Method for feeding back CSI information in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10505608-B2
Application number	US-201515553967-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 23, 2015
Priority date	Feb 26, 2015
Publication date	Dec 10, 2019
Grant date	Dec 10, 2019

Abstract

The present application provides a method for feeding back, by a terminal, CSI information in a wireless communication system to which 3D beamforming is applied. Here, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a pilot signal from a base station; and feeding back first CSI information for a horizontal direction domain and second CSI information for a vertical direction domain on the basis of the 3D beamforming. Here, when a precoding indicator is a first value, first wideband (WB) CSI information and second wideband (WB) CSI information may be fed back, and when the precoding indicator is a second value, first subband (SB) CSI information and second subband (SB) CSI information may be fed back.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of feeding back channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system applied three-dimensional (3D) beamforming, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprising:
receiving a reference signal from a base station; and
feeding back first CSI for a horizontal (H) domain and second CSI for a vertical (V) domain based on the 3D beamforming,
wherein the first CSI comprises wideband (WB) first CSI and the second CSI comprises WB second CSI when a precoding indicator is a first value,
wherein the first CSI comprises subband (SB) first CSI and the second CSI comprises SB second CSI when the precoding indicator is a second value,
wherein the WB first CSI includes WB H-channel quality information (CQI) and the WB second CSI includes WB V-CQI,
wherein the first CSI includes an H-precoding matrix index (PMI) and the second CSI includes a V-PMI,
when one of the V-PMI and the H-PMI is configured based on a single codebook and another one of the V-PMI and the H-PMI is configured based on a dual codebook:
wherein a SB PMI feedback for the one of the V-PMI and the H-PMI configured based on the single codebook is omitted and WB PMI feedback for the one of the V-PMI and the H-PMI configured based on the single codebook is performed, and
wherein a SB PMI feedback for the another one of the V-PMI and the H-PMI configured based on the dual codebook is performed and a first WB PMI feedback and a second WB PMI feedback for the another one of the V-PMI and the H-PMI configured based on the dual codebook are performed.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the WB first CSI and the WB second CSI are fed back earlier than the SB first CSI and the SB second CSI.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the precoding indicator has 1 bit.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first WB PMI feedback and the WB PMI feedback are performed in a first subframe when the precoding indicator is the first value,
wherein the second WB PMI feedback is sequentially performed in a second subframe.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the first subframe and the second subframe are consecutive in time.

6. The method according to claim 4 , wherein feedback periods of the precoding indicator, the first WB PMI feedback, the second WB PMI feedback, and the WB PMI feedback are set differently.

7. The method according to claim 1 , when the precoding indicator is the first value, wherein:
the first WB PMI feedback is performed in a first subframe,
the WB PMI feedback is performed sequentially in a second subframe,
one of the WB H-CQI and the WB V-CQI configured based on the single codebook is sequentially fed back in a third subframe, and
the second WB PMI is sequentially fed back with another one of the WB H-CQI and the WB V-CQI configured based on the dual codebook in a fourth subframe.

8. A user equipment (UE) device for feeding back channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system applied three-dimensional (3D) beamforming, the UE device comprising:
a receiver configured to receive information from an external device;
a transmitter configured to transmit information to the external device; and
a processor configured to:
control the receiver to receive a reference signal from a base station; and
control the transmitter to feedback first CSI for a horizontal (H) domain and second CSI for a vertical (V) domain based on the 3D beamforming,
wherein the first CSI comprises wideband (WB) first CSI and the second CSI comprises WB second CSI when a precoding indicator is a first value,
wherein the WB first CSI includes WB H-channel quality information (CQI) and the WB second CSI includes WB V-CQI,
wherein the first CSI includes an H-precoding matrix index (PMI) and the second CSI includes a V-PMI,
when one of the V-PMI and the H-PMI is configured based on a single codebook and another one of the V-PMI and the H-PMI is configured based on a dual codebook:
wherein a SB PMI feedback for the one of the V-PMI and the H-PMI configured based on the single codebook is omitted and WB PMI feedback for the one of the V-PMI and the H-PMI configured based on the single codebook is performed, and
wherein a SB PMI feedback for the another one of the V-PMI and the H-PMI configured based on the dual codebook is performed and a first WB PMI feedback and a second WB PMI feedback for the another one of the V-PMI and the H-PMI configured based on the dual codebook are performed.

9. The UE device according to claim 8 , wherein the WB first CSI and the WB second CSI are fed back earlier than the SB first CSI and the SB second CSI.

10. The UE device according to claim 8 , wherein the precoding indicator has 1 bit.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Kim Heejin
• Kang Jiwon
• Kim Kitae
• Lee Kilbom
• Park Kungmin

Classifications

• H04L5/0048

  Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091) · CPC title

• H04B7/0626

  Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI] · CPC title

• H04B7/0639

  Using selective indices, e.g. of a codebook, e.g. pre-distortion matrix index [PMI] or for beam selection · CPC title

• H04B7/0469

  taking special antenna structures, e.g. cross polarized antennas into account · CPC title

• H04B7/0617 Primary

  for beam forming · CPC title