US20110244877A1 - Method and apparatus for using channel state information reference signal in wireless communication system - Google Patents

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US20110244877A1
US20110244877A1 US12/899,448 US89944810A US2011244877A1 US 20110244877 A1 US20110244877 A1 US 20110244877A1 US 89944810 A US89944810 A US 89944810A US 2011244877 A1 US2011244877 A1 US 2011244877A1
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  • the present disclosure relates generally to communication, and more specifically to techniques for transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication system.
  • Wireless communication systems are widely deployed to provide various communication content such as voice, video, packet data, messaging, broadcast, etc. These wireless systems may be multiple-access systems capable of supporting multiple users by sharing the available system resources. Examples of such multiple-access systems include Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems, Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) systems, Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) systems, Orthogonal FDMA (OFDMA) systems, and Single-Carrier FDMA (SC-FDMA) systems.
  • CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
  • TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
  • FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
  • OFDMA Orthogonal FDMA
  • SC-FDMA Single-Carrier FDMA
  • CSI-RS channel state (or spatial) Information reference signal
  • new reference signals raises issues related to available transmission bandwidth and coexistence with legacy (e.g., Rel-8 and Rel-9) reference signals. Furthermore, the introduction of new reference signals raises the issue of backward compatibility with user equipment not designed to operate with the new reference signals.
  • legacy e.g., Rel-8 and Rel-9
  • the disclosed designs meet the above-discussed, and other, needs for using new reference signals, such as CSI-RS, in a wireless communication system.
  • a method for wireless communication includes selecting a first resource pattern comprising resource elements, the first resource pattern being non-colocated with a second resource pattern, and allocating the first resource pattern to a plurality of antennas for transmitting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS).
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • an apparatus for wireless communication comprising means for selecting a first resource pattern comprising resource elements, the first resource pattern being non-colocated with a second resource pattern and means for allocating the first resource pattern to a plurality of antennas for transmitting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) is disclosed.
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • an apparatus for wireless communication which includes a processor configured for selecting a first resource pattern comprising resource elements, the first resource pattern being non-colocated with a second resource pattern and allocating the first resource pattern to a plurality of antennas for transmitting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS).
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • a computer program product in another aspect, includes a computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions for causing at least one computer to select a first resource pattern comprising resource elements, the first resource pattern being non-colocated with a second resource pattern and instructions for causing the at least one computer to allocate allocating the first resource pattern to a plurality of antennas for transmitting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS).
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • a method for wireless communication comprises coordinating, with a base station of a neighboring cell, a resource pattern allocated to the transmission of the reference signal and muting, based on the coordination, one or more locations of the resource pattern.
  • an apparatus for wireless communication comprising means for coordinating, with a base station of a neighboring cell, a resource pattern allocated to the transmission of the reference signal, and means for muting, based on the coordination, the resource pattern at locations corresponding resource pattern allocated in the neighboring cell is disclosed.
  • a method for wireless communication comprising receiving a first resource pattern comprising resource elements that are non-colocated with a second resource pattern, receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) according to the first resource pattern and performing a channel quality estimate based on the channel state information reference signal is disclosed.
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • an apparatus for wireless communication comprising means for receiving a first resource pattern comprising resource element groups that are non-colocated with a second resource pattern, means for receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) according to the first resource pattern and means for performing a channel quality estimate based on the channel state information reference signal is disclosed.
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • a computer program product comprising a non-volatile computer-readable medium comprising instructions for causing at least one computer to receive a first resource pattern comprising resource element groups that are non-colocated with a second resource pattern, instructions for causing the at least one computer to receive a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) according to the first resource pattern and instructions for causing the at least one computer to perform a channel quality estimate based on the channel state information reference signal is disclosed.
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • an apparatus for wireless communication which includes a processor configured for storing instructions for receiving a first resource pattern comprising resource element groups that are non-colocated with a second resource pattern, receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) according to the first resource pattern and performing a channel quality estimate based on the channel state information reference signal.
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary wireless communication system.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary transmission structure
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a resource allocation pattern for a normal cyclic prefix (CP) subframe.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a resource allocation pattern for an extended CP subframe.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates another resource allocation pattern for a normal CP subframe.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates yet another resource allocation pattern for a normal CP subframe.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates another resource allocation pattern for an extended CP subframe.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates yet another resource allocation pattern for a normal CP subframe.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates yet another resource allocation pattern for a normal CP subframe.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates a process for wireless communication.
  • FIG. 11 illustrates an apparatus for wireless communication.
  • FIG. 12 illustrates another process for wireless communication.
  • FIG. 13 illustrates a base station apparatus for wireless communication.
  • FIG. 14 illustrates yet another process for wireless communication.
  • FIG. 15 illustrates a user equipment apparatus for wireless communication.
  • FIG. 16 illustrates a transmission apparatus for wireless communication.
  • a CDMA system may implement a radio technology such as Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA), CDMA2000, etc.
  • UTRA includes Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) and other variants of CDMA.
  • CDMA2000 covers IS-2000, IS-95 and IS-856 standards.
  • a TDMA system may implement a radio technology such as Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM).
  • GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
  • An OFDMA system may implement a radio technology such as Evolved UTRA (E-UTRA), Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, Flash-OFDM®, etc.
  • E-UTRA Evolved UTRA
  • UMB Ultra Mobile Broadband
  • IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi
  • WiMAX IEEE 802.16
  • Flash-OFDM® Flash-OFDM®
  • UTRA and E-UTRA are part of Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS).
  • 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) are new releases of UMTS that use E-UTRA, which employs OFDMA on the downlink and SC-FDMA on the uplink.
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • LTE-A LTE-Advanced
  • UTRA, E-UTRA, UMTS, LTE, LTE-A and GSM are described in documents from an organization named “3
  • CDMA2000 and UMB are described in documents from an organization named “3rd Generation Partnership Project 2” (3GPP2).
  • 3GPP2 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2
  • the techniques described herein may be used for the systems and radio technologies mentioned above as well as other systems and radio technologies.
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • the DL PHY channels may include: Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), Physical Broadcast Channel (PBSH), Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH), Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Indicator Channel (PHICH), and Physical Control Format Indicator Channel (PCFICH).
  • PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel
  • PBSH Physical Broadcast Channel
  • PMCH Physical Multicast Channel
  • PDCCH Physical Downlink Control Channel
  • PHICH Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Indicator Channel
  • PCFICH Physical Control Format Indicator Channel
  • the UL PHY Channels may include: Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), and Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).
  • PRACH Physical Random Access Channel
  • PUSCH Physical Uplink Shared Channel
  • PUCCH Physical Uplink Control Channel
  • CSI-RS is only an illustrative example of an additional reference signal that may be introduced to a wireless communication system. Therefore, the considerations and designs provided below are applicable to other known or future reference signals as well.
  • LTE-A has defined two forms of references signals for demodulation and channel quality measurement: the demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) and the channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS).
  • DM-RS demodulation reference signal
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • a base station eNodeB or eNB
  • the UEs may use CSI-RS to perform channel quality measurements and provide feedback on the channel quality or spatial properties.
  • CSI-RS including allocation of transmission resources, backward compatibility with previously deployed UEs and the coordination with CSI-RS transmissions in neighboring cells, are disclosed in greater detail below.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a wireless communication system 100 , which may be an LTE system or some other system.
  • System 100 may include a number of evolved Node Bs (eNBs) 110 and other network entities.
  • An eNB 110 may be an entity that communicates with the UEs and may also be referred to as a base station, a Node B, an access point, etc.
  • Each eNB 110 may provide communication coverage for a particular geographic area and may support communication for the UEs located within the coverage area. To improve capacity, the overall coverage area of an eNB may be partitioned into multiple (e.g., three) smaller areas. Each smaller area may be served by a respective eNB subsystem.
  • the term “cell” can refer to the smallest coverage area of an eNB and/or an eNB subsystem serving this coverage area.
  • UEs 120 may be dispersed throughout the system, and each UE 120 may be stationary or mobile.
  • a UE 120 may also be referred to as a mobile station, a terminal, an access terminal, a subscriber unit, a station, etc.
  • a UE 120 may be a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a wireless modem, a wireless communication device, a handheld device, a laptop computer, a cordless phone, a wireless local loop (WLL) station, a smart phone, a netbook, a smartbook, etc.
  • PDA personal digital assistant
  • WLL wireless local loop
  • LTE utilizes orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) on the downlink and single-carrier frequency division multiplexing (SC-FDM) on the uplink.
  • OFDM and SC-FDM partition a frequency range into multiple (K) orthogonal subcarriers, which are also commonly referred to as tones, bins, etc.
  • K multiple orthogonal subcarriers
  • Each subcarrier may be modulated with data.
  • modulation symbols are sent in the frequency domain with OFDM and in the time domain with SC-FDM.
  • the spacing between adjacent subcarriers may be fixed, and the total number of subcarriers (K) may be dependent on the system bandwidth.
  • K may be equal to 128, 256, 512, 1024 or 2048 for system bandwidth of 1.25, 2.5, 5, 10 or 20 mega-Hertz (MHz), respectively.
  • the system bandwidth may correspond to a subset of the K total subcarriers.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a transmission structure 200 for the downlink in the LTE.
  • the transmission timeline may be partitioned into units of subframes.
  • Each subframe may have a predetermined duration, e.g., one millisecond (ms), and may be partitioned into a number of slots (e.g., two slots).
  • Each slot may cover seven OFDM symbol periods for a normal cyclic prefix (shown along horizontal axis 204 in FIG. 2 ) or six symbol periods for an extended cyclic prefix (not shown in FIG. 2 ).
  • a number of transmission resource blocks may be defined for each slot.
  • Each resource block may cover 12 subcarriers (depicted along vertical axis 202 ) in one slot.
  • the number of resource blocks in each slot may be dependent on the system bandwidth and may range from 6 to 110 for system bandwidth of 1.25 MHz to 20 MHz, respectively.
  • the available resource blocks may be assigned to various downlink transmissions.
  • the two slots in one subframe may include 12 symbol periods with indices of 0 through 11.
  • a resource element (RE) 206 may be a unit of transmission resource scheduled for downlink transmissions.
  • one RE 206 may correspond to one symbol (or codeword) of downlink transmission.
  • the REs 206 made available for downlink transmission of a particular signal may form a “pattern,” when depicted along a two-dimensional grid, such as depicted in FIG. 2 .
  • the assignment of REs for transmission of a signal may therefore be referred to as the pattern of transmission of that signal.
  • location of an RE may refer to the time (OFDM symbol) and frequency (subcarrier) associated with one of the RE within a subframe or a resource block, or may informally refer to the position of the RE 206 in a two-dimensional representation of transmission resources available in a subframe or a resource block, e.g., as shown in FIG. 2 .
  • the transmission overhead associated with CSI-RS may need to trade off both LTE-A and legacy LTE performance.
  • an eNB 110 may perform a trade-off between the effectiveness of CSI-RS for improving channel performance and the impact of the reduced availability of transmission resources for data traffic.
  • CSI-RS may puncture or take away transmission resources from data transmission for legacy UEs 120 . Therefore, increasing the overhead of CSI-RS may degrade performance or data transmission rate to legacy UEs 120 .
  • CSI-RS is allocated too few transmission resources, a receiver may not be able to perform adequate channel estimation based on the received CSI-RS.
  • CSI-RS transmissions may be transmitted often (e.g., between 2 to 10 milliseconds) and covering a sufficient frequency range (e.g., the bandwidth of the entire channel) to provide an adequate channel estimation performance for different single-cell and multi-cell transmission schemes.
  • the transmission resource issue may be addressed by controlling a density of REs 206 allocated to CSI-RS transmissions.
  • density here refers to a measure of how many of the total available transmission resources (e.g., tones, time slots or codes) are allocated to the transmission of CSI-RS.
  • the density of transmission resources may be controlled by limiting the number of REs 206 allocated for CSI-RS transmission in a resource block (RB).
  • the density of transmission resources may be controlled by adjusting the duty cycle of CSI-RS transmissions.
  • duty cycle refers to the periodicity of CSI-RS transmissions. For example, a 2 millisecond (ms) duty cycle may mean that CSI-RS is transmitted once every 2 ms.
  • the density of transmission resources may be controlled by limiting the number of subframes comprising CSI-RS transmissions.
  • CSI-RS with frequency density of 2 RE/RB and 10 ms duty cycle may provide reasonable LTE-A performance for single user MIMO (SU-MIMO).
  • MCS modulation and coding scheme
  • a scheduler at the eNB 110 may reduce the impact of performance loss for legacy UEs 120 by taking into account the loss in performance in rate prediction of the scheduled UE 120 based on the transmission density of CSI-RS.
  • the eNB 110 may schedule legacy UEs 120 with the requested MCS with lower coding rates.
  • the eNB 110 may schedule only LTE-A users in subframes in which CSI-RS is transmitted.
  • a frequency density of 2 RE/RB per antenna port may be a reasonable tradeoff between performance and overhead.
  • a fixed density of 1 RE/RB may be a reasonable tradeoff.
  • the number of RE/RB per antenna port allocated to CSI-RS may be a fixed, predetermined number. Note that a fixed quota of RE per RB simply implies allocating a certain number of REs in the RB in which CSI-RS transmission is scheduled, and may not mean that every RB scheduled by the eNB 110 includes that many REs for CSI-RS transmissions.
  • a particular density number may be mapped to a particular frequency spacing between allocated REs.
  • a density of 2 RBs/RE may correspond to a frequency spacing of 6 subcarriers between CSI-RS REs 206 . It may be appreciated that this spacing is similar to the Rel-8 common (or cell-specific) reference signal (CRS) spacing.
  • CRS cell-specific reference signal
  • having a subcarrier spacing similar to CRS may make it possible to leverage a CRS demodulation structure at a receiver for demodulating CSI-RS.
  • the duty cycle of CSI-RS may be configurable in a (semi)static way to a limited set of values, e.g., 2, 5 or 10 ms.
  • the operational value of the duty cycle may be signaled to an LTE-A UE 120 through an information block in a broadcast channel.
  • a different duty cycle may be specified for each antenna port.
  • the same value of duty cycle may be defined for all antenna ports defined in a cell. Using the same value of duty cycle may reduce signaling overhead and computational complexity associated with simultaneously scheduling and using different duty cycle values for different antenna ports.
  • FIG. 3 depicts a normal CP subframe 300 , with the horizontal axis 302 representing symbols transmitted (time) and the vertical axis 304 representing frequency.
  • each “tile” of the subframe 300 may therefore represent a single RE 206 available for transmission.
  • a transmission in an RE 206 may further be code division multiplexed with another transmission in the same RE 206 .
  • certain REs 206 have been allocated to transmission of control signals (e.g., control region) at the start of each subframe.
  • control signals e.g., control region
  • the REs 206 corresponding to these allocated REs 206 are hatch-marked.
  • the control region is shown to span 3 OFDM symbols in the present example, it is understood that the control region may span a different number of OFDM symbols in other examples.
  • certain REs 206 are allocated to a Common (or Cell-Specific) Reference Signal (CRS).
  • the CRS is shifted in positions, based on an identity of the eNB 110 of a particular cell, in RBs.
  • the tiles marked “C” represent REs 206 that may be used for CRS transmission.
  • REs 206 allocated to transmission of demodulation reference signals (DM-RS) (also referred to as UE-specific reference signal or UE-RS), in LTE Release 9, are marked as “D.”
  • DM-RS demodulation reference signals
  • the REs 206 so allocated to other control and reference signals, may not be allocated to CSI-RS.
  • REs 206 being allocated to transmission of a certain control or reference signal need not mean that the control/reference signal is present in every scheduled RB, but simply mean that when the particular control/reference signal is transmitted, it will be transmitted in one or more of the allocated RE locations.
  • RE regions marked 306 , 308 , 310 , 312 , 314 and 316 may be available for the transmission of CSI-RS.
  • CRS are transmitted with a cell dependent offset
  • an entire OFDM symbol (hatch-marked) in which a CRS is presented may be avoided for the transmission of CSI-RS. This helps prevent CSI-RS colliding with CRS of neighboring cells in a synchronous network.
  • FIG. 4 depicts an extended CP subframe 400 , showing REs 206 assigned to DM-RS and CRS, marked with “D” and “C,” respectively.
  • REs 206 in the regions 402 , 404 , 406 , 408 , 410 , 414 , 416 , 418 and 420 may be available for CSI-RS transmissions.
  • the DM-RS REs 206 shown in FIG. 4 may correspond to the DM-RS REs for rank 2 in LTE Release 9. In general, other DM-RS locations are also possible.
  • the depicted DM-RS density for normal CP subframe 300 ( FIG. 3 ) is 24 RE/RB and is 32 RE/RB for the extended CP subframe 400 . In these designs, the maximum number of available REs 206 for CSI-RS transmission may therefore be 60 and 40 RE/RB for normal and extended CP subframes, respectively.
  • a subframe 500 that includes REs 206 allocated to yet another reference signal is shown.
  • Certain designs may additionally avoid collision of CSI-RS with symbols that could be used for Rel-8 downlink reference signal (DRS) (also referred to as UE-specific reference signal or UE-RS), depicted as tiles “R” in FIG. 5 .
  • DRS downlink reference signal
  • the DRS signals are transmitted in TDD mode and the locations (REs 206 used) for DRS depend on cell ID.
  • the number of available REs 206 for CSI-RS may reduce to 24 REs, depicted as regions 502 , 504 , 506 , 508 and 510 in the subframe 500 of FIG. 5 .
  • the CSI-RS pattern for each cell may be initialized to not overlap with DRS pattern of that particular cell.
  • the number of REs 206 available for CSI-RS may be limited to a smaller subset.
  • REs 206 allocated to CSI-RS transmissions from a particular antenna port may be selected from among all available CSI-RS RE 206 locations to achieve a uniform spacing of transmissions from the particular antenna port across the frequency range.
  • the uniform spacing constraint may further limit the total number of REs 206 available for CSI-RS transmissions from all antenna ports.
  • demodulation of CSI-RS may be simplified, as previously discussed.
  • REs 206 allocated to CSI-RS corresponding to a particular antenna port may be uniformly spaced in frequency.
  • CSI-RS port of a cell may be allocated uniformly spaced subcarriers in one given symbol.
  • REs 206 allocated to DM-RS may be excluded from CSI-RS (e.g., as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 ). As previously discussed, this may further reduce the number of available REs for CSI-RS transmissions. For example, in the subframe 300 , the number of available REs 206 for CSI-RS may be reduced to 36. To remedy the reduction in available REs 206 for CSI-RS transmissions, in some designs that exclude DM-RS symbols, the number of CRS antenna ports may be limited to 2. By limiting the number of CRS antenna ports to 2, the OFDM symbol containing CRS for antenna ports 2 and 3 may be used for CSI-RS transmissions. This re-allocation of CRS may increase the number of available CSI-RS symbols to 48 in a normal subframe.
  • the above property can also provide a uniform structure for CSI-RS for extended CP and normal CP subframes.
  • group the available REs 206 into groups of REs 206 (e.g., pairs as depicted in FIGS. 6 and 7 ).
  • Each pair includes two REs 206 in the same RB with the same frequency spacing (e.g., frequency spacing 6 subcarriers in FIGS. 6 and 7 ).
  • FIG. 6 illustrates pairing of REs 206 , as shown in FIG. 3 .
  • each available RE 206 in FIG. 6 may be assigned a unique number from 1 to 60 and may be available for assignment to an antenna port.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates another pairing example in which 20 RE pairs are formed using all 40 available REs 206 depicted in FIG. 4 for an extended CP subframe.
  • each RE pair may be used for one CSI-RS antenna port per RB.
  • the available REs 206 depicted in FIG. 6 or 7 could be shared among neighboring cells such that the eNBs 110 of neighboring cells do not use the same REs 206 .
  • one eNB 110 may use REs 206 numbered 1 to 8, while a neighboring eNB 110 may use REs 206 numbered 9 to 16 for CSI transmissions. Therefore, neighboring cells may be able to avoid CSI-RS collisions by coordinating RE allocation among the eNBs 110 .
  • FIG. 8 illustrates an example subframe 800 , wherein four RE pairs 802 , 804 , 806 and 808 that may be assigned to CSI-RS antenna ports.
  • the RE pairs 802 , 804 , 806 and 808 may be chosen to have uniform spacing across both frequency and time.
  • the uniform assignment, as depicted in subframe 800 may help avoid disproportionate “crowding” of REs 206 , burdening legacy UE 120 transmissions in some subframes. This may ensure that CSI-RS punctures all codeblocks substantially equally for legacy UEs 120 that are scheduled with more than one codeblock.
  • the assigned locations of RE pairs for CSI-RS may be cell-dependent and may be initialized as a function of a physical cell ID and number of CSI-RS antenna ports. Therefore, in certain designs, the OFDM symbols with available REs 206 for CSI-RS may be partitioned into two sets: a first set having the first slot of a subframe and the other group having the second slot of the subframe. In certain designs, to reduce impact on data traffic of legacy UEs 120 , the initialization procedure of the CSI-RS pattern may ensure that the OFDM symbols used for CSI-RS transmissions alternate between the two partitions of the OFDM symbols, or equivalently two slots, as described above.
  • CSI-RS locations of a given antenna port may occupy evenly spaced subcarriers in different OFDM symbols.
  • the REs 206 available for CSI-RS transmission are numbered from 1 to 12.
  • a desired uniform frequency spacing e.g., 6 in this example
  • two REs 206 having the desired uniform spacing e.g., 6 in this example
  • any RE 206 with number 1 can be paired with any RE 206 with number 7 and represent the locations for transmission of one CSI-RS antenna port.
  • pairs of REs 902 , 904 , 906 and 908 , are depicted in the normal subframe 900 .
  • the pairs 902 , 904 , 906 and 908 are uniformly spaced across both horizontal (time) and vertical (frequency) axes 302 , 304 .
  • the CSI-RS antenna ports can be mapped to different reserved RE 206 locations (cross-hatched tiles in FIG. 9 ) across different resource blocks as long as the subcarrier spacing between REs 206 used for each CSI-RS antenna port is uniform with the frequency spacing required.
  • a different mapping across different resource blocks and/or subframes may be used to provide the same number of CSI-RS antenna port REs 206 for all antenna ports within each OFDM symbol for the purpose of power boosting the reference signal.
  • CSI-RS may be transmitted on multiple subframes within a given frame (as opposed to transmitting in a single subframe).
  • CSI-RS for different antenna ports of the same cell or CSI-RS across different cells may be transmitted in different sub-frames.
  • the collision rate of CSI-RS across different cells may be probabilistically reduced.
  • the eNB 110 may have more flexibility in the placement and the pattern of REs 206 allocated to CSI-RS. For example, when transmission is organized as frames comprising 10 subframes numbered 0 to 9, in certain designs, CSI-RS transmissions may occur only in subframe #0. In other designs, CSI-RS transmissions may be scheduled in more subframes—e.g., subframes 0 and 1.
  • legacy UEs 120 may require a trade-off due to possible impact on the performance of legacy UEs 120 .
  • taking away REs 206 from many subframes may puncture the data region of legacy UEs 120 in multiple sub-frames, resulting in a system performance loss.
  • Some designs may therefore limit the impact of puncturing legacy UE 120 data region to a predetermined number of CSI-RS carrying sub-frames so that eNB 110 may schedule data transmissions around these subframes by scheduling only LTE-A UEs 120 in these subframes or scheduling legacy UEs 120 with a lower rate in these subframes.
  • limiting CSI-RS transmission to a predetermined number of subframes may also enable better battery life management in UEs 120 . For example, if CSI-RS from different antenna ports in a cell or from multiple cells are transmitted in subframes 1 and 6, then a UE 120 may have to wake up twice within a frame to receive and process CSI-RS transmissions. However, if all CSI-RS are transmitted in subframe 1 , then a UE 120 may have to wake up only for one subframe, avoiding having to wake up frequently to measure CSI-RS from multiple cells or different antenna ports in different subframes.
  • the transmission of CSI-RS may be restricted to a limited number of subframes, referred to as CSI-RS subframes.
  • the number of CSI-RS subframes may be selected based on a desired CSI-RS collision rate across different cells. For example, restricting CSI-RS transmissions from all cells to the same subframe may result in a higher probability of collision, but may help improve battery performance of UEs 120 , as discussed above.
  • subframes that include PBCH, sync signals or paging within a radio frame from the CSI-RS subframe set i.e. subframes ⁇ 0, 4, 5, 9 ⁇ in FDD mode, may be excluded from carrying CSI-RS, to avoid potential interference with these control signals.
  • the CSI-RS subframes used by neighboring eNBs 110 may be coordinated to be contiguous (e.g., subframe number 0 and 1) allowing a UE 120 to measure CSI-RS signals from different eNBs 110 in a single wake up cycle. Furthermore, CSI-RS transmissions from different eNBs 110 may be coordinated so that the number of contiguous subframes used may be limited to as small a number as possible.
  • a second eNB 110 may perform its CSI-RS transmissions on the same subframe instead of selecting another subframe for its CSI-RS transmissions.
  • CSI-RS transmissions from different antenna ports of the same cell may be orthogonally multiplexed.
  • RE with index 11 in the region 804 and the neighboring RE with index 10 may both be used for CSI-RS transmission of two antenna ports (1 and 2).
  • these two transmissions may be code division multiplexed to be orthogonal to each other.
  • multiple eNBs 110 may be present in the wireless communication system 100 .
  • the multiple eNBs 110 may coordinate with each other the CSI-RS transmissions within each respective cell.
  • the coordination may include two operations: “muting” and “hopping,” as further described below.
  • the pattern of REs 206 allocated to CSI-RS transmissions in a cell may be hopped, or altered, to randomize occurrence of CSI-RS signals across different cells, to reduce a rate of collision.
  • hopping may advantageously avoid interference by the dominant eNB 110 . For example, when there is no hopping, if CSI-RS of a cell collides with CSI-RS of a dominant interferer once, it may always collide, making it impossible for a UE 120 to obtain accurate CSI measurements from the CSI-RS. However, if the patterns are hopping it is quite likely that they do not collide on some occasions, which gives an opportunity to the UE 120 to estimate the CSI reliably using the CSI-RS of the weaker cells.
  • hopping patterns may be chosen as a function of the system time, the antenna port index, the physical cell ID or a combination of these parameters.
  • each CSI-RS port may be assigned a frequency offset, a symbol index from the set of available symbols and a subframe index from the set of CSI-RS subframes.
  • the CSI-RS port can be assigned to a different RE pair, as a random function of the above parameters.
  • the assignment of an antenna port to an RE pair index may be carried out by randomly choosing from 1 to 26 in each subframe that a CSI-RS transmission may be present in.
  • the subframe containing CSI-RS may be randomly chosen.
  • the random hopping may be generated by a pseudo-random sequence generator that takes physical cell ID, system time and possibly antenna port index into account.
  • the hopping function or the pseudo-random sequence may be chosen to preserve orthogonality across CSI-RS antenna ports of the same cell.
  • a hopping pattern may also be advantageously used to provide a higher frequency domain granularity for channel estimation. This may be especially true for low speed users or in cases where the duty cycle configured is low (i.e., CSI-RS are transmitted with large time gaps). For example, without a hopping pattern, to improve the frequency resolution may take a higher CSI-RS density in frequency to transmit CSI-RS covering a desired frequency range. However, using a hopping pattern, the eNB 110 may assign a pattern that ensures a wide sampling of the frequency domain (with different offset) for any antenna port. Hence, although the frequency resolution per look in time is low, the multiple looks in frequency obtained over time may improve the effective frequency resolution.
  • a hopping pattern may be defined not only to randomize (or orthogonalize) across the REs 206 within a subframe but across the REs 206 of all the CSI-RS subframes collectively. For example, if allocated RE locations for a particular CSI-RS port are represented as a function of three parameters: subframe number (SFN), time and frequency, then all these three parameters may be hopped within their set of possible values. This hopping, or randomization, may help randomize RE allocations when CSI-RS subframe set size is larger than one.
  • SFN subframe number
  • the assigned pattern of CSI-RS REs 206 may be hopped across subframes.
  • the subframe(s) containing CSI-RS transmissions may be hopped within the CSI-RS subframes set over time. For example, consider CSI-RS subframe set ⁇ 1,2 ⁇ within a radio frame and assume that the CSI-RS periodicity is 10 ms. Then in each 10 ms period, the CSI-RS locations for a particular port and particular cell may be present in one of the subframes 1 or 2.
  • the allocated subframe i.e., 1 or 2 may not change over time. For example, CSI-RS locations for port x, cellID y may always be present in subframe index 1.
  • the subframe assigned to CSI-RS for port x, cellID y may be hopped (or randomly chosen) every 10 ms, between all possible values of subframe index or number (1 or 2 in this example).
  • the subframe number hopping may be a function of cell ID, antenna port and CSI-RS subframe set, or a system time.
  • the subframe hopping approach may help reduce collisions of intercell CSI-RS transmissions. For example, when all CSI-RS for all antenna ports of a cell in a duty cycle are present in one subframe chosen from the CSI-RS subframe set and the index of this subframe is hopped over time depending on the cell ID, among other parameters (e.g., number of CSI-RS antenna ports, number of CSI-RS subframes, and system time), then collision rate may be reduced because CSI-RS of different cells may be present in different subframes over time.
  • the impact on legacy UEs 100 may still be limited to a minimum number of subframes, as discussed previously, by constraining the total number of subframes used for CSI-RS transmissions.
  • the computation complexity of feedback computation may also be reduced by limiting the total number of subframes of CSI-RS transmissions as above.
  • two levels of hopping of CSI-RS pattern may be used.
  • One level may correspond to the hopping of the frequency/time/code allocation to REs 206 within a subframe, and the other level may correspond to hopping of the subframe indices for which a CSI-RS transmission of a particular port and/or cell may be present.
  • This multi-level hopping may help avoid collisions between CSI-RS transmissions of different antenna port indices across different cells.
  • the hopping mode may be disabled or enabled in a semi-static or dynamic way.
  • the UE 120 may be informed of the CSI-RS hopping mode by a higher layer signaling, through a broadcast or unicast channel, and/or within a layer 2 signaling.
  • the choice of enabling/disabling hopping mode and selecting locations that each cell will use for CSI-RS transmissions may be dependent on, for example, the transmission mode, the number of users and their channel quality and capabilities. For instance, if joint transmission in a multi-cell setup is employed in a cell, the network may coordinate (by communication among eNBs 110 ) the hopping mode and locations of a subset of cells. In one design, when eNBs 110 coordinate CSI-RS resources used, hopping may be disabled. It will be appreciated that each level of the two-level hopping, as described above, may be disabled independent of the other level.
  • subframe index hopping may be disabled so that a CSI-RS transmission may be performed only in subframe 1 in each radio frame but hopping of CSI-RS locations may be allowed within subframe 1 over a period of time.
  • one or more parameters regarding hopping schedule may be signaled from an eNB 110 to a UE 120 .
  • the hopping scheduling parameters may help the UE 120 identify the hopping schedule for the CSI-RS transmission.
  • the available CSI-RS locations for each cell can be limited to a subset of all the available CSI-RS locations (e.g. depicted in FIG. 5 ). This subset may be different for different cells and may be changing over time.
  • eNBs 110 may coordinate among each other at a higher layer (e.g., layer 3), the subset of REs within a subframe used by each eNB 110 .
  • Certain designs may perform “muting” of CSI-RS transmissions.
  • eNB 110 of a cell may not perform any transmissions at locations of RE 206 assigned to CSI-RS transmissions in a neighboring cell. It may be possible to improve the channel estimation performance of CSI-RS, or equivalently reduce the overhead for a given performance by performing this muting operation. Because of muting of other signals that may potentially interfere with CSI-RS transmissions of a given cell, estimation of channel state information from non-serving cells or weaker serving cells may be significantly improved. Information needed (e.g., RE locations) for traffic puncturing (muting) may be signaled between eNBs 110 .
  • UEs 120 within a cell may be informed of the data muting by the eNB 110 to make the UEs 120 aware that data is not being transmitted to those UEs 120 and to avoid potential interference of data transmissions with another cell's CSI-RS transmissions.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates a process 1000 for wireless communication.
  • a first resource pattern comprising resource elements is selected.
  • the first resource pattern may comprise, for example, possible RE locations as described in FIGS. 3 to 7 . In certain designs, the resource elements may be uniformly spaced.
  • the first resource pattern is non-colocated with a second resource pattern.
  • the second resource pattern may, for example, comprise RE locations allocated to other reference signals such as CRS and DM-RS (or UE-RS).
  • the first resource pattern is allocated to a plurality of antennas for transmitting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS).
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • the allocation may be performed, for example, as described with respect to FIGS. 8 and 9 .
  • the process 1000 may further include one or more of the RE allocation techniques discussed in this disclosure.
  • FIG. 11 illustrates an apparatus 1100 for wireless communication.
  • the apparatus 1100 include a module 1102 to selecting a first resource pattern comprising resource elements, the first resource pattern being non-colocated with a second resource pattern and a module 1104 to allocate the first resource pattern to a plurality of antennas for transmitting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS).
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • the first resource pattern may comprise uniformly spaced resource elements.
  • the first resource pattern may comprise, for example, possible RE locations as described in FIGS. 3 to 7 .
  • the second resource pattern may, for example, comprise RE locations allocated to other reference signals such as CRS and DM-RS (or UE-RS). The allocation may be performed, for example, as described with respect to FIGS. 8 and 9 .
  • the apparatus 1100 may further include modules for implementing one or more of the designs discussed in this disclosure.
  • FIG. 12 illustrates a process 1202 of wireless communication of allocating resources to a transmission of a reference signal, implemented at an eNB.
  • a resource pattern allocated to the transmission of the reference signal is coordinated with a base station of a neighboring cell.
  • the coordination may include, for example, the muting or the hopping operation described above.
  • the resource pattern at locations corresponding resource pattern allocated in the neighboring cell is muted based on the coordination.
  • the process 1200 may further include one or more of the techniques discussed in this disclosure.
  • FIG. 13 illustrates a base station apparatus 1300 for wireless communication.
  • the apparatus 1300 includes a module 1302 for coordinating, with a base station of a neighboring cell, a resource pattern allocated to the transmission of the reference signal and a module 1304 for muting, based on the coordination, the resource pattern at locations corresponding resource pattern allocated in the neighboring cell.
  • the coordination may include, for example, the muting or the hopping operation described above.
  • the apparatus 1300 may further include modules for implementing one or more of the designs discussed in this disclosure.
  • FIG. 14 illustrates a process 1400 of wireless communication, implemented at a UE.
  • a first resource pattern comprising resource elements that are non-colocated with a second resource pattern is received.
  • the first resource pattern may, for example, include uniformly spaced resource elements.
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • a channel quality estimate based on the channel state information reference signal is performed.
  • the process 1400 may further include one or more of the techniques discussed in this disclosure.
  • FIG. 15 illustrates a user equipment apparatus 1500 for wireless communication.
  • the apparatus 1500 comprises module 1502 for receiving a first resource pattern comprising resource element groups that are non-colocated with a second resource pattern, module 1504 for receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) according to the first resource pattern and module 1506 for performing a channel quality estimate based on the channel state information reference signal.
  • the apparatus 1300 may further include modules for implementing one or more of the designs discussed in this disclosure.
  • FIG. 16 illustrates a block diagram of a design of an exemplary base station/eNB 110 and a UE 120 , which may be one of the eNBs and one of the UEs in FIG. 1 , where the various processes disclosed above may be implemented, as appropriate.
  • the UE 120 may be equipped with T antennas 1234 a through 1234 t
  • the base station 110 may be equipped with R antennas 1252 a through 1252 r , where in general T ⁇ 1 and R ⁇ 1.
  • a transmit processor 1220 may receive data from a data source 1212 and control information from a controller/processor 1240 . Transmit processor 1220 may process (e.g., encode, interleave, and symbol map) the data and control information and may provide data symbols and control symbols, respectively. Transmit processor 1220 may also generate one or more demodulation reference signals for multiple non-contiguous clusters based on one or more RS sequences assigned to UE 120 and may provide reference symbols.
  • process e.g., encode, interleave, and symbol map
  • Transmit processor 1220 may also generate one or more demodulation reference signals for multiple non-contiguous clusters based on one or more RS sequences assigned to UE 120 and may provide reference symbols.
  • a transmit (TX) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) processor 1230 may perform spatial processing (e.g., precoding) on the data symbols, the control symbols, and/or the reference symbols from transmit processor 1220 , if applicable, and may provide T output symbol streams to T modulators (MODs) 1232 a through 1232 t .
  • Each modulator 1232 may process a respective output symbol stream (e.g., for SC-FDMA, OFDM, etc.) to obtain an output sample stream.
  • Each modulator 1232 may further process (e.g., convert to analog, amplify, filter, and upconvert) the output sample stream to obtain an uplink signal.
  • T uplink signals from modulators 1232 a through 1232 t may be transmitted via T antennas 1234 a through 1234 t , respectively.
  • antennas 1252 a through 1252 r may receive the uplink signals from UE 120 and provide received signals to demodulators (DEMODs) 1254 a through 1254 r , respectively.
  • Each demodulator 1254 may condition (e.g., filter, amplify, downconvert, and digitize) a respective received signal to obtain received samples.
  • Each demodulator 1254 may further process the received samples to obtain received symbols.
  • a channel processor/MIMO detector 1256 may obtain received symbols from all R demodulators 1254 a through 1254 r .
  • Channel processor 1256 may derive a channel estimate for a wireless channel from UE 120 to base station 110 based on the demodulation reference signals received from UE 120 .
  • MIMO detector 1256 may perform MIMO detection/demodulation on the received symbols based on the channel estimate and may provide detected symbols.
  • a receive processor 1258 may process (e.g., symbol demap, deinterleave, and decode) the detected symbols, provide decoded data to a data sink 1260 , and provide decoded control information to a controller/processor 1280 .
  • data from a data source 1262 and control information from controller/processor 1280 may be processed by a transmit processor 1264 , precoded by a TX MIMO processor 1266 if applicable, conditioned by modulators 1254 a through 1254 r , and transmitted to UE 120 .
  • the downlink signals from base station 110 may be received by antennas 1234 , conditioned by demodulators 1232 , processed by a channel estimator/MIMO detector 1236 , and further processed by a receive processor 1238 to obtain the data and control information sent to UE 120 .
  • Processor 1238 may provide the decoded data to a data sink 1239 and the decoded control information to controller/processor 1240 .
  • Controllers/processors 1240 and 1280 may direct the operation at UE 120 and base station 110 , respectively.
  • Processor 1220 , processor 1240 , and/or other processors and modules at UE 120 may perform or direct process 1400 in FIG. 14 and/or other processes for the techniques described herein.
  • Processor 1256 , processor 1280 , and/or other processors and modules at base station 110 may perform or direct process 1202 in FIG. 12 and/or other processes for the techniques described herein.
  • Memories 1242 and 1282 may store data and program codes for UE 120 and base station 110 , respectively.
  • a scheduler 1284 may schedule UEs for downlink and/or uplink transmission and may provide allocations of resources (e.g., assignment of multiple non-contiguous clusters, RS sequences for demodulation reference signals, etc.) for the scheduled UEs.
  • resources e.g., assignment of multiple non-contiguous clusters, RS sequences for demodulation reference signals, etc.
  • CSI-RS pattern i.e., the pattern or REs within a subframe, assigned to the transmission of CSI-RS signal
  • the pattern of CSI-RS transmissions may depends on the number of antenna ports, a physical cell ID of the particular cell and so on.
  • the transmission overhead associated with CSI-RS may be controlled by selecting an appropriate duty cycle of transmission.
  • the transmission overhead associated with CSI-RS may be controlled by limiting the number of REs assigned per RB to CSI-RS transmissions.
  • CSI-RS transmissions across different cells may be limited to a small number of subframes, thereby reducing impact on wake up time of a UE 120 and puncturing of data traffic to legacy UEs 120 .
  • CSI-RS is not transmitted on a subframe of a radio frame which transmits a paging, or a PBCH or a sync signal.
  • the disclosed designs enable efficient implementation of CSI-RS framework.
  • the number of CSI-RS ports is statically configured.
  • the duty cycle of the CSI-RS may be semi-statically configured from a limited set of values, e.g. ⁇ 2, 5, 10 ⁇ ms.
  • CSI-RS of an antenna port of a cell may be uniformly spaced in frequency in one OFDM symbol with a frequency spacing of a fixed number (e.g., 6) of subcarriers.
  • CSI-RS pattern of different antenna ports of different cells may hop in time.
  • the hopping may be a function of the physical cell ID, antenna port index and the system time.
  • data/control signal transmissions may be muted in locations used by CSI-RS transmissions of neighboring cells.
  • the muting may be performed based on coordination among multiple eNBs 110 .
  • CSI-RS designs disclosed herein may be used with any transmission mode, such as a single-cell single and MU-MIMO and coordinated multi-cell transmission.
  • CSI-RS designs as discussed herein may be embodied to include one or more of the following aspects, among other aspects disclosed herein:
  • (1) CSI-RS of a cell may avoid CRS REs of that cell.
  • CSI-RS may entirely avoid CRS symbols to avoid collision with CRS of neighboring cell(s).
  • CSI-RS may avoid UE-specific RS (UE-RS) REs.
  • UE-RS UE-specific RS
  • the UE specific RS REs refers to any REs that could be used for UE-RS and may not always be used for UE-RS.
  • CSI-RS may avoid UE-RS of one LTE release but not of another. For example, certain designs may avoid Rel 9/10 UE-RS but not Rel 8 UE-RS.
  • CSI-RS patterns may be chosen such that they avoid UE-RS REs of any cell.
  • CSI-RS pattern for a cell may be chosen such that they avoid UE-RS REs only of that cell. Because Rel-8 UE-RS pattern is different for different cell IDs, it may affect the number of available CSI-RS patterns and the signaling thereof.
  • CSI-RS pattern may be chosen to be a function of one or more of cell ID, number of CSI-RS antenna ports and a type of subframe in which CSI-RS is transmitted.
  • CSI-RS pattern may be chosen to avoid symbols and/or subframes containing Sync Signals, PBCH or paging.
  • CSI-RS of different antenna ports of same cells may be orthogonally multiplexed.
  • (10) CSI-RS of different cells may be orthogonally multiplexed with respect to each other.
  • CSI-RS of neighboring cells may be muted to avoid collision/interference.
  • Muting may be signaled to UEs to avoid transmissions in muted transmission resources.
  • CSI-RS patterns may be hopped across subframes.
  • Hopping pattern may be a function of cell ID, subframe index, and/or other system parameters.
  • Hopping may be selectively used and enabling or disabling of hopping may be signaled to user equipment.
  • DSP digital signal processor
  • ASIC application specific integrated circuit
  • FPGA field programmable gate array
  • a general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but in the alternative, the processor may be any conventional processor, controller, microcontroller, or state machine.
  • a processor may also be implemented as a combination of computing devices, e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, a plurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with a DSP core, or any other such configuration.
  • a software module may reside in RAM memory, flash memory, ROM memory, EPROM memory, EEPROM memory, registers, hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art.
  • An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor such that the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium.
  • the storage medium may be integral to the processor.
  • the processor and the storage medium may reside in an ASIC.
  • the ASIC may reside in a user terminal.
  • the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a user terminal.
  • the functions described may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software, the functions may be stored on or transmitted over as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium.
  • Computer-readable media includes both computer storage media and communication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of a computer program from one place to another.
  • a storage media may be any available media that can be accessed by a general purpose or special purpose computer.
  • Such computer-readable media can comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code means in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a general-purpose or special-purpose computer, or a general-purpose or special-purpose processor.
  • Disk and disc includes compact disc (CD), laser disc, optical disc, digital versatile disc (DVD), floppy disk and blu-ray disc where disks usually reproduce data magnetically, while discs reproduce data optically with lasers. Combinations of the above should also be included within the scope of computer-readable media.

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