H04B7/0479

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR 3D MIMO COMMUNICATION IN UE AND BASE STATION
20170310371 · 2017-10-26 ·

The present disclosure provides a method and device for 3D MIMO communication in a UE and a base station. In an embodiment, in a first step, a UE receives a downlink reference signal in a first RS resource and a second RS resource; in a second step, the UE determines a target RS resource, wherein the target RS resource is the first RS resource or the second RS resource; and in a third step, the UE feeds back a first CI and a first index, wherein the first RS resource comprises N1 RS ports, the second RS resource comprises N2 RS ports, a reference RS of the first CI is the target RS resource, the first index indicates the target RS resource, N1 is a positive integer greater than 1, and N2 is a positive integer greater than 1. By using the technical scheme provided in the present invention, a UE feeds back the most effective CI information by using limited air-interface resources, and therefore overheads of the air-interface resources are reduced or the feedback efficiency of the CI is improved.

METHOD FOR CONFIGURING REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MIMO IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR
20170310377 · 2017-10-26 · ·

In the present application, a method for reporting channel status information (CSI) for multi-antenna-based beamforming by a terminal in a wireless communication system is disclosed. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving reference signal configuration information including two or more reference signal resources through an upper layer; receiving CSI process information through the upper layer; receiving a reference signal from a base station on the basis of the reference signal configuration information; and calculating the CSI on the basis of the CSI process information and the received reference signal and reporting the CSI to the base station, wherein the CSI process information includes a reference signal type indicator indicating a mapping relationship between the reference signal configuration information and multiple antennas.

ELEVATION PMI REPORTING ON PUCCH
20170310441 · 2017-10-26 · ·

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives RSs from a base station. The UE determines, based on the RSs, a second CSI indicator indicating a first precoding configuration of the base station optimized to at least one of improve signal power or reduce interference in an elevation dimension. The UE determines, based on the RSs, a second CSI indicator indicating a second precoding configuration of the base station optimized to at least one of improve the signal power or reduce interference in an azimuth dimension. The UE transmits, to the base station, a first CSI report including at least the first CSI indicator.

METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN MULTI-ANTENNA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR SAME

The present invention relates to a method by which a base station transmits a reference signal in a wireless communication system supporting a full-dimension antenna, and a device for the same. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: transmitting, to a terminal, a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration indicating the number of antenna ports for transmitting a full-dimension antenna association reference signal; transmitting, to the terminal, a CSI-RS for at least one first antenna port among whole antenna ports for the full-dimension antenna; and receiving, from the terminal, channel information on all of the antenna ports on the basis of the at least one first antenna port.

PRECODING MATRIX INDICATOR PMI FEEDBACK METHOD
20170310372 · 2017-10-26 ·

In a 3D MIMO scenario with 16 antenna ports, antenna ports can be extended in different directions because of different configuration manners of the antenna ports. An apparatus and method where different antenna port counting manners are determined in different configurations are provided, so that in different configurations, a matrix whose dimension is 8 and a matrix whose dimension is 2 are determined in a precoding codebook, and a value of a PMI is fed back to indicate a precoding matrix.

USER EQUIPMENT AND BASE STATION

User equipment for implementing 3D MIMO (3-Dimensional Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) communication includes: a transmission and reception unit configured to transmit and receive radio signals to/from a base station in the 3D MIMO communication; and a codebook management unit configured to have a first codebook and a second codebook. The codebook management unit determines a 3D codebook for the 3D MIMO communication by combining the first codebook with the second codebook, and the transmission and reception unit feeds the first codebook and the second codebook serving as a basis of calculating the determined 3D codebook back to the base station.

METHOD FOR PERFORMING CHANNEL ESTIMATION, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR
20170302480 · 2017-10-19 · ·

A method for reporting a channel state for a downlink channel to be transmitted via at least one two-dimensional array antenna element composed of a row antenna array and a column antenna array is disclosed in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. The method is performed by a terminal, and the method may comprise the steps of: receiving settings for channel state information (CSI) process 1 and CSI process 2, the CSI process 1 and the CSI process 2 each comprising a plurality of CSI-reference signal (RS) settings; selecting one of the CSI process 1 and the CSI process 2 if the CSI process 1 and the CSI process 2 have the same feedback cycle and offset; and estimating the downlink channel and reporting the channel estimation to a serving base station according to one selected from the CSI process 1 and the CSI process 2.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND REPORTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Disclosed are: a communication technique for fusing, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4 G system and subsequent systems; and a system thereof. The present disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service and the like) based on 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. The present disclosure presents a method by which a base station determines the approximate location of a terminal on the basis of a reception power report, and sets a codebook subset on the basis of the approximate location of the terminal so as to reduce a channel state report burden.

Method and apparatus for reporting channel state information in wireless communication system
09794817 · 2017-10-17 · ·

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for reporting channel status information (CSI). According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method comprises receiving a first CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) based on CSI-RS configuration information with respect to a first domain antenna group of a two-dimensional antenna structure; reporting a first piece of CSI with respect to the first domain antenna group, which is generated using the first CSI-RS; receiving a second CSI-RS, based on CSI-RS configuration information with respect to a second domain antenna group of the two-dimensional antenna structure; and reporting a second piece of CSI with respect to the second domain antenna group, which is generated using the second CSI-RS, wherein the CSI-RS configuration information with respect to the second domain antenna group can be determined based on the first piece of CSI.

Method and device for reporting channel state information in wireless communication system
09793971 · 2017-10-17 · ·

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, more specifically, to a method and device for reporting channel state information (CSI). The method by which a terminal in a wireless communication system reports CSI, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps for: receiving a reference signal from a base station; and reporting, to the base station, the CSI generated by using the reference signal. When the CSI for a two-dimensional antenna structure defined by a first domain and a second domain includes a channel quality indicator (CQI) for the two-dimensional antenna structure without including a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) for the two-dimensional antenna structure, the CQI can be calculated on the basis of the tilting in the second domain.