Uplink Precoder Resource Bundling for MIMO Channel Measurement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current wireless communication systems, such as 3GPP LTE, face challenges in efficiently managing uplink reference signals and achieving flexible frequency band use, cost reduction, and power efficiency, particularly in MIMO transmission schemes.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a precoder based on resource bundling in the wireless communication system, specifically for uplink reference signal transmission, allows for efficient beam cycling and precoder configuration across time-frequency resource units, enhancing channel measurement and data transmission in both open-loop and closed-loop MIMO schemes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If traditional uplink reference signal transmission is used without resource bundling, then each reference signal can be transmitted independently, but the control channel overhead increases and system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem complexityVSAvoidcontrol channel overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies resource bundling to combine multiple uplink reference signals into a single resource unit. Instead of transmitting and controlling each reference signal independently, the system bundles them together and applies a single precoder configuration to the entire bundle, thereby reducing control channel overhead and system complexity while maintaining reference signal transmission functionality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Measurement precision

If multiple precoders are applied to different uplink reference signals, then beam cycling and channel measurement improve, but the complexity of precoder configuration increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvechannel measurement accuracyVSAvoidprecoder configuration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the uplink reference signals into resource bundles while maintaining the ability to apply different precoders to different bundles. This segmentation allows the system to manage precoder configurations in a structured manner, where each bundle can have its own precoder applied, but the overall configuration is simplified through the bundling structure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent enables dynamic precoder configuration where the same precoder can be applied to different resource bundles at different times. This dynamic approach allows beam cycling and channel measurement improvements while reducing configuration complexity through time-sharing of precoder applications across bundled reference signals

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP3598658B1Method for applying precoder on basis of resource bundling in wireless communication system, and device therefor
Publication Date: 2021.11.03 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

Disclosed is a method for transmitting an uplink signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the steps of: transmitting multiple precoded reference signals, to each of which a precoder cyclic pattern is applied in a predetermined resource unit, to a base station; receiving, from the base station, information indicating one among the multiple precoded reference signals; and transmitting an uplink data signal and an uplink demodulation reference signal to the base station by using a precoder cyclic pattern which has been applied to the indicated precoded reference signal.