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US 10,848,356 · App. 16/075,128 · Granted Nov 24, 2020

Method for transmitting DMRS in wireless communication system supporting NB-IoT and apparatus therefor

Inventors: Seunggye Hwang (Seoul, KR); Hyunsoo Ko (Seoul, KR); Yunjung Yi (Seoul, KR); Bonghoe Kim (Seoul, KR); Kijun Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04L27/0008H04L1/0061H04L5/005H04L5/0007H04L5/0051H04L5/0083H04L27/22H04L27/2607H04L27/2613H04L27/2614H04L27/3444H04W4/70H04W4/80H04W72/0446H04W72/0453H04W92/10H04L1/1664H04L5/0062
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Patent No.
US 10,848,356
App. No.
16/075,128
Granted
Nov 24, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present specification relates to a method for transmitting, by a terminal, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a wireless communication system supporting narrow-band (NB)-Internet of things (IOT), the method comprising: generating, for single tone transmission, a reference signal sequence to be used for demodulation; mapping the reference signal sequence to a plurality of symbols; and transmitting, in the plurality of symbols, the demodulation reference signal to a base station by using a single tone, wherein phase rotation is applied to each of the plurality of symbols.

Claims (33)

1. A method of transmitting, by a terminal, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a wireless communication system supporting Narrowband (NB)-Internet of Things (IoT), the method comprising:

generating a demodulation reference signal sequence;

mapping the demodulation reference signal sequence to one or more symbols; and

transmitting, to a base station, the DMRS on the one or more symbols,

wherein based on a narrow band (NB) physical uplink channel being transmitted to a single tone, a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) or a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) is used as a modulation scheme for the NB physical uplink channel,

wherein a phase rotation for each of the one or more symbols is determined based on the modulation scheme for the NB physical uplink channel,

wherein the phase rotation is determined based on a product of a first value and a second value,

wherein the first value is determined according to the modulation scheme,

wherein the second value is a value of a modulo operation of 2 for a symbol index, the symbol index indicating a symbol within a specific time unit, and

wherein the symbols include three consecutive symbols within a slot.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first value is π/2 or π/4.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the phase rotation is applied to each of the one or more symbols to which the NB physical uplink channel is mapped.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the DMRS sequence is generated based on a pseudo-random sequence.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

applying an orthogonal cover code (OCC) to the one or more symbols.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein an initial phase value of the phase rotation is applied at a start of each specific unit.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the specific unit is a slot, subframe or radio frame.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the initial phase value is set based on at least one of a cell identifier (ID) or the specific unit.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the narrow band (NB) has a bandwidth of 180 kHz.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmission of the DMRS is performed in an inband mode of the NB-IoT system.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the three consecutive symbols are a first symbol, second symbol and third symbol of the slot, respectively.

12. A terminal for transmitting a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a wireless communication system supporting Narrowband (NB)-Internet of Things (IoT), the terminal comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit for transmitting and receiving radio signals; and

a processor functionally coupled to the RF unit, wherein the processor is configured to:

generate a demodulation reference signal sequence,

map the demodulation reference signal sequence to one or more symbols, and

transmit, to a base station, the DMRS on the one or more symbols,

wherein based on a narrow band (NB) physical uplink channel being transmitted to a single tone, a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) or a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) is used as a modulation scheme for the NB physical uplink channel,

wherein a phase rotation for each of the one or more symbols is determined based on the modulation scheme for the NB physical uplink channel,

wherein the phase rotation is determined based on a product of a first value and a second value,

wherein the first value is determined according to the modulation scheme,

wherein the second value is a value of a modulo operation of 2 for a symbol index, the symbol index indicating a symbol within a specific time unit, and

wherein the symbols include three consecutive symbols within a slot.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 2, 2018
From: HWANG, SEUNGGYE; KO, HYUNSOO; YI, YUNJUNG; KIM, BONGHOE; KIM, KIJUN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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