Constellation rotation method and base station

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11362879-B2
Application number	US-201816608728-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 20, 2018
Priority date	Apr 27, 2017
Publication date	Jun 14, 2022
Grant date	Jun 14, 2022

Abstract

A constellation rotation method is presented. The method includes: determining a statistical characteristic of a received signal of a Base Station (BS) according to a channel coefficient of one or more User Equipments (UEs), at least one of noise information and interference information, the received signal being a signal received by the BS through a physical channel from the one or more UEs; determining a constellation rotation angle of each UE according to the determined statistical characteristic of the received signal; and for each UE, rotating a constellation of a data stream of a UE according to the constellation rotation angle of the UE.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A constellation rotation method, comprising:
determining a statistical characteristic of a received signal of a Base Station (BS) according to a channel coefficient of one or more User Equipments (UEs), at least one of noise information and interference information, the received signal being a signal received by the BS through a physical channel from the one or more UEs;
determining a constellation rotation angle of each UE according to the determined statistical characteristic of the received signal; and
for each UE, rotating a constellation of a data stream of a UE according to the constellation rotation angle of the UE;
wherein determining the statistical characteristic of the received signal of the Base Station (BS) according to the channel coefficient of the one or more User Equipments (UEs), at least one of noise information and interference information comprises:
determining an entropy of a random variable of the received signal according to the channel coefficient of the one or more UEs, at least one of the noise information and the interference information;
determining the constellation rotation angle of each UE according to the determined statistical characteristic of the received signal comprises:
determining the constellation rotation angle of each UE by maximizing the entropy.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the entropy of the random variable of the received signal according to the channel coefficient of the one or more UEs, at least one of the noise information and the interference information comprises:
determining a distribution function of the random variable of the received signal; and
determining the entropy of the random variable of the received signal according to the distribution function of the random variable of the received signal.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
approximating the entropy of the random variable of the received signal to obtain a closed-form lower-bound expression, and using the closed-form lower-bound expression to represent the entropy of the random variable of the received signal, wherein
determining the constellation rotation angle of each UE according to the determined statistical characteristic of the received signal comprises:
determining the constellation rotation angle of each UE by maximizing the entropy by using the closed-form lower-bound expression.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining the distribution function of the random variable of the received signal comprises:
determining the distribution function, according to the number of elements in a constellation point set received by the BS after all possible constellation points sent by each UE pass the physical channel, and a distribution function of a noise and/or interference.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the distribution function of the noise and/or the interference is represented by a circular symmetric Gaussian distribution function, of which a mean value is a sum of signals of UEs received by the BS, and a variance is a noise variance.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
superimposing the signals of UEs subjected to constellation rotation, and sending the superimposed signal.

7. A constellation rotation method, comprising:
receiving a constellation rotation angle corresponding to a User Equipment (UE) from a Base Station (BS), wherein a received signal is a signal received by the BS through a physical channel from one or more (UE), an entropy of a random variable of the received signal is determined by the BS according to a channel coefficient of the one or more UEs, at least one of noise information and interference information, and the constellation rotation angle is determined by the BS by maximizing the entropy; and
rotating a constellation of a data stream of the UE according to the constellation rotation angle.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein receiving the constellation rotation angle corresponding to the UE from the BS comprises:
receiving a dynamic downlink signaling from the BS, and acquiring the constellation rotation angle from the dynamic downlink signaling.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein receiving the constellation rotation angle corresponding to the UE from the BS comprises:
receiving a quasi-static downlink signaling from the BS, and acquiring a reference constellation rotation angle from the quasi-static downlink signaling;
receiving a dynamic downlink signaling from the BS, and acquiring a rotation angle offset from the dynamic downlink signaling; and
determining the constellation rotation angle according to the reference constellation rotation angle and the rotation angle offset.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein receiving the constellation rotation angle corresponding to the UE from the BS comprises:
receiving a predefined codebook corresponding to constellation rotation angles from the BS;
receiving a dynamic downlink signaling from the BS, and acquiring a codebook index corresponding to the constellation rotation angle from the dynamic downlink signaling; and
determining the constellation rotation angle according to the codebook corresponding to constellation rotation angles and the codebook index corresponding to the constellation rotation angle.

11. A Base Station (BS), comprising:
a processor;
a memory connected with the processor, wherein machine-readable instruction modules are stored in the memory, and the machine-readable instruction modules comprise:
a model establishment module, configured to determine a statistical characteristic of a received signal of a Base Station (BS) according to a channel coefficient of one or more User Equipments (UEs), at least one of noise information and interference information, the received signal being a signal received by the BS through a physical channel from the one or more UEs;
a constellation rotation angle determination module, configured to determine a constellation rotation angle of each UE according to the determined statistical characteristic of the received signal; and
a constellation rotation module, configured to for each UE, rotate a constellation of a data stream of a UE according to the constellation rotation angle of the UE;
wherein the model establishment module is configured to determine an entropy of a random variable of the received signal according to the channel coefficient of the one or more UEs, at least one of the noise information and the interference information;
the constellation rotation angle determination module is configured to determine the constellation rotation angle of each UE by maximizing the entropy.

12. The BS of claim 11 , further comprising:
a measurement module, configured to obtain the channel coefficient of each UE by channel measurement.

13. The BS of claim 11 , further comprising:
a notification module, configured to notify the constellation rotation angle of a UE to the UE.

Assignees

• Ntt Docomo Inc

Inventors

• Ye Neng
• Li Xiangming
• Chen Xiaohang
• Hou Xiaolin
• Zhao Qun
• Jiang Huiling

Classifications

• H04L27/206

  using a pair of orthogonal carriers, e.g. quadrature carriers · CPC title

• H04L5/0037

  Inter-user or inter-terminal allocation · CPC title

• H04L5/0073

  Allocation arrangements that take into account other cell interferences · CPC title

• H04W88/08

  Access point devices · CPC title

• H04L27/3444 Primary

  by applying a certain rotation to regular constellations · CPC title