Signal processing method and apparatus, and device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10326628-B2
Application number	US-201715493675-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 21, 2017
Priority date	Oct 22, 2014
Publication date	Jun 18, 2019
Grant date	Jun 18, 2019

Abstract

Embodiments of the present application provide a signal processing method and apparatus, and a device. The embodiments relate to an MU-MIMO system. The signal processing apparatus includes: a signal obtaining module and a sending module. A signal includes N spatial flows, and the signal includes a training field, where the training field includes a first part and a second part. Sub-carriers of an OFDM symbol in the second part of the training field are divided into N training sub-carrier sets TSSs in a division manner that is the same as a division manner of sub-carriers of an OFDM symbol in the first part of the training field, and each spatial flow corresponds to at least one sub-carrier in a TSS, in each frequency domain location, of each OFDM symbol in the second part of the training field. So that precision of the channel estimation is improved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A signal processing apparatus for use in a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system, the apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the processor and storing programming instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
receive a signal comprising N spatial flows, wherein the signal comprises a training field comprising a first part and a second part, wherein the first part of the training field comprises L orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, L≤N, N is a positive integer, sub-carriers of the OFDM symbol in the first part of the training field are divided into N training sub-carrier sets (TSSs), each spatial flow corresponds to one TSS in each OFDM symbol in the first part of the training field, and each spatial flow corresponds to TSSs at different frequency domain locations in different OFDM symbols in the first part of the training field, and wherein the second part of the training field comprises M OFDM symbols, sub-carriers of the OFDM symbol in the second part of the training field are divided into N TSSs in a division manner that is the same as a division manner of the sub-carriers of the OFDM symbol in the first part of the training field, and each spatial flow corresponds to at least one sub-carrier in each TSS of the OFDM symbol in the second part of the training field;
determine, for each spatial flow in the signal received, a phase correction factor corresponding to the spatial flow; and
perform phase correction on channel estimation of the spatial flow by using the phase correction factor, to obtain phase-corrected channel estimation of each spatial flow.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein in the OFDM symbol in the second part of the training field, each TSS comprises N sub-carrier groups, and each spatial flow corresponds to at least one sub-carrier in at least one sub-carrier group of each TSS.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein in the OFDM symbol in the second part of the training field, each TSS comprises D levels of sub-carrier groups, wherein D is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and a (D−1) th -level sub-carrier group comprises at least two D th -level sub-carrier groups, the D th -level sub-carrier group comprises at least N sub-carriers, and each spatial flow corresponds to at least one sub-carrier in at least one D th -level sub-carrier group comprised in each (D−1) th -level sub-carrier group.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein:
a value of M is 1 and a value of D is 2; and
in the OFDM symbol in the second part of the training field, each TSS comprises K first-level sub-carrier groups, each first-level sub-carrier group comprises N second-level sub-carrier groups, and each spatial flow corresponds to at least one sub-carrier in at least one second-level sub-carrier group of each first-level sub-carrier group, wherein K is a positive integer.

5. A signal processing method for use in a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system, and the method comprising:
receiving a signal comprising N spatial flows, wherein the signal comprises a training field comprising a first part and a second part, wherein the first part of the training field comprises L orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, L≤N, N is a positive integer, sub-carriers of the OFDM symbol in the first part of the training field are divided into N training sub-carrier sets (TSSs), each spatial flow corresponds to one TSS in each OFDM symbol in the first part of the training field, and each spatial flow corresponds to TSSs at different frequency domain locations in different OFDM symbols in the first part of the training field, and wherein the second part of the training field comprises M OFDM symbols, sub-carriers of the OFDM symbol in the second part of the training field are divided into N TSSs in a division manner that is the same as a division manner of the sub-carriers of the OFDM symbol in the first part of the training field, and each spatial flow corresponds to at least one sub-carrier in each TSS of each OFDM symbol in the second part of the training field;
determining, for each spatial flow, a phase correction factor corresponding to the spatial flow; and
performing, by using the phase correction factor, phase correction on channel estimation of the spatial flow corresponding to the phase correction factor, to obtain phase-corrected channel estimation of each spatial flow.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein in the OFDM symbol in the second part of the training field, each TSS comprises N sub-carrier groups, and each spatial flow corresponds to at least one sub-carrier in at least one sub-carrier group of each TSS.

7. The method according to claim 5 , wherein in the OFDM symbol in the second part of the training field, each TSS comprises D levels of sub-carrier groups, wherein D is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and a (D−1) th -level sub-carrier group comprises at least two D th -level sub-carrier groups, the D th -level sub-carrier group comprises at least N sub-carriers, and each spatial flow corresponds to at least one sub-carrier in at least one D th -level sub-carrier group comprised in each (D−1) th -level sub-carrier group.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein:
a value of M is 1 and a value of D is 2; and
in the OFDM symbol in the second part of the training field, each TSS comprises K first-level sub-carrier groups, each first-level sub-carrier group comprises N second-level sub-carrier groups, and each spatial flow corresponds to at least one sub-carrier in at least one second-level sub-carrier group of each first-level sub-carrier group, wherein K is a positive integer.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liu Sheng
• Lu Weishan
• Chen Teyan

Classifications

• H04L27/26 Primary

  Systems using multi-frequency codes (H04L27/32 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04B7/0452

  Multi-user MIMO systems · CPC title

• H04L27/2608 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W72/0453

  Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA · CPC title

• H04L5/0044

  Allocation of payload; Allocation of data channels, e.g. PDSCH or PUSCH · CPC title