52 results about "Cooperative MIMO" patented technology

A method and system for cooperative multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) transmission operations in a multicell wireless network. Under the method, antenna elements from two or more base stations are used to from an augmented MIMO antenna array that is used to transmit and receive MIMO transmissions to and from one or more terminals. The cooperative MIMO transmission scheme supports higher dimension space-time-frequency processing for increased capacity and system performance.

A beam-forming system comprises a cooperative array of wireless terminals coupled to at least one wireless wide area network (WWAN) and communicatively coupled to a wireless local area network (WLAN) configured to provide information exchanges between the wireless terminals. A cooperative beam-forming system employing the WLAN provides antenna-array processing benefits (such as frequency reuse, interference rejection, array-processing gain, antenna-switching diversity) to the individual wireless terminals. A network access operator facilitates network control functionality between the WWAN and the cooperative array of wireless terminals.

The proposal for eliminating inter-cell interference based on cooperation with the prior base station has problems such as resources occupation and Backhaul load increment. The invention provides a multi-base station cooperative multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with low information interaction in a wireless network and a scheduling method and a device thereof. The scheduling method comprises: a base station acquires information relevant to signal quality between the base station and each mobile terminal and reports to a scheduling apparatus, wherein the reported signal quality relevant information is preferably a relative signal strength indicator (RSSI) or a channel quality indicator (CQI) with small data size; the scheduling apparatus selects a service base station for each mobile terminal and determines a specific base station to eliminate the interference from a specific mobile terminal; and the scheduling apparatus further controls to correspondingly transmit service data of the mobile terminal to the service base station; the base station determines the serviced terminal and the terminal of which the interference is eliminated. When servicing the mobile terminal on a time-frequency resource and eliminating the interference from other base stations, the base station only needs to acquire channel state information of the mobile terminal associated with the base station to the base station on the corresponding time-frequency resource and calculate a pre-coded matrix, so as to pre-code mobile terminal service data from the service base station and generate downlink signals to be transmitted; and the process is independently carried out in various base stations.

A method and system for cooperative multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) transmission and reception operations in a multicell wireless network. Under the method, antenna elements from multiple base stations and / or multiple antennas are utilized to from an augmented MIMO antenna array that is used to transmit and receive MIMO transmissions at base stations and / or terminals. The cooperative MIMO transmission scheme supports higher dimension space-time-frequency processing for increased capacity and system performance.

A method for transmitting and receiving data in a cooperative Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes selecting a transmission path for transmitting precoding-related feedback control information to one or more cooperative base stations operating in the cooperative MIMO mode, and transmitting the precoding-related feedback control information to the one or more cooperative base stations through the selected transmission path.

The invention provides a method and a device for controlling one main base station and one or more cooperative base stations to cooperatively communicate with a user terminal on downlink data in a wireless communication system adopting cooperative MIMO technology. The technical scheme of multi-base station cooperative MIMO provided by the invention is as follows: MIMO downlink channel information from the main base station and the cooperative base stations to the user terminal is acquired, and further the downlink signal pre-coding information from the main base station and the cooperative base stations to the user terminal, and the main base station and the cooperative base stations are cooperatively communicated with the user terminal on MIMO downlink data according to the downlink signal pre-coding information. The technical scheme is applicable to a communication mode which has unequal uplink and downlink, such as an FDD and the like, has lower signaling and feedback overhead, expands the cell coverage and communication capacity of cell-edge users, reduces the interferences from adjacent cells, has smaller flyback information bandwidth, extends the functions of the prior single user MIMO and multiuser MIMO which are based on the single base station and causes little change on the prior technology and network and is easy to be standardized.

A method is provided for MIMO uplink communications between a base station and a wireless station with more than two antennae. The method includes: (a) negotiating between the base station and the wireless station uplink MIMO / cooperative MIMO capabilities, using a message exchange protocol in which a message exchanged comprises a field for specifying uplink MIMO / cooperative MIMO capabilities; (b) the base station receiving a request from the wireless station for data transmission; (c) the base station sending the wireless station an allocated resource and an uplink MIMO / cooperative MIMO method for uplink transmission; (e) the wireless station mapping data symbols to the allocated resource with proper pilot pattern; and (f) the base station detecting the data symbols from the channel.

A method and system for cooperative multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) transmission operations in a multicell wireless network. Under the method, antenna elements from two or more base stations are used to from an augmented MIMO antenna array that is used to transmit and receive MIMO transmissions to and from one or more terminals. The cooperative MIMO transmission scheme supports higher dimension space-time-frequency processing for increased capacity and system performance.

A method for allocating fractional frequency reuse (FER) resources to perform cooperative MIMO in a multi-cell environment is disclosed. A cell which requests FER resources decides a band for cooperative MIMO with its neighboring cell, and requests the neighboring cell to allocate the decided band for cooperative MIMO. A cell which receives FER resource request receives a request from a neighboring cell to allocate some or all of FER bands allocated to the neighboring cell as a band for cooperative MIMO, decides whether to grant the request, and allocates some or all of the requested FER bands as the band for cooperative MIMO with the neighboring cell if the request is granted.

A method and system for cooperative multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) transmission operations in a multicell wireless network. Under the method, antenna elements from two or more base stations are used to form an augmented MIMO antenna array that is used to transmit and received MIMO transmissions to and from one or more terminals. The cooperative MIMO transmission scheme supports higher dimension space-time-frequency processing for increased capacity and system performance.

A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for selective antenna activation in cooperative signaling wireless systems. In one embodiment, the method is for use in a cooperative signaling MIMO system in which antennas are located a plurality of different locations across a geographic area, the system comprising a plurality of different cooperative MIMO controllers and a plurality of antennas that can be communicably coupled to each of the controllers, the method comprising: at different transmission instances, selectively activating one or more antennas in the cooperative signaling MIMO system to vary which subset of antennas are active among antennas that can be used for each of the controllers in the system, including applying a power pattern which specifies per antenna or per antenna group power assignments for the one or more antennas being selectively activated, and performing cooperative MIMO transmission under control of at each controller in conformance with antenna activation and antenna power assignments assigned for each transmission time.

A cooperative multi-user multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system coordinates wireless client devices to provide cooperative uplink transmissions. A group of wireless client devices is selected based on their channel state information such that their uplink transmissions are uncorrelated. All of the client devices in the group transmit data on the same set of OFDM subcarriers. Channel state information is also communicated to at least one base transceiver along with the data. The channel state information may be measured by the wireless client devices, or the channel state information may be determined from pilot tones transmitted by the wireless client devices and received by at least one base transceiver. A cooperative-MIMO processing system communicatively coupled to at least one base transceiver processes the received uplink transmissions and the channel state information to separate received interfering signals via subspace de-multiplexing.

A target terminal in a mobile communication system transmits a first uplink cooperative MIMO signal in a first uplink subframe to a cooperating device selected from among a plurality of repeaters for relaying signals and a plurality of terminals except a target terminal for cooperative MIMO transmission and reception, and transmits a second uplink cooperative MIMO signal directly in a second uplink subframe to a base station. The cooperating device amplifies the first uplink cooperative MIMO signal and transmits an amplified first uplink cooperative MIMO signal in the second uplink subframe to the a base station.

Included are embodiments for reducing alien crosstalk. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving noise data associated with a first user signal on a first tone, receiving noise data associated with a second user signal on the first tone, and receiving at least one alien crosstalk canceller coefficient for the first user on the first tone. Some embodiments include applying the at least one alien crosstalk canceller coefficient to the second user signal to reduce alien crosstalk for the first user signal.

A method is provided for MIMO uplink communications between a base station and a wireless station with more than two antennae. The method includes: (a) negotiating between the base station and the wireless station uplink MIMO / cooperative MIMO capabilities, using a message exchange protocol in which a message exchanged comprises a field for specifying uplink MIMO / cooperative MIMO capabilities; (b) the base station receiving a request from the wireless station for data transmission; (c) the base station sending the wireless station an allocated resource and an uplink MIMO / cooperative MIMO method for uplink transmission; (e) the wireless station mapping data symbols to the allocated resource with proper pilot pattern; and (f) the base station detecting the data symbols from the channel.

The invention provides a method and a device used for allocating uplink control signal patterns for a mobile terminal in a multi-base station cooperative MIMO network. The method comprises the following steps: a, obtaining service relationship information of one or more mobile terminals needing to use the same time frequency resource to serve; b, determining whether the base station has a right to allocate the uplink control signal patterns to one or more mobile terminals according to the service relationship information; and c, allocating different uplink control signal patterns to each mobile terminal in one or more mobile terminals to which the base station has the right to allocate the uplink control signal patterns. The technical scheme provided by the invention has the advantages of supporting the joint allocation of the uplink control signal patterns between the cooperated base stations and using allocated uplink control signal patterns to allocate. Therefore, little interactive information is transmitted between the cooperated base stations only through a Backbone network. The uplink control signal patterns do not need to be allocated in a centralized mode by a dispatching device or other devices.

A cooperative multi-user multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system coordinates wireless client devices to provide cooperative uplink transmissions. A group of wireless client devices is selected based on their channel state information such that their uplink transmissions are uncorrelated. All of the client devices in the group transmit data on the same set of OFDM subcarriers. Channel state information is also communicated to at least one base transceiver along with the data. The channel state information may be measured by the wireless client devices, or the channel state information may be determined from pilot tones transmitted by the wireless client devices and received by at least one base transceiver. A cooperative-MIMO processing system communicatively coupled to at least one base transceiver processes the received uplink transmissions and the channel state information to separate received interfering signals via subspace de-multiplexing.

The invention relates to a method for selecting cooperative nodes in an LTE-A system, a base station and cooperative nodes; the invention has the following the technical schemes: firstly, according to the channel gain of the base station and the user equipment, the channel gain of the base station and the cooperative nodes, the channel gain of the cooperative nodes and the user equipment, and the receiving signal-to-noise ratio of the cooperative nodes, determining a candidate cooperative node set; then, receiving a packet sent by the cooperative nodes of the first received candidate cooperative node set; finally, affirming the character ACK signal to the firstly received cooperative nodes of the packet, and selecting the corresponding cooperative nodes as the optimal cooperative nodes. Through the technical schemes in the embodiment of the invention, the emitting power of cooperative nodes is not increased while the cell-edge user obtains higher data rate, the energy consumption is few, and the average living time of the network cannot be influenced.

In a wireless network there is a scheduling method in which a base station (BS) acquires information relevant to signal quality between the BS and each mobile terminal and reports to a scheduling apparatus. The scheduling apparatus selects a service BS for each terminal and determines a specific BS to compensate for interference; and may provide further controls to correspondingly transmit service data of the terminal to the service BS. The BS determines the serviced terminal and the terminal of which the interference is eliminated. When servicing the terminal on a time-frequency resource and eliminating the interference from other BS, the BS may only acquire channel state information of the terminal associated with the BS to the BS on the corresponding time-frequency resource and calculate a pre-coded matrix, so as to pre-code terminal service data from the service BS and generate downlink signals to be transmitted.

A cooperative multiple-input multiple-output system based on partial Zadoff-Chu sequences and a synchronization method thereof are disclosed, and the system comprises a plurality of transmitters and a receiver. Each transmitter's training signal is disposed in a subband having a length of V, and the training signal is converted into a time domain signal. The receiver receives the time domain signals of the cooperating transmitters. Each transmitter extracts V successive samples from any region of a Zadoff-Chu sequence having a length equal to a multiple of V and the samples are disposed in an exclusive subband as the training signal. When the training signals of cooperating transmitters are converted into time and frequency domain signals, the training signals of all the transmitters are separated from each other to suppress mutual interference in both time and frequency domains and to improve the performance of synchronization.

A method and apparatus of configuring a multi-cell precoding matrix for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) operation in a wireless communication system in which a plurality of base stations participate in cooperative communication is provided. A multi-cell precoding matrix is configured using one or more single-cell precoding matrices, and wherein coefficients to be multiplied by the single-cell precoding matrices satisfy a condition in which the product between the multi-cell precoding matrix and a Hermitian matrix of the multi-cell precoding matrix is a unitary matrix. According to the embodiment of the present invention, it is not necessary for all base stations to perfectly know channel information. In addition, a feedback overhead is not high, and complexity is low.

Included are embodiments for reducing alien crosstalk. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving noise data associated with a first user signal on a first tone, receiving noise data associated with a second user signal on the first tone, and receiving at least one alien crosstalk canceller coefficient for the first user on the first tone. Some embodiments include applying the at least one alien crosstalk canceller coefficient to the second user signal to reduce alien crosstalk for the first user signal.

The invention discloses a method for calculating the mutual information and detection probability of a cooperative MIMO radar communication integrated system, belongs to the technical field of radar communication integration, and particularly relates to calculation of target detection problems and mutual information in radar communication integration. The mutual information of the communication end of the integrated MIMO system and the target detection probability of the radar end are obtained through calculation, and the method can be used for evaluating the performance of the cooperative MIMO radar communication integrated system. According to the method, the MIMO radar system and the MIMO communication system do not depend on signals of the other party as interference any more, but areutilized through cooperation, so the performance of the two parties can be improved.

An apparatus for cooperative multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is provided. The apparatus uses a new carrier assignment scheme (CAS) called generalized interleaved CAS, along with non-data-aided timing synchronization. With the generalized interleaved CAS, random OFDM signals are formed into patterns similar to unequal period synchronization patterns (UPSPs), and a corresponding non-data-aided timing synchronization scheme is set. With the help of majority vote refinement (MVR), the present invention achieves better timing synchronization and enhances the quality of signal demodulation.

A method and apparatus of configuring a multi-cell precoding matrix for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) operation in a wireless communication system in which a plurality of base stations participate in cooperative communication is provided. A multi-cell precoding matrix is configured using one or more single-cell precoding matrices, and wherein coefficients to be multiplied by the single-cell precoding matrices satisfy a condition in which the product between the multi-cell precoding matrix and a Hermitian matrix of the multi-cell precoding matrix is a unitary matrix. According to the embodiment of the present invention, it is not necessary for all base stations to perfectly know channel information. In addition, a feedback overhead is not high, and complexity is low.

A method for transceiving a signal in a cooperative MIMO(Multi-Input Multi-Output) mode is provided to perform precoding by sharing precoding matrix information received from a terminal in a closed-loop mode when a data signal for one terminal is transmitted in a plurality of base stations in the multi-cell environment. A channel signal, which is received from cooperative base stations including a serving base station and more than one neighboring base station, which performs a cooperative MIMO mode with the serving base station, is measured. A precoding matrix index for each cooperative base station is determined and reported to the serving base station. The same or independent signal is received from the cooperative base stations. More than one of a first precoding matrix index maximizing interference and a second precoding matrix index minimizing the interference is computed.

In a multiuser (MU) multiple antenna system (MAS), a central processing unit is communicatively coupled to multiple distributed wireless terminals (WTs) via a network. The central processing unit processes channel measurements indicative of channel conditions between the multiple distributed WTs and a plurality of user devices and selects a plurality of WTs from the multiple distributed WTs to enhance channel space diversity within the MU-MAS. The central processing unit calculates (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) MIMO weights from the channel measurements for precoding a plurality of data streams that are transmitted concurrently from the plurality of WTs to the plurality of users, wherein the MIMO weights provide for a plurality of independent MIMO channels.

Disclosed is a method for selecting a source transmit antenna in a cooperative multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) communication system including a source node, a relay node and a destination node. The method includes determining a source transmit antenna selection metric such that a source-destination channel, a source-relay channel and a relay-destination channel are related to one another, and selecting a positive integer number of antennas such that the source transmit antenna selection metric is maximized.

A method for allocating fractional frequency reuse (FER) resources to perform cooperative MIMO in a multi-cell environment is disclosed. A cell which requests FER resources decides a band for cooperative MIMO with its neighboring cell, and requests the neighboring cell to allocate the decided band for cooperative MIMO. A cell which receives FER resource request receives a request from a neighboring cell to allocate some or all of FER bands allocated to the neighboring cell as a band for cooperative MIMO, decides whether to grant the request, and allocates some or all of the requested FER bands as the band for cooperative MIMO with the neighboring cell if the request is granted.