IP Library Granted Patent US 9,143,213
Granted Patent B2
US 9,143,213 · App. 14/172,615 · Granted Sep 22, 2015

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.
H04B7/06H04B7/0404H04B7/0456H04B7/0617H04B7/0623H04B7/0669H04L1/0625H04L1/0668H04L27/362
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Patent No.
US 9,143,213
App. No.
14/172,615
Granted
Sep 22, 2015
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 (12)

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

processing at least one enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) dedicated physical data channel (E-DPDCH), a first dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH), and a second DPCCH to generate a first data stream and a second data stream, wherein the first data stream includes the first DPCCH and the second data stream includes the second DPCCH;

applying pre-coding weights to the generated first data stream and the second data stream; and

transmitting the first data stream and the second data stream via a plurality of antennas, wherein the first stream and the second stream carry a same pilot sequence and the first stream and the second stream 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 process at least one enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) dedicated physical data channel (E-DPDCH), a first dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH), and a second DPCCH to generate a first data stream and a second data stream, wherein the first data stream includes the first DPCCH and the second data stream includes the second DPCCH;

a pre-coding block configured to apply pre-coding weights to the generated first data stream and the second data stream; and

a plurality of antennas for transmitting the first data stream and the second data stream, wherein the first stream and the second stream carry a same pilot sequence and the first stream and the second stream 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 (6)
Continuation 13718177 · Dec 18, 2012
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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