Method and device for channel measurement in a wireless LAN system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9369895-B2
Application number	US-201214124584-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 1, 2012
Priority date	Jun 7, 2011
Publication date	Jun 14, 2016
Grant date	Jun 14, 2016

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and device for channel measurement in a wireless LAN system. A station (STA) receives a plurality of sounding frames from an access point (AP), estimates the plurality of sounding frames in order to generate long-term channel state information (LCSI), provides the generated LCSI to the AP as feedback, and receives from the AP a group identifier (ID) management frame comprising information on a group ID determined on the basis of the LCSI.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for measuring, by a station (STA), a channel in a wireless LAN system, the method comprising:
receiving a plurality of sounding frames from an access point (AP) when the STA is a long-term channel measurable STA;
determining a first long-term channel state information (LCSI) based on the plurality of sounding frames when the STA is the long-term channel measurable STA;
transmitting the first LCSI to the AP when the STA is the long-term channel measurable STA;
receiving a first group identifier (ID) management frame including information on a first group ID determined based on the first LCSI from the AP when the STA is the long-term channel measurable STA;
receiving a beamforming feedback request frame periodically from the AP when the STA is a long-term channel non-measurable STA;
transmitting a beamforming feedback frame to the AP periodically in response to the beamforming feedback request frame when the STA is the long-term channel non-measurable STA; and
receiving a second group identifier (ID) management frame including information on a second group ID determined based on a second LCSI from the AP when the STA is the long-term channel non-measurable STA,
wherein the plurality of sounding frames includes sounding frames transmitted to the STA and overheard sounding frames transmitted to another STA,
wherein the first LCSI is transmitted through an LCSI report field within a very high throughput (VHT) action frame, and
wherein the second LCSI determined by the AP based on the beamforming feedback frame.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the first LCSI and the second LSCI is calculated by Equation of E T [H k *H k ], where E T represents an average for a time T, H k represents a channel matrix of a k-th user, and H k * represents a conjugate transpose matrix of H k .

3. A method for managing, by an access point (AP), group identifier (ID) in a wireless LAN system, the method comprising:
determining whether or not a station (STA) is a long-term channel measurable STA;
transmitting a plurality of sounding frames to the STA when the STA is the long-term channel measurable STA;
receiving a first long-term channel state information (LCSI) from the STA generated based on the plurality of sounding frames when the STA is the long-term channel measurable STA;
calculating a bound of a first time-averaged multi user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) sum capacity based on the first LCSI when the STA is the long-term channel measurable STA; and
transmitting a first group ID management frame including information on a first group ID determined based on the calculated bound of the first time-averaged MU-MIMO sum capacity to the STA when the STA is the long-term channel measurable STA,
transmitting a beamforming feedback request frame to the STA periodically when the STA is a long-term channel non-measurable STA;
receiving a beamforming feedback frame from the STA periodically in response to the beamforming feedback request frame when the STA is the long-term channel non-measurable STA;
generating a second LCSI based on beamforming feedback frame when the STA is the long-term channel non-measurable STA;
calculating a bound of a time-averaged MU MIMO sum capacity based on the second LCSI when the STA is the long-term channel non-measurable STA; and
transmitting a second group ID management frame including information on a second group ID determined based on the calculated bound of the second time-averaged MU-MIMO sum capacity to the STA when the STA is the long-term channel non-measurable STA,
wherein the plurality of sounding frames includes sounding frames transmitted to the STA and overheard sounding frames transmitted to another station, and
wherein the first LCSI is transmitted through an LCSI report field within a very high throughput (VHT) action frame.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein each of the first LCSI and the second LSCI is calculated by Equation of E T [H k *H k ], where E T represents an average for a time T, H k represents a channel matrix of a k-th user, and H k * represents a conjugate transpose matrix of H k .

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein each of the bound of the first time-averaged MU-MIMO sum capacity and the bound of the second time-averaged MU-MIMO sum capacity is calculated by the following Equation,

C
_

MU
-

MIMO
SUM

≤

C

MU
-

MIMO
bound

=

log
2

⁢

det
⁡

(

I
+

SNR

N
t

⁢

∑
K

k
=
1

⁢

⁢

E
T

⁡

[

H
k
*

⁢

H
k

]

)

,

where I represents an interference matrix, SNR represents a signal to noise ratio, and K represents the number of users.

Assignees

• Sohn Ill Soo
• Choi Sunghyun
• Yoo Seung Min
• Lee Hyewon
• Choi Mun Hwan
• Seok Yong Ho
• Lee Ok Hwan
• Snu R&Db Foundation
• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Sohn Ill Soo
• Choi Sunghyun
• Yoo Seung Min
• Lee Hyewon
• Choi Mun Hwan
• Seok Yong Ho
• Lee Ok Hwan

Classifications

• H04B7/0617

  for beam forming · CPC title

• H04B7/0634

  Antenna weights or vector/matrix coefficients · CPC title

• H04B7/0452

  Multi-user MIMO systems · CPC title

• H04W24/08 Primary

  Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic · CPC title

• H04B7/065 Primary

  Variable contents, e.g. long-term or short-short · CPC title