MU-MIMO transmission method in wireless LAN system
A Multi-User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) transmission method performed by an AP in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system is provided. The method includes transmitting an MU-MIMO initiation message to a destination STA which is a target of a MU-MIMO transmission, the MU-MIMO initiation message informing that MU-MIMO transmission will be initiated, receiving a sounding frame transmitted by the destination STA as a response to the MU-MIMO initiation message and performing MU-MIMO transmission on data by beamforming based on channel information obtained from the sounding frame. The sounding frame includes precoded and virtualized channel information H virtual between the AP and the STA. A dimension of the H virtual is lower than a dimension of channel information H between the AP and the STA.
1. A Multi-User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) transmission method performed by an Access Point (AP) in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system, the method comprising:
transmitting an MU-MIMO initiation message to a destination station (STA) that is a target of a MU-MIMO transmission, the MU-MIMO initiation message including dimension indication information and informing that MU-MIMO transmission will be initiated;
receiving a sounding frame as a response to the MU-MIMO initiation message; and
performing MU-MIMO transmission on data by beamforming based on channel information obtained from the received sounding frame,
wherein the sounding frame comprises precoded and virtualized channel information (H virtual ) between the AP and the destination STA,
wherein a dimension of the H virtual is determined based on the dimension indication information and is lower than a dimension of channel information (H) between the AP and the STA, and
wherein the dimension indication information includes at least information indicating a difference between the dimension of the H and the dimension of the H virtual , information indicating the dimension of the H virtual or information indicating a number of virtualized receive (Rx) antennas of the destination STA.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising obtaining the H virtual from the sounding frame by performing channel estimation based on the sounding frame.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein a channel coefficient of quantized H virtual is transmitted in the sounding frame and further comprising obtaining the H virtual from the sounding frame by processing the quantized H virtual .
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein precoding is applied to the sounding frame by applying an eigen matrix as a precoding matrix, the eigen matrix obtained by performing Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) on the H.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein precoding is applied to the sounding frame by applying a matrix as a precoding matrix, the matrix consisting of some or row vectors or U H , the U H obtained by Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) on the H.
6. A channel sounding method performed by a station (STA) in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system supporting Multi-User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO), the method comprising:
receiving an MU-MIMO initiation message, the MU-MIMO initiation message including dimension indication information and informing that MU-MIMO transmission will be initiated; and
transmitting a sounding frame as a response to the received MU-MIMO initiation message,
wherein the sounding frame comprises precoded and virtualized channel information (H virtual ) between an Access Point (AP) and the STA,
wherein a dimension of the H virtual is determined based on the dimension indication information and is lower than a dimension of channel information (H) between the AP and the STA, and
wherein the dimension indication information includes at information indicating a difference between the dimension of the H and the dimension of the H virtual , information indicating the dimension of the H virtual or information indicating a number of virtualized receive (Rx) antennas of the STA.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein precoding is applied to the sounding frame by applying an eigen matrix as a precoding matrix, the eigen matrix being-obtained by Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) on the H.
8. A station (STA), comprising:
a transceiver configured to transmit and receive frames; and
a processor coupled to the transceiver and configured to control the transceiver to:
receive a Multi-User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) initiation message, the MU-MIMO initiation message including dimension indication information and informing that MU-MIMO transmission will be initiated; and
transmit a sounding frame to an Access Point (AP) as a response to the received MU-MIMO initiation message, the sounding frame comprising precoded and virtualized channel information (H virtual ) between the AP and the STA,
wherein a dimension of the H virtual is determined based on the dimension indication information and is lower than a dimension of channel information (H) between the AP and the STA, and
wherein the dimension indication information includes at information indicating a difference between the dimension of the H and the dimension of the H virtual , information indicating the dimension of the H virtual or information indicating a number of virtualized receive (Rx) antennas of the STA.