US20080051037A1 - BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR SELECTING BEST TRANSMIT ANTENNA(s) FOR SIGNALING CONTROL CHANNEL INFORMATION - Google Patents

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US20080051037A1
US20080051037A1 US11/859,148 US85914807A US2008051037A1 US 20080051037 A1 US20080051037 A1 US 20080051037A1 US 85914807 A US85914807 A US 85914807A US 2008051037 A1 US2008051037 A1 US 2008051037A1
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  • the present invention relates to the wireless communications field, and in particular, to a base station and method for selecting which transmit antenna(s) should be used to transmit control channel information to one or more receivers (mobile terminals).
  • MIMO-SCCH Multiple Input Multiple Output Shared Control Channel
  • the selection of a subset of antennas by the base station from which to transmit data streams to mobile terminals is considered an extension of fast link adaptation for single-antenna systems.
  • This multi-antenna approach leads to a transmission antenna mode that is closely matched to the existing propagation conditions between the base station and mobile terminals.
  • the base station can utilize PARC which is a multi-antenna approach that provides high downlink data rates to mobile terminals (see, S. J. Grant et al. “Per-Antenna-Rate-Control (PARC) in Frequency Selective Fading with SIC-GRAKE Receiver” Los Angeles, September 2004).
  • the base station uses separate transmission rates for the data streams which are mapped to all of the transmit antennas.
  • the base station can utilize S-PARC which is a multi-antenna approach that provides even higher downlink data rates to the mobile terminals (see, S. J. Grant et al. “System-Level Performance Gains of Selective Per-Antenna-Rate-Control (S-PARC)” published in the IEEE Spring Vehicular Technology Conference, May 2005).
  • S-PARC System-Level Performance Gains of Selective Per-Antenna-Rate-Control
  • the mobile terminals measure the CQI and transmit the CQI measurements on the uplink to the base station so that the base station can use the CQI measurements to select the transmission data rate assignment and if needed the transmit antenna(s) assignment. Since the base station transmits signals concurrently from different transmit antennas these signals interfere with each other which means the estimated CQI is going to change for each combination of transmit antennas. Thus, the providing of CQI estimates for each transmit antenna under each combination of transmit antenna(s) is going to utilize a large amount of the available uplink resources when compared to single-antenna transmission. Moreover, the type of receivers employed in the mobile terminals may increase the number of CQI values that may be fed back on the uplink to the base station. For example, the mobile terminal may have a SIC receiver which places an ordering on the transmit antenna(s) so that there will be a separate CQI value for each permutation (rather than combination) of the transmit antenna(s).
  • This scheme is repeated for the three-antenna subset, the four-antenna subset etc . . . , and in general is called the “subset property” when related to the transmit antenna selection.
  • the transmit antennas so that the first antenna has the greatest transmit rate while the last antenna has the lowest transmit rate.
  • This ordering of antennas from lowest to greatest rates is the order that the SIC-receiver processes the received signals.
  • a large number of antenna orderings can be avoided and the feedback on the uplink can be reduced by constraining the antenna order and antenna subset selection by using a CQI report with this subset property.
  • the base station acquires the CQI report based on the subset property then it can use this scheme to help determine the set of antennas which are to be used for transmission. Thereafter, the base station signals to the mobile terminal the number of antennas used for transmission and the transport formats for the transmitted streams. Since, both the base station and the mobile terminal know the ordering contained as part of the CQI report, the actual transmit antennas used for the transmission could be determined by the mobile terminal. This notion of antenna ordering can also be used with mobile terminals/receivers that do not require an ordered set of antennas for detection. In this situation, the antenna ordering is used solely for providing an efficient CQI reporting technique and allows the base station to select the number of transmit antennas and the corresponding rates for subsequent transmissions.
  • the base station can use four HS-SCCHs and different channelization codes to transmit the transport information to as many as four different mobile terminals during a single TTI. While, the co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/275,388 introduced a MIMO shared control channel (MIMO-SCCH) which the base station could use to signal the transport information to a mobile terminal that is capable of receiving a multi-stream transmission. In the HSDPA mode, the base station reliably transmits the HS-SCCHs and MIMO-SCCH by using a spreading code of 128 to ensure the strength of the despread signal.
  • MIMO-SCCH MIMO shared control channel
  • the base station can place the HS-SCCHs and MIMO-SCCH on the best transmit antenna to help improve the SNR of these control channels.
  • the base station could use a couple of different approaches as follows:
  • the present invention provides a base station that includes: (a) a user scheduling unit that receives channel quality information measurements (from a mobile terminal) and outputs user scheduling information and control channel information, (b) a control channel antenna mapping unit that receives the channel quality information measurements (from the mobile terminal) and the user scheduling information and processes the channel quality information measurements and the user scheduling information to select which transmit antenna(s) should be used to transmit the control channel information; and (c) an antenna switch that receives a transmit antenna selection from the control channel antenna mapping unit and the control channel information from the user scheduling unit and then uses the selected transmit antenna(s) to transmit the control channel information.
  • the present invention provides a method for selecting one or more transmit antennas from which to transmit control channel information to one or more receivers.
  • the method includes the steps of: (a) receiving channel quality information measurements from the one or more receivers; and (b) analyzing the received channel quality information measurements to select which transmit antenna(s) to use for transmitting the control channel information to the one or more receivers.
  • the present invention provides a receiver (mobile terminal) that includes: (a) a receiving unit that receives a format indicator from a base station; and (b) a processor that processes the format indicator to determine which transmit antenna(s) in the base station are going to transmit control data channel information and which transmit antenna(s) in the base station are going to transmit data information.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram which is used to help explain how a base station can take into account CQI measurements reported from one or more mobile terminal(s) and determine which transmit antenna(s) to use to transmit control channel information to the one or more mobile terminal(s) in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a block diagram that is used to help explain how a base station 100 can take into account various aspects of CQI measurements 103 received from one or more mobile terminal(s) 106 to select which transmit antenna(s) 102 should be used to transmit control channel information 104 (via the MIMO-SCCH) to the one or more mobile terminal(s) 106 in accordance with the present invention.
  • the base station 100 includes a user scheduling unit 108 , a control channel antenna mapping unit 110 and an antenna switch 112 (note: only the components within the base station 100 that are needed to help explain the present solution have been discussed and illustrated herein).
  • the user scheduling unit 108 and the control channel antenna mapping unit 110 both receive CQI measurements 103 from the mobile terminal(s) 106 .
  • each CQI measurement 103 contains the channel quality values for each transmit antenna 102 and each sub-band in the downlink signal received by the corresponding mobile terminal 106 .
  • the user scheduling unit 108 processes this information and outputs user scheduling information 114 and control channel information 104 .
  • the control channel antenna mapping unit 110 receives the COI measurements 103 and the user scheduling information 114 and then processes this information to select which transmit antenna(s) 102 should be used to transmit the control channel information 104 to the mobile terminal(s) 106 .
  • the control channel antenna mapping unit 110 outputs a transmit antenna selection 116 to the antenna switch 112 .
  • the antenna switch 112 receives the transmit antenna selection 116 from the control channel antenna mapping unit 110 and the control channel information 104 from the user scheduling unit 110 and then uses the selected transmit antenna(s) 102 to transmit the control channel information 104 to the mobile terminal(s) 106 (note: each mobile terminal 106 can receive control channel information 104 from different transmit antenna(s) 102 ).
  • the base station 100 can select the “best” transmit antenna(s) 102 on which to assign the control channel information 104 based on various assumptions regarding the CQI feedback 103 which is received from the mobile terminal(s) 106 . While these different cases are discussed, it should be noted that the first consideration should be whether the mobile terminal 106 (receiver) assumes some implicit or explicit ordering of the transmit antennas 102 and if there is ordering then the antenna order is defined in a manner where signals assigned to the selected antennas can be detected. In this case, it is desired to place the control channel on the antennas first detected.
  • the mobile terminal 106 does not require an antenna detection order, even though the CQI reports may be ordered for other purposes such as antenna selection, then it is still desirable to place the control channel on the selected antenna 102 with the best CQI value.
  • the mapping between signals and antennas 102 may not need to be mapped in such a direct manner which in effect creates a set of virtual antennas (e.g. fixed beam-forming is one mapping that forms a set of virtual antennas).
  • the present invention also applies to the case of indirect mapping (i.e. virtual antennas) as well as the direct mapping of signals to antennas.
  • the CQI reports 103 may use the subset property discussed above to reduce the amount of feedback required in the uplink signaling.
  • the mobile terminal(s) 106 may submit ordered CQI reports 103 because they have a SIC receiver 117 .
  • a simple example of an ordered CQI report 103 for a 4-antenna S-PARC is illustrated in TABLE 1.
  • TABLE 1 describes the set of antennas and the transmit rates that the base station 100 can use for transmitting information to a mobile terminal 106 in the following manner: for single-antenna transmission then antenna A can be used with a transmit rate of 4 Mbps; two-antenna transmission uses antennas A and B with up to 6 Mbps: three antenna transmission uses antennas A, B, and C with a rate of 7 Mbps, and transmission with all four antennas A, B, C and D has a maximum rate of 7.05 Mbps (note: the reported CQI values may be some metric other than rate (e.g. SNR levels) and if this is the case then the rates could be derived from these metrics).
  • the mobile terminal 106 uses SIC reception then the antenna with the lowest rate is detected first where its signal is decoded, re-encoded and subtracted from the composite received signal before detecting the signal for the antenna with the next highest rate.
  • the base station 100 should use antenna A for the shared control channel. Clearly, this is more efficient than if the base station 100 placed the control channel on antenna D.
  • the base station 100 place the control channel signal on the first detected antenna, namely antenna B.
  • the base station 100 would place the control channel signal on antenna C.
  • the base station 100 would place the control channel signal on antenna D.
  • the base station 100 Since, the number of transmit antennas 102 and the antenna detection order is known to the mobile terminal 106 , the first detected antenna which contains the control channel information 104 can be determined with little additional signaling. In a situation where there is no antenna detection ordering, then the base station 100 would determine the best antenna to be the selected antenna with the highest rate. This would be used even if the CQI report 103 is ordered for some other purpose, such as for reducing the amount of information that would need to be contained in the CQI report 103 .
  • the mobile terminals 106 would report CQI values 103 for each of the different sub-bands of the entire signal bandwidth (see FIG. 1 ).
  • a complete CQI report 103 has four CQI rate values reported for each sub-band for each antenna A, B, C and D. This exemplary CQI report 103 is shown in TABLE 2.
  • the mobile terminals 106 report the CQI measurements 103 for the four antennas A, B, C and D for each sub-band within the bandwidth of a received signal.
  • the base station 100 needs to decide which antenna(s) A, B, C, or D should be assigned to transmit the control channel information 104 to the mobile terminals 106 .
  • the base station 100 can specify an antenna assignment for the control channel information 104 for each sub-band in the signal bandwidth depending on the antenna selection for data transmission in each sub-band of the signal to the mobile terminals 106 .
  • the antenna with the highest rate (those with the superscript 1 in TABLE 3) for each sub-band could be used for transmitting the control channel information 104 to the mobile terminals 106 .
  • control channel antenna assignment is user-specific, meaning one separately encoded control channel is assigned to each mobile terminal 106 . If the control channel is user-specific, meaning one separately encoded control channel is assigned to each mobile terminal 106 , then the base station 100 could make the control channel antenna assignment on a specific basis for each specific mobile terminal 106 . In this case, the base station 100 could make the control channel antenna assignment as follows:
  • the base station 100 can restrict the control channel antenna assignment to the specific mobile terminal 106 to be one of the antennas that had been selected for data transmission that is in the sub-band(s) assigned to that user. For example, assume there are two mobile terminals 106 where the base station 100 assigns one mobile terminal 106 to sub-bands 2 , 3 and 4 and uses antennas B and D to transmit the control channel (see superscript 1 in TABLE 4). Furthermore, the base station 100 assigns the other mobile terminal 106 to the sub-band 1 and uses antenna C to transmit the control channel (see superscript 2 in TABLE 4). TABLE 4 Sub-band 1 Sub-band 2 Sub-band 3 Sub-band 4 Antenna (Mbps) (Mbps) (Mbps) A 1 3 2 3 B 2 1 3 4 1 C 4 2 2 1 2 D 3 4 1 4 1 1
  • the base station 100 can use the sum rate over the sub-bands assigned for the user's data transmission when determining which antenna to assign the control channel information 104 .
  • the base station 100 rather than assign antennas per sub-band, would assign only one antenna to be used for the control channel across all of the assigned sub-bands.
  • the base station 100 could choose the antenna with the highest sum data rate from which to send the control channel for each mobile terminal 106 .
  • the base station 100 would assign one mobile terminal 106 to sub-bands 2 , 3 and 4 and use antenna D to transmit the control channel (see superscript 1 in TABLE 5).
  • the base station 100 would assign the other mobile terminal 106 to sub-band 1 and use antenna C to transmit the control channel (see superscript 2 in TABLE 5).
  • TABLE 5 Sub-band 1 Sub-band 2 Sub-band 3 Sub-band 4 Antenna (Mbps) (Mbps) (Mbps) (Mbps) A 1 3 2 3 B 2 1 3 4 C 4 2 2 1 2 D 3 4 1 4 1 1 1
  • the base station 100 can use the sum rate over a set of select sub-bands to determine which antenna to assign the control channel information 104 to each mobile terminal 106 (note: in this particular case the control channel would be transmitted only in certain sub-bands).
  • the base station 100 would assign one mobile terminal 106 to sub-band 3 and use antenna D to transmit the control channel (see superscript 1 in TABLE 6).
  • the base station 100 would assign the other mobile terminal 106 to the sub-band 1 and use antenna C to transmit the control channel (see superscript 2 in TABLE 6).
  • TABLE 6 Sub-band 1 Sub-band 2 Sub-band 3 Sub-band 4 Antenna (Mbps) (Mbps) (Mbps) (Mbps) A 1 3 2 3 B 2 1 3 4 C 4 2 2 1 2 D 3 4 4 1 1
  • the base station 100 can after computing the rate for each antenna, assign the control channel to the first detected antenna in the case where there is a receiver-dependent detection order specified by the respective mobile terminal 106 .
  • TABLE 7 shows an example where two antennas are used for data transmission in each sub-band and the sum rates are computed for the mobile terminal 106 assigned to sub-bands 2 - 4 (using antennas A and D), and a second mobile terminal 106 assigned to sub-band 1 (using antennas C and D).
  • the base station 100 would transmit the control channel information 104 on the first detected antenna A in sub-bands 2 - 4 (see superscript 1 ) and on the first detected antenna D in sub-band 1 (see superscript 2 ).
  • TABLE 7 Sub-band 1 Sub-band 2 Sub-band 3 Sub-band 4 Antenna (Mbps) (Mbps) (Mbps) (Mbps) A 1 3 1 2 1 3 1 B 2 1 3 4 C 4 2 1 2 D 3 2 4 4 1
  • the base station 100 transmits one control channel that is shared among multiple mobile terminals 106 .
  • the antenna selection could also be made to satisfy the most disadvantaged mobile terminal 106 out of all of the mobile terminals 106 designated for data transmission. For example, consider the case associated with TABLE 4, where one mobile terminal 106 is assigned to three sub-bands 2 , 3 and 4 while the other mobile terminal 106 is assigned to only one sub-band 1 . If the coding is accounted for, then the mobile terminal 106 with the fewest possible bits to code across would be disadvantaged with respect to the other mobile terminal 106 that has more bits available for coding.
  • the disadvantaged mobile terminal 106 would be the one that was assigned to sub-band 1 and as a result the base station 100 would assign the control channel according to this particular mobile terminal.
  • the base station 100 should give some consideration that the other mobile terminal 106 would not become even more disadvantaged under this particular assignment.
  • the base station 100 should have a way to signal the control channel antenna assignment as well as which antennas were selected for data transmission to the mobile terminal(s) 106 .
  • the base station 100 selects the transmitted antennas based on antenna detection ordered CQI measurements 103 , and the control channel is placed on the first detected antenna according to that antenna detection ordering, then all that is required for the base station 100 to signal in the downlink is the number of transmitted streams, since the ordering is already known at the corresponding mobile terminal 106 .
  • the base station 100 would need to signal this ordering to the mobile terminal 106 .
  • the base station 100 can signal these two quantities together for a given transmission scheme to the mobile terminal 106 .
  • a 4-antenna PARC transmission scheme and when there is no assumed antenna detection ordering at the mobile terminal 106 e.g.
  • the base station 100 can signal a format indicator to the mobile terminal 106 which is based on the following TABLE 8: TABLE 8 Transmission Format Transmission Antenna Indicator Type Mapping 1 PARC1a ⁇ 1 ⁇ 2 PARC1b ⁇ 2 ⁇ 3 PARC1c ⁇ 3 ⁇ 4 PARC1d ⁇ 4 ⁇ 5 PARC2a ⁇ 1, 2 ⁇ 6 PARC2b ⁇ 1, 3 ⁇ 7 PARC2c ⁇ 1, 4 ⁇ 8 PARC2d ⁇ 2, 1 ⁇ 9 PARC2e ⁇ 2, 3 ⁇ 10 PARC2f ⁇ 2, 4 ⁇ 11 PARC2g ⁇ 3, 1 ⁇ 12 PARC2h ⁇ 3, 2 ⁇ 13 PARC2i ⁇ 3, 4 ⁇ 14 PARC2j ⁇ 4, 1 ⁇ 15 PARC2k ⁇ 4, 2 ⁇ 16 PARC2l ⁇ 4, 3 ⁇ 17 PARC3a ⁇ 1, 2, 3 ⁇ 18 PARC3b ⁇ 1, 2, 4 ⁇ 19 PARC3c ⁇ 1, 3, 4 ⁇ 20 PARC3d ⁇ 2, 1, 3 ⁇ 21
  • the mobile terminal 106 would have a receiving unit 117 that receives the format indicator from the base station 100 and a processor 119 which accesses and processes instructions that are stored in memory 120 to process the format indicator and to determine which transmit antenna(s) in the base station 100 are going to be used to # transmit control data channel information and which are going to be used to transmit data information.
  • the first antenna listed for each format type specifies the antenna used for the control channel.
  • this base station 100 can use 5 bits to specify the combined control channel antenna assignment and the data antenna assignment since the control channel antenna is going to be one of the data channel antennas.
  • each entry except for those entries with one transmit antenna represents a partial ordering of the selected transmit antennas. This occurs because the first detected antenna is designated as the antenna used for the control channel, however, the remaining antennas can be specified in any order since the mobile terminal 106 does not rely on such antenna detention ordering for the detection of the remaining transmitted streams. In any case, a lower signaling overhead can be achieved by using such an approach.
  • each control antenna assignment there are 0, 1, 2, or 3 additional antennas which may be assigned for data transmission. So, if antenna 4 is assigned to the control (and data) channel, and no additional data antenna is assigned then the base station 100 would use the transmission format indicator 25 in TABLE 9. If antenna 1 is assigned additionally for data transmission, then the base station 100 would use the transmission format indicator 26 in TABLE 9, and so on. If desired, this partitioning may be used to broadcast the bits corresponding to the control channel antenna selection, while the additional bits used for the data channel would be transmitted as part of the downlink signaling to the corresponding mobile terminal 106 . If the antenna selection for the control channel does not change as rapidly as the antenna selection for the data transmission, then some amount of signaling overhead may be saved when the base station 100 and mobile terminals 106 utilize this particular approach.
  • the basic concept of the present solution is to enable the base station 100 to use different aspects of the reported CQI measurements 103 to select the “best” antenna(s) on which to transmit control channel information 104 to the mobile terminal(s) 106 .
  • a mobile terminal 106 with a receiver 117 may report a CQI measurement 103 that has a specific antenna detection ordering associated with it, in which case the base station 100 could place the control channel on the first detected antenna.
  • a second aspect may be in a system such as OFDM, where there are multiple CQI values reported for each antenna over the bandwidth of the OFDM signal and, consequently, the base station 100 can use sum rates to help determine which antenna is the best to place the control channel.
  • the best antenna 100 can select the “best” antenna(s) in view of the frequency assignment and antenna selection for each scheduled mobile terminal 106 .
  • the base station 100 can use a specific signal format indication to signal the selected control channel antenna and the data antenna(s) to the mobile terminal 106 .

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