Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jun Quiang Li

Ho-Jin Kim

Sung-jin Kim

Ki-ho Kim

Yung-Soo Kim

Byung-Jang Jeong

A mobile communication apparatus that utilizes multiple base station/mobile station antennas and a mobile communication method performed therein are provided. The mobile communication apparatus includes a base station having at least two antennas and at least two mobile stations having at least one antenna, respectively. The base station restores weight information and channel status information from feedback signals received from the mobile stations, determines downlink investigation information that results in maximum transmission channel capacity based on the restored weight information and channel status information, selects mobile stations for simultaneous transmission based on the downlink investigation information, and processes data to be transmitted to the selected mobile stations based on the downlink investigation information.

Mobile station transmitting feedback signals

Mobile communication apparatus and method including base station and mobile station having multi-antenna

The present invention discloses a mobile communication apparatus and method including a base station and a mobile station both having multi-antenna. As for the apparatus, including a base station and at least two mobile stations. The base station carries out the following functions: (a) restores weighted information and channel status information which have been decided by mobile stations from feedback signals received by mobile stations; (b) selects the downlink detect information which satisfies the largest transferring channel capacity from the above weighting information and channel status information which have been restored; (c) selects mobile stations to transmit at the same time from all mobile stations which are able to transmit using downlink detect information; and (d) processes data which will be transferred to select mobile stations with downlink detect information. The base station has at least one base station antenna, and the mobile station has at least one mobile station antenna.

A virtual cell management apparatus and method using sectors in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing mobile communication system including a cell structure having cells each comprised of a plurality of sectors, the cells performing data communication with mobile terminals within a corresponding cell through at least one subchannel having orthogonality. The method comprises forming a virtual cell with a particular one of sectors constituting a particular cell and sectors of two other cells neighboring the particular sector; transmitting, by three base stations forming the virtual cell, an interference measurement value and a channel parameter estimation value from a mobile terminal located in the virtual cell to a base station controller that controls the virtual cell, thereby allocating wireless resource including frequency bandwidth, initial bits, subcarriers and refined bits in the virtual cell; transmitting the allocated wireless resource to the three base stations so that the base stations allocate a same subchannel to each mobile terminal located in the virtual cell; and transmitting same data over the allocated subchannel.

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Yongin, South Korea

Jun Quiang Li