Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Avago Technologies General IP (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Broadcom Corporation

Avago Technologies General IP Pte, Ltd.

Pengfei Sun

Bin Yu

Haiming Wang

Wei Bai

Dalin Zhu

Na Wei

Erlin Zeng

Wei Hong

Chunyan Gao

Jing Han

Lili Zhang

Xinying Gao

Chen Qian

Fang Yuan

Ming Lei

Chengjun Sun

Juho Mikko Oskari Pirskanen

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for transmitting reference signals is provided. In the method, a transmitting apparatus inserts at least one physical resource block for reducing reference signal overheads between adjacent first physical resource blocks, and then transmits first physical resource blocks and the at least one physical resource block for reducing the reference signal overheads.

Methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving reference signals

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The application discloses methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving a preamble based reference signal. The method for transmitting a preamble based reference signal comprises: generating a main preamble sequence; generating an auxiliary preamble sequence, wherein, on a predefined resource, a synthesized signal of the main preamble sequence and the auxiliary preamble sequence is equal to a predefined preamble based reference signal; and transmitting the main preamble sequence and the auxiliary preamble sequence based on a filter-bank multi-carrier modulation. According to the embodiments of the application, the main preamble sequence and the auxiliary preamble sequence are appropriately designed so that the synthesized signal on the predefined resource is equal to the predefined preamble based reference signal. In this way, the predefined reference signal may be obtained at the receiving end by using the intrinsic interference of FBMC modulation, thereby making an efficient channel estimation.

Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving preamble based reference signal

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A signal transmission method based on a filter bank, includes obtaining by a transmitter pre-equalization information, wherein the pre-equalization configuration information indicates whether pre-equalization is enabled, if the pre-equalization configuration information indicates that the pre-equalization is enabled, generating by the transmitter pre-equalization coefficients according to a pre-equalization manner, and performing pre-equalization operation to transmission signals according to the pre-equalization coefficients, and performing modulation based on the filter bank.

Signal transmission and receiving method, system and apparatus based on filter bank

A method for acquiring channel state information, includes transmitting, by a transmitting end, a first probing signal and a second probing signal in at least one probing zone, receiving, from a receiving end, channel state information acquired based on measurement of the first probing signal and the second probing signal, wherein the channel state information includes one or more of beam width information, adaptively quantized channel direction information, or predicted channel quality information. A terminal includes a signal receiving module adapted to receive a first probing signal and a second probing signal in at least one probing zone, and a feedback module adapted to acquire channel state information based on the first probing signal and the second probing signal, feed back the channel state information to a transmitting end.

Methods for acquiring and feeding back channel state information, base station and terminal

A method and an apparatus for transmitting a reference signal. A first reference signal is generated according to a data signal, an interference relationship between adjacent carriers, and a predefined second reference signal. The data signal and the first reference signal is modulated and sent on a corresponding carrier utilizing non-orthogonal multi-carrier modulation waveform. A method for receiving a reference signal includes receiving, on a reference signal carrier, a first reference signal modulated utilizing non-orthogonal multi-carrier modulation waveform, processing the received first reference signal using a predefined processing method, performing channel estimation or synchronization according to a result of the processing and a predefined second reference signal.

Method and system for sending a reference signal, method and system for receiving a reference signal

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). Various examples of the present disclosure provide a method of allocating sounding reference signal (SRS) resources. A base station of a target cell receives information of first cell edge terminals in an adjacent cell transmitted by the adjacent cell. The base station allocates SRS resources for a terminal in the target cell according to information of second cell edge terminals in the target cell and the information of the first cell edge terminals, and transmits information of the allocated SRS resources to the terminal. According to the mechanism, when there are cell edge terminals in both the target cell and the adjacent cell, it can be guaranteed that all SRS resources allocated to cell edge devices in the target cell are orthogonal to those allocated to cell edge devices in the adjacent cell. Thus, the impact of pilot contamination on system performances may be remarkably reduced.

Method and apparatus of allocating sounding reference signal resources

The present disclosure provides a method for interference cancellation which includes: calculating a mean value and a variance value of a received signal to obtain statistics information of the received signal; calculating an estimating log-likelihood ratio using the statistics information of the received signal; calculating a decoding log-likelihood ratios of the received signal using the estimating log-likelihood ratio of the received signal, and performing calculations to update the statistics information of the received signal; repeating the above steps for a pre-determined number of times, performing hard decisions on the decoding log-likelihood ratios of the received signal, and outputting data bits obtained from the hard decision. The present disclosure also provides an apparatus, an auxiliary method, a base station and a terminal device for interference cancellation. The mechanism of the present disclosure can reduce the impact of inherent interference in the FBMC/OQAM system on system performances, and increase spectral efficiency and design flexibility of the FBMC/OQAM system.

Method and auxiliary method, apparatus base station and user equipment for interference cancellation

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The base station determines a cell edge user, receives information of a cell edge user in an adjacent cell; according to the information of cell edge users in the cell and the adjacent cell, establishes a virtual cell including the cell edge users, transmits configuration information of the cell edge user in the cell and configuration information of the cell to base stations each of which a cell edge user in the virtual cell is located at, and receives configuration information of each cell edge user and configuration information of a cell where the each cell edge user is located from a base station where the each cell edge user is located, and configures uplink-downlink resources and a transmission mode for the virtual cell.

Resource management method and apparatus

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of a base station in a wireless communication system, including: determining a signal transmission mode to be used by each of antennas based on a channel condition between each of the antennas and a terminal; and transmitting signals to one or more terminals from each of the antennas based on the signal transmission mode.

Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving signal in wireless communication system supporting distributed antenna system

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. According to a method for transmitting diversity, implemented at a transmitting end, space-time precoding is performed for a digital signal to obtain at least two coded signal streams, and then each coded signal stream is transmitted using a respective transmitting and receiving unit (TXRU) equipped with a multi-antenna array, in which an antenna array weight used by the respective TXRU to transmit each coded signal stream is one of two sets of antenna array weights, and at least two TXRUs use two different sets of antenna array weights. The present disclosure also discloses a corresponding transmitter. With the present disclosure, transmitting diversity may be realized in a large-scale antenna system.

Method and apparatus for transmitting diversity

A Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC) modulation-based signal transmitting method includes mapping, by a transmitter, an original Data Block (DB) with at least one symbol to a first Resource Block (RB), preprocessing the original DB, and mapping the preprocessed original DB to a second RB, modulating, by the transmitter, data of the first RB and the second RB by using a FBMC modulation, and, transmitting, by the transmitter, the data modulated. A transmitter, comprising a mapping module, a modulating module and a transmitting module, wherein the mapping module is to map an original DB with at least one symbol to a first resource block (RB), preprocess the original DB, and map the preprocessed original DB to a second RB, the modulating module is to modulate data of the first RB and the second RB, by using FBMC modulation, and, the transmitting module is to transmit the data modulated.

Filter bank multicarrier modulation-based signal transmitting method, signal receiving method and device

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for enabling efficient allocation of discovery resources for device to device communications. An example method may comprise establishing a cellular network connection to an access point. The method may further comprise establishing a local area network connection to a user equipment. Additionally, the method may comprise either receiving offloaded data for the user equipment from the access point via the cellular network connection and relaying the offloaded data to the user equipment via the local area network connection, or receiving offloaded data for the access point from the user equipment via the local area network connection and relaying the offloaded data to the access point via the cellular network connection. Similar and related example methods, example apparatuses, and example computer program products are also provided.

Method and apparatus for offloading data

A method for transmitting signal based on a filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) modulation, a method for receiving signal based on the FBMC modulation, and a corresponding transmitting device and receiving device are disclosed. The method includes preprocessing determined symbols in a data block, modulating the preprocessed data block with the FBMC modulation, truncating the modulated data block to remove a part or all of tailing data therefrom, and transmitting the truncated modulated data block, from which the part or all of tailing data has been removed, and the determined symbols are affected by the truncating of the modulated data block. The data block includes at least one symbol. The method relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE).

Communication method and apparatus based on a filter bank multi-carrier modulation

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G system with a technology for IoT. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present application discloses a method and device for transmitting and receiving signals based on a filter bank. The device comprises: a CS-DFT spreading unit for generating two data flows by applying a CS-DFT spreading operation to a first complex-value data flow input thereto; a sub-carrier mapping unit for mapping each of the two data flows to corresponding sub-carriers; and an OQAM modulator for generating OQAM signals by applying an OQAM operation to the data flows mapped on sub-carriers.

Method and apparatus for generating, transmitting and receiving signals based on filter bank in wireless communication system

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Provided is a method of transmitting signals in an FBMC/OQAM system. Data symbols transmitted in category-2 data symbols or category-3 data symbols are determined according to interference from all of adjacent OQAM data symbols and an intrinsic interference coefficient of category-2 data symbols interference experienced by category-3 data symbols in a user data block, so that transmission symbols in the category-3 data symbols composed of transmitted data symbols and interference include target data symbols of the category-3 data symbols and target data symbols of the category-2 data symbols. A transmitting device transmits the data symbols of the category-3 data symbols and data symbols transmitted in category-2 data symbols together with other data symbols in the user data block.

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