KR101706960B1 - Method and device for transmitting/receiving data in wireless communication system supporting relay node - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system supporting a repeater. A method of transmitting data in a base station according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: concatenating and concatenating first data for a terminal with data for a repeater to generate a first codeword; Encoding second data for the terminal to generate a second codeword; And transmitting the first codeword to the relay and transmitting the second codeword to the terminal.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting / receiving data in a repeater-supported wireless communication system,

The following description relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system supporting a repeater.

1 illustrates a Relay Node (RN) 120 and User Equipment (UE) 131 and 132 residing in a single base station (eNodeB; eNB 110) in the wireless communication system 100. The repeater 120 may transmit the data received from the base station 110 to the terminal 132 in the repeater area and may transmit the data received from the terminal 132 in the repeater area to the base station 110. The repeater 120 may also support extending the high data rate area, improving the quality of the communication at the cell edge, and providing communication to areas within the building or beyond the base station service area. In FIG. 1, a terminal 131 receiving a service directly from a base station (hereinafter referred to as a macro-UE or an M-UE) and a service through a relay 120 such as the terminal 132 (Hereinafter referred to as a Relay-UE or an R-UE).

The wireless link between the base station 110 and the relay 120 is called a backhaul link. The link from the base station 110 to the repeater 120 is referred to as a backhaul downlink and the link from the repeater 120 to the base station 110 is referred to as a backhaul uplink. The wireless link between the repeater 120 and the terminal 132 is also referred to as an access link. The link from the repeater 120 to the terminal 132 is referred to as an access downlink and the link from the terminal 132 to the repeater 120 is referred to as an access uplink.

When the repeater 120 operates in a manner of controlling the cell itself, the terminal 132 can recognize the repeater 120 as a general base station. On the other hand, when another terminal UE functions as a relay device 120 (this relay device is referred to as a UE-relay device), the terminal 132 does not recognize the existence of the relay device 120.

The present invention provides a method for efficiently using radio resources and successfully transmitting data when data is transmitted through a user-repeater in transmitting data from a base station to a terminal. do. Specifically, the present invention provides a method of configuring data to be transmitted through a user-repeater and data to be directly transmitted to a mobile station by a base station when the base station transmits data to the mobile station. It is another object of the present invention to provide a method of determining a resource and a transmission rate to be used for data transmission by a user-repeater, and a method of performing retransmission in response to a data decoding failure on the terminal side.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory and are not restrictive of the invention, unless further departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. It will be possible.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of transmitting data in a base station, the method comprising concatenating first data for a terminal with data for a repeater, ≪ / RTI > Encoding second data for the terminal to generate a second codeword; And transmitting the first codeword to the relay and transmitting the second codeword to the terminal.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for transmitting data in a repeater, the method comprising concatenating first data for a terminal with data for the repeater, Receiving a first codeword from the base station; Extracting the first data from the first codeword; And transmitting the extracted first data to the terminal.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a base station for transmitting data, including: a transmission module for transmitting a signal to at least one of a repeater and a terminal; A receiving module for receiving a signal from at least one of the repeater and the terminal; And a processor connected to the receiving module and the transmitting module and controlling operation of the base station. Here, the processor concatenates and encodes the first data for the terminal to the data for the repeater to generate a first codeword; Encode second data for the terminal to generate a second codeword; Via the transmission module, the first codeword to the relay and the second codeword to the terminal.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a repeater for transmitting data, including: a first receiving module for receiving a signal from a base station; A first transmission module for transmitting a signal to the base station; A second receiving module for receiving a signal from the terminal; A second transmission module for transmitting a signal to the terminal; And a processor connected to the first and second receiving modules and the first and second transmitting modules and controlling operation of the repeater. Here, the processor concurrently concatenates and concatenates the first data for the terminal with the data for the repeater, and receives the first codeword from the base station through the first receiving module ; Extracting the first data from the first codeword; And to transmit the extracted first data to the terminal through the second transmission module.

In the embodiments according to the present invention, the following matters can be commonly applied.

Second data for the terminal may be encoded by the base station and a generated second codeword may be transmitted from the base station to the terminal. In addition, the first data for the terminal may be transmitted to the terminal by the repeater.

At least one of a time resource and a frequency resource used by the repeater to transmit the first data to the terminal may be variably determined by the base station.

은

이고, 상기 단말에 대한 시간당 데이터 전송률

은

이며, t⁽¹⁾은 상기 전송 단계에서 소요되는 시간이고, t⁽²⁾는 상기 중계기에서 상기 제 1 데이터의 전달에 소요되는 시간이고,

는 상기 제 1 코드워드에서 상기 제 1 데이터가 차지하는 비율이고, P₁ 및 P₂ 는 각각 상기 제 1 및 제 2 코드워드에 대한 전송 전력이고,

는 상기 기지국으로부터 상기 중계기로의 채널에 대한 신호대간섭비이고,

는 상기 기지국으로부터 상기 단말로의 채널에 대한 신호대간섭비이며, 상기 기지국에 의해서

, P₁ 및 P₂ 가 결정될 수 있다.The data rate per hour for the repeater

silver

, The data rate per unit time for the terminal

silver

T ⁽¹⁾ is a time required in the transmission step, t ⁽²⁾ is a time required for transferring the first data in the repeater,

P ₁ and P ₂ are transmit power for the first and second codewords, respectively, and P ₁ and P ₂ are transmit power for the first and second codewords, respectively,

Is the signal-to-interference ratio for the channel from the base station to the repeater,

Is a signal-to-interference ratio for the channel from the BS to the MS,

, P ₁ and P ₂ Can be determined.

The repeater may be a first terminal, and the terminal may be a second terminal.

The first and second codewords may be generated by a pre-interference cancellation technique.

The first data and the second data may correspond to each of the parts in which information to be transmitted for the UE is partitioned by the channel coded output from the base station.

The foregoing general description and the following detailed description of the invention are illustrative and are for further explanation of the claimed invention.

According to the present invention, when data is transmitted from a base station to a terminal through a user-repeater, there is provided a method for enabling efficient use of radio resources and successful data transmission . In addition, when the BS transmits data to the MS, a method of constructing data to be transmitted through the user-repeater and data to be directly transmitted to the MS by the BS may be provided. In addition, a method of determining a resource and a transmission rate to be used for transmitting data to the user-repeater, and a method of performing retransmission in response to a data decoding failure on the terminal side may be provided.

The effects obtained by the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned effects, and other effects not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description will be.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, illustrate various embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
1 is a diagram illustrating a wireless communication system including a base station, a repeater, and a terminal.
2 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a radio frame used in a 3GPP LTE system.
3 is a diagram illustrating a resource grid in a downlink slot.
4 is a diagram showing a structure of a downlink sub-frame.
5 is a diagram showing a structure of an uplink subframe.
6 is a configuration diagram of a wireless communication system having multiple antennas.
7 is a conceptual illustration of a multi-user environment.
8 is a flowchart showing the flow of operation of information transfer through a user-repeater in a multi-user environment.
FIG. 9 shows data encoded in a bit connection-based partial signaling scheme.
10 is a diagram for explaining a continuous interference cancellation (SIC) partial signal transmission operation.
11 is a flowchart illustrating a data transmission / retransmission operation through a repeater in the partial signal transmission scheme.
12 is a diagram for explaining steps of a cooperative communication through a user-repeater.
13 is a diagram illustrating a wireless communication system including a base station apparatus, a relay apparatus, and a terminal apparatus according to the present invention.

The following embodiments are a combination of elements and features of the present invention in a predetermined form. Each component or characteristic may be considered optional unless otherwise expressly stated. Each component or feature may be implemented in a form that is not combined with other components or features. In addition, some of the elements and / or features may be combined to form an embodiment of the present invention. The order of the operations described in the embodiments of the present invention may be changed. Some configurations or features of certain embodiments may be included in other embodiments, or may be replaced with corresponding configurations or features of other embodiments.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described herein with reference to the relationship between data transmission and reception between a base station and a terminal. Here, the BS has a meaning as a terminal node of a network that directly communicates with the MS. The specific operation described herein as performed by the base station may be performed by an upper node of the base station, as the case may be.

That is, it is apparent that various operations performed for communication with a terminal in a network composed of a plurality of network nodes including a base station can be performed by a network node other than the base station or the base station. A 'base station (BS)' may be replaced by a term such as a fixed station, a Node B, an eNode B (eNB), an access point (AP) Repeaters can be replaced by terms such as Relay Node (RN), Relay Station (RS), and so on. The term 'terminal' may be replaced with terms such as User Equipment (UE), Mobile Station (MS), Mobile Subscriber Station (MSS), and Subscriber Station (SS).

The specific terminology used in the following description is provided to aid understanding of the present invention, and the use of such specific terminology may be changed into other forms without departing from the technical idea of the present invention.

In some instances, well-known structures and devices may be omitted or may be shown in block diagram form, centering on the core functionality of each structure and device, to avoid obscuring the concepts of the present invention. In the following description, the same components are denoted by the same reference numerals throughout the specification.

Embodiments of the present invention may be supported by standard documents disclosed in at least one of the IEEE 802 systems, 3GPP systems, 3GPP LTE and LTE-Advanced (LTE-Advanced) systems, and 3GPP2 systems, which are wireless access systems. That is, the steps or portions of the embodiments of the present invention that are not described in order to clearly illustrate the technical idea of the present invention can be supported by the documents. In addition, all terms disclosed in this document may be described by the standard document.

The following description will be made on the assumption that the present invention is applicable to a CDMA system such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), and Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access And can be used in various wireless access systems. CDMA may be implemented in radio technology such as Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) or CDMA2000. The TDMA may be implemented in a wireless technology such as Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) / General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) / Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE). OFDMA may be implemented in wireless technologies such as IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802-20, and Evolved UTRA (E-UTRA). UTRA is part of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) LTE (Long Term Evolution) is a part of E-UMTS (Evolved UMTS) using E-UTRA, adopting OFDMA in downlink and SC-FDMA in uplink. LTE-A (Advanced) is the evolution of 3GPP LTE. WiMAX can be described by the IEEE 802.16e standard (WirelessMAN-OFDMA Reference System) and the advanced IEEE 802.16m standard (WirelessMAN-OFDMA Advanced system). For the sake of clarity, the 3GPP LTE and 3GPP LTE-A systems will be described below, but the technical idea of the present invention is not limited thereto.

2 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a radio frame used in a 3GPP LTE system. One radio frame includes ten subframes, and one subframe includes two slots in the time domain. The transmission time of one subframe is defined as a transmission time interval (TTI). For example, one subframe may have a length of 1 ms, and one slot may have a length of 0.5 ms. One slot may comprise a plurality of OFDM symbols in the time domain. Since the 3GPP LTE system uses the OFDMA scheme in the downlink, the OFDM symbol represents one symbol period. One symbol may be referred to as an SC-FDMA symbol or a symbol length in the uplink. A resource block (RB) is a resource allocation unit, and includes a plurality of consecutive subcarriers in one slot. The structure of such a radio frame is merely exemplary. Therefore, the number of subframes included in one radio frame, the number of slots included in one subframe, or the number of OFDM symbols included in one slot may be changed in various manners.

3 is a diagram illustrating a resource grid in a downlink slot. One downlink slot includes seven OFDM symbols in the time domain, and one resource block (RB) includes 12 subcarriers in the frequency domain, but the present invention is not limited thereto. For example, one slot includes 7 OFDM symbols in the case of a normal CP (Cyclic Prefix), but one slot may include 6 OFDM symbols in an extended CP (CP). Each element on the resource grid is called a resource element. One resource block includes 12 x 7 resource elements. The number of N ^DLs of resource blocks included in the downlink slot depends on the downlink transmission bandwidth. The structure of the uplink slot may be the same as the structure of the downlink slot.

4 is a diagram showing a structure of a downlink sub-frame. In a subframe, a maximum of three OFDM symbols in the first part of the first slot corresponds to a control area to which a control channel is allocated. The remaining OFDM symbols correspond to a data area to which a Physical Downlink Shared Chanel (PDSCH) is allocated. The downlink control channels used in the 3GPP LTE system include, for example, a physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH), a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a physical HARQ indicator channel (Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest Indicator Channel (PHICH)). The PCFICH includes information on the number of OFDM symbols transmitted in the first OFDM symbol of the subframe and used for control channel transmission in the subframe. The PHICH includes an HARQ ACK / NACK signal as a response to the uplink transmission. The control information transmitted through the PDCCH is referred to as downlink control information (DCI). The DCI includes uplink or downlink scheduling information or includes an uplink transmission power control command for an arbitrary terminal group. The PDCCH includes a resource allocation and transmission format of a downlink shared channel (DL-SCH), resource allocation information of an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH), paging information of a paging channel (PCH), system information on a DL- A set of transmission power control commands for individual terminals in an arbitrary terminal group, transmission power control information, activation of VoIP (Voice over IP), resource allocation of upper layer control messages such as random access response And the like. A plurality of PDCCHs may be transmitted within the control domain. The UE can monitor a plurality of PDCCHs. The PDCCH is transmitted in an aggregation of one or more contiguous Control Channel Elements (CCEs). The CCE is a logical allocation unit used to provide the PDCCH with a coding rate based on the state of the wireless channel. The CCE corresponds to a plurality of resource element groups. The format of the PDCCH and the number of available bits are determined according to the correlation between the number of CCEs and the coding rate provided by the CCE. The number of CCEs used for PDCCH transmission is called a CCE aggregation level. The CCE combination level is a CCE unit for searching PDCCH. The size of the CCE combination level is defined by the number of adjacent CCEs. For example, the CCE combination level may be 1, 2, 4, or 8.

The base station determines the PDCCH format according to the DCI transmitted to the UE and adds a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) to the control information. The CRC is masked with an identifier called a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) according to the owner or use of the PDCCH. If the PDCCH is for a particular UE, the cell-RNTI (C-RNTI) identifier of the UE may be masked in the CRC. Alternatively, if the PDCCH is for a paging message, a Paging Indicator Identifier (P-RNTI) may be masked in the CRC. If the PDCCH is for system information (more specifically, the System Information Block (SIB)), the system information identifier and the system information RNTI (SI-RNTI) may be masked to the CRC. A random access-RNTI (RA-RNTI) may be masked to the CRC to indicate a random access response that is a response to the transmission of the UE's random access preamble.

5 is a diagram showing a structure of an uplink subframe. The UL subframe may be divided into a control region and a data region in the frequency domain. A physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) including uplink control information is allocated to the control region. A physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) including user data is allocated to the data area. To maintain a single carrier characteristic, one terminal does not transmit PUCCH and PUSCH at the same time. A PUCCH for one terminal is allocated to a resource block pair (RB pair) in a subframe. Resource blocks belonging to a resource block pair occupy different subcarriers for two slots. It is assumed that the resource block pair allocated to the PUCCH is frequency-hopped at the slot boundary.

Multiple antennas ( MIMO ) Of the system modelling

6 is a configuration diagram of a wireless communication system having multiple antennas.

6A, if the number of transmission antennas is increased to N _{T and the} number of reception antennas is increased to N _R , unlike the case where a plurality of antennas are used only in a transmitter and a receiver, a theoretical Channel transmission capacity increases. Therefore, the transmission rate can be improved and the frequency efficiency can be remarkably improved. As the channel transmission capacity increases, the transmission rate can theoretically increase by the rate of increase R _i multiplied by the maximum transmission rate R _{o at the} time of single antenna use.

For example, in a MIMO communication system using four transmit antennas and four receive antennas, it is possible to obtain a transmission rate four times higher than the single antenna system. After the theoretical capacity increase of the multi-antenna system has been proved in the mid-90s, various techniques have been actively researched to bring it up to practical data rate improvement. In addition, several technologies have already been reflected in various wireless communication standards such as 3G mobile communication and next generation wireless LAN.

The research trends related to multi-antenna up to now include information theory study related to calculation of multi-antenna communication capacity in various channel environment and multiple access environment, study of wireless channel measurement and modeling of multi-antenna system, improvement of transmission reliability and improvement of transmission rate And research on space-time signal processing technology.

A communication method in a multi-antenna system will be described in more detail using mathematical modeling. It is assumed that there are N _T transmit antennas and N _R receive antennas in the system.

Looking at the transmitted signal, if there are N _T transmit antennas, the maximum transmittable information is N _T. The transmission information can be expressed as follows.

는 전송 전력이 다를 수 있다. 각각의 전송 전력을

라고 하면, 전송 전력이 조정된 전송 정보는 다음과 같이 표현될 수 있다.Each transmission information

The transmission power may be different. Each transmission power

, The transmission information whose transmission power is adjusted can be expressed as follows.

는 전송 전력의 대각행렬 P 를 이용해 다음과 같이 표현될 수 있다.Also,

Can be expressed as follows using the diagonal matrix P of transmit power.

에 가중치 행렬 W가 적용되어 실제 전송되는 N _T 개의 송신신호

가 구성되는 경우를 고려해 보자. 가중치 행렬 W는 전송 정보를 전송 채널 상황 등에 따라 각 안테나에 적절히 분배해 주는 역할을 한다.

는 벡터 X를 이용하여 다음과 같이 표현될 수 있다.Transmission power adjusted information vector

In the weight matrix W it is applied to N _T transmit signal that is actually transmitted

. The weight matrix W serves to appropriately distribute the transmission information to each antenna according to the transmission channel condition and the like.

Can be expressed using the vector X as:

는 i번째 송신 안테나와 j번째 정보간의 가중치를 의미한다. W는 프리코딩 행렬이라고도 불린다.From here,

Denotes a weight between the i- th transmit antenna and the j- th information. W is also referred to as a precoding matrix.

은 벡터로 다음과 같이 표현될 수 있다.If there are N _R reception antennas,

Can be expressed as a vector as follows.

로 표시하기로 한다.

에서, 인덱스의 순서가 수신 안테나 인덱스가 먼저, 송신 안테나의 인덱스가 나중임에 유의한다.When a channel is modeled in a multi-antenna wireless communication system, the channel may be classified according to the transmission / reception antenna index. The channel passing through the receiving antenna i from the transmitting antenna j

.

, It is noted that the order of the index is the reception antenna index, and the index of the transmission antenna is the order of the index.

On the other hand, FIG. 6 (b) is a diagram showing channels from N _T transmit antennas to receive antenna i . The channels can be grouped and displayed in vector and matrix form. In FIG. 6 (b), the channel arriving from the total N _T transmit antennas to receive antenna i may be expressed as:

Thus, all channels arriving from N _T transmit antennas to N _R receive antennas may be expressed as:

은 다음과 같이 표현될 수 있다.Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) is added to the real channel after passing through the channel matrix H. White noise added to each of the N _R receive antennas

Can be expressed as follows.

Through the above-described equation modeling, the received signal can be expressed as follows.

On the other hand, the number of rows and columns of the channel matrix H indicating the channel state is determined by the number of transmission / reception antennas. The number of rows in the channel matrix H is equal to the number N _R of receive antennas, and the number of columns is equal to the number N _T of transmit antennas. That is, the channel matrix H has a matrix of N _R × N _T.

The rank of a matrix is defined as the minimum number of independent rows or columns. Thus, the rank of the matrix can not be greater than the number of rows or columns. The rank ( rank (H) ) of the channel matrix H is limited as follows.

Another definition of the rank is defined as the number of eigenvalues that are not zero when the matrix is eigenvalue decomposition. Similarly, another definition of a rank is defined as the number of non-zero singular values when singular value decomposition is performed. Therefore, the physical meaning of a rank in a channel matrix is the maximum number that can transmit different information in a given channel.

Multi-user- MIMO  action

A Multiple User-MIMO (MIMO-MIMO) means an operation in which a base station having multiple antennas serves a plurality of users (terminals) at the same time. At the same time, when multiple users are served by one base station, the signal for one terminal may act as an interference to another terminal, thus degrading overall system performance. Therefore, in order for data transmission and reception according to the MU-MIMO operation to be correctly performed, it is required to eliminate interference between users. For this purpose, the base station can perform signal processing according to interference cancellation techniques on signals to be transmitted to multiple users.

The base station may encode information blocks to be transmitted to each terminal with respective independent codewords. The encoded codewords may be transmitted in accordance with an interference cancellation technique. For example, for a code word transmitted from one base station to a plurality of terminals, the base station can transmit the interference in a manner to remove interference in advance. A terminal in advance at a signal transmitting to the terminal (U ₂₎ other a signal sent to the (U ₁₎ - by removing (pre-subtraction), the terminal (U ₂₎ is, as it does not exist, interference signals from base stations And may not perform a separate interference cancellation operation. As the interference cancellation technique, ZF-DPC (Zero Forcing-Dirty Paper Coding) and ZF (Zero Forcing) can be applied.

The ZF-DPC will first be described. Assuming two terminals U ₁ and U ₂ serving simultaneously by one base station, a composite channel H = [h ₁ h ₂ ] of a channel h ₁ of U _{1 and} a channel h ₂ of U ₂ . When LQ decomposition is performed on the composite channel H, it can be decomposed into a lower triangular matrix L and an orthogonal matrix Q as shown in Equation (12).

When the MIMO transmission is performed using a column of the matrix Q as a beamforming vector in Equation (12), only the lower triangular matrix L is left in the signal received by the terminal. If the base station knows all the channel conditions for each terminal, it can perform encoding by transmitting the encoded components without interference of the first row by avoiding the interference components of the second row . Here, if the beamforming vector w _i (that is, the beamforming vector for U ₁ is w ₁ and the beamforming vector for U ₂ is w ₂ ) for each terminal is w _i = q _i , the effective channel effective channel) can be expressed by Equation (13). " (13) " Therefore, since a signal to one terminal can be transmitted and removed from a signal to another terminal, the terminal can correctly receive a signal from the base station without any interference removing operation.

Next, in the case of ZF beamforming, interference cancellation can be performed through a pseudo-inverse for the composite channel H for multiple users as shown in Equation (14).

In Equation (14), X ^H denotes a Hermitian matrix for the matrix X, and X ^-1 denotes an inverse matrix for the matrix X. Each column of the matrix F in Equation (14) becomes a beamforming vector for each terminal. That is, w _i = f _i . In this case, the effective channel for each terminal can be expressed by the following Equation (15).

In the case of using the ZF scheme, the channel in each terminal is in the form of an identity matrix, and as a result, it is possible to receive a signal in which interference has been removed in advance.

Repeater

Repeaters can be considered for example to provide high coverage of data rate coverage, enhance group mobility, provision of temporary networks, enhancement of cell border yields, and / or network coverage in new areas.

1, the repeater 120 is responsible for forwarding transmission / reception between the base station 110 and the terminal 132, and has two kinds of links (backhaul link And access links) are applied. The base station 110 may include a donor cell. The repeater 120 may be wirelessly connected to the wireless-access network via the donor cell 110

When a backhaul link between the BS 110 and the RS 120 uses a downlink frequency band or a downlink subframe resource, the backhaul link is expressed by a backhaul downlink. When an uplink frequency band or an uplink subframe resource is used, It can be expressed as a link. Here, the frequency band is a resource allocated in the FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) mode, and the subframe is a resource allocated in the TDD (Time Division Duplex) mode. Similarly, when the access link between the RS 120 and the MS 132 uses the downlink frequency band or the downlink subframe resource, the access link is represented by the access downlink, and when the uplink frequency band or the uplink subframe resource is used Can be expressed as an access uplink. FIG. 1 shows a configuration of a backhaul uplink / downlink and an access uplink / downlink in an FDD mode repeater.

The base station requires functions of uplink reception and downlink transmission, and the terminal is required to perform uplink transmission and downlink reception. On the other hand, the repeater is required to have a function of backhaul uplink transmission to the base station, access uplink reception from the terminal, backhaul downlink reception from the base station, and access downlink transmission to the terminal.

On the other hand, with respect to the use of the band (or spectrum) of the repeater, the case where the backhaul link operates in the same frequency band as the access link is referred to as 'in-band', and the backhaul link and the access link are referred to as different frequency bands Is referred to as an " out-band ". (Hereinafter referred to as a legacy terminal) operating in accordance with an existing LTE system (e.g., Release-8) in both the in-band and the out-band must be able to access the donor cell.

Depending on whether the terminal recognizes the repeater, the repeater can be classified as either a transparent repeater or a non-transparent repeater. Transparent means a case where the terminal does not recognize whether it communicates with the network through a repeater, and non-transparent means when the terminal recognizes whether or not the terminal communicates with the network through a repeater.

Regarding the control of the repeater, it may be classified into a repeater composed of a part of the donor cell or a repeater controlling the cell itself.

A repeater configured as a part of a donor cell may have a repeater identifier (ID), but does not have a repeater own cell identity. If at least a portion of the Radio Resource Management (RRM) is controlled by the base station to which the donor cell belongs (even if the remaining parts of the RRM are located in the repeater), it is referred to as a repeater configured as part of the donor cell. Preferably, such a repeater may support a legacy terminal. For example, smart repeaters, decode-and-forward relays, various types of L2 (second layer) repeaters, and Type-2 repeaters correspond to such repeaters.

In the case of a repeater that controls the cell by itself, the repeater controls one or several cells, each of the cells controlled by the repeater is provided with a unique physical layer cell identity, and the same RRM mechanism can be used. From a terminal perspective, there is no difference between accessing cells controlled by a repeater and cells controlled by a general base station. Preferably, a cell controlled by such a repeater may support a legacy terminal. For example, a self-backhauling repeater, an L3 (third layer) repeater, a type-1 repeater, and a type-1a repeater correspond to such repeaters.

A Type-1 repeater controls a plurality of cells as an in-band repeater, and each of these plurality of cells appears as a separate cell distinct from the donor cell in the terminal's end. In addition, a plurality of cells have their own physical cell ID (defined in LTE Release-8), and the repeater can transmit its own synchronization channel, reference signal, and the like. In the case of a single-cell operation, the UE receives scheduling information and HARQ feedback directly from the repeater and may transmit its control channel (scheduling request (SR), CQI, ACK / NACK, etc.) to the repeater. Also, for legacy terminals (terminals operating in accordance with the LTE Release-8 system), the Type-1 repeater appears to be a legacy base station (a base station operating according to the LTE Release-8 system). That is, it has backward compatibility. For the terminals operating according to the LTE-A system, the type-1 repeater can be regarded as a base station different from the legacy base station, and can provide a performance improvement.

The Type-1 repeater has the same features as the above-described Type-1 repeater except that it operates out-of-band. The operation of the Type-1a repeater can be configured to minimize or eliminate the effect on the L1 (first layer) operation.

A Type-2 repeater is an in-band repeater, and does not have a separate physical cell ID, thereby forming a new cell. The Type-2 repeater is transparent to the legacy terminal, and the legacy terminal does not recognize the presence of the Type-2 repeater. A Type-2 repeater can transmit a PDSCH, but not at least a CRS and a PDCCH.

hybrid  Automatic retransmission request ( HARQ ) Operation

As a control method for data reception failure, the following HARQ operation can be applied. After transmitting one packet on the data transmission side, when receiving the ACK signal from the data receiving side, it transmits a new packet. When receiving the NACK signal, it can retransmit the already transmitted packet. At this time, the packet to which the encoding according to the Forward Error Correction (FEC) function is applied can be retransmitted. Therefore, at the data receiving end, when one packet is received and decoded as a result of decoding, if the decoding is successful, the ACK signal is transmitted. If the decoding fails, the NACK is transmitted and the received packet is stored in the buffer. When a retransmission packet according to the NACK signal is received, decoding is performed in combination with the packet received in the buffer, thereby increasing the reception success rate of the packet.

The HARQ scheme can be classified into a synchronous HARQ scheme and an asynchronous HARQ scheme according to retransmission timing. In the synchronous HARQ scheme, if the initial transmission fails, subsequent retransmissions are performed at a time determined by the system. For example, when retransmission is set to be performed every fourth time unit (for example, a subframe) after an initial transmission failure, it is not necessary to inform the receiving side of the information on the retransmission time. Therefore, when the NACK signal is received at the data transmission side, the packet is retransmitted every fourth time unit until the ACK signal is received. On the other hand, according to the asynchronous HARQ scheme, information on the retransmission time is separately scheduled. Therefore, the retransmission time point of the packet corresponding to the NACK signal can be changed by various requirements such as the channel state.

In addition, an adaptive HARQ scheme and a non-adaptive HARQ scheme can be classified according to whether the channel state is reflected on the amount of resources used in retransmission. The non-adaptive HARQ scheme is performed according to the MCS level of the packet to be retransmitted, the number of resource blocks to be used, and the like in the initial transmission. For example, when data is transmitted using 8 resource blocks in the initial transmission on the transmitting side, the same 8 resource blocks are used for retransmission in the subsequent retransmission. On the other hand, the adaptive scheme is a scheme in which the modulation scheme of the packet, the number of resource blocks used, and the like vary according to the channel state. For example, even if transmission is initially performed using eight channels, retransmission can be performed using a number of resource blocks greater than or less than eight according to a channel state.

In the data packet transmission operation through the HARQ as described above, the transmitting terminal can convert the data packet into a sub-packet of a predetermined size, and perform initial transmission and retransmission on a subpacket-by-subpacket basis. The receiving end may attempt to decode the data packet by combining several subpackets.

Multiple subpackets used for initial transmission and retransmission by the HARQ scheme are generated from one codeword packet. In this case, the generated subpackets can be distinguished by the length of the subpacket and the start position of the subpacket. Such distinguishable subpacket is called a redundancy version (RV). The receiving end may attempt to decode the entire codeword by receiving and combining the different RVs. For example, an HARQ operation can be performed by receiving only the difference between the entire codeword packet to be received and the subpacket already received, and attempting to decode the HARQ operation. This method is called an Incremental Redundancy (IR) HARQ Action.

Partial signaling through a repeater in a multi-user environment

7 is a conceptual illustration of a multi-user environment. In the example of Figure 7 it assumes that the base station having multiple antennas and that can support the MU-MIMO transmission, and the terminals _{((U 1, U 2,} ...) is assumed in that it comprises a single antenna, but , This assumption is only for illustrative clarity, and the principle of the present invention described below can be equally applied to terminal (s) with multiple antennas.

Referring to FIG. 7A, a plurality of terminals U ₁ , U ₂ ,... Can simultaneously receive signals from a base station (BS). The channel to U ₁ may be referred to as h ₁ , and the channel to U ₂ may be referred to as h ₂ . U ₁ is located close to the base station, for example, while the channel state is good, while U ₂ is relatively located at a cell edge relative to U ₁ , and it is assumed that the channel state is poor. The base station can transmit a signal at a higher power in order to guarantee data transmission to a terminal having a poor channel state, but interference problems may occur. In order to solve such a problem, various repeaters as described above can be introduced. However, since a separate resource should be used when a new repeater is installed in a network, a method of allowing a terminal having a good channel state to function as a repeater can be considered. Such a repeater may be referred to as a user-relay (UE-relay), and the user-repeater may correspond to a type-2 repeater as described above. That is, the user-repeater is transparent to the terminal receiving the data.

FIG. 7 (b) shows that U ₁ functions as a user-relay and U ₂ receives data from the base station via U ₁ . In this manner, data transmission is performed through cooperation among terminals in a multi-user environment, thereby improving the overall transmission capacity and the efficiency of resource utilization. For example, the terminal U ₁ having a better channel environment with the base station than the other terminals can function as a user-repeater, and can help transfer data to another terminal U ₂ having a poor channel environment . Specifically, U ₁ can receive its own data from the base station and also receive data transmitted from the base station to U ₂ from the base station. U ₁ is able to transfer data to be transferred to the U ₂ from the data it receives to U _2. U ₂ can acquire data about itself through data received directly from the base station and data received through U ₁ . Such a data transmission scheme can be referred to as a partial signal transmission scheme.

In order to allow the information transfer using the user-repeater to be performed in the multi-user environment as described above, it is necessary to determine a method of encoding the information bits to be transmitted to each user at the base station. Hereinafter, various embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with respect to an information bit encoding scheme at a base station and an information transmission operation through a user-repeater.

8 is a flowchart showing the flow of operation of information transfer through a user-repeater in a multi-user environment. In Figure 8 for clarity of illustration U ₁ and U ₂ The remaining terminals of the multi-user environment are not shown. However, the scope of the present invention is not limited to this, and even when MU-MIMO transmission is performed for two or more UEs, and one of the UEs functions as a user-repeater for the other UE The principles of the present invention are equally applicable. In FIG. 8, U ₁ denotes a terminal functioning as a user-repeater, U ₂ denotes a terminal serving as a destination of information transmission, and U ₂ can also be referred to as a destination user.

Referring to Figure 8, the base station encodes the data for each terminal, (S810), transmits the encoded data to the respective terminals (U ₁ and U ₂₎ and restoring the data received in (S820), U ₁ (S830), it sends the data for the U ₂ among the restored data to U _2, and (S840), U ₂ in using the signal received in step S820 and S840 to restore the data for their own (S850). The specific operation in each step will be described below.

Step S810 is a data encoding step. The base station BS may encode data for the terminal U ₁ functioning as a user-repeater and data for the destination user U _{2 to} receive information through U ₁ . Specifically, as shown in FIG. 9, data encoding for each terminal can be performed.

Figure 9 (a) represents an encoded data with respect to U _1, Fig. 9 (b) shows the encoded data with respect to U _2. Information bits for U ₁ indicates that S _1, indicates that the information bits for U ₂ S _2. S ₂ back through the direct channel (h ₂₎ from the base station (BS) information bits that U ₂ received S _{2, 1,} and user-relay channels from U ₁ (h ₁₂₎ the information bits S ₂ is passed _{through, 2} . Here, for example, S _{2 , 2} may be configured as a part of the information bits of S _{2 , 1} (ie, S _{2 , 2} overlap with part of S _{2 , 1} ), or S _{2 ,} S _2, may be configured as separate information bits are distinguished from the _first (i.e., S _2, S ₁ and _2, not _two duplicate). For example, S _{2 , 1} may correspond to a systematic bit, and S _{2 , 2} may correspond to a parity bit. Or, for example, S _{2 , 1} and S _{2 , 2} may correspond to partitioning the output S ₂ from the same channel coder into a first portion and a second portion, respectively (that is, one of the divided portions of S ₂ is S _{2, 1,} and one corresponding to S _{2, 2).}

Also 9 (a), associated with the information bits to the information bits S ₁ S _{2, 2} is U ₁ for U ₂ (concatenation), as shown in a may be encoded as a code word (codeword). This encoding scheme may be referred to as a bit concatenation scheme, and the partial signal transmission scheme proposed in the present invention may be referred to as a bit connection based partial signaling scheme.

와

라고 할 수 있다 (여기서, 0≤

≤1). 만약 비트당 전송 전력이 동일하게 설정되는 경우라면,

와

는 전송 전력 비율에 해당할 수 있다.As shown in FIG. 9 (a), one codeword in which S ₁ and S _{2 , 2} are concatenated and encoded can be represented by X ₁ . The bit ratios for S ₁ and S _{2 , 2} in the entire codeword X ₁ are respectively

Wow

(Where 0 ≥

1). If the per-bit transmit power is set equal,

Wow

May correspond to the transmission power ratio.

As shown in FIG. 9 (b), the information bits S _{2 , 1} for U ₂ can be encoded into one independent codeword X ₂ .

Step S820 is in the base station can transmit the codeword X ₁ and X ₂ encoded in the step S810 to the respective terminals (U ₁ and U _2). Step S820 may also be referred to as a step in which the base station broadcasts data to each terminal in the first transmission phase. In transmitting the codewords X ₁ and X ₂ to the terminals U ₁ and U ₂ , the base station applies an interference cancellation technique such as the ZF-DPC or ZF technique as described above, Can be removed.

As the transmission power allocated to the codeword X ₁ are sent to U ₁ P _1, and when that transmission power allocated to the codeword X ₂ are sent to U ₂ P _2, the sum of P ₁ and P ₂ is the base station The maximum transmission power P _BS can not be exceeded.

The signal received at each of the terminals U ₁ and U ₂ in the first transmission step may be expressed by Equation (16).

In Equation (16), y ₁ ⁽¹⁾ and y ₂ ⁽¹⁾ represent signals received at U ₁ and U ₂ in the first transmission step, respectively. P ₁ and P ₂ denote the transmit powers allocated to codewords x ₁ and x ₂ , respectively. x ₁ (s ₁ , s _{2 , 2} ) denotes an encoded codeword to which s ₁ , s _{2 , 2} are concatenated, and x ₂ (s _{2 , 1} ) denotes an encoded codeword s _{2 , 1} . h ₁ and h ₂ denote channels between U ₁ and U ₂ from the base station, respectively. w ₁ and w ₂ denote beamforming vectors to U ₁ and U ₂ , respectively. The beamforming vector may be determined as illustrated illustratively in the ZF-DPC or ZF technique, which is the prior interference cancellation technique described above. n ₁ and n ₂ denote additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) at U ₁ and U ₂ , respectively.

In step S820, transmission to U ₂ from the transmission and the base station of the U ₁ from the base station may be performed at the same time or may be performed at different times. In addition, the term 'first transmission step' is a term for expressing the order in which operations are performed in the overall operation in which information transmission to a destination is performed through a user-repeater.

Step S830 is a step in which a data recovery (or decoded) from the signal U ₁ and U _2, respectively received in the first transmission step. U ₁ Is a code from the signal y ^{_{1 (1)}} received in the first transmission phase word X ₁ A can be decoded, U ₂ Can decode the codeword X ₂ from the signal y ₂ ⁽¹⁾ received in the first transmission step.

의 비율에 해당하는 정보만이 자신의 정보이고,

의 비율에 해당하는 정보는 다른 단말(U₂)에 대한 정보이다. 따라서, U₁과 U₂ 각각에서 제 1 전송 단계에서 자신에 대한 정보를 획득할 수 있는 정보량은 다음의 수학식 17 과 같이 나타낼 수 있다.In the case of U ₁ ,

Only information corresponding to the ratio of < RTI ID = 0.0 >

Is information on the other terminal U ₂ . Therefore, the amount of information that can acquire information about itself in the first transmission step in each of U ₁ and U ₂ can be expressed by Equation (17).

및

는 각각 |h₁w₁|²/N₀ 및 |h₂w₂|²/N₀을 의미한다. 여기서, N₀는 상기 수학식 16 에서 설명한 U1 및 U2 에 대한 AWGN 인 n₁ 및 n₂의 분산(variance)을 의미한다.In Equation 17,

And

H ₁ w ₁ | ² / N ₀ and | h ₂ w ₂ | ² / N ₀ . Here, N ₀ denotes a variance of n ₁ and n _{2, which} are AWGNs for U1 and U2 described in Equation (16).

In step S840, information forwarding is performed in a second transmission phase.

의 비율에 해당하는 다른 단말(U₂)에 대한 정보(즉, S_2,2)를 추출할 수 있다. 이와 같이 추출된 U₂ 에 대한 데이터(S_{2 ,2})는 제 2 전송 단계에서 U₁ 으로부터 U₂ 에게 전달할 수 있다.U ₁ as the user-repeater is a part of the information amount restored from the information received from the base station in the first transmission step

(I.e., S _2,2 ) for the other terminal U ₂ corresponding to the ratio of the terminal U ₂ . Thus extracted data for U ₂ (S _{2, 2)} may be delivered to U ₂ U ₁ from the second transfer phase.

Here, U ₁ can transmit the extracted data (S _{2 , 2} ) to U ₂ by modulating the extracted data (S _{2 , 2} ) to X _R. Since X _R includes data S _{2 and 2} for U ₂ as they are, it can be expressed as X _R (S _{2 , 2} ). The modulation scheme applied to S _{2 , 2} can be indicated from the base station. For example, by a preliminary signal exchange between the base station and the user-repeater U ₁ , a modulation scheme to be applied by U ₁ to the data (S _{2 , 2} ) to be transferred to the other terminal U ₂ have. Alternatively, the base station transmits the codeword X ₁ generated by concatenating and encoding the data S ₁ for the user-repeater U ₁ and the data S _{2 , 2} to be transmitted to the other terminal U2, U ₂ may include information indicating the modulation scheme to be applied by U ₁ to the data (S _{2 , 2} ) to be transmitted to U ₂ .

In addition, the user-repeater U ₁ may use the maximum transmission power P _U1 to maximize the efficiency of transmission to the destination user U ₂ . In this case, the signal received by U ₂ can be expressed by Equation (18).

In Equation (18), y ₂ ⁽²⁾ represents a signal received by U ₂ in the second transmission step. P _U1 X _R Lt; / RTI > x _R (s _{2 , 2} ) is the data (s _{2 , 2} ) transferred from U ₁ to U ₂ is U _{1 Lt} ; RTI ID = 0.0 &_gt; x _R < / RTI > h ₁₂ Denotes a channel between U ₁ and U ₂ . n ₁₂ means AWGN on h ₁₂ .

The amount of information obtained by U ₂ from the received signal as shown in Equation (18) can be expressed as Equation (19).

는 |h₁₂|²/N₀를 의미한다.In Equation 19, R ₂ ⁽²⁾ denotes an amount of information acquired by U ₂ in the second transmission step. Also,

| H ₁₂ | ² / N ₀ .

In transmitting the destination user (U ₂ ) data (S _{2 , 2} ) from the user-repeater U ₁ , the second transmission step can be variably determined according to the amount of information to be transmitted in order to increase the efficiency of information transmission. In the case of considering the variable transmission step, the time required for the user-repeater U ₁ to transmit information can be expressed by the following equation (20).

과, 목적지 사용자(U₂)가 사용자-중계기(U₁)로부터 제 2 전송 단계 동안 전달되는 데이터를 획득할 수 있는 정보량

의 비율에 따라서, 제 1 전송 단계에 소요되는 시간에 상대적으로 제 2 전송 단계에 소요되는 시간이 결정될 수 있다. 예를 들어, 제 1 전송 단계 동안 소요된 시간이 4 서브프레임이고, (제 1 전송 단계에서 사용자-중계기(U₁)에서 획득하는 목적지 사용자(U₂)에 대한 데이터의 정보량)/(제 2 전송 단계에서 목적지 사용자(U₂)가 획득하는 데이터의 정보량)=1/2 라면, 제 2 전송 단계에는 2 서브프레임이 소요되도록 설정될 수 있다. 여기서, 채널(h₁ 및/또는 h₁₂)의 상태에 따라 획득되는 정보량이 달라질 수 있으며, 이에 따라 제 2 전송 단계에서 소요되는 시간이 가변적으로 결정될 수 있다.In Equation 20, t ⁽¹⁾ denotes a time required during the first transmission step, and t ⁽²⁾ denotes a time required during the second transmission step. Here, the amount of information capable of acquiring data for the destination user (U ₂ ) transmitted during the first transmission step from the base station in the user-repeater U ₁

And a destination user (U ₂₎ the user-information amount to obtain a second data transfer step is passed over from the repeater (U ₁₎

The time required for the second transmission step can be determined relative to the time required for the first transmission step. For example, it is assumed that the time taken for the first transmission step is 4 subframes (the amount of data for the destination user U ₂ acquired by the user-repeater U ₁ in the first transmission step) / And the amount of information of the data acquired by the destination user U ₂ in the transmission step) = 1/2, the second transmission step may be set to take 2 subframes. Here, the amount of information obtained according to the states of the channels h ₁ and / or h ₁₂ may be varied, and accordingly, the time required in the second transmission step may be variably determined.

Alternatively, when the time required for the first transmission step and the second transmission step is fixed, the size of the frequency resource used for information transmission may be variably determined. That is, the size of the frequency resource to be used in the second transmission step may be variably determined according to a principle similar to the variable transmission time described above. For example, the size of all the frequency resources used in the first transmission step (i.e., the size of the frequency resource used for transmitting all of S ₁ and S _{2 , 2} ) is 10 resource blocks (RB) a first transmitting step the user-information amount of data for a destination user (U ₂₎ for obtaining from the repeater (U ₁₎₎ / (the destination in the second transmission step, users (U ₂₎ information amount of data to be acquired) = 1 / 2, the frequency resource used in the second transmission step may be set to five RBs. Here, the amount of information obtained according to the states of the channels h ₁ and / or h ₁₂ may be varied, and accordingly, the size of the frequency resources used in the second transmission step may be variably determined.

Where, U ₁ is a separate process other than the above-described modulation and transmission with respect to forward data S _{2, 2} to U ₂ corresponds to the generation and the encoded information bits in the base station (BS) and, U ₁ is S _{2, 2} It does not perform. That is, the user-repeaters (U ₁₎ is only one line, as delivered to U ₂ receives data (S _{2, 2)} to other terminal (U ₂₎ at the base station.

Step S850 is a step of using a signal received from the signal and a second transmission stage received at the first transmitting step is U ₂ to restore the data for his (or decoded).

While the user-repeater U ₁ receives data only in the first transmission phase, the destination user U ₂ receives the data in both the first transmission phase and the second transmission phase. Destination user (U ₂₎ by the signal ^(y ₂ ⁽¹⁾⁾ and a connection of a signal ^{(y _{2 (2))}} received in the second transmission step receives in a first transmission step (concatenation), the joint-decoding (joint -decoding) method to finally restore the data for itself.

Accordingly, the data transmission efficiency per time in each of the terminals U1 and U2 can be finally expressed by the following equation (21).

는 요구되는 정보량에 따라 결정될 수 있다. 즉, 기지국에서 전송효율이 향상되도록, U₁ 및 U₂ 으로의 전송 전력 P₁ 및 P₂ 과 사용자-중계기(U₁)에게 전송되는 데이터 중에서 목적지 사용자(U2)에게 전달될 데이터의 비율을 결정할 수 있다.In Equation (21), C ₁ and C ₂ It is U ₁ and U _2, respectively Lt; / RTI > P ₁ , P ₂ and

May be determined according to the amount of information required. That is, to improve the transmission efficiency at the base station, U ₁ and the transmission power of the U ₂ P ₁ and P ₂ and the user-in data to be sent to the relay (U ₁₎ to determine the rate of data to be delivered to the destination user (U2) .

Further, in the case of the destination user U ₂ , the data received in the first transmission step is S _{2 , 1,} and the data received from the user-repeater U ₁ in the second transmission step is S _2,2 . As described above, S _{2 , 2} may be configured as a part of information bits of S _{2 , 1} (that is, S _{2 , 2} overlap with part of S _{2 , 1} ). In this case, since U ₂ performs data decoding using redundant information, the decoding success rate can be increased compared to receiving data directly from the base station only when the channel state is poor, and more robust data recovery is performed . Or, S _2, S ₂ is _2, may also be configured as a separate information bits are distinguished from the _first (i.e., S _2, S ₁ and _2, not _two duplicate). In this case, U ₂ is the direct channel and the user from the appropriate amount of data to a base station by being divided through the channel from the repeater, the received amount of information can be improved.

In the partial signal transmission scheme through the user-repeater in the multi-user environment as described above, the data (or a part of the data) for the terminal U ₂ with a relatively poor channel state is transmitted to the terminal U ₁ The transmission efficiency can be improved. The terminal U ₁ having a good channel state can use the extra channel capacity to transmit data for the other terminal U ₂ while satisfying the amount of information allocated to the terminal U ₁ . At this time, since the data for the other terminal U _{2 is} connected to the data for the terminal U ₁ having a good channel state and is transmitted as one code word, it is possible to restore do. In addition, since the variable transmission time is considered in the data transmission process, when the channel between the terminals is sufficiently good, the time used for information transmission is shortened and the transmission efficiency is further increased. The terminal U ₂ having a poor channel state can receive the data for itself through the direct channel from the base station and the channel from the user-repeater, thereby improving the received information amount and / or improving the decoding success rate.

In addition, the present invention is applicable to a multi-user environment using multiple antennas. In addition, by allowing all users to act as repeaters in some cases without using a separate repeater, quality of service (QoS) of users with poor channel conditions can be assured. Also, by using the partial signal transmission scheme described in the present invention, in the HARQ-based data retransmission, the base station transmits the retransmission data packet portion to the destination user along with the data of the user-repeater, - The repeater may directly forward the retransmission data packet to the destination user.

Via user-repeater HARQ  action

The user-repeater means a repeater in which one terminal supports the other terminal rather than a fixed repeater, and the cooperative communication through the user-repeater can be referred to as inter-terminal cooperative communication. Such a user-repeater may correspond to the above-described type-2 repeater.

When such a user-relay is used, the destination node (or the destination user) does not recognize the presence of the relay. Therefore, information is not exchanged in advance between the relay node and the destination node, and feedback on the channel state from the destination node to the relay node is not reported. That is, the repeater transmits data to the destination node without information on the channel between the repeater and the destination node. That is, data transmission from the repeater to the destination node must be performed in an open-loop manner.

In the case where the partial signal transmission scheme through the user-repeater is applied, the channels h ₁ and h ₂ from the source node (i.e., the base station) to the respective terminals can be determined by channel state information feedback However, the channel h _{12, which} is the channel between the user-repeater U ₁ and the destination node U ₂ , may be determined by the average characteristic of the channel rather than reflecting the actual channel environment.

There is a probability that a communication outage will occur when a partial signal transmission through a user-repeater is performed in an open-loop manner, and a HARQ-based retransmission operation can be applied to correct the error. Hereinafter, various embodiments of the present invention will be described with respect to a resource allocation scheme and a HARQ operation scheme capable of obtaining a maximum transmission rate when data transmission through an open-loop scheme is performed through a user-relay.

In the embodiments of the present invention described below, the bit connection-based partial signal transmission scheme proposed by the present invention may be applied as a partial signal transmission scheme through a repeater, or other general partial signal transmission schemes may be applied .

A general partial signaling method refers to a method of transmitting data to a destination node in consideration of a channel state and transmitting data to a destination node in a degree of direct transmission. The data to be transmitted from the repeater to the destination node is provided by the source node, which may directly transmit to the repeater, or the repeater may overhear the data transmitted from the source node to the destination node. Overhearing means that the repeater hears the data that the source node sends to the destination node.

A partial signal transmission scheme of successive interference cancellation (SIC) scheme among partial signal transmission schemes will be described as an example. According to the SIC partial signaling scheme, a signal can be transmitted from a source node to a destination node in the following order.

10 is a diagram for explaining an SIC method partial signal transfer operation.

First, in the source node S, a basic layer and a superposed layer are superposition-encoded and transmitted to the relay R and the destination node D at the same time. Here, the base layer (b) corresponds to a portion directly transmitted from a source node to a destination node, and the overlapped layer (sc) corresponds to a portion transmitted to a destination node through a repeater. When performing superposition coding at the source node, the ratio of the signal power magnitudes of the base layer (b) and the overlapping layer (sc) is determined using channel information between the source node and the relay and channel information between the source node and the destination node .

In the repeater, the overlapped layer (sc) portion can be detected by first detecting and erasing the base layer (b) portion in the signal received from the source node. The repeater may forward the overlapping layer (sc) portion to the destination node.

The destination node receives and detects the overlapped layer (sc) portion transmitted from the relay and detects the base layer (b) portion by erasing the detected overlapped layer (sc) portion from the signal (b + sc) received from the source node can do.

The total transmission rate (R _tot ) obtained in the SIC scheme partial signal transmission operation is expressed by the following Equation (22).

는 각 채널에 대한 SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio)를 나타낸다.

는 소스 노드(S)와 목적지 노드(D) 사이의 채널에 대한 SNR 이고,

는 소스 노드(S)와 중계기(R) 사이의 채널에 대한 SNR 이고,

는 중계기(R)와 목적지 노드(D) 사이의 채널에 대한 SNR 이다.

는 기본 레이어(b)와 중첩 레이어(sc)의 비율을 의미하며,

는 기본 레이어(b)에

는 중첩 레이어(sc)에 각각 할당된다..In Equation (22), R _b is a transmission rate for the base layer (b), R _s is a transmission rate for the overlapped layer (sc), and R ₂ is a transmission rate between the repeater and the destination node.

Represents the SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) for each channel.

Is the SNR for the channel between the source node S and the destination node D,

Is the SNR for the channel between the source node S and the repeater R,

Is the SNR for the channel between the relay (R) and the destination node (D).

Denotes the ratio of the base layer (b) to the overlapping layer (sc)

(B)

Are each assigned to the overlapping layer (sc).

Since the base layer b is detected in both the repeater and the destination node, the rate R _b for the base layer _b is determined to be the minimum of the rate for the repeater and the rate for the destination node. In addition, the time required for transmitting the overlapped layer (sc) from the repeater to the destination node is determined according to the ratio of R _s and R ₂ .

A rate control may be performed at the source node to reduce the amount of information transmitted from the repeater to the destination node, transmission time, and the like, and to increase the total transmission rate (R _tot ). Here, the rate control may be performed based on channel information between the source node and the relay device, channel information between the source node and the destination node, and channel information between the relay device and the destination node. As described above, in the SIC partial signaling scheme, when all the information on the entire channel is known from the source node, it is necessary to specify the rate capacity between the repeater and the destination node to transmit information from the repeater to the destination The total transmission rate can be increased. That is, the SIC partial signal transmission scheme can increase the overall transmission rate through precise rate control in a closed-loop environment.

However, in the cooperative communication environment through the user-repeater as described above, the destination node does not recognize the existence of the user-repeater, and feedback on the channel status is not reported. That is, the repeater transmits data to the destination node in an open-loop manner without information on the channel between the repeater and the destination node. In this case, since the source node can not measure the transmission rate capacity between the user-repeater and the destination node, it may be difficult for the source node to determine the transmission rate in advance and assign it to the repeater.

The present invention proposes a scheme for obtaining a maximum transmission rate in performing cooperative communication through a user-repeater in an open-loop environment. Specifically, considering the outage probability of the channel according to the average characteristics in the open-loop environment between the user-repeater and the destination node, it is necessary to determine the optimal resource to be used for transferring data from the repeater to the destination node Time resources and / or frequency resources) to be proactively allocated to perform transmission / retransmission procedures at the repeater. Alternatively, the source node may specify resources to be used for data transmission / retransmission from the repeater to the destination node, and notify the repeater before transmission / retransmission is performed.

The partial signal transmission scheme through the user-repeater can be a bit connection-based partial signal transmission scheme, the SIC partial signal transmission scheme, or other general partial signal transmission scheme proposed in the present invention. In the following description, the SIC partial signal transmission method will be described by way of example in the open-loop environment for the sake of clear understanding of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited thereto and the same principle proposed in the present invention may be applied to various partial signal transmission methods .

In addition, since there is a possibility of communication outage between a repeater and a destination node in a partial signal transmission scheme in an open-loop environment, it may be considered to support transmission / retransmission of an HARQ scheme for error correction. In this HARQ operation, the destination node can correct the error by attempting to combine the accumulated data subpackets according to the incremental redundancy (IR) scheme and attempt decoding.

Hereinafter, in transmitting / retransmitting data in an HARQ scheme in an open-loop environment between a user-repeater and a destination node, a source node controls a transmission rate based on a communication outage probability, a description will be given of a method for designating an optimal resource that maximizes the overall data rate while meeting an outage constraint of communication disruption according to time-variant channel characteristics. In particular, the source node allocates scheduling information for data delivery from the repeater to the destination node based on the outage probability, and scheduling information for HARQ retransmission when the data transmission from the repeater to the destination node fails Can be assigned. The scheduling information may include a location and / or amount of time and / or frequency resources, a modulation and coding scheme to be applied to transmission / retransmission, and the like.

In the case where the retransmission scheduling information of the repeater is designated by the source node, if the data decode at the destination node fails and a negative acknowledgment (NACK) is transmitted to the source node, the repeater overhears the NACK, It is possible to retransmit the data subpacket to the destination node according to the retransmission scheduling information designated by the retransmission scheduling information. The source node does not perform retransmission even if it receives a NACK for the data portion to be transmitted from the repeater to the destination node. If the destination node successfully decodes the data and transmits an acknowledgment (ACK) to the source node, if the relay overrides the ACK, the relay does not use the resource for retransmission designated by the source node. Upon receipt of an ACK at the source node, new data can be transmitted.

The manner in which the source node designates the resource to be used for the transmission / retransmission of the repeater can be applied when the repeater is a type-2 repeater (for example, the user-repeater described above).

11 is a flowchart illustrating a data transmission / retransmission operation through a repeater in the partial signal transmission scheme.

In step S1110, the source node S may transmit data to the relay R and the destination node D. [

Some of the data transmitted to the repeater in step S1110 may include data to be delivered to the destination node. For example, according to the bit connection-based partial signaling method described above, the data transmitted to the repeater may be data (S ₁ ) for the repeater and data (S _{2 , 2} ) Lt; / RTI > Alternatively, according to the above-described SIC-based partial signaling scheme, data to be transmitted to the repeater may be superposition-coded data of the base layer and the overlapped layer (b + sc).

For example, the data transmitted to the destination node in step S1110 may correspond to the data (S _{2 , 1} ) for the destination node according to the bit connection-based partial signaling scheme, and according to the SIC- The layer and the nested layer (b + sc) may correspond to superposition coded data.

Also, when the same data is transmitted to the repeater and the destination node in step S1110, the repeater may overhear the data transmitted from the source node to the destination node. A circle indicated by a dotted line in step S1110 indicates that the repeater can overhear the data transmitted from the source node to the destination node. Alternatively, the source node may broadcast data to the repeater and the destination node. Alternatively, in step S1110, the source node may separately transmit data to the repeater and the destination node, respectively.

In step S1120, the repeater may detect data to be transferred to the destination node from the data received in step S1110. For example, according to the bit connection-based partial signaling scheme, the repeater can detect data (S _{2 , 2} ) for the destination node. Or, according to the SIC-based partial signaling scheme, the repeater can detect the overlapping layer (sc) portion.

In step S1130, the destination node may store the data received in step S1110 in a buffer.

In step S1140, the repeater may forward the data to the destination node. For example, the data transmitted by the repeater to the destination node may correspond to the data (S _{2 , 2} ) for the destination node according to the bit connection-based partial signaling scheme, and according to the SIC- (sc).

In addition, in step S1140, scheduling information for determining a transmission resource, a transmission rate, a modulation technique, and the like used by the repeater to transmit data to the destination node may be designated in advance by the source node. Or the scheduling information may be transmitted to the repeater by the source node prior to the forwarding operation of the repeater. A concrete scheme for the source node to determine the scheduling information to be applied to data transfer of the repeater will be described later in detail.

In step S1150, the destination node may attempt to decode data based on the data received from the source node in step S1110 and the data received from the repeater in step S1140. For example, according to the bit connection-based partial signaling scheme, the destination node performs joint decoding by connecting data (S _{2 , 1} ) received from a source and data (S _{2 , 2} ) It is possible to detect whether or not the received data is error-free. Alternatively, according to the SIC-based partial signaling scheme, the destination node may delete the overlapped layer (sc) received from the repeater from the base layer received from the source and the overlapping coded data (b + sc) Can be detected.

In step S1160, when the destination node fails decoding as a result of decoding in step S1150, NACK information may be generated and transmitted to the source node. When the repeater is a type-2 repeater, such as a user-repeater, the destination node can not transmit the NACK information to the repeater because the destination node can not recognize the repeater. In this case, the repeater can overhear the NACK information transmitted from the destination node to the source node. A circle indicated by a dotted line in step S1160 indicates that the repeater can over-over NACK information transmitted from the destination node to the source node.

In step S1170, the relay node can retransmit data to the destination node according to the HARQ scheme. Here, the data to be retransmitted may be an RV transmitted in an IR scheme to the data transmitted in step S1140.

In addition, in step S1170, scheduling information for determining a transmission resource, a transmission rate, a modulation technique, and the like used by the repeater to retransmit data to the destination node may be designated in advance by the source node. Or the scheduling information may be transmitted to the repeater by the source node prior to the retransmission operation of the repeater. A concrete scheme for the source node to determine the scheduling information to be applied to the data retransmission of the repeater will be described later in detail.

If the data decoding of the destination node succeeds in step S1150, steps S1160 and S1170 are not performed, and the process may directly proceed to step S1180.

Alternatively, if the decoding fails even if the destination node receives the data in step S1170, steps S1160 and S1170 may be performed again.

In step S1180, when the destination node successfully decodes the data, ACK information may be generated and transmitted to the source node. If the repeater is a type-2 repeater, such as a user-repeater, the destination node can not transmit the ACK information to the repeater because the destination node can not recognize the repeater. In this case, the repeater can overhear ACK information transmitted from the destination node to the source node. A circle indicated by a dotted line in step S1180 indicates that the repeater can over-over the ACK information transmitted from the destination node to the source node.

When the repeater receives (or overhears) an ACK, resources allocated from the source node for HARQ retransmission are not used. On the other hand, when the source node receives the ACK, the source node can transmit new data to the destination node.

In step S1110, ACK / NACK information may also be transmitted to the data received by the repeater and the destination node, but this is omitted for the sake of clarity. In the present invention, it is assumed that data transmission in step S1110 has been received without error, or even if there is an error in data transmission in step S1110, the HARQ retransmission or the like is finally received without error.

12 is a diagram for explaining steps of a cooperative communication through a user-repeater. 12 (a) shows a broadcasting phase in which a source node transmits a signal to a repeater and a destination node. FIG. 12 (b) shows a forwarding phase in which a repeater transmits a signal to a destination node. FIG. 12C shows a HARQ operation phase in which a decoding result (ACK / NACK) of a signal received at a destination node is transmitted and a HARQ retransmission (ReTx) started when the NACK is transmitted.

Hereinafter, a method of determining an optimal resource, a transmission rate, and an MCS to be used for transmission / retransmission from a repeater to a destination node will be described in detail considering the outage probability of a channel between a repeater and a destination node . The scheduling information to be used for transmission / retransmission from the repeater to the destination node determined by the source node may be determined in advance and informed to the repeater.

In the following example, a SIC-based partial signal transmission method will be described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and it is possible to determine a transmission resource, a transmission rate, and the like to be used by a repeater at a source node according to a similar principle for other partial signaling schemes.

12 (a), the source node can generate data X to be transmitted by superposition coding the base layer x _b and the overlapping layer x _sc as shown in Equation 23 below.

는 기본 레이어(x_b)와 중첩 레이어(x_sc)의 비율을 의미하며,

는 기본 레이어(x_b)에

는 중첩 레이어(x_sc)에 각각 할당된다.

는 소스 노드(S)와 목적지 노드(D) 사이의 채널에 대한 SNR 이고,

는 소스 노드(S)와 중계기(R) 사이의 채널에 대한 SNR 이고, 는 중계기(R)와 목적지 노드(D) 사이의 채널에 대한 SNR 이다. R_b 는 기본 레이어(b)에 대한 전송률이고, R_s 는 중첩 레이어(sc)에 대한 전송률이고, R₂ 는 중계기와 목적지 노드 사이의 전송률이다.In Equation 23,

_Denotes the ratio of the base layer (x _b ) to the overlapping layer (x _sc )

(X _b ) in the base layer

Are assigned to the overlapping layer (x _sc ), respectively.

Is the SNR for the channel between the source node S and the destination node D,

Is the SNR for the channel between the source node S and the repeater R, Is the SNR for the channel between the relay (R) and the destination node (D). R _b Is the transmission rate for the base layer (b), and R _s Is the transmission rate for the overlapping layer (sc), and R ₂ is the transmission rate between the repeater and the destination node.

12 (b), the repeater decodes the signal received (or over-overlapped) from the source node, extracts the data to be transmitted to the destination node (for example, the overlapped layer x _sc ) To the destination node.

Since the channel between the repeater and the destination node is assumed to be an open-loop environment, resources (time resources and / or frequency resources) used by the repeater to transmit data to the destination node can be pre-allocated by the source node have. For example, since the time resource (T ₂ ) to be used for transmission to the destination node by the repeater is determined in advance by the source node and the source node does not know the channel state accurately, the average channel information between the repeater and the destination node The optimal resource can be determined based on the probability of communication outage.

The following equation (24) represents the probability of occurrence of communication outage in the delivery step of FIG. 12 (b).

는 도 12(b)의 전달 단계에서 통신두절 발생 여부를 결정하는 통신두절(outage) 확률에 대한 기준이 되는 값이고, SNR_RD는 중계기와 목적지 노드 사이의 평균적인 SNR 정보를 의미한다. 상기 수학식 24 를 T₂에 대해 정리하면 다음의 수학식 25 를 유도할 수 있다.Where R ₂ and R _S are as defined in Equation (23). According to the above equation (24), on the basis of the amount R _s of hourly information unit to send a repeater, the repeater has communication cutoff probability _{(P out (2))} in accordance with a T ₂ time resources used for transmission to a destination node Can be defined.

Is a reference value for a communication outage probability that determines whether a communication disconnection occurs in the transmission step of FIG. 12 (b), and SNR _RD represents average SNR information between a repeater and a destination node. If the equation (24) is summarized for T ₂ , the following equation (25) can be derived.

은 다음의 수학식 26 과 같이 결정될 수 있다.Based on Equation (25), the transmission rate at which the repeater transmits a signal to the destination node in the delivery step of FIG. 12 (b)

Can be determined by the following Equation (26).

As shown in the HARQ operation step of FIG. 12 (c), when an error occurs in the signal transmitted to the destination node by the repeater during the time resource of T ₂ determined above, the destination node transmits a NACK and the relay device overhears , The repeater performs retransmission. At this time, the resources used by the repeater to retransmit the data to the destination node may also be predetermined by the source node.

It can be assumed that the channel condition between the relay node and the destination node in the transmission step of FIG. 12 (b) and the HARQ operation step of FIG. 12 (c) is the same. In other words, it is assumed that the channel between the repeater and the destination node is a quasi-static channel. According to this assumption, the time resource T ₃ used for the retransmission of the repeater can be determined by the following equations (27) and (28). Equation (27) represents a probability of occurrence of communication outage during HARQ retransmission in the HARQ operation step of FIG. 12 (c).

는 도 12(c)의 HARQ 재전송 단계에서 통신두절 발생 여부를 결정하는 통신두절(outage) 확률에 대한 기준이 되는 값이다. 상기 수학식 27 을 T₃에 대해 정리하면 다음의 수학식 28 를 유도할 수 있다.According to Equation (27), based on the probability of occurrence of communication disconnection in the delivery step of FIG. 12 (b), the amount of information per unit time that the repeater should send from the repeater at time T ₃ which is a time resource used for HARQ retransmission to the destination node _s , it is possible to define the communication disconnection occurrence probability (P _{out (3)} ).

Is a reference value for a communication outage probability for determining whether a communication disconnection occurs in the HARQ retransmission step of FIG. 12 (c). The following equation (28) can be derived by summarizing Equation (27) with respect to T ₃ .

은 다음의 수학식 29 와 같이 결정될 수 있다.Based on Equation (28), in the HARQ retransmission step of FIG. 12 (c), the transmission rate at which the relay device transmits a signal to the destination node

Can be determined by the following equation (29).

In the HARQ operation step of FIG. 12C, only the redundant data is transmitted from the data transmitted to the destination node by the repeater in the transmission step of FIG. 12B, and the decoding is performed based on the total accumulated data at the destination node IR scheme HARQ operation can be applied.

As described above, the source node can determine the optimal time resources (i.e., T ₂ and T ₃ ) to be used for transmission and retransmission from the repeater to the destination node. Here, determining the optimal value for T ₂ and T ₃ may be to select a value that maximizes the overall data rate R _tot . This can be expressed by the following equation (30).

As can be seen from Equation (30), as the T ₂ and T ₃ increase, the probability of communication outage decreases but the loss occurs at the entire transmission rate. Therefore, by optimally estimating T ₂ and T ₃ using the above equation (30), it is possible to allocate the optimized time resources maximizing the average transmission rate.

As described above, when it is difficult to estimate the accurate information of the channel between the repeater and the destination node (that is, when the type-2 repeater is used, such as a user-repeater) When data is transferred to the node, scheduling information for transmission from the repeater to the destination node can be determined in advance by the source node and informed to the repeater. Accordingly, even in an open-loop environment in which accurate information on channels between the repeater and the destination node is not given, it is possible to allocate optimal time resources using probabilistic characteristics. Although it has been exemplarily described that the time resource is allocated to the repeater in the example described above, it is obvious that the same principle as described in the present invention can be applied to the case where the frequency resource is allocated according to the communication disconnection probability. In this way, the source node schedules the resource to be used for transmission / retransmission from the repeater to the destination node, the transmission rate or the like based on the probability of outage occurrence, so that the limit of the case where channel information between the relay node and the destination node can not be obtained Can be effectively overcome.

13 is a diagram illustrating a wireless communication system including a base station apparatus, a relay apparatus, and a terminal apparatus according to the present invention.

13, a base station apparatus 1310 according to the present invention may include a receiving module 1311, a transmitting module 1312, a processor 1313, a memory 1314, and a plurality of antennas 1315. [ The plurality of antennas 1315 refers to a base station device supporting MIMO transmission / reception. The receiving module 1311 can receive various signals, data, and information on the uplink from at least one of the terminal and the repeater. The transmission module 1312 may transmit various signals, data, and information on the downlink to one or more of the terminal and the repeater. The processor 1313 may control the operation of the base station apparatus 1310 as a whole.

The base station apparatus 1310 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be configured to transmit data using a partial signaling scheme. The processor 1313 of the base station apparatus may be configured to concatenate and encode the first data for the terminal with the data for the repeater to generate a first codeword. In addition, the processor 1313 can be configured to encode the second data for the terminal to generate a second codeword. In addition, the processor 1313 can be configured to transmit the first codeword to the relay and the second codeword to the terminal via the transmission module.

및 상기 단말에 대한 시간당 데이터 전송률

이 결정되는 경우에, 전송 효율이 향상되도록 상기 기지국에 의해서

, P₁ 및 P₂ 가 결정될 수 있다.Here, the first and second codewords may be generated by a pre-interference cancellation technique. The terminal can recover the data transmitted to the terminal using the first data and the second data. For example, the first data and the second data may correspond to each part of the channel-coded output of the channel to be transmitted by the one channel coder in the base station. In addition, the first data for the terminal may be transmitted to the terminal by the repeater. In this case, at least one of a time resource and a frequency resource used by the repeater to transmit the first data to the terminal may be variably determined by the base station. Also, as shown in Equation (20), the data rate per unit time for the repeater

And a data transmission rate per unit time

Is determined, the base station determines that the transmission efficiency is improved

, P ₁ and P ₂ Can be determined.

The base station apparatus 1310 according to another embodiment of the present invention may be configured to previously specify scheduling information for transmission / retransmission of a repeater when transmitting data to a mobile station through a repeater according to a partial signaling scheme. The processor 1313 of the base station apparatus can be configured to transmit a signal including first data to be transmitted to the terminal by the repeater to the repeater through the transmission module. Further, the processor 1313 can be configured to transmit a signal including the second data to the terminal through the transmission module. Also, the processor 1313 may be configured to receive hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgment information for the first data transmitted to the terminal through the repeater from the terminal through the reception module. Here, when the HARQ acknowledgment information is a negative acknowledgment (NACK), the first data may be retransmitted from the repeater to the terminal, not from the base station. In addition, the scheduling information for the transmission of the first data from the repeater to the terminal and the scheduling information for retransmission of the first data may be specified in advance by the base station.

Here, the scheduling information for the repeater to transmit / retransmit the first data may be determined based on a communication outage probability of the channel between the repeater and the terminal. The scheduling information may include at least one of a time resource, a frequency resource, and a transmission rate used for transmission or retransmission of the first data. For example, the transmission rate of the repeater may be determined as shown in Equations (26) and (29), and the time resource for transmission / retransmission of the repeater may be predetermined by the base station so that the overall transmission rate is maximized .

Also, the HARQ acknowledgment information transmitted by the UE for transmission or retransmission of the first data may be overheared in the repeater, and the HARQ retransmission operation may be performed accordingly. Also, retransmission by the repeater may be performed in an incremental redundancy (IR) scheme. Also, the terminal can recover data about itself using the first data transmitted through the repeater and the second data received directly from the base station. For example, the first data and the second data may correspond to each part of the channel-coded output of the channel to be transmitted by the one channel coder in the base station.

The processor 1313 of the base station apparatus 1310 also performs a function of calculating information received by the base station apparatus 1310 and information to be transmitted to the outside and the memory 1314 stores the processed information and the like at a predetermined time And may be replaced by a component such as a buffer (not shown).

Referring to FIG. 13, a repeater device 1320 according to the present invention may include a receiving module 1321, a transmitting module 1322, a processor 1323, a memory 1324, and a plurality of antennas 1325. The plurality of antennas 1325 refers to a repeater device that supports MIMO transmission / reception. The receiving module 1321 may include a first receiving module and a second receiving module, and the first receiving module may receive various signals, data, and information on the downlink from the base station, Data, and information on the uplink from the base station. The transmission module 1322 may include a first transmission module and a second transmission module. The first transmission module may transmit various signals, data, and information on the uplink to the base station, Various signals, data and information on the downlink of the mobile station 100 can be transmitted. Processor 1323 may control the operation of the repeater device 1320 as a whole.

The repeater device 1320 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be configured to transmit data to a terminal according to a partial signal transmission scheme. The processor 1323 of the repeater apparatus concatenates the first data for the terminal with the data for the repeater by concatenating the first data with the base station and encodes the first codeword to the first codeword through the first receiving module Lt; / RTI > In addition, the processor 1323 can be configured to extract the first data from the first codeword. Further, the processor 1323 can be configured to transmit the extracted first data to the terminal via the second transmission module.

및 상기 기지국으로부터 상기 단말에 대한 시간당 데이터 전송률

이 상기 수학식 20 과 같이 결정되는 경우에, 전송 효율이 향상되도록 상기 기지국에 의해서

, P₁ 및 P₂ 가 결정될 수 있다.Herein, at least one of a time resource and a frequency resource used by the repeater to transmit the first data to the terminal may be variably determined by the base station. Also, a second codeword generated by encoding the second data for the terminal by the base station may be transmitted from the base station to the terminal. The first and second codewords may be generated by a pre-interference cancellation technique. In addition, the terminal can recover the data transmitted to the terminal using the first data and the second data. For example, the first data and the second data may correspond to each part of the channel-coded output of the channel to be transmitted by the one channel coder in the base station. Further, the data rate per unit time from the base station to the repeater

And a rate of data transmission per unit time from the base station to the terminal

Is determined according to Equation (20), it is determined that the transmission efficiency is improved by the base station

, P ₁ and P ₂ Can be determined.

The repeater apparatus 1320 according to another embodiment of the present invention is configured to perform data transmission / retransmission to the terminal using resources scheduled by the base station when data is transmitted to the terminal through the repeater apparatus 1320 according to the partial signal transmission scheme . The processor 1323 of the repeater device may be configured to receive, from the base station via the first receiving module, a signal including first data to be transmitted to the terminal by the repeater. In addition, the processor 1323 can be configured to transmit the first data to the terminal via the second transmission module. In addition, the processor 1323 may be configured to receive HARQ acknowledgment information for the first data from the AT via the second receiving module. In addition, the processor 1323 may be configured to retransmit the first data to the UE through the second transmission module when the HARQ acknowledgment information is a negative acknowledgment (NACK). Here, the scheduling information for the transmission of the first data from the repeater to the terminal and the scheduling information for retransmission of the first data may be specified in advance by the base station.

Here, the scheduling information for the repeater to transmit / retransmit the first data may be determined at the base station based on a communication outage probability of the channel between the repeater and the terminal. The scheduling information may include at least one of a time resource, a frequency resource, and a transmission rate used for transmission or retransmission of the first data. For example, the transmission rate of the repeater may be determined as shown in Equations (26) and (29), and the time resource for transmission / retransmission of the repeater may be predetermined by the base station so that the overall transmission rate is maximized .

Also, the HARQ acknowledgment information transmitted by the UE for transmission or retransmission of the first data may be overheared in the repeater, and the HARQ retransmission operation may be performed accordingly. Also, retransmission by the repeater may be performed in an incremental redundancy (IR) scheme. Also, the terminal can recover data about itself using the first data transmitted through the repeater and the second data received directly from the base station. For example, the first data and the second data may correspond to each part of the channel-coded output of the channel to be transmitted by the one channel coder in the base station.

The processor 1323 of the repeater device 1320 also performs a function of processing information received by the repeater device 1320 and information to be transmitted to the outside and the memory 1324 stores the processed information and the like at a predetermined time And may be replaced by a component such as a buffer (not shown).

The specific configurations of the base station apparatus and the repeater apparatus may be configured such that the above-described embodiments of the present invention are applied independently or two or more of the embodiments may be applied at the same time. For the sake of clarity, It is omitted.

13, the base station apparatus 1310 corresponds to the source node S in the above-described exemplary embodiments of the present invention, the repeater apparatus 1320 corresponds to the repeater R, (1330) may correspond to the destination node (D).

The description of the base station apparatus 1310 in FIG. 13 may be applied to a repeater for controlling a cell by itself. The description of the repeater device 1320 of FIG. 13 may also be applied to a terminal device (i.e., a user-repeater device) that assists other terminals 1330 in a cooperative communication environment.

The above-described embodiments of the present invention can be implemented by various means. For example, embodiments of the present invention may be implemented by hardware, firmware, software, or a combination thereof.

In the case of hardware implementation, the method according to embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Digital Signal Processing Devices (DSPDs), Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) , FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays), processors, controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, and the like.

In the case of an implementation by firmware or software, the method according to embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in the form of a module, a procedure or a function for performing the functions or operations described above. The software code can be stored in a memory unit and driven by the processor. The memory unit may be located inside or outside the processor, and may exchange data with the processor by various well-known means.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the invention disclosed herein has been presented to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the present invention. While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. For example, those skilled in the art can utilize each of the configurations described in the above-described embodiments in a manner of mutually combining them. Accordingly, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. Accordingly, the above description should not be construed in a limiting sense in all respects and should be considered illustrative. The scope of the present invention should be determined by rational interpretation of the appended claims, and all changes within the scope of equivalents of the present invention are included in the scope of the present invention. The present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein. In addition, claims that do not have an explicit citation in the claims may be combined to form an embodiment or be included in a new claim by amendment after the filing.

[Industrial applicability]

The embodiments of the present invention as described above can be applied to various mobile communication systems.

Claims (16)

A method for transmitting data at a base station,
Concatenating the first data for the terminal with the data for the repeater and encoding the same together to generate a first codeword;
Encoding second data for the terminal to generate a second codeword; And
Transmitting the first codeword to the relay and transmitting the second codeword to the terminal. The method according to claim 1,
And the first data for the terminal is transmitted to the terminal by the repeater. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein at least one of a time resource and a frequency resource used by the repeater to transmit the first data to the terminal is variably determined by the base station. 3. The method of claim 2,
The data rate per hour for the repeater

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The data rate per hour for the terminal

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t ⁽¹⁾ is the time required in the transmission step,
t ⁽²⁾ is a time required for transferring the first data in the repeater,

Is a ratio occupied by the first data in the first codeword,
P ₁ and P ₂ are the transmit power for the first and second codewords, respectively,

Is the signal-to-interference ratio for the channel from the base station to the repeater,

Is a signal-to-interference ratio for the channel from the BS to the MS,
By the base station

, P ₁ and P ₂ Is determined. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the repeater is a first terminal and the terminal is a second terminal. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the first and second codewords are generated by a pre-interference cancellation technique. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the first data and the second data correspond to each part of the channel-coded output of the one channel coder at the base station, the information to be transmitted for the terminal. A method of transmitting data at a repeater,
Receiving from the base station a first codeword generated by concatenating and concatenating first data for a terminal with data on the repeater by a base station;
Extracting the first data from the first codeword; And
And transmitting the extracted first data to the terminal. 1. A base station for transmitting data,
A transmission module for transmitting a signal to at least one of a repeater and a terminal;
A receiving module for receiving a signal from at least one of the repeater and the terminal; And
And a processor coupled to the receiving module and the transmitting module and controlling operation of the base station,
The processor comprising:
Concatenating first data for the terminal with data for the repeater and encoding the data together to generate a first codeword;
Encode second data for the terminal to generate a second codeword;
And to transmit, via the transmission module, the first codeword to the relay and the second codeword to the terminal. 1. A repeater for transmitting data,
A first receiving module for receiving a signal from a base station;
A first transmission module for transmitting a signal to the base station;
A second receiving module for receiving a signal from the terminal;
A second transmission module for transmitting a signal to the terminal; And
And a processor coupled to the first and second receiving modules and the first and second transmitting modules and controlling operation of the repeater,
The processor comprising:
Receiving a first code word generated by concatenating and concatenating first data for the terminal with data on the repeater through the first receiving module from the base station;
Extracting the first data from the first codeword;
And to transmit the extracted first data to the terminal through the second transmission module. delete delete delete delete delete delete

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