Unified Precoding for Multiple Transport Blocks in LTE

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing LTE system faces inefficiencies when transmitting multiple transport blocks due to the use of different precoding for each block, leading to reduced system performance and inability to meet requirements for high-order modulation and large data transmission.

Innovation Solution

The method involves using the same precoding matrix for multiple transport blocks, cross-mapping them onto time-frequency resources, and configuring different modulation and coding schemes (MCS) based on channel conditions, allowing for flexible scheduling and improved system performance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If different precoding is used for each transport block, then each block can be optimized independently, but system performance decreases and coding/modulation efficiency is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem performanceVSAvoidcoding and modulation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the precoding operation for multiple transport blocks into a single unified process. Instead of applying separate precoding matrices to each transport block independently, the invention combines all transport blocks and applies a single precoding operation, thereby improving coding and modulation efficiency while maintaining or enhancing system performance through coordinated transmission.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple transport blocks are transmitted with individual precoding, then flexibility in transmission is maintained, but system performance and ability to support high-order modulation is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission flexibilityVSAvoidsystem performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple transport blocks into a unified transmission stream with a single precoding operation, enabling more efficient use of available resources and supporting higher-order modulation schemes. This merging approach improves system performance by optimizing the overall transmission rather than treating each block separately, while still maintaining flexibility through the ability to dynamically adjust the combined transmission parameters.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10142982B2Data sending and receiving method and data sending and receiving end
Publication Date: 2018.11.27 XIAN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE
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AI summary

Disclosed are a data transmitting, receiving method, a data transmitting end, and a data receiving end. The transmitting method includes that: a transmitting end codes and modulates a plurality of transport blocks of a same receiving end, wherein a same precoding matrix is used to precode the plurality of transport blocks; the transmitting end maps the plurality of transport blocks onto time-frequency resources of a plurality of subframes; and the transmitting end transmits the plurality of subframes.