency resource regions.
9. The base station of claim 1 , the transmitter, in operation, transmits the CSI-RSs by cyclically shifting the first or second antenna units.
10. The base station of claim 1 , the transmitter, in operation, transmits the CSI-RSs by randomly shifting the first or second antenna units.
11. The base station of claim 1 , the transmitter, in operation, transmits information about the mapping of the CSI-RS ports to the first and second antenna units to the UE by at least one of radio resource control (RRC) signaling and downlink control information (DCI) signaling.
12. The base station of claim 11 , wherein the information indicates the mapping of the CSI-RS ports to the first and second antenna units by at least one of coordinates and cross point indices.
13. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the first and second antenna units are dividedly distributed in at least one of a frequency domain and a time domain.
14. A communication method comprising:
setting channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) ports by aggregating a pair of CSI-RS resource groups selected from a set of pairs of CSI-RS resource groups,
the pair of CSI-RS resource groups including a first group and a second group,
the first group and the second group each have eight CSI-RS ports,
the pair of CSI-RS resource groups having a total number of sixteen CSI-RS ports,
the first group reflecting antennas with a first direction, and
the second group reflecting antennas with a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction;
selecting first antenna units, to which CSI-RS ports of a first pair of CSI-RS resource groups of the set of pairs of CSI-RS resource groups are mapped in at least one of a first CSI-RS transmission period and a first frequency resource region and selecting second antenna units to which CSI-RS ports of a second pair of CSI-RS resource groups of the set of pairs of CSI-RS resource groups are mapped in at least one of a second CSI-RS transmission period and a second frequency resource region, wherein the second antenna units are selected at least by:
cyclically shifting the first antenna units, and
applying the same first cyclic shift to antenna positions of the first antenna units that are in the first direction and applying the same second cyclic shift to antenna positions of the first antenna units that are in the second direction; and
transmitting, to a single user equipment (UE), CSI-RSs using the set CSI-RS ports.