WO2010048869A1 - 一种多天线发射方法、装置及系统 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a multi-antenna transmitting method, apparatus, and system.
- Evolution is the evolution of 3G, which improves and enhances the 3G air access technology, using orthogonal frequency division
- MIMO Multiplexing and Multiple Input Multiple Output
- the core air interface technology for wireless network evolution can provide downlink 100Mbps and uplink 50Mbps peak rate in 20MHz spectrum bandwidth, improve cell capacity and reduce system delay.
- OFDM technology is a parallel transmission modulation technology.
- the transmitting end modulates information to multiple subcarriers for parallel transmission.
- These subcarriers are mutually orthogonal, have high spectral efficiency, and can effectively resist frequency selective fading.
- Advantages are the technology of choice for next-generation broadband wireless access systems.
- MIMO is an advanced multi-antenna technology in wireless communication systems.
- MIMO uses two antennas at the transmitting end to independently transmit signals, and MIMO uses multiple antennas to receive signals at the receiving end.
- the core concept of MIMO is to use multiple transmitting antennas.
- the spatial freedom provided by multiple receiving antennas can effectively improve the spectrum efficiency of the wireless communication system, thereby improving the transmission rate and improving the signal quality, and can greatly increase the throughput of the system without increasing the system bandwidth or the total transmission power. Quantity and transmission distance.
- Beamforming Beamforaiing is another advanced multi-antenna technology that consists of multiple antenna elements forming an antenna array. Multiple antenna elements are given multiple features by assigning a certain characteristic weight to the transmitted or received signal. The signal on the element generates beamforming, so that the transmitted or received signal has obvious directional characteristics, can effectively enhance the useful signal, suppress interference, and improve the signal to interference and noise ratio of the signal.
- the current LTE protocol supports multiple antenna technologies such as MIMO and Beamforaiing, and the LTE protocol supports multiple antennas.
- the application of technology provides various aspects of support, including multi-antenna coding, multi-antenna reference signals, and multi-antenna measurement feedback.
- MIMO and Beamforming In the existing LTE protocol, two multi-antenna technologies, MIMO and Beamforming, can only be used separately, such as in different cells, or in different networks, or by using two technologies for different users, that is, MIMO and Beamforming are supported by the same user, so the advantages of MIMO and Beaming technology cannot be effectively combined.
- the embodiment of the invention provides a multi-antenna transmission method, device and system, and combines two multi-antenna technologies, MIMO and Beamformin g.
- An embodiment of the present invention provides a multi-antenna transmission method, including:
- An embodiment of the present invention provides a multi-antenna transmitting apparatus, including:
- E-specific RS allocates different subcarrier resources or codeword resources
- Transmitting unit used to transmit signals between multiple Beamforming arrays using multiple input multiple output MIMO technology.
- An embodiment of the present invention provides a multi-antenna communication system, including the above multi-antenna transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus.
- the receiving device is configured to receive a signal transmitted by the multi-antenna transmitting device, perform channel estimation according to a UE-specific RS of each Beamformin g array, and perform demodulation and reception on a downlink signal sent on each Beamforming array.
- the embodiment of the present invention implements the combination of Beamforming and MIMO, and the MIMO transmission technology can be used among multiple Beamforming arrays, and the two technologies of Beamforming and MIMO are fully utilized.
- the advantages of multi-antenna technology you can use Beam
- the forming array gain improves the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal to reduce the interference between users, and can simultaneously provide the channel capacity of the system by using the MIM 0 technology, thereby improving the spectrum utilization efficiency and having good practical value.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of combining MIMO and Beamforming according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a Cell-specific RS according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a UE-specific RS according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 is a UE-specific RS-packet scheme in a multi-antenna transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention
- 6 is another packet scheme of UE-specific RS in a multi-antenna transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 7 is a flowchart of operation of a multi-antenna transmitting method according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a multi-antenna communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a multi-antenna communication system according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- the multi-antenna transmission method provided by the embodiment of the present invention combines the two technologies in order to fully utilize the advantages of the MIMO and Beamforming multi-antenna technologies, that is, the multi-antenna transmission system supports MIMO and Beamforming, for example.
- the base station supports multiple antenna arrays, each antenna array uses a Beaming technology, and multiple antenna arrays use MIMO technology, which includes transmit diversity and space division multiplexing, combined with MIMO and Beamforming shown in FIG.
- the four main set antennas form a main set antenna array according to the requirements of Beamforming
- the four diversity antennas form a diversity antenna array according to Beamforming requirements
- MIMO technology is used between the main set antenna array and the diversity antenna array.
- Beamforming's array gain can be used to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal to reduce interference between users
- MIMO technology can be used to further provide the channel capacity of the system, improve spectrum utilization efficiency, and have good practical value.
- the LTE protocol supports multi-antenna technology and is designed for downlink reference signals (RS, Reference Signal).
- RS downlink reference signals
- Reference Signal Reference Signal
- the RS is a downlink common reference signal, and all user equipments (UE, User Equipment) in the cell can receive and demodulate the downlink common reference signal.
- UE User Equipment
- the advantage of MIMO is that multiple codes can be used when the channel correlation meets the requirements. Streams are spatially multiplexed to double the system throughput.
- the UE-specific RS is used for Beamforming demodulation.
- the structure of the UE-specific RS used in the Beamforming technology is exemplified in FIG.
- the UE-specific RS is a dedicated reference signal, and is specifically used by the UE using the Beamforming technology for receiving and demodulating the Beamforming signal of the UE.
- Antenna port 5 in Figure 3 is a logical antenna port number that represents the antenna port mapped to Beamforming.
- the RS and the downlink data sent to the UE for Beamforming use the same weighting value for Beamforming transmission processing.
- the advantage of Beamforming is that the weight of the antenna array can be used to align the energy to the target end, thereby improving the demodulation signal-to-noise ratio of the target terminal.
- the RS structure cannot support the combination of MIMO and Beamforming described above because only one set of reference signals is defined in the UE-specific RS, that is, it supports only one antenna array, and if multiple antenna arrays are to be used MIMO technology is used.
- Each antenna array needs its own unique reference signal to ensure that the reference signals of multiple antenna arrays do not interfere with each other at the receiving end. Otherwise, the reference signals of the individual antenna arrays cannot be distinguished at the receiving end. It is impossible to accurately estimate the channel characteristics of different MIMO channels, and it is impossible to accurately receive and demodulate signals transmitted by multiple antenna arrays.
- An embodiment of the present invention provides a multi-antenna transmission method.
- the UE-specific RS is improved to implement UE-specific
- the RS supports multiple Beamforming arrays, and MIMO technology is applied between multiple Beamforming arrays to enable the two multi-antenna technologies to be used by the same user in the same cell and the same cell, effectively utilizing the advantages of the two technologies.
- the improvement to the UE-specific RS includes: corresponding to each Beamforming array
- the UE-specific RS allocates different subcarrier resources or codeword resources.
- the multi-antenna transmission method includes: allocating different subcarrier resources or codeword resources for UE-specific RSs corresponding to each of the plurality of Beamforming arrays; and applying multiple input multiple output MIMO technology between each Beamforming array .
- the application of the multiple input multiple output MIMO technology between each Beamforming array may include: UE-specific according to each Beamforming array
- the RS applies multiple-input multiple-output MIMO technology between each Beamforming array.
- FIG. 4 A specific embodiment of the embodiment of the present invention is as shown in FIG. 4, and includes the following steps:
- Step 41 Group the UE-specific RSs on the subcarrier resources according to the number of Beamforming arrays to be used;
- the UE-specific RS is grouped on the subcarrier resources, that is, the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RS are grouped.
- the grouping process may refer to the following factors to ensure that the signals of the multiple arrays are correctly received by the receiving end: the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RS of each antenna port are uniformly distributed and staggered, so that the receiving end can make a channel. estimate. It should be understood that other methods of grouping also do not affect the implementation of embodiments of the present invention.
- Each component of the subcarrier resource group used by the UE-specific RS is used by a Beamforming array, and the number of subcarrier resource packets used by the UE-specific RS is the same as the number of Beamforming arrays to be used.
- Step 42 Divide the logical antenna port according to the number of Beamforming arrays to be used;
- the number of logical antenna ports after division is the same as the number of Beamforming arrays. Therefore, the number of logical antenna ports after division is the same as the number of packets of UE-specific RS on subcarrier resources.
- the logical antenna port of the layer mapping layer mapping is antenna port 5, so in the embodiment of the present invention, antenna port
- the antenna port 5 is divided into the same number as the number of Beamforming arrays. For example, when two Beamforming arrays are needed, the antenna port 5 is divided into two groups: antenna port 5 a and antenna port 5b.
- Step 43 Mapping the grouped UE-specific RS to the logical antenna port after the packet;
- Step 44 Use MIMO technology to transmit signals between multiple Beamforming arrays
- the UE-specific RSs transmitted by the respective Beamforming arrays have been grouped on the subcarrier resources according to the operations of the above steps 41-43, that is, the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RS have been grouped, and the packets are grouped.
- the UE-specific RS corresponding to the subcarrier resource is mapped to the logical antenna port after the packet, so MIMO technology is used to transmit signals between multiple Beamforming arrays.
- MIMO technology is used to transmit signals between multiple Beamforming arrays.
- other Beamforming arrays do not send any signals.
- the subsequent UE may perform channel estimation according to the UE-specific RS of each Beamforming array, and then perform demodulation and reception on the downlink signal sent on each Beamforming array.
- the UE-specific RS when two Beamforming arrays are needed to implement two Beamforming array transmit diversity or MIMO spatial division multiplexing, as shown in FIG. 5, the UE-specific RS also uses the same radio scheme as the existing scheme.
- the resource divides the resources occupied by the UE-specific RS in one subframe into two groups, and each component is used by a Beamforming array.
- the layered logical antenna port antenna port 5 is also divided into antenna port 5a and antenna port 5b.
- the subcarrier resource used for UE-specific RS in 5a does not send any signal on the same subcarrier resource of antenna port 5b.
- antenna port 5b is used for UE-specific
- the subcarrier resources of the RS do not send any signals on the same subcarrier resources of the antenna port 5a, so as to ensure that the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs of the two arrays do not interfere with each other, and the UE can receive the downlink signals separately.
- the channel estimation is performed according to the UE-specific RS of the two Beamforming arrays, and then the downlink signals transmitted on the two Beamforming arrays are demodulated and received.
- the subcarrier resource grouping method used by the UE-specific RS may also be used as shown in FIG. 6, and after the UE-specific RS is grouped on the subcarrier resources, it is used for the UE-specific RS.
- the number and location of the subcarrier resources are consistent with the existing protocol scheme.
- the layer mapping logical ports antenna port 5a and antenna port 5b corresponding to the two BEAMforming arrays each use half of the UE-specific RS subcarrier resources.
- the method in the foregoing embodiment can also support more Beamforming arrays, that is, the UE-specific RSs are grouped on the subcarrier resources and the logical antenna ports are divided, and the used Beamforming arrays can be divided into multiple groups as needed.
- the reference signals in the UE-specific RS of the multiple antenna arrays are implemented at the receiving end.
- the receivers can accurately estimate the channel characteristics of different MIMO channels and accurately receive and demodulate the signals transmitted by multiple antenna arrays.
- the embodiment of the present invention solves the downlink UE-specific defined in the existing protocol.
- the RS-structure can only support the problem of one Beamforming array.
- the UE-spe cific RS packet scheme provided by the embodiment of the present invention makes the UE-specific
- RS can support multiple Beamforming arrays.
- Multiple Beamforming arrays can use MIMO transmit diversity or space division multiplexing to support the combination of Beamforming and MIMO, leveraging the advantages of Bea mforming and MIMO.
- the solution provided by the embodiment of the present invention is fully compatible with the existing protocol.
- the number and location of subcarrier resources for the UE-specific RS can be completely maintained with the existing protocol scheme. Consistent.
- the embodiment of the present invention does not exclude the case where the number and location of subcarrier resources used for the U E-specific RS after the packet are different from those before the packet. In this case, the foregoing implementation of the present invention can still be used after the grouping.
- the manner of dividing the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RS in the embodiment of the present invention is not limited thereto, and other partitioning schemes that are easily conceived by those skilled in the art based on the solution disclosed in this embodiment are in the present application. Within the scope of protection.
- Another embodiment of the present invention provides another multi-antenna transmission method.
- MIMO technology is applied between multiple Beamforming arrays, so that two multi-antenna technologies are in the same cell.
- the same user is used by the same user at the same time, effectively taking advantage of the two technologies, and adopting the following scheme, as shown in FIG. 7 including the following steps:
- Step 20 Determine each Beamforming array, and distinguish the UE-specific RSs of the Beamfor ming arrays by means of code division multiplexing;
- the RS resource facilitates the UE to receive and demodulate the Beamforming signal, and only a set of reference signals is defined in the UE-specific RS, for the UE-specific
- the RS After the RS is encoded, it can correspond to the number of Beamforming arrays to be used, and since different codeword resources are allocated to UE-specific RSs of each Beamforming array, that is, code division multiplexing is adopted, multiple antenna arrays are used.
- the reference signals in the UE-specific RS do not interfere with each other at the receiving end, and the receiving end can accurately estimate the channel characteristics of different MIMO channels, and accurately receive and demodulate signals transmitted by multiple antenna arrays.
- Embodiments of the present invention use at least two Beamforming arrays and use codes
- the UE-specific RS of each Beamforming array is differentiated in a manner of division multiplexing.
- Step 21 The signal transmitting end sends the UE-specific of each Beamforming array
- the UE transmits the UE-specific RS of each Beamforming array differentiated by the code division multiplexing method, and uses MIMO technology to transmit signals between the Beamforming arrays.
- the UE may perform channel estimation according to the UE-specific RS of each Beamforming array, and then perform demodulation and reception on the downlink signal sent on each Beamforming array.
- the solution in this embodiment distinguishes the UE-specific RS of each Beamforming array by means of code division multiplexing, realizes the combination of Beamforming and MIMO, and fully utilizes the advantages of two advanced multi-antenna technologies, Beamforming and MIMO.
- the Beamforming array gain can be used to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal to reduce interference between users, and the MIMO technology can be used to further provide the channel capacity of the system, improve the spectrum utilization efficiency, have good practical value, and are simple and easy to implement.
- the distinction between the Beamformi Arrays by the code division multiplexing method is also only one embodiment of the present invention.
- the solution of the present invention is not limited thereto, and the present invention is not excluded to implement the combination of Beamforming and MIMO. , other ways to distinguish between Beamforming arrays.
- An embodiment of the present invention provides a multi-antenna transmitting apparatus including a first unit and a transmitting unit.
- the first unit is configured to be UE-specific corresponding to each of the plurality of Beamforming arrays
- the RS allocates different subcarrier resources or codeword resources; the transmitting unit is configured to transmit signals by using multiple input multiple output MIMO technology between each Beamforming array.
- the first unit may further include: a first grouping unit, configured to group the UE-specific RSs on the subcarrier resources according to the number of Beamfo rming arrays to be used (ie, the subcarriers used by the UE-specific RS) a module for resource grouping; a first grouping unit for dividing a logical antenna port according to a number of Beamforming arrays to be used; and a layer mapping unit for mapping the grouped UE-specific RSs to the grouped logical antenna ports .
- a first grouping unit configured to group the UE-specific RSs on the subcarrier resources according to the number of Beamfo rming arrays to be used (ie, the subcarriers used by the UE-specific RS) a module for resource grouping
- a first grouping unit for dividing a logical antenna port according to a number of Beamforming arrays to be used
- a layer mapping unit for mapping the grouped UE-specific RSs
- the first unit may further include: a Beamforming array setting unit, configured to distinguish the UE-specific RSs of the Beamforming arrays by means of code division multiplexing.
- the transmitting unit is configured to perform UE-specific according to each Beamforming array.
- the RS transmits signals using multiple input multiple output MIMO techniques between each Beamforming array.
- the embodiment of the present invention implements the combination of Beamforming and MIMO, and the MIMO transmission technology can be used among multiple Beamforming arrays, and the advantages of the advanced multi-antenna technology of Beamforming and MIMO can be fully utilized, and the array gain of the Beamforming can be improved.
- the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal reduces the interference between users, and the MIMO technology can be used to further provide the channel capacity of the system, improve the spectrum utilization efficiency, and have good practical value.
- the network side transmits the downlink signal to the client as an example. It can be understood that the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus provided by the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to the transmitting uplink signal in practical applications.
- An embodiment of the present invention provides a multi-antenna communication system including the above-described multi-antenna transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus.
- the receiving device is configured to receive the signal transmitted by the multi-antenna transmitting device 70, perform channel estimation according to the UE-specific RS of each Beamfor ming array, and then perform demodulation and reception on the downlink signal sent on each Beamforming array.
- the system includes a multi-antenna transmitting device 70 and a receiving device 80.
- the multi-antenna transmitting device 70 supports both Beamforming and MIMO.
- the antenna technology is used to group the UE-specific RSs on the subcarrier resources according to the number of Beamforming arrays to be used, that is, to group the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RS, and divide the number of Beamforming arrays as needed.
- the multi-antenna transmitting device 70 is configured There are: a first grouping unit 700, a second grouping unit 701, a layer mapping unit 702, a transmitting unit 703;
- the first grouping unit 700 is configured to group the UE-spe cific RSs on the subcarrier resources according to the number of Beamforming arrays to be used, that is, group the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RS.
- a component is used for a Beamforming array; the grouping process refers to the following factors:
- the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RS of each antenna port are evenly distributed and staggered to facilitate channel estimation by the receiving end. It should be understood that other grouping methods also do not affect the implementation of embodiments of the present invention.
- the second grouping unit 701 dividing the logical antenna port according to the number of Beamforming arrays to be used;
- the layer mapping unit 702 maps the UE-specific RSs grouped by the first grouping unit 700 to the second point respectively.
- the logical antenna port after the group unit 701 is grouped;
- the transmitting unit 703 is configured to use a MIMO technology to transmit signals between the plurality of Beamforming arrays.
- the transmitting unit 703 transmits signals after the corresponding operations are performed by the first grouping unit 700, the second grouping unit 701, and the layer mapping unit 7012. That is, the UE-specific RS transmitted for each Beamforming has been grouped on the subcarrier resources (the subcarrier resource packets already used by the UE-specific RS), and the grouped UE-specific RS is mapped to the logical antenna after the packetization. Ports, therefore, using MIMO technology to transmit signals between multiple Beamforming arrays, can be implemented on a Beamforming array for UE-specific RS subcarrier resources, and other Beamforming arrays do not send any signals.
- the structure of the multi-antenna transmitting device 70 is only one embodiment of the present invention.
- the structure of the multi-antenna transmitting device 70 of the present invention is not limited thereto, and MIMO technology is used to transmit between multiple Beamforming arrays. Signals, in a Beamforming array for sub-carrier resources of the UE-specific RS, other structural design methods without any signal from other Beamforming arrays are within the scope of the present invention.
- the receiving device 80 is configured to receive the signal transmitted by the multi-antenna transmitting device 70, perform channel estimation according to the UE-specific RS of each Beamamrming array, and then demodulate the downlink signal sent on each Beamforming array. receive.
- the system described in this embodiment can be any wireless system using multiple antenna technology, such as LTE.
- This embodiment makes UE-specific by grouping UE-specific RSs.
- RS can support multiple Beamforming arrays.
- Multiple Beamforming arrays can use MIMO transmit diversity or space division multiplexing to support the combination of Beamforming and MIMO, leveraging the advantages of Bea mforming and MIMO.
- the system includes a multi-antenna transmitting device 71 and a receiving device 81, and the multi-antenna transmitting device 71 supports both Beamforming and MIMO.
- a combination of multiple antenna technologies which uses a code division multiplexing method to distinguish UE-specific RSs of each Beamforming array, and uses MIMO technology to transmit signals between each Beamforming array.
- the multi-antenna transmitting device 71 is provided with:
- the beamforming array setting unit 710 is configured to determine a Beamforming array, and distinguish the UE-specific RSs of the each Beamforming array by means of code division multiplexing; [81] The transmitting unit 711 is configured to send the UE-specific of the each Beamforming array
- the UE-specific RS of each Beamforming array differentiated by the code division multiplexing method is used, and MIMO technology is used to transmit signals between the Beamforming arrays.
- the structure of the multi-antenna transmitting device 71 is only one embodiment of the present invention.
- the structure of the multi-antenna transmitting device of the present invention is not limited thereto, and the MIM 0 technology can be used between multiple Beamforming arrays.
- the different structural design modes under the premise of distinguishing the UE-spec ific RS of each Beamforming array by means of signal transmission and multiplexing are all within the protection scope of the present invention.
- the UE-specific RS of each Beamforming array is distinguished by the code division multiplexing method, which is only one embodiment of the present invention.
- the solution of the present invention is not limited thereto, and the present invention is not excluded.
- Bea mforming and MIMO are combined to distinguish other ways of UE-specific RS of Beamforming array.
- the receiving device 81 is configured to receive the signal transmitted by the multi-antenna transmitting device 71, perform channel estimation according to the UE-specific RS of each Beamforming array, and then perform demodulation and reception on the downlink signal sent on each array. .
- the solution in this embodiment distinguishes the UE-specific RS of each Beamforming array by means of code division multiplexing, realizes the combination of Beamforming and MIMO, and gives full play to the advantages of two advanced multi-antenna technologies, Beamforming and MIMO.
- the Beamforming array gain can be used to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal to reduce interference between users, and the MIMO technology can be used to further provide the channel capacity of the system, improve the spectrum utilization efficiency, have good practical value, and are simple and easy to implement. .
- the embodiment of the present invention implements the combination of Beamforming and MIMO, and the MIMO transmission technology can be used among multiple Beamam orming arrays, and the advantages of the two advanced multi-antenna technologies, Beamforming and MIMO, can be fully utilized.
- Beamforming's array gain to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal to reduce interference between users
- the MIMO technology can be used to further provide the channel capacity of the system, improve the spectrum utilization efficiency, and have good practical value.
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