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• the present invention relates to a wideband wireless mobile communication system supporting SFBC (Space Frequency Block Coding) .
• SFBC Space Frequency Block Coding
• Fading is the distortion that a carrier-modulated telecommunication signal experiences over certain propagation media.
• a fading channel is a communication channel that experiences fading.
• fading is due to multi-path propagation and is sometimes referred to as multipath induced fading.
• the presence of reflectors in the environment surrounding a transmitter and receiver creates multiple paths that a transmitted signal can traverse. As a result, the receiver sees the superposition of multiple copies of the transmitted signal, each traversing a different path. Each signal copy will experience differences in attenuation, delay and phase shift while traveling from the source to the receiver. This can result in either constructive or destructive interference, amplifying or attenuating the signal power seen at the receiver. Strong destructive interference is frequently referred to as a deep fade and may result in temporary failure of communication due to a severe drop in the channel signal-to-noise ratio.
• a diversity scheme refers to a method for improving the reliability of a message signal by utilizing two or more communication channels with different characteristics.
• Diversity plays an important role in combating fading and co-channel interference and avoiding error bursts.
• Diversity exists because individual channels experience different levels of fading and interference.
• Multiple versions of the same signal may be transmitted and/or received and combined in the receiver.
• a redundant forward error correction code may be added and different parts of the message transmitted over different channels.
• Diversity techniques may exploit the multipath propagation, resulting in a diversity gain, often measured in decibels.
• Diversity scheme can be classified into time diversity, frequency diversity, space diversity, polarization diversity, multi-user diversity, and cooperative diversity. For time diversity among these, multiple versions of the same signal are transmitted at different time instants.
• a redundant forward error correction code is added and the message is spread in time by means of bit- interleaving before it is transmitted.
• error bursts are avoided, which simplifies the error correction.
• the signal is transferred using several frequency channels or spread over a wide spectrum that is affected by frequency-selective fading.
• resources can be allocated in distributed manner for transmission to have frequency diversity gain.
• Strategies for distributed allocation of resources can be different according to the combinations of the number of DRUs (Distributed Resource Units) assigned to a user and the available bandwidth for forming DRUs for the user.
• the number of DRUs assigned to a user is proportional to the packet size allocated to the user, and the available bandwidth for forming DRUs is proportional to the number of LRUs (Logical Resource Units) allocated to the user.
• Fig. 1 illustrates possible combinations of a packet size and the number of LRUs (the available bandwidth) for forming DRUs.
• Region 1 of Fig. 1 represents the combination of small amount of available bandwidth and large packet size
• Region 3 represents the combination of large amount of available bandwidth and large packet size.
• performance difference between possible distributed resource allocation strategies is negligible because the packet size is large in these regions so that the packet is more likely to spread over frequency.
• a wireless mobile communication system may support various sub-frame configurations.
• a communication system may adopt FFR (Fractional Frequency Reuse) and FDM (Frequency Division Multiplexing) of DRU and CRU (contiguous resource unit) .
• FFR Fractional Frequency Reuse
• FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
• CRU contiguous resource unit
• STBC Space-Time Block Code
• a total of odd number of symbols may be allocated for an irregular sub-frames (5 symbols) for TTG (Transmission Transition Gap) , for a sub-frame including preamble, for a sub-frame including mid-amble, for an irregular sub-frame with other CP (Cyclic Prefix) size (e.g., 7 symbols for 1/16 CP), for a sub-frame including TDM MAP (Time Division Multiplexing), etc.
• a total of odd number of symbols may be allocated for a sub-frame including preamble, a sub-frame including mid- amble, an irregular sub-frame with other CP size (e.g., 7 symbols for 1/16 CP), a sub-frame including TDM MAP, etc.
• the technical problem to be solved by the present invention concerns how to decide the size of the minimum unit for forming a DRU provides strong diversity gain and that supports a SFBC MIMO operations and to transmit the DRUs.
• the method includes exchanging a physical resource unit (PRU) between the base station and the mobile communication terminal, the PRU having a plurality of OFDMA symbols.
• PRU physical resource unit
• Each 1 th OFDMA symbol includes ni pilots allocated in accordance with a predetermined pilot allocation scheme, the remaining L DRU •
• L DR ⁇ number of DRUs
• P sc number of subcarriers within an OFDMA symbol in the PRU
• L pa i r ,i (Psc - n ⁇ )/2.
• a method of wirelessly communicating between a mobile communication terminal and a base station includes exchanging a physical resource unit (PRU) between the base station and the mobile communication terminal, the PRU having a plurality of OFDMA symbols.
• PRU physical resource unit
• the ni pilots within each DRU are allocated in accordance with a predetermined pilot allocation scheme.
• DRU FP1 C- ] indicates DRUs in ith frequency partition and L DRU
• FPl indicates the number of DRU FPl [ • ] included in i-th frequency partition
• L DRU/FPl • L S c,i data subcarriers of the DRUs in order, from 0 to L DRO , FPI *L SC ,I ⁇ 1- Group these contiguous and logically renumbered subcarriers into L DRU , FPI * L SP , I pairs and renumber them from 0 to L DRU/FPI ' L SP/ i-l, where L SP ,i indicates the number of data subcarrier-pairs in the 1-th OFDMA symbol within a PRU and is equal to L sc ,i/2 (L SP ,i L S c,i/2) .
• the predetermined permutation formula map RSP FP i, ⁇ [u] into the s-th distributed LRUs,
• the step of exchanging includes transmitting the PRU from the base station to the mobile communication terminal.
• the step of exchanging includes receiving the PRU at the mobile communication terminal from the base station.
• a communications device configured to wirelessly communicate with another device.
• the communications device includes a memory; and a processor operatively connected to the memory and configured to exchange a physical resource unit (PRU) with the another device.
• PRU physical resource unit
• the PRU has a plurality of OFDMA symbols.
• Each 1 th OFDMA symbol includes: n x pilots allocated in accordance with a predetermined pilot allocation scheme, the remaining L DRU • (P sc - ni) data subcarriers of the 1 th OFDMA symbol renumbered in order, from 0 to L DRU (P sc - n x ) - 1, with logically contiguous renumbered subcarriers being grouped into L DRU • Lpair, i tone pairs and the tone pairs being renumbered 0 to L DRU • L pair ,i
• the communications device is a base station in a mobile communications network, the base station being configured to encode and transmit the PRU.
• the communications device is a mobile communications terminal in a mobile communications network, the mobile communications terminal being configured to receive and decode the PRU.
• the minimum unit for forming a DRU according to the present invention has an advantageous effect on providing a diversity gain and supporting SFBC MIMO operations.
• Fig. 1 illustrates a diagram for comparing performance in terms of diversity gain according to combinations of packet sizes and available bandwidths for a user.
• Fig. 2 illustrates exemplary DRU structures according to an embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 3 illustrates an exemplary DRU structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 4 illustrates an exemplary DRU structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 5 illustrates an exemplary DRU structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 6A illustrates another exemplary DRU structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 6B illustrates a method for forming the structures shown in Fig. 6A.
• Fig. 7 illustrates a structure of a MRU for a basic PRU of regular sub-frame according to one embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 8 and Fig. 9 show other structures of a MRU for a basic PRU of irregular sub-frame according to one embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 10 illustrates another structure of a MRU for a basic PRU of regular sub-frame according to one embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 11 illustrates another structure of a MRU for a basic PRU of irregular sub-frame according to one embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 12 illustrates another structure of a MRU for a basic PRU of irregular sub-frame according to one embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 13 is a diagram showing a frame structure according to one embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 14 is a diagram showing a subcarrier-to-DRU mapping according to one embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 15 shows a structure of a wireless communication system capable of exchanging the data structures of Figs. 2-14 .
• Fig. 16 is a block diagram showing constitutional elements of a communication device capable of exchanging the data structures of Figs. 2-14. [Mode for Invention]
• a DRU comprises sub-carriers spread across a resource allocation region.
• the minimum unit for forming the DRU may equal to one sub-carrier or a fraction of the DRU, the optimum size of the minimum unit may differ according to possible resource configurations.
• (x, y) denotes the size of a resource unit consisting of ⁇ x' sub-carriers and ⁇ y' OFDMA symbols.
• MRU Minimum-Resource Unit
• the ability to support SFBC should be taken into consideration for those sub-frame configurations where STBC is not suitable for data transmission.
• at least two sub-carriers should be contiguous in order to replace STBC by SFBC, or to support both STBC and SFBC, or to support all the other sub-frame configurations.
• the minimum DRU forming units introduced by the present invention may include two or more sub-carriers.
• embodiments according to the present invention are described.
• a DRU comprises ⁇ k' MRUs.
• a MRU of a DRU may have a size of (2n, N sym ) if the size of PRU is (P sc , N sym ) , where ⁇ P sc ' denotes the number of sub-carriers constituting the DRU, ⁇ N syin ' denotes the number of symbols constituting the DRU, Psc equals to k*2n, ⁇ 2n' represents the number of sub- carriers constituting the MRU, ⁇ k' is a natural number denoting the number of MRUs included in the DRU, and y n r is a natural number.
• SFBC can be supported with the simplest permutation rule.
• Fig. 2 illustrates exemplary DRU structures according to an embodiment of the present invention.
• the exemplary DRU illustrated in (a) of Fig. 2 consists of 18 sub-carriers by 6 OFDMA symbols; in other words, the size of the DRU is (18, 6).
• the size of each MRU is (2, 6) .
• the exemplary DRU illustrated in (b) of Fig. 2 consists of 18 sub-carriers by 6 OFDMA symbols; in other words, the size of the DRU is (18, 6) .
• the size of each MRU is (6, 6) .
• permutation may be conducted in units of 6 symbols. However, it should be noted that the permutation can be conducted in any units of symbols .
• the size of a DRU is (Psc, N syrn ) and the size of a MRU is (2n, 2m), where ⁇ Psc' denotes the number of sub- carriers constituting the DRU, ⁇ N sy ⁇ / denotes the number of symbols constituting the DRU, ⁇ 2n' represents the number of sub-carriers constituting the MRU, '2m' represents the number of symbols constituting the MRU, ⁇ n' is an integer satisfying l ⁇ n ⁇ P S c/2, and ⁇ m' is an integer satisfying l ⁇ m ⁇ N sym /2.
• Fig. 3 illustrates an exemplary DRU structure according to another embodiment of the present invention.
• the DRU consists of 18 sub- carriers by 6 OFDMA symbols; in other words, the size of the DRU is (18, 6) .
• the size of a MRU constituting the DRU is (2, 2) .
• ⁇ m' and ⁇ n' equal to '1', respectively.
• the size of a DRU is (Psc / N syin )
• the size of a MRU is (2n, 1)
• ⁇ Psc' denotes the number of sub- carriers constituting the DRU
• ⁇ N sym ' denotes the number of symbols constituting the DRU
• ⁇ 2n' represents the number of sub-carriers constituting the MRU
• P S c equals to k*2n
• ⁇ n' is a natural number
• ⁇ k' is a natural number denoting the number of MRUs included in an OFDMA symbol of the DRU.
• Fig. 4 illustrates an exemplary DRU structure according to another embodiment of the present invention.
• the DRU consists of 18 sub- carriers by 6 OFDMA symbols; in other words, the size of the DRU is (18, 6) .
• the size of a MRU constituting the DRU is (2, 1) .
• ⁇ n' equals to ⁇ l' .
• MRU allocation can be performed before pilot allocation or after pilot allocation .
• all of the MRUs include two sub-carriers which are contiguous both in the physical and logical domain, on the condition that pilots are two-tone-wise paired.
• Fig. 5 illustrates an exemplary DRU structure according to one embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 5 shows that every pilot symbol is paired with another pilot symbol on a physical resource structure, and all of the MRUs have the same size accordingly. From Fig. 5, it can be easily understood that a MRU can be allocated to a DRU or a set of DRUs both before and after pilot allocation (i.e., irrespective of allocation order of data sub-carriers and pilot sub-carriers) . According to another embodiment of the present invention, at least part of the MRUs consists of two sub- carriers which are logically contiguous but not necessarily physically contiguous for the situation where pilots are not two-tone-wise paired.
• two (2) sub-carriers constituting a MRU may or may not be contiguous on a physical frequency domain, although the two (2) sub-carriers are contiguous on a logical frequency domain.
• Fig. 6A illustrates another exemplary DRU structure according to another embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 6A shows that at least some pilot symbols are not paired with another pilot symbol. Therefore, there may be physical disconnection between two (2) data sub-carriers constituting a MRU.
• the permutation rule for each 1 th OFDMA symbol in a sub- frame is as follows, supposing that there are ⁇ L DRU ' LRUs (Logical Resource Units) in a distributed group (refer to Fig. 6B) : For each 1 th OFDMA symbol in the subframe: Step Sl) Allocate the m pilots within each PRU; Step S2) Renumber the remaining L DRU ' (Psc ⁇ ru) data subcarriers in order, from 0 to L DR u (P S C - ni) ⁇ 1. Group these contiguous and logically renumbered subcarriers into L DRU • L pa ir,i pairs and renumber them from 0 to L DR ⁇ • L pa ir,i ⁇ 1/
• m the tone pair index within the 1 th OFDMA symbol
• PermSeqO is a permutation sequence generated by a predetermined function or lookup table.
• x L DRUr FPl r equals to '6'
• *n x ' equals to ⁇ 2'
• ⁇ P sc ' equals to X 18' . Accordingly, the permutation rule can be rewritten for Fig. 6 as follows:
• a MRU consists of logically contiguous sub-carriers after allocating pilot symbols, but it is not guaranteed that a MRU consist of physically contiguous sub-carriers. That is, two data sub-carriers of a MRU after pilot allocation sometimes are not physically contiguous (they might be split only by a pilot symbol) . However, these physically split subcarriers may be logically joined as a single MRU.
• a basic PRU may consist of one or more MRUs which are adjacent to each other in frequency axis or adjacent in time axis. Distributed allocation is supported in frequency axis when a basic PRU is divided along with frequency axis; on the other hand, distributed allocation is supported in time axis when a basic PRU is divided along with time axis.
• MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output
• SFBC/STBC Multiple Input Multiple Output
• a basic PRU may consist of 18 sub-carriers in frequency axis.
• each of the one or more MRUs may consist of even number of sub-carriers.
• a basic PRU consists of 18 sub-carriers in frequency axis.
• the present invention is not limited by a specific number of sub-carriers constituting a basic PRU.
• x sub- channelization' means the procedure of dividing a basic PRU into one or more MRUs or the resultant resource structure of a basic PRU consisting of one or more MRUs.
• Sub-frames may be classified into regular sub-frames and irregular sub-frames according to the number of OFDMA symbols constituting a sub-frame.
• a regular sub-frame may consist of 6 OFDMA symbols and an irregular sub-frame may consist of 5 or 7 OFDMA symbols.
• a basic PRU of the regular sub-frame may consist of 18 sub-carriers by 6 OFDMA symbols; on the other hand, a basic PRU of the irregular sub-frame may consist of 18 sub-carriers by 5 or 7 OFDMA symbols, respectively.
• a MRU constituting the basic PRU may consist of ⁇ x' sub-carriers and ⁇ y' OFDMA symbols, wherein ⁇ x' is an integer value ranging from 1 to 18, and ⁇ y' is the total number of OFDMA symbols contained in a sub-frame or a divisor of the total number of OFDMA symbols contained in a sub-frame, irrespective of the type of the sub-frame.
• a MRU may consist of pilot, data, and control sub-carrier. It should be noted that the present invention is not limited by the number of sub-carriers constituting a basic PRU.
• a basic PRU may be divided into ⁇ 8/x' MRUs in frequency axis to support distributed allocation scheme.
• SFBC is applicable for a system supporting irregular sub-frames where implementing STBC is not feasible.
• ⁇ x' may preferably have a value of 2, 3, 6, 9, or 18, and accordingly, the number of MRUs in a basic PRU may become 9, 6, 3, 2, or 1 for distributed allocation in the condition that all the MRUs forming the basic PRU have the same size.
• ⁇ x' may have any integer value ranging from 2 to 18.
• Fig. 7 illustrates a structure of a MRU for a basic PRU of regular sub-frame according to one embodiment of the present invention.
• a MRU is designed to have the size of (9, 6) so that a basic PRU of size (18, 6) consists of two (2) of the MRUs, sufficient frequency diversity may not be obtained.
• a MRU structure is designed so that a basic PRU of size (18, 6) consists of four (4) or more of the MRUs, then overhead and/or the complexity of the system may be increased.
• pilots are divided for more than as many as three (3) MRUs of a PRU, it is not feasible to support SFBC. Therefore, to optimize system performance when a basic PRU size is (18, 6) , it is preferable to sub-channelize the basic PRU into three (3) MRUs in frequency axis.
• Fig. 8 and Fig. 9 illustrate other structures of a MRU for a basic PRU of irregular sub-frame according to one embodiment of the present invention, respectively.
• the sub-channelization method is same as in Fig. 7 except that the basic PRU and the MRU consist of 5 OFDMA symbols, respectively.
• the sub-channelization method is same as in Fig. 7 except that the basic PRU and the MRU consist of 7 OFDMA symbols, respectively.
• Fig. 10 illustrates another structure of a MRU for a basic PRU of regular sub-frame according to one embodiment of the present invention.
• a basic PRU preferably consists of
• Fig. 11 illustrates other structure of a MRU for a basic PRU of irregular sub-frame according to other embodiment of the present invention.
• a basic PRU preferably consists of
• the basic PRU consists of three (3) MRUs which are adjacent to each other in time axis. Although it is preferable to make all of the three
• Fig. 12 illustrates another structure of a MRU for a basic PRU of irregular sub-frame according to one embodiment of the present invention.
• a basic PRU preferably consists of
• the basic PRU consists of three (3) MRUs which are adjacent to each other in time axis. Although it is preferable to make all of the three
• MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output
• SFBC/STBC Multiple Input Multiple Output
• the previously described physical resource unit is transmitted by a base station to a mobile station. In another embodiment, the previously described physical resource unit (PRU) is transmitted by a mobile station to a base station.
• Fig. 13 is a diagram showing a frame structure according to one embodiment of the present invention.
• the system band 1301 is divided into N number of frequency partitions FPo, FPi, ..., FP 1 , ..., FP N -i.
• the frequency partitions may be used for fractional frequency reuse or other purposes.
• the time duration of DRU F pi[j] may be the same as or shorter than the time duration of a subframe, a plurality of which constituting a frame.
• the time duration of DRU FP1 [J] is the same as or shorter than the time duration of a subframe.
• t-th subframe and DRU F pi[j] is comprised of H number of OFDMA symbols.
• Fig. 14 is a diagram showing subcarrier-to-DRU mapping according to one embodiment of the present invention.
• Fig. 14 (b) shows data subcarriers of 1-th OFDM symbol of the whole DRUs included in frequency partition FP 1 as shown in Fig. 14 (a) . Because each DRU includes L sc ,i number of data subcarriers, frequency partition FP 1 includes L DR ⁇ , FPl • Lsc,i number of data subcarriers in total.
• Fig. 13 and Fig. 14 illustrate logical domain of the frame structure according to the present invention.
• the paired subcarriers RSP FPl ,i[u] may be distributed and mapped to distributed LRUs of frequency partition FP 1 by a predetermined permutation formula.
• the distributed LRUs, which correspond to corresponding PRUs in physical domain, may be exchanged between a base station and a mobile communication terminal.
• FIG. 15 shows a structure of a wireless communication system capable of exchanging the data structures of Figs. 2-14, including the method of Fig. 6B.
• the wireless communication system may have a network structure of an evolved-universal mobile telecommunications system (E-UMTS) .
• E-UMTS evolved-universal mobile telecommunications system
• LTE long term evolution
• the wireless communication system can be widely deployed to provide a variety of communication services, such as voices, packet data, etc.
• an evolved-UMTS terrestrial radio access network includes at least one base station (BS) 20 which provides a control plane and a user plane.
• BS base station
• a user equipment (UE) 10 may be fixed or mobile, and may be referred to as another terminology, such as a mobile station (MS) , a user terminal (UT) , a subscriber station
• the BS 20 is generally a fixed station that communicates with the UE 10 and may be referred to as another terminology, such as an evolved node-B (eNB) , a base transceiver system (BTS) , an access point, etc. There are one or more cells within the coverage of the BS 20. Interfaces for transmitting user traffic or control traffic may be used between the BSs 20.
• a downlink is defined as a communication link from the BS 20 to the UE 10
• an uplink is defined as a communication link from the UE 10 to the BS 20.
• the BSs 20 are interconnected by means of an X2 interface.
• the BSs 20 are also connected by means of an Sl interface to an evolved packet core (EPC) , more specifically, to a mobility management entity (MME) /serving gateway (S-GW) 30.
• EPC evolved packet core
• MME mobility management entity
• S-GW serving gateway
• the Sl interface supports a many-to- many relation between the BS 20 and the MME/S-GW 30.
• FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing constitutional elements of a device 50, that can be either the UE or the BS of Fig. 15, and that is capable of exchanging the data structures of Figs. 2-14.
• Device 50 includes a processor 51, a memory 52, a radio frequency (RF) unit 53, a display unit 54, and a user interface unit 55.
• RF radio frequency
• the processor 51 provides the control plane and the user plane. The function of each layer can be implemented in the processor 51.
• the processor 51 may also include a contention resolution timer.
• the memory 52 is coupled to the processor 51 and stores an operating system, applications, and general files. If device 50 is a UE, the display unit 54 displays a variety of information and may use a well-known element such as a liquid crystal display (LCD), an organic light emitting diode (OLED), etc.
• the user interface unit 55 can be configured with a combination of well-known user interfaces such as a keypad, a touch screen, etc.
• the RF unit 53 is coupled to the processor 51 and transmits and/or receives radio signals.
• Layers of a radio interface protocol between the UE and the network can be classified into a first layer (Ll), a second layer (L2), and a third layer (L3) based on the lower three layers of the open system interconnection (OSI) model that is well-known in the communication system.
• a physical layer or simply a PHY layer, belongs to the first layer and provides an information transfer service through a physical channel.
• a radio resource control (RRC) layer belongs to the third layer and serves to control radio resources between the UE and the network. The UE and the network exchange RRC messages via the RRC layer.
• the present invention is applicable to a wideband wireless mobile communication system supporting SFBC.

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