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US 9,191,167 · App. 14/645,029 · Granted Nov 17, 2015

Method and base station for transmitting downstream link data, and method and user device for receiving downstream link data

Inventors: Moon II Lee (Anyang-si, KR); Jae Hoon Chung (Anyang-si, KR); Hyun Soo Ko (Anyang-si, KR); Seung Hee Han (Anyang-si, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
H04L5/0026H04J13/0003H04J13/16H04J13/18H04L5/0051H04L5/0053H04L27/2649H04J2011/0006H04J2211/005H04L5/0007H04W88/06
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Patent No.
US 9,191,167
App. No.
14/645,029
Granted
Nov 17, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus which transmit/receive at least one demodulation reference signal by using a CDM group and/or a transmission rank of a user device that have been used to transmit the at least one demodulation reference signal for the user device, an OCC that has been used to spread the demodulation reference signal, etc. Also, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus which change an antenna port for transmitting the demodulation reference signal by using NDI for a disabled transmission block.

Claims (40)

1. A method for transmitting downlink data to a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

multiplexing a plurality of transmission layers for the downlink data in a resource allocation unit, the resource allocation unit including a plurality of contiguous subcarriers and a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols;

transmitting the transmission layers and demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) of the transmission layers to the UE,

wherein the DMRSs are transmitted through a predetermined first time-frequency resource set of the resource allocation unit and a predetermined second time-frequency resource set of the resource allocation unit, the second time-frequency resource set separate from the first time-frequency resource set,

wherein each of the DMRSs is transmitted in the first time-frequency resource set or the second time-frequency resource set using one of predetermined orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) according to a predefined mapping rule, and

wherein the predefined mapping rule maps each of 8 DMRSs for 8 transmission layers to one of the first and second time-frequency resource sets and to one of the predetermined OCCs.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predefined mapping rule maps DMRSs for layers 0, 1, 4 and 6 of the 8 layers to the first time-frequency resource set and DMRSs for layers 2, 3, 5 and 7 of the 8 layers to the second time-frequency resource set.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined OCCs have a length-4.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predefined mapping rule maps DMRSs mapped to a same time-frequency resource set to different OCCs available to the same time-frequency resource set.

5. A method for receiving downlink data by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, by the UE, a plurality of transmission layers for the downlink data and demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) of the transmission layers on a resource allocation unit, the resource allocation unit including a plurality of contiguous subcarriers and a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols; and

demodulating, by the UE, the downlink data based on the DMRSs,

wherein the DMRSs are received through a predetermined first time-frequency resource set of the resource allocation unit and a predetermined second time-frequency resource set of the resource allocation unit, the second time-frequency resource set separate from the first time-frequency resource set,

wherein each of the DMRSs is received in the first time-frequency resource set or the second time-frequency resource set using one of predetermined orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) according to a predefined mapping rule, and

wherein the predefined mapping rule maps each of 8 DMRSs for 8 transmission layers to one of the first and second time-frequency resource sets and to one of the predetermined OCCs.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the predefined mapping rule maps DMRSs for layers 0, 1, 4 and 6 of the 8 layers to the first time-frequency resource set and DMRSs for layers 2, 3, 5 and 7 of the 8 layers to the second time-frequency resource set.

7. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the predetermined OCCs have a length-4.

8. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the predefined mapping rule maps DMRSs mapped to a same time-frequency resource set to different OCCs available to the same time-frequency resource set.

9. A base station (BS) for transmitting downlink data to a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the BS comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit the downlink data to the UE; and

a processor configured to:

multiplex a plurality of transmission layers for the downlink data in a resource allocation unit, the resource allocation unit including a plurality of contiguous subcarriers and a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and

control the transmitter to transmit the transmission layers and demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) of the transmission layers to the UE,

wherein the DMRSs are transmitted through a predetermined first time-frequency resource set of the resource allocation unit and a predetermined second time-frequency resource set of the resource allocation unit, the second time-frequency resource set separate from the first time-frequency resource set,

wherein each of the DMRSs is transmitted in the first time-frequency resource set or the second time-frequency resource set using one of predetermined orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) according to a predefined mapping rule, and

wherein the predefined mapping rule maps each of 8 DMRSs for 8 transmission layers to one of the first and second time-frequency resource sets and to one of the predetermined OCCs.

10. The BS according to claim 9 , wherein the predefined mapping rule maps DMRSs for layers 0, 1, 4 and 6 of the 8 layers to the first CDM group and DMRSs for layers 2, 3, 5 and 7 of the 8 layers to the second CDM group.

11. The BS according to claim 9 , wherein the predetermined OCCs have a length-4.

12. The BS according to claim 9 , wherein the predefined mapping rule maps each of DMRSs mapped to a same CDM group to different one of OCCs available to the same CDM group.

13. A user equipment (UE) for receiving downlink data in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a receiver; and

a processor configured to:

control the receiver to receive a plurality of transmission layers for the downlink data and demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) of the transmission layers on a resource allocation unit, the resource allocation unit including a plurality of contiguous subcarriers and a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and

demodulate the downlink data based on the DMRSs,

wherein the DMRSs are received through a predetermined first time-frequency resource set of the resource allocation unit and a predetermined second time-frequency resource set of the resource allocation unit, the second time-frequency resource set separate from the first time-frequency resource set,

wherein each of the DMRSs is received in the first time-frequency resource set or the second time-frequency resource set using one of predetermined orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) according to a predefined mapping rule, and

wherein the predefined mapping rule maps each of 8 DMRSs for 8 transmission layers to one of the first and second time-frequency resource sets and to one of the predetermined OCCs.

14. The UE according to claim 13 , wherein the predefined mapping rule maps DMRSs for layers 0, 1, 4 and 6 of the 8 layers to the first time-frequency resource set and DMRSs for layers 2, 3, 5 and 7 of the 8 layers to the second time-frequency resource set.

15. The UE according to claim 13 , wherein the predetermined OCCs have a length-4.

16. The UE according to claim 13 , wherein the predefined mapping rule maps DMRSs mapped to a same time-frequency resource set to different OCCs available to the same time-frequency resource set.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 11, 2015
From: LEE, MOON IL; CHUNG, JAE HOON; KO, HYUN SOO; HAN, SEUNG HEE
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 035142/0771 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2011-0000470 · Jan 4, 2011 · national
Continuity (4)
Continuation 13522892 · Aug 2, 2012
Provisional Application 61296389 · Jan 19, 2010
Provisional Application 61320331 · Apr 2, 2010
Related Publication 20150188679A1 · Jul 2, 2015