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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10476544-B2
Application number	US-201614994021-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 12, 2016
Priority date	Jan 12, 2015
Publication date	Nov 12, 2019
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019

Abstract

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). 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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A signal transmission method based on a filter bank, comprising:
receiving, by an electronic device, a scheduling control signaling including a pre-equalization configuration information indicating whether pre-equalization is enabled, from a network;
obtaining, by the electronic device, the pre-equalization configuration information from the scheduling control signaling;
if the pre-equalization configuration information indicates that the pre-equalization is enabled, generating, by the electronic device, pre-equalization coefficients, performing pre-equalization operation to transmission signals according to the pre-equalization coefficients, and performing modulation based on the filter bank; and
if the pre-equalization configuration information indicates that the pre-equalization is disabled, performing, by the electronic device, modulating to the transmission signals without pre-equalization, based on the filter bank.

2. The signal transmission method of claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining, by the electronic device from the scheduling control signaling, information of subframe type adopted when the pre-equalization is enabled or disabled,
wherein the information of subframe type indicates number of symbols transmitted in a subframe and transmission timing of a first symbol.

3. The signal transmission method of claim 1 , wherein generating the pre-equalization coefficients comprises:
generating the pre-equalization coefficients according to a pre-equalization manner, wherein the pre-equalization manner is pre-defined, or an indication of the pre-equalization manner is contained in the pre-equalization configuration information.

4. The signal transmission method of claim 3 , wherein the pre-equalization manner comprises:
performing pre-equalization to both amplitude and phase, or performing pre-equalization to the phase.

5. The signal transmission method of claim 4 , wherein if the pre-equalization manner comprises performing pre-equalization to both amplitude and phase, generating the pre-equalization coefficients according to the pre-equalization manner comprises:
generating the pre-equalization coefficients according to channel status information and the pre-equalization manner,
wherein a composite equivalent channel frequency response of the pre-equalization coefficients and a channel frequency response is a real number or has an imaginary part approaches to 0, and modulus of the equivalent channel frequency response approximates to 1.

6. The signal transmission method of claim 5 , wherein the channel status information is obtained from channel reciprocity.

7. The signal transmission method of claim 4 , wherein if the pre-equalization manner comprises performing pre-equalization to the phase, generating the pre-equalization coefficients according to the pre-equalization manner comprises:
generating the pre-equalization coefficients according to channel status information and the pre-equalization manner,
wherein a composite equivalent channel frequency response of the pre-equalization coefficients and a channel frequency response is a real number or has an imaginary part approaches to 0, and modulus of the equivalent channel frequency response approximates to modulus of the channel frequency response.

8. The signal transmission method of claim 4 , wherein if the pre-equalization manner comprises performing pre-equalization to the phase, generating the pre-equalization coefficients according to the pre-equalization manner comprises:
obtaining a phase indicator according to a feedback from a receiver; and
generating the pre-equalization coefficients according to the obtained phase indicator.

9. The signal transmission method of claim 8 , wherein a quantified phase information of channel frequency response is obtained according to the phase indicator, frequency phase response coefficients on an allocated bandwidth are generated according to the phase information, and the frequency phase response coefficients is taken as frequency-domain pre-equalization coefficients.

10. The signal transmission method of claim 9 , further comprising:
dividing frequency domain into one or more sub-bands, wherein the phase indicator is based on a sub-band, a number of the one or more sub-bands is larger than or equal to 1,
wherein the frequency-domain pre-equalization coefficients on the allocated bandwidth is generated according to a corresponding relationship between the phase indication and the one or more sub-bands.

11. The signal transmission method of claim 8 , wherein a quantified phase information of channel impulse response is obtained according to the phase indicator, the phase information is converted into corresponding frequency phase response coefficients, and the frequency phase response coefficients are taken as frequency-domain pre-equalization coefficients.

12. The signal transmission method of claim 11 , wherein the quantified phase information of channel impulse response is phase information of a highest energy path in a multipath channel, or is phase information of an average of phases of X highest energy paths in the multipath channel, wherein X is larger than 1.

13. The signal transmission method of claim 8 , wherein the feedback is obtained from phase indication bit field added in an uplink scheduling grant or from a dedicated feedback channel.

14. A signal receiving method based on a filter bank, comprising:
determining, by an electronic device, whether post-equalization is to be performed to demodulated signals based on the filter bank according to pre-equalization configuration information, wherein the pre-equalization configuration information indicates whether pre-equalization is enabled or disabled;
if the pre-equalization configuration information indicates that the pre-equalization is enabled, performing, by the electronic device, the post-equalization to the demodulated signals based on the filter bank according to a composite equivalent channel frequency response of pre-equalization coefficients and a channel frequency response; and
if the pre-equalization configuration information indicates that the pre-equalization is disabled, performing, by the electronic device, amplitude and phase post-equalization to the demodulated signals based on the filter bank according to an estimated channel frequency response.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein performing the post-equalization according to the composited equivalent channel frequency response of the pre-equalization coefficients and the channel frequency response comprises:
directly estimating the composite equivalent channel frequency response of the pre-equalization coefficients and the channel frequency response through receiving a reference signal which is pre-equalized and used for channel estimation; or
performing a channel estimation to a reference signal which is not pre-equalized and indirectly estimating the composite equivalent channel frequency response of the pre-equalization coefficients and the channel frequency response according to a pre-equalization manner adopted by a transmitter, wherein the composite equivalent channel frequency response is used for performing the post-equalization to the demodulated signals based on the filter bank.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the pre-equalization manner is pre-defined, or an indication of the pre-equalization manner is contained in the pre-equalization configuration information.

17. An electronic device for transmitting a signal based on a filter bank, comprising:
a non-transitory computer-readable m

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yu Bin
• Zhu Dalin
• Sun Pengfei

Classifications

• H04L25/03343

  Arrangements at the transmitter end · CPC title

• H04B1/1036

  with automatic suppression of narrow band noise or interference, e.g. by using tuneable notch filters (H04B1/123 takes precedence; filter circuits H03H) · CPC title

• H04B1/7101

  with estimation filters · CPC title

• H04B1/40 Primary

  Circuits · CPC title

• H04L27/264

  Pulse-shaped multi-carrier, i.e. not using rectangular window · CPC title