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- the invention relates to wireless systems such as cellular systems that have fixed infrastructure-based relays, and to methods of improving the coverage in such systems.
- Relays have been used to expand the coverage of conventional cellular systems. With such relays, a mobile station that is out of range of the base station may still be able to communicate with a base station via one of the relays.
- the relay has very little functionality, typically only re-transmitting signals received from the mobile station or from the base station.
- MIMO multiple input multiple output
- STBC space-time block coding
- SM spatial multiplexing
- each antenna transmits a respective stream, and there is some correlation between the streams, either due to coding and modulation of input data prior to block coding, or in the block coding structure per se.
- STBC schemes involve a little more complexity at the transmitter, but may allow simplified receiver complexity.
- An example of an STBC scheme that relies on coding and modulation prior to block coding is the so-called “BLAST” approach in which each transmit antenna is used to transmit a unique symbol stream, with coding and modulation being employed prior to block coding to introduce correlation.
- An example of an STBC scheme that relies on the block coding structure per se is STTD (space time transmit diversity) where each symbol appears on multiple antennas.
- a well-known STTD scheme is Alamouti code-based transmission.
- SM spatial multiplexing
- V-BLAST vertical BLAST
- D-BLAST diagonal BLAST
- V-BLAST provides primarily a multiplexing gain. While the diversity gains levels off with increasing number of antennas, the spatial multiplexing gain increases linearly with the increase in number of antennas.
- MIMO is significant when the SINRs of the MIMO signals are comparable thereby allowing a full-rank MIMO channel realization. This restricts the number of instances where cooperative MIMO can be successfully employed in systems featuring distributed users having varying SINR conditions.
- multiple mobile stations cooperatively transmit the data of a single mobile station so as to appear as a MIMO transmission.
- two mobile stations with one antenna each can transmit one of the mobile stations data.
- a two antenna base station could then receive the two signals and process them using MIMO techniques.
- This scheme has some disadvantages. For example, it requires each mobile station's data to be exchanged between the two mobile stations to enable cooperative transmission.
- the transmission is opportunistic since it is based on access bandwidth in the peer mobile station over and above its own prioritized transmissions.
- the scheme adds complexity to the mobile station in that it requires an additional transceiver chain to transmit and receive data from its peers.
- Cooperative MIMO has been shown to provide significant capacity improvements in cellular systems. Since the exchange between two mobile stations is an essential component of cooperative MIMO, the mobile stations need to be conveniently located to exchange the information. Thus, the application of cooperative MIMO is limited to such scenarios.
- FIG. 1 shows an example of conventional fixed infrastructure based selective relaying. Shown is a base station 10 having nominal coverage area 12 . Fixed infrastructure relays 14 , 16 are also provided each with respective coverage areas 18 , 20 . It can be seen that the relays serve to increase the coverage area of the base station. Mobile stations such as mobile station 22 that are within the coverage area 12 of the base station 10 can communicate directly with the mobile stations such as mobile stations 24 and 26 that are outside the coverage area of the base station 10 , but that are within the coverage area of one of the relays such as relay 14 , can communicate by first communicating to the relay 14 and then having their signals relayed from the relay 14 to the base station 10 as illustrated. The result is a multi-hop extension of cellular communication.
- a cellular base station 10 , a relay 14 and a mobile station 24 communicate using combined FDD/TDD such that during a first time interval T 1 the base station 10 and the relay 14 communicate using uplink and downlink frequencies f UL and f DL respectively while during a second time period T 2 the mobile station 24 and the relay 14 communicate using uplink and downlink frequencies f DL and f UL .
- the invention provides a method comprising: a first wireless node transmitting to a second wireless node; a third wireless node transmitting to the second wireless node; the second wireless node performing MIMO processing on signals received from the first wireless node and the third wireless node; wherein at least one of the first and third wireless nodes is re-transmitting content received from a fourth wireless node.
- the first wireless node is a mobile station; the second wireless node is a base station; the third wireless node is a relay; the fourth wireless node is a mobile station.
- the method further comprises: wherein the first and third wireless nodes re-transmit signals received from fourth and fifth wireless nodes respectively.
- the first and third wireless nodes are relays; the second wireless node is a base station; the fourth and fifth wireless nodes are mobile stations.
- the method further comprises: the first and third wireless nodes receiving signals from fourth and fifth wireless nodes respectively; the first node transmitting content received from the fourth wireless node to the third wireless node, and the third wireless node transmitting content received from the fifth wireless node to the first wireless node; wherein first wireless node transmitting to the second wireless node comprises transmitting a signal based on the content received from the third wireless node and also based on the content received from the fourth wireless node; wherein the third wireless node transmitting to the second wireless node comprises transmitting a signal based on the content received from the first wireless node and also based on the content received from the fifth wireless node.
- the first and third nodes transmissions together comprise an STTD (space time transmit diversity) transmission.
- STTD space time transmit diversity
- the method further comprises providing a further mode of operation for the fourth node comprising: the fourth node transmitting directly to the second node and to the third node; the third node receiving from the fourth node and re-transmitting to the second node, the third and fourth node's transmissions comprising a cooperative diversity transmission; the second node receiving a direct transmission from the fourth node and the third node's retransmission on multiple antennas and performing diversity combining; the method further comprising: adaptively selecting one of another MIMO mode and cooperative diversity.
- the method further comprises adaptively selecting one of a plurality of MIMO modes by: for each MIMO mode determining a respective metric; selecting between the plurality of MIMO modes based on the metrics.
- the N antennas are on different wireless nodes.
- At least one of the antennas is on a relay relaying content received from another wireless node.
- the method further comprises: adaptively adding and/or removing antennas from the set of N+M antennas used to transmit the content.
- the invention provides a system comprising: a MIMO processing node having at least two antennas; a first relay node; the MIMO processing node being adapted to perform MIMO processing on signals received from the first relay node and at least one other node.
- the first relay node is relaying a signal received from other than one received directly from the at least one other node.
- the first relay node is relaying a signal received from the at least one other node.
- said at least one other node comprises a second relay node.
- the first and second relay nodes exchange first and second content received for relaying and transmit respective signals based on both the first and second content to the MIMO processing node, the respective signals collectively comprising an STBC signal.
- FIGS. 1A and 1B show conventional infrastructure based relay transmission
- FIG. 2A is a network diagram showing an example of cooperative MIMO using infrastructure based relays as provided by an embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 2B is a flowchart of an example method of cooperative MIMO provided by an embodiment of the invention.
- FIGS. 3A and 3B are schematics of example networks showing cooperative MIMO using infrastructure based relays as provided by an embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 3C is a flowchart of an example method of cooperative MIMO provided by an embodiment of the invention.
- FIGS. 4A through 4C are network diagrams of further examples employing cooperative MIMO with infrastructure based relays provided by an embodiment of the invention.
- FIGS. 4D and 4E are flowcharts of two further example methods of cooperative MIMO provided by an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 5A is a schematic of an example network showing cooperative diversity provided by an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 5B is a flowchart of an example method of performing cooperative diversity provided by an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 6 is a schematic of an example network showing adaptation between cooperative diversity and cooperative MIMO in accordance with an embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 7 is a flowchart of an example method of performing adaptation between cooperative MIMO and cooperative diversity provided by an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 8 is a schematic of an example network showing sequential MIMO processing using multiple MIMO nodes
- FIG. 9 is a flowchart of another MIMO method provided by an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 10 is a flowchart of another MIMO method provided by an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 11 is a block diagram of an example MIMO processing node provided by an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 2A a first example of a MIMO system employing fixed infrastructure based selective relaying will be described. Shown is a fixed infrastructure consisting of a base station 80 having two antennas 82 , 84 and a relay 86 having two antennas 88 , 90 . Antenna 88 is directed towards the base station 80 whereas antenna 90 is pointed away from the base station to provide additional coverage, either in terms of data rate ubiquity and/or physical coverage area.
- mobile stations that are within the direct coverage area of the base station 80 communicate directly with the base station.
- An example of this is mobile station 92 whose transmissions 96 are shown going directly from the mobile station 92 to the base station 80 .
- Mobile stations that are within the coverage area of the relay 86 first transmit to the relay 86 and then the relay 86 forwards their communications on to the base station 80 .
- mobile station 94 is shown transmitting a signal 98 that is received by the relay 86 on antenna 90 . This is then re-transmitted via antenna 88 as signal 100 towards the base station 80 .
- the base station 80 then processes the signals received on its two antennas 82 , 84 using MIMO processing techniques.
- MIMO processing techniques In the particular example illustrated, what is formed is a virtual 2:2 MIMO spatial multiplexing system using, e.g., V-BLAST mode. In other words, this is analogous to a two antenna transmitter transmitting unique data on each transmitter. Each antenna of the two antenna receiver receives a signal containing transmissions from both transmit antennas.
- the transmissions are synchronized by base station scheduling. In the illustrated example, this would involve synchronizing the transmissions of the mobile station 92 and the relay 86 .
- the base station 80 performs MIMO processing by processing the signals received on antennas 82 and 84 together so as to extract the signals 96 and 100 sent from mobile station 92 and relay 86 , respectively.
- the ideal detection technique for spatial multiplexing is very complex, based on Maximum likelihood decoding. Other suboptimal techniques are also available. However, since the base station processes the received signal, receiver complexity is not an issue. Techniques for performing such MIMO processing are well known in the art and will not be described in further detail here. See for example P. W. Wolniansky, G. J. Foschini, G. D. Golden, R. A. Valenzuela, V-BLAST: An Architecture for Realizing Very High Data Rates Over the Rich-Scattering Wireless Channel, in Proc. ISSSE-98, Pisa, Italy, Sep. 29, 1998.
- N the concept may be extended to a larger number (N) of relays and mobile stations to form N ⁇ M MIMO channel at the receiver. Since there is no exchange of data between the two transmitting (mobile, relay) stations, there is no requirement for the two stations to be conveniently located within reach of each other.
- FIGS. 3A and 3B a second example of a MIMO system employing fixed infrastructure based selective relaying will now be described.
- there is fixed infrastructure consisting of a base station 110 having two antennas 112 , 114 , and a pair of relays 116 , 122 .
- Relay 116 has two antennas 118 , 120
- relay 122 has two antennas 124 , 126 .
- FIG. 3A shows the transmissions 134 , 136 of a pair of mobile stations 130 , 132 .
- mobile station 130 is within the coverage area of relay 116 whereas mobile station 132 is within the coverage area of relay 122 .
- the transmissions by the relays 116 , 122 are shown in FIG. 3B .
- Relay 116 forwards on the signal received from the mobile station 130 as indicated at 140
- relay 122 forwards on the signal received from mobile station 132 as indicated at 142 .
- the base station 110 receives the two signals on its two antennas 112 , 114 and the base station performs MIMO processing to recover the transmissions of each of the mobile stations 130 , 132 .
- the transmissions of the relays 116 , 122 are synchronized, for example using base station scheduling.
- the net effect is a virtual 2:2 MIMO system with V-BLAST mode.
- any number of relays may participate to form an N ⁇ M spatial multiplexing channel where M is the number of Base station antennas.
- FIGS. 4A and 4B shown is another example of a MIMO system employing fixed infrastructure based selective relaying, where the relays have a communications channel between them. For example, they might be in proximity to each other, such that they can form a transmission channel between themselves for cooperation.
- fixed infrastructure is shown consisting of a base station 160 having antennas 162 , 164 , and a pair of relays 166 , 172 .
- Relay 166 has antennas 168 , 170 and relay 172 has antennas 174 , 176 . Transmissions of a pair of mobile stations 180 , 182 and between the relays 166 , 172 are indicated in FIG. 4A .
- FIG. 4B A first example is indicated in FIG. 4B .
- the first relay 166 transmits f 1 (a,b) where “a” is the first mobile station's content and “b” is the second mobile station's content.
- the relay 172 transmits f 2 (a,b).
- the result is virtual 2:2 MIMO, e.g., with BLAST mode.
- the signals received from the two mobile stations 182 , 184 are combined using STTD (space-time transmit diversity), e.g., Alamouti coding.
- STTD space-time transmit diversity
- the transmissions from the two relays 166 , 172 can be constructed as the first relay 166 transmitting “a” during time interval T 1 and transmitting “b” during time interval T 2 and the second relay 172 transmitting “ ⁇ b*” during time interval T 1 and “a*” during time interval T 2 .
- the first relay transmits ⁇ a, b ⁇ in sequence over two time intervals T 1 , T 2 and the second relay transmits ⁇ b*, a* ⁇ over the same two time intervals, wherein b* and a* are the complex conjugates of b and a, respectively.
- the base station then performs MIMO processing to recover a and b.
- FIG. 4C This figure is identical to FIG. 4B except now the first relay 166 is shown transmitting signal 190 consisting of ⁇ a, b ⁇ in sequence, and the second relay 172 is shown transmitting signal 192 consisting of ⁇ b*, a* ⁇ in sequence.
- FIG. 3 spatial multiplexing
- FIG. 4 STBC
- FIG. 5A shown is yet another example of a MIMO system employing fixed infrastructure based selective relaying.
- This example includes fixed infrastructure consisting of a base station 50 having antennas 52 , 54 and a relay 56 having antennas 58 , 60 .
- a single mobile station 70 is illustrated transmitting its signal 72 .
- the signal is received by the relay 56 and re-transmitted at 74 .
- the base station 50 receives the signal 72 directly from the mobile station 70 and receives the signal 74 from the relay.
- the transmission that is directly received will be received earlier by the base station 50 and the base station will store soft information determined for this reception.
- the base station 50 processes the new relay transmission together with the direct mobile station transmission 72 .
- receive antenna diversity takes place at the base station 50 to receive a copy of the mobile station's direct transmission at time T 1 on receive antennas 52 , 54 .
- antenna diversity is used at the base station to receive two copies of the signal transmitted by the relay 56 at time T 2 on receive antennas 52 , 54 . These signals are all then combined to recover the original transmission.
- This can be considered a “cooperative diversity” approach in that the same two antennas are used to provide antenna diversity from the mobile station 70 and from the relay 58 , but at different times.
- the transmissions 72 and 74 may occur within the same receive processing interval (with some delay on path 74 ), for example if the relay is an analog relay.
- the signal may be processed at the receiver as a 2 ⁇ 2 MIMO signal.
- the transmissions from 72 and 74 may occur far enough apart to be received during different receive processing intervals.
- soft samples from the two time intervals may be processed collectively by soft combining.
- the base station is responsible for scheduling transmissions from the mobile stations as well as from the relays to the base station.
- the base station scheduler treats the relays as terminals for the purpose of scheduling.
- the base station schedules the MIMO transmissions in a deterministic manner, based on the scheduling priorities of the different mobile stations.
- MIMO and cooperative diversity have been described.
- an adaptation between cooperative diversity and another MIMO scheme is performed. This involves on a per mobile station and/or relay pair basis comparing MIMO processing gains with diversity gains. An appropriate selection of the better performance can then be made. Adaptation may also be used to switch between any of the MIMO modes described herein, including STBC, SM and cooperative diversity. The particular modes to be adapted between can be selected on an implementation specific basis. The frequency of making this selection might for example depend on the channel update rate.
- the relays operate on the cellular channel in a TDM fashion, meaning that they do not receive and transmit at the same time.
- the relays may be employed that allow the relays to transmit and receive at the same time, for example using co-channel separation or frequency division duplexing, or analog relaying.
- FIG. 6 An example of adapting between two MIMO modes is shown in FIG. 6 .
- a base station 200 with antennas 202 , 204 .
- a pair of relays 206 , 208 each of which has a pair of antennas as in previous embodiments.
- the transmissions during the first adaptation period AP 1 from the relays 206 , 208 and a pair of mobile stations 212 , 214 are indicated at 216 .
- MIMO is being employed with each mobile station's signals being transmitted via respective relays to the base station 200 where MIMO processing is performed.
- the signals that are transmitted are indicated at 218 .
- the second mobile station 214 has a signal that is transmitted via the relay 208 , and the signal is also directly received at the base station 204 .
- a cooperative diversity mode is being implemented at AP 2 . Adaptation can be performed to optimize overall system performance.
- a determination of a metric for a first MIMO mode is calculated.
- a metric for a second MIMO mode is calculated.
- a selection is made between the first and second MIMO modes based on the two metrics.
- the metrics can be computed in any appropriate place within the network. The most convenient place to calculate them in a cellular environment would be at the base station. More generally, this method can be used to select between a plurality of MIMO modes.
- the base station has two antennas and therefore allows for 2:2 STBC and/or 2:2 SM implementations. More generally, any appropriate number of antennas can be implemented at the base station, and any MIMO/cooperative diversity schemes supported by such antennas can be implemented. For example, N ⁇ M BLAST or N ⁇ M V-BLAST could be employed for an N antenna receiver and M transmit antennas where (N, M)>2.
- FIG. 2B is a flowchart of an example MIMO transmission method similar to the method described with reference to FIG. 2A above, but applied in a broader context of four nodes. Any of these nodes may be mobile stations, relays or base stations or mesh networking nodes or other nodes for example.
- a first node transmits to a second node.
- the second node re-transmits to a third node.
- a fourth node transmits to the third node.
- the third node performs MIMO processing of the signals received from the second and fourth nodes.
- FIG. 3C is a flowchart of an example method similar to that described above with reference to FIGS. 3A and 3B , but applied in a broader context of five nodes. Any of these nodes may be mobile stations, relays or base stations or mesh networking nodes or other nodes for example.
- the method begins at step 3 - 1 with a first node transmitting to a second node and a third node transmitting to a fourth node.
- the second and fourth nodes re-transmit to the fifth node in sync.
- the fifth node performs MIMO processing.
- FIG. 4D shown is a flowchart of an example method of MIMO transmission that is similar to that described above with reference to FIGS. 4A , 4 B and 4 C, but applied in a broader context of five nodes. Any of these nodes may be mobile stations, relays or base stations or mesh networking nodes or other nodes for example.
- a first node transmits to a second node
- a third node transmits to a fourth node.
- the second and fourth nodes exchange the first and third node's signals.
- the fourth node transmits a signal based on both the first node's content and the third node's content
- the second node transmits a signal based on the first node's content and the third node's content.
- the fifth node performs MIMO processing.
- Step 4 - 6 is implemented as a particular example of step 4 - 3 of FIG. 4D .
- This consists of the second and fourth nodes transmitting an STTD signal containing content of both the first and third nodes.
- FIG. 5B shown is a flowchart of a method of cooperative diversity transmission similar to that described above with reference to FIG. 5A , but applied in a broader context of three nodes. Any of these nodes may be mobile stations, relays or base stations or mesh networking nodes or other nodes for example.
- a first node transmits to a second node and a third node. A single signal is transmitted, but this is received by both the second and third nodes.
- the second node receives the signal and re-transmits the signal to the third node.
- the third node receives the direct transmission and then later receives the second node's re-transmission on multiple antennas.
- the base station then performs MIMO processing on the signals received from the first node and the second node.
- the selection of which wireless nodes are to participate in a given cooperative MIMO transmission or cooperative diversity transmission can be statically defined, or dynamically defined.
- the nodes will need to be dynamically defined to accommodate the movement of the mobile node.
- the “fourth wireless node” is the mobile station, then what constitutes the first, second and third wireless nodes from that mobile station's perspective can change over time.
- the nodes involved in the two methods be the same or may be different.
- FIG. 8 shown is a network diagram of an example MIMO system in which there is sequential MIMO processing using multiple MIMO modes. Shown is a base station 200 having four antennas 201 . Also shown are three relays 202 , 204 , 206 . Mobile stations are indicated at 208 , 210 , 211 , 212 . At the particular instant depicted, mobile station 208 is sending its transmissions to relay 202 and mobile station 210 is sending its transmissions to relay 204 . Relays 202 and 204 exchange content as indicated at 214 and generate an STBC signal 216 that is transmitted towards the base station 200 . Any STBC format can be employed.
- the two mobile stations 208 , 210 are having their signals transmitted in a manner analogous to that of FIG. 4 as discussed above.
- mobile station 211 is sending its signal directly to the base station 200
- mobile station 212 sending its signal to the base station 200 via relay 206 .
- the base station 200 receives on its four antennas 201 and initially performs spatial multiplexing processing. For example, it might perform V-BLAST processing to resolve what was transmitted on each of the four incoming signals. Having performed spatial multiplexing processing, the signals received from the mobile station 211 and the mobile station 212 via the relay 206 will be recovered directly. To recover the transmissions of mobile stations 208 , 210 , further MIMO processing must be performed to extract the respective signals from the STBC signal jointly transmitted by the two relays 202 , 204 .
- a sequential MIMO processing approach is employed in the base station 200 .
- a spatial multiplexing processing is performed to extract streams relevant to the two mobile stations.
- a STBC processing is performed to extract mobile station specific streams. It is common to refer to different streams in spatial multiplexing as “layers” and to the MIMO processing that is performed as layer decomposition.
- the overall spatial multiplexing is equivalent to a V-BLAST transmission, but other spatial multiplexing approaches can alternatively be implemented.
- N ⁇ 2 nodes transmit using STBC.
- M ⁇ 1 other nodes are transmitting.
- the other nodes may also include combinations of nodes that are transmitting STBC and/or nodes that are transmitting using spatial multiplexing, or only a single other node.
- performing spatial multiplexing processing to extract components relating to content transmitted by the N antennas and components relating to content transmitted by the M antennas using at least N+M receive antennas. After this has been done, appropriate subsets of the spatial multiplexing processed symbols are then further processed using STBC processing to recover the STBC content at step 9 - 4 .
- N 2 nodes, namely relays 202 , 204 , that were transmitting using STBC.
- M 2 nodes, namely the mobile station 211 and the relay 206 that were transmitting respective streams, effectively amounting to spatial multiplexing.
- the layers that were extracted in respect of signals received from the relays 202 , 204 were then processed using STBC processing to recover that which was transmitted from each of the two mobile stations 208 , 210 .
- the method of FIG. 9 can be applied in the context of multiple layers being transmitted by a single node.
- step 9 - 1 where there are N ⁇ 2 nodes transmitting STBC, more generally N ⁇ 2 transmit antennas can be transmitting STBC, the antennas being either on one or more different nodes.
- step 9 - 2 M ⁇ 1 nodes are said to be transmitting, but more generally M ⁇ 1 antennas are transmitting in addition to the antennas referred to in step 9 - 1 that are transmitting using STBC.
- N ⁇ 2 antennas transmit using STBC.
- M ⁇ 1 other antennas are transmitting.
- the other antennas may also include combinations of antennas that are transmitting STBC and/or antennas that are transmitting using spatial multiplexing, or only a single other antennas.
- performing spatial multiplexing components relating to content transmitted by the N antennas and components relating to content transmitted by the M antennas using at least N+M receive antennas are then further processed using STBC processing to recover the STBC content at step 10 - 4 .
- N 2 antennas, namely relays 202 , 204 , that were transmitting using STBC.
- M 2 antennas, namely the mobile station 210 and the relay 206 that were transmitting respective streams, effectively amounting to spatial multiplexing.
- the layers that were extracted in respect of signals received from the relays 202 , 204 were then processed using STBC processing to recover that which was transmitted from each of the two mobile stations 208 , 210 .
- the method of FIG. 10 can be applied in the context of multiple layers being transmitted by a single node.
- step 10 - 1 where there are N ⁇ 2 antennas transmitting STBC, more generally N ⁇ 2 transmit antennas can be transmitting STBC, the antennas being either on one or more different antennas.
- step 10 - 2 M ⁇ 1 antennas are said to be transmitting, but more generally M ⁇ 1 antennas are transmitting in addition to the antennas referred to in step 10 - 1 that are transmitting using STBC.
- At least one of the nodes referred to above in FIG. 9 is a relay in which case the method becomes a special case of one or more of the previously discussed methods.
- FIGS. 9 and 10 it can be seen how this can be generalized to accommodate multiple STBC groups that would be processed separately after spatial multiplexing processing at the receiver. For example, two antenna STBC transmissions could be received by a four antenna receiver where spatial multiplexing is performed first and then two separate STBC processings are performed.
- antennas can be adaptively added and/or removed from a given group of N+M transmit antennas, for example due to movement of mobile nodes, addition of further mobile nodes in a coverage are.
- the manner in which the antennas are allocated for STBC transmission can also be adaptively selected.
- a system having at least two antennas. This might be a base station or other wireless node.
- a first relay node (such as relay 86 of FIG. 2A or relay 56 of FIG. 5A ).
- the MIMO processing node performs MIMO processing on signals received from the first relay node and at least one other node.
- the at least one other node is mobile station 92
- the at least one other node is mobile station 70 .
- the first relay node is relaying a signal received from other than one received directly from the at least one other node. This is the case for the example of FIG. 2A where the relay is relaying content received from mobile station 94 . In other embodiments, the first relay node is relaying a signal received from the at least one other node. This is the case for FIG. 5A where the relay 56 is relaying content received from mobile station 70 which is the “at least one other node”.
- the first and second relay nodes exchange first and second content received for relaying and transmit respective signals based on both the first and second content to the MIMO processing node, the respective signals collectively comprising an STBC signal.
- the STBC signal can be any of the types discussed herein, or some other STBC format.
- FIG. 11 Another embodiment provides a MIMO processing node that functions as the receiving node for any of the above-described methods.
- a MIMO processing node suitable for implementing the receive aspects of FIGS. 9 and 10 is depicted in FIG. 11 generally indicated at 300 , and can be a base station or some other wireless node.
- STBC processor 304 for performing processing on the components relating to the content transmitted by the N antennas to recover the content transmitted using STBC. While shown as physically distinct entities, the SM processor 302 and the STBC processor 304 could alternatively be combined. Any one or suitable combination of hardware, firmware and software can be used to implement the processors.
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- This application is a continuation application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/119,817 filed May 13, 2008, which claims the benefit of, and is a divisional application of U.S. Pat. No. 7,406,060 issued on Jul. 29, 2008, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/696,996 filed Jul. 6, 2005, which are all hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.
- The invention relates to wireless systems such as cellular systems that have fixed infrastructure-based relays, and to methods of improving the coverage in such systems.
- Relays have been used to expand the coverage of conventional cellular systems. With such relays, a mobile station that is out of range of the base station may still be able to communicate with a base station via one of the relays. The relay has very little functionality, typically only re-transmitting signals received from the mobile station or from the base station.
- MIMO (multiple input multiple output) systems feature multiple antennas at the transmitter and/or receiver, and spatial processing at the receiver to recover transmitted data. Examples of existing MIMO technologies include STBC (space-time block coding) and spatial multiplexing (SM) approaches.
- With STBC (space-time block coding), each antenna transmits a respective stream, and there is some correlation between the streams, either due to coding and modulation of input data prior to block coding, or in the block coding structure per se. STBC schemes involve a little more complexity at the transmitter, but may allow simplified receiver complexity. An example of an STBC scheme that relies on coding and modulation prior to block coding is the so-called “BLAST” approach in which each transmit antenna is used to transmit a unique symbol stream, with coding and modulation being employed prior to block coding to introduce correlation. An example of an STBC scheme that relies on the block coding structure per se is STTD (space time transmit diversity) where each symbol appears on multiple antennas. A well-known STTD scheme is Alamouti code-based transmission.
- With spatial multiplexing (SM), each antenna is used to transmit an independent data stream. There is no correlation introduced by coding and modulation. SM approaches have reduced transmitter complexity, but involve higher receiver complexity. Well known SM schemes include the so-called V-BLAST (vertical BLAST) and D-BLAST (diagonal BLAST) where independent symbol streams are transmitted on each antenna. With SM, independent data streams are transmitted over different antennas, to generate a multiplexing gain. When used with Maximum Likelihood decoding, such a scheme is found to provide good performance.
- While traditional STBC exploits both the multiplexing gain as well as diversity gain, spatial multiplexing systems such as V-BLAST provide primarily a multiplexing gain. While the diversity gains levels off with increasing number of antennas, the spatial multiplexing gain increases linearly with the increase in number of antennas.
- The benefit of MIMO is significant when the SINRs of the MIMO signals are comparable thereby allowing a full-rank MIMO channel realization. This restricts the number of instances where cooperative MIMO can be successfully employed in systems featuring distributed users having varying SINR conditions.
- In systems employing cooperative MIMO, multiple mobile stations cooperatively transmit the data of a single mobile station so as to appear as a MIMO transmission. For example, two mobile stations with one antenna each can transmit one of the mobile stations data. A two antenna base station could then receive the two signals and process them using MIMO techniques. This scheme has some disadvantages. For example, it requires each mobile station's data to be exchanged between the two mobile stations to enable cooperative transmission. Furthermore, the transmission is opportunistic since it is based on access bandwidth in the peer mobile station over and above its own prioritized transmissions. The scheme adds complexity to the mobile station in that it requires an additional transceiver chain to transmit and receive data from its peers. Cooperative MIMO has been shown to provide significant capacity improvements in cellular systems. Since the exchange between two mobile stations is an essential component of cooperative MIMO, the mobile stations need to be conveniently located to exchange the information. Thus, the application of cooperative MIMO is limited to such scenarios.
- Infrastructure based 2-hop relaying with the use of cellular spectrum for the relaying function has also been shown to provide significant coverage improvement in cellular systems, resulting in greater ubiquity of data rates as the user moves around the cell. Despite the fact that the bandwidth resource at the base station is now used for both the mobile station-to-relay transmissions and relay-to-base station transmissions, the improved SINR conditions on each of the two hops result in a higher aggregate SINR on the link as a whole and therefore improves the coverage to mobile stations that are further away from the base station.
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FIG. 1 shows an example of conventional fixed infrastructure based selective relaying. Shown is abase station 10 havingnominal coverage area 12. Fixedinfrastructure relays respective coverage areas mobile station 22 that are within thecoverage area 12 of thebase station 10 can communicate directly with the mobile stations such asmobile stations base station 10, but that are within the coverage area of one of the relays such asrelay 14, can communicate by first communicating to therelay 14 and then having their signals relayed from therelay 14 to thebase station 10 as illustrated. The result is a multi-hop extension of cellular communication. Various FDD (frequency division duplexing)/TDM (time division multiplexing) approaches have been proposed for dealing with the transmission between the mobile stations and between relays and the base station. In a particular example illustrated at 30, acellular base station 10, arelay 14 and amobile station 24 communicate using combined FDD/TDD such that during a first time interval T1 thebase station 10 and therelay 14 communicate using uplink and downlink frequencies fUL and fDL respectively while during a second time period T2 themobile station 24 and therelay 14 communicate using uplink and downlink frequencies fDL and fUL. - According to one broad aspect, the invention provides a method comprising: a first wireless node transmitting to a second wireless node; a third wireless node transmitting to the second wireless node; the second wireless node performing MIMO processing on signals received from the first wireless node and the third wireless node; wherein at least one of the first and third wireless nodes is re-transmitting content received from a fourth wireless node.
- In some embodiments, the first wireless node is a mobile station; the second wireless node is a base station; the third wireless node is a relay; the fourth wireless node is a mobile station.
- In some embodiments, the method further comprises: wherein the first and third wireless nodes re-transmit signals received from fourth and fifth wireless nodes respectively.
- In some embodiments, the first and third wireless nodes are relays; the second wireless node is a base station; the fourth and fifth wireless nodes are mobile stations.
- In some embodiments, the method further comprises: the first and third wireless nodes receiving signals from fourth and fifth wireless nodes respectively; the first node transmitting content received from the fourth wireless node to the third wireless node, and the third wireless node transmitting content received from the fifth wireless node to the first wireless node; wherein first wireless node transmitting to the second wireless node comprises transmitting a signal based on the content received from the third wireless node and also based on the content received from the fourth wireless node; wherein the third wireless node transmitting to the second wireless node comprises transmitting a signal based on the content received from the first wireless node and also based on the content received from the fifth wireless node.
- In some embodiments, the first and third nodes transmissions together comprise an STTD (space time transmit diversity) transmission.
- In some embodiments, the method further comprises providing a further mode of operation for the fourth node comprising: the fourth node transmitting directly to the second node and to the third node; the third node receiving from the fourth node and re-transmitting to the second node, the third and fourth node's transmissions comprising a cooperative diversity transmission; the second node receiving a direct transmission from the fourth node and the third node's retransmission on multiple antennas and performing diversity combining; the method further comprising: adaptively selecting one of another MIMO mode and cooperative diversity.
- In some embodiments, the method further comprises adaptively selecting one of a plurality of MIMO modes by: for each MIMO mode determining a respective metric; selecting between the plurality of MIMO modes based on the metrics.
- According to another broad aspect, the invention provides a method comprising: using STBC, transmitting content on N>=2 antennas; transmitting content on M>=1 additional antennas; performing spatial multiplexing processing on signals received on at least N+M antennas to extract components relating to the content transmitted by the N antennas and components relating to the content transmitted by the M antennas; performing STBC processing on the components relating to the content transmitted by the N antennas to recover the content transmitted using STBC.
- In some embodiments, the N antennas are on different wireless nodes.
- In some embodiments, at least one of the antennas is on a relay relaying content received from another wireless node.
- In some embodiments, the method further comprises: adaptively adding and/or removing antennas from the set of N+M antennas used to transmit the content.
- According to another broad aspect, the invention provides a system comprising: a MIMO processing node having at least two antennas; a first relay node; the MIMO processing node being adapted to perform MIMO processing on signals received from the first relay node and at least one other node.
- In some embodiments, the first relay node is relaying a signal received from other than one received directly from the at least one other node.
- In some embodiments, the first relay node is relaying a signal received from the at least one other node.
- In some embodiments, said at least one other node comprises a second relay node.
- In some embodiments, the first and second relay nodes exchange first and second content received for relaying and transmit respective signals based on both the first and second content to the MIMO processing node, the respective signals collectively comprising an STBC signal.
- According to another broad aspect, the invention provides the MIMO processing node comprising: at least N+M antennas adapted to receive signals from transmissions comprising an STBC transmission from N>=2 antennas and transmissions on M>=1 additional antenna; a spatial multiplexing processor for performing spatial multiplexing processing on signals received on at least N+M antennas to extract components relating to the content transmitted by the N antennas and components relating to the content transmitted by the M antennas; an STBC processor for performing processing on the components relating to the content transmitted by the N antennas to recover the content transmitted using STBC.
- Preferred embodiments of the invention will now be described with reference to the attached drawings in which:
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FIGS. 1A and 1B show conventional infrastructure based relay transmission; -
FIG. 2A is a network diagram showing an example of cooperative MIMO using infrastructure based relays as provided by an embodiment of the invention; -
FIG. 2B is a flowchart of an example method of cooperative MIMO provided by an embodiment of the invention; -
FIGS. 3A and 3B are schematics of example networks showing cooperative MIMO using infrastructure based relays as provided by an embodiment of the invention; -
FIG. 3C is a flowchart of an example method of cooperative MIMO provided by an embodiment of the invention; -
FIGS. 4A through 4C are network diagrams of further examples employing cooperative MIMO with infrastructure based relays provided by an embodiment of the invention; -
FIGS. 4D and 4E are flowcharts of two further example methods of cooperative MIMO provided by an embodiment of the invention; -
FIG. 5A is a schematic of an example network showing cooperative diversity provided by an embodiment of the invention; -
FIG. 5B is a flowchart of an example method of performing cooperative diversity provided by an embodiment of the invention; -
FIG. 6 is a schematic of an example network showing adaptation between cooperative diversity and cooperative MIMO in accordance with an embodiment of the invention; -
FIG. 7 is a flowchart of an example method of performing adaptation between cooperative MIMO and cooperative diversity provided by an embodiment of the invention; -
FIG. 8 is a schematic of an example network showing sequential MIMO processing using multiple MIMO nodes; -
FIG. 9 is a flowchart of another MIMO method provided by an embodiment of the invention; -
FIG. 10 is a flowchart of another MIMO method provided by an embodiment of the invention; and -
FIG. 11 is a block diagram of an example MIMO processing node provided by an embodiment of the invention. - Referring now to
FIG. 2A , a first example of a MIMO system employing fixed infrastructure based selective relaying will be described. Shown is a fixed infrastructure consisting of abase station 80 having twoantennas relay 86 having twoantennas Antenna 88 is directed towards thebase station 80 whereasantenna 90 is pointed away from the base station to provide additional coverage, either in terms of data rate ubiquity and/or physical coverage area. - In operation, mobile stations that are within the direct coverage area of the
base station 80 communicate directly with the base station. An example of this ismobile station 92 whosetransmissions 96 are shown going directly from themobile station 92 to thebase station 80. Mobile stations that are within the coverage area of therelay 86 first transmit to therelay 86 and then therelay 86 forwards their communications on to thebase station 80. For example,mobile station 94 is shown transmitting asignal 98 that is received by therelay 86 onantenna 90. This is then re-transmitted viaantenna 88 assignal 100 towards thebase station 80. - The
base station 80 then processes the signals received on its twoantennas mobile station 92 and therelay 86. Unlike conventional co-operative MIMO, for the embodiment ofFIG. 2A there need not be any direct cooperation betweenmobile station 92 andrelay 86. - The
base station 80 performs MIMO processing by processing the signals received onantennas signals mobile station 92 andrelay 86, respectively. The ideal detection technique for spatial multiplexing is very complex, based on Maximum likelihood decoding. Other suboptimal techniques are also available. However, since the base station processes the received signal, receiver complexity is not an issue. Techniques for performing such MIMO processing are well known in the art and will not be described in further detail here. See for example P. W. Wolniansky, G. J. Foschini, G. D. Golden, R. A. Valenzuela, V-BLAST: An Architecture for Realizing Very High Data Rates Over the Rich-Scattering Wireless Channel, in Proc. ISSSE-98, Pisa, Italy, Sep. 29, 1998. - While the example presented here addresses 2×2 MIMO, the concept may be extended to a larger number (N) of relays and mobile stations to form N×M MIMO channel at the receiver. Since there is no exchange of data between the two transmitting (mobile, relay) stations, there is no requirement for the two stations to be conveniently located within reach of each other.
- Referring now to
FIGS. 3A and 3B , a second example of a MIMO system employing fixed infrastructure based selective relaying will now be described. In bothFIGS. 3A and 3B , there is fixed infrastructure consisting of abase station 110 having twoantennas relays Relay 116 has twoantennas antennas FIG. 3A shows thetransmissions mobile stations mobile station 130 is within the coverage area ofrelay 116 whereasmobile station 132 is within the coverage area ofrelay 122. - The transmissions by the
relays FIG. 3B .Relay 116 forwards on the signal received from themobile station 130 as indicated at 140, and relay 122 forwards on the signal received frommobile station 132 as indicated at 142. Thebase station 110 receives the two signals on its twoantennas mobile stations relays FIGS. 3A and 3B , the net effect is a virtual 2:2 MIMO system with V-BLAST mode. Again, any number of relays may participate to form an N×M spatial multiplexing channel where M is the number of Base station antennas. Also, there is no requirement for the relays to have good communication channels between them to exchange data. - Referring now to
FIGS. 4A and 4B , shown is another example of a MIMO system employing fixed infrastructure based selective relaying, where the relays have a communications channel between them. For example, they might be in proximity to each other, such that they can form a transmission channel between themselves for cooperation. In bothFIGS. 4A and 4B , fixed infrastructure is shown consisting of abase station 160 havingantennas relays Relay 166 hasantennas antennas mobile stations relays FIG. 4A . This starts with themobile station 180 making itstransmission 184 that is received byrelay 166, andmobile station 182 making itstransmission 186 that is received byrelay 172. The tworelays mobile stations relays mobile stations - Using this information, various STBC MIMO transmissions can be made. A first example is indicated in
FIG. 4B . In this example, thefirst relay 166 transmits f1 (a,b) where “a” is the first mobile station's content and “b” is the second mobile station's content. Therelay 172 transmits f2 (a,b). The result is virtual 2:2 MIMO, e.g., with BLAST mode. - In another STBC MIMO example, the signals received from the two
mobile stations mobile station 180 and “b” is signal frommobile station 182, then the transmissions from the tworelays first relay 166 transmitting “a” during time interval T1 and transmitting “b” during time interval T2 and thesecond relay 172 transmitting “−b*” during time interval T1 and “a*” during time interval T2. - In this example, the first relay transmits {a, b} in sequence over two time intervals T1, T2 and the second relay transmits {−b*, a*} over the same two time intervals, wherein b* and a* are the complex conjugates of b and a, respectively. The base station then performs MIMO processing to recover a and b. This is shown in
FIG. 4C . This figure is identical toFIG. 4B except now thefirst relay 166 is shown transmittingsignal 190 consisting of {a, b} in sequence, and thesecond relay 172 is shown transmittingsignal 192 consisting of {−b*, a*} in sequence. - Both techniques illustrated in
FIG. 3 (spatial multiplexing) andFIG. 4 (STBC) may be used with different sets of relays, with the base station adapting the receiver algorithm according to whether spatial multiplexing or STBC has been used. Since the relays are static entities, the base station will have the knowledge as to which sets of relays can use STBC and which others can use spatial multiplexing. - Referring now to
FIG. 5A , shown is yet another example of a MIMO system employing fixed infrastructure based selective relaying. This example includes fixed infrastructure consisting of abase station 50 havingantennas relay 56 havingantennas mobile station 70 is illustrated transmitting its signal 72. The signal is received by therelay 56 and re-transmitted at 74. Thebase station 50 receives the signal 72 directly from themobile station 70 and receives thesignal 74 from the relay. The transmission that is directly received will be received earlier by thebase station 50 and the base station will store soft information determined for this reception. After receiving thenewer transmission 74, thebase station 50 processes the new relay transmission together with the direct mobile station transmission 72. - Thus, at a first instant, receive antenna diversity takes place at the
base station 50 to receive a copy of the mobile station's direct transmission at time T1 on receiveantennas relay 56 at time T2 on receiveantennas mobile station 70 and from therelay 58, but at different times. - The
transmissions 72 and 74 may occur within the same receive processing interval (with some delay on path 74), for example if the relay is an analog relay. In this case, the signal may be processed at the receiver as a 2×2 MIMO signal. Alternatively, the transmissions from 72 and 74 may occur far enough apart to be received during different receive processing intervals. In this case, soft samples from the two time intervals may be processed collectively by soft combining. - The base station is responsible for scheduling transmissions from the mobile stations as well as from the relays to the base station. The base station scheduler treats the relays as terminals for the purpose of scheduling.
- Preferably, for MIMO transmissions, the base station schedules the MIMO transmissions in a deterministic manner, based on the scheduling priorities of the different mobile stations.
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FIG. 2A , the following scheduling decisions can be made to synchronize transmissions: -
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FIG. 3A , the following scheduling decisions can be made in order to synchronize transmissions: -
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FIG. 4A , the following scheduling decisions can be made to synchronize transmissions: -
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FIG. 5A , the following scheduling decisions can be made to synchronize transmissions: -
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- Various examples of MIMO and cooperative diversity have been described. In another embodiment, an adaptation between cooperative diversity and another MIMO scheme is performed. This involves on a per mobile station and/or relay pair basis comparing MIMO processing gains with diversity gains. An appropriate selection of the better performance can then be made. Adaptation may also be used to switch between any of the MIMO modes described herein, including STBC, SM and cooperative diversity. The particular modes to be adapted between can be selected on an implementation specific basis. The frequency of making this selection might for example depend on the channel update rate.
- Preferably, the relays operate on the cellular channel in a TDM fashion, meaning that they do not receive and transmit at the same time. However, other approaches may be employed that allow the relays to transmit and receive at the same time, for example using co-channel separation or frequency division duplexing, or analog relaying.
- An example of adapting between two MIMO modes is shown in
FIG. 6 . In this example, there is abase station 200 withantennas relays relays mobile stations base station 200 where MIMO processing is performed. At a later adaptation period AP2, the signals that are transmitted are indicated at 218. In this case, the secondmobile station 214 has a signal that is transmitted via therelay 208, and the signal is also directly received at thebase station 204. As such, a cooperative diversity mode is being implemented at AP2. Adaptation can be performed to optimize overall system performance. - Referring now to
FIG. 7 , shown is a flowchart of an example method of adaptive selection between two MIMO modes. At step 7-1, a determination of a metric for a first MIMO mode is calculated. At step 7-2, a metric for a second MIMO mode is calculated. At step 7-3, a selection is made between the first and second MIMO modes based on the two metrics. The metrics can be computed in any appropriate place within the network. The most convenient place to calculate them in a cellular environment would be at the base station. More generally, this method can be used to select between a plurality of MIMO modes. - All of the above embodiments have assumed that the base station has two antennas and therefore allows for 2:2 STBC and/or 2:2 SM implementations. More generally, any appropriate number of antennas can be implemented at the base station, and any MIMO/cooperative diversity schemes supported by such antennas can be implemented. For example, N×M BLAST or N×M V-BLAST could be employed for an N antenna receiver and M transmit antennas where (N, M)>2.
- While the embodiments described thus far have focussed on cellular systems, it can be readily seen how these approaches can also be applied to mesh networks. In a mesh network, the functionality of the above described BTS and relay or relay pairs would be implemented by two or three nodes within the mesh network to provide cooperative MIMO and/or cooperative diversity schemes.
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FIG. 2B is a flowchart of an example MIMO transmission method similar to the method described with reference toFIG. 2A above, but applied in a broader context of four nodes. Any of these nodes may be mobile stations, relays or base stations or mesh networking nodes or other nodes for example. At step 2-1, a first node transmits to a second node. At step 2-2, the second node re-transmits to a third node. At step 2-3, a fourth node transmits to the third node. Finally, at step 2-4, the third node performs MIMO processing of the signals received from the second and fourth nodes. -
FIG. 3C is a flowchart of an example method similar to that described above with reference toFIGS. 3A and 3B , but applied in a broader context of five nodes. Any of these nodes may be mobile stations, relays or base stations or mesh networking nodes or other nodes for example. The method begins at step 3-1 with a first node transmitting to a second node and a third node transmitting to a fourth node. At step 3-2, the second and fourth nodes re-transmit to the fifth node in sync. At step 3-3, the fifth node performs MIMO processing. - Referring now to
FIG. 4D shown is a flowchart of an example method of MIMO transmission that is similar to that described above with reference toFIGS. 4A , 4B and 4C, but applied in a broader context of five nodes. Any of these nodes may be mobile stations, relays or base stations or mesh networking nodes or other nodes for example. At step 4-1, a first node transmits to a second node, and a third node transmits to a fourth node. At step 4-2, the second and fourth nodes exchange the first and third node's signals. At step 4-3, the fourth node transmits a signal based on both the first node's content and the third node's content, and the second node transmits a signal based on the first node's content and the third node's content. At step 4-4, the fifth node performs MIMO processing. - Referring now to
FIG. 4E , shown is another method that is a particular example of the method ofFIG. 4D . Step 4-6 is implemented as a particular example of step 4-3 ofFIG. 4D . This consists of the second and fourth nodes transmitting an STTD signal containing content of both the first and third nodes. - Referring now to
FIG. 5B , shown is a flowchart of a method of cooperative diversity transmission similar to that described above with reference toFIG. 5A , but applied in a broader context of three nodes. Any of these nodes may be mobile stations, relays or base stations or mesh networking nodes or other nodes for example. At step 5-1, a first node transmits to a second node and a third node. A single signal is transmitted, but this is received by both the second and third nodes. At step 5-2, the second node receives the signal and re-transmits the signal to the third node. At step 5-3, the third node receives the direct transmission and then later receives the second node's re-transmission on multiple antennas. The base station then performs MIMO processing on the signals received from the first node and the second node. - Note that in the above embodiments, the selection of which wireless nodes are to participate in a given cooperative MIMO transmission or cooperative diversity transmission can be statically defined, or dynamically defined. For implementations where one or more of the wireless nodes are mobile stations, the nodes will need to be dynamically defined to accommodate the movement of the mobile node. In such a context, with reference to
FIGS. 2A and 2B for example, assuming that the “fourth wireless node” is the mobile station, then what constitutes the first, second and third wireless nodes from that mobile station's perspective can change over time. - In embodiments featuring adaptive selection between cooperative MIMO, and cooperative diversity, the nodes involved in the two methods be the same or may be different.
- All of the embodiments have assumed 2×2 MIMO implementations. It is readily apparent how these can be extended to handle MIMO transmissions having larger dimensions.
- Referring now to
FIG. 8 , shown is a network diagram of an example MIMO system in which there is sequential MIMO processing using multiple MIMO modes. Shown is abase station 200 having fourantennas 201. Also shown are threerelays mobile station 208 is sending its transmissions to relay 202 andmobile station 210 is sending its transmissions to relay 204.Relays STBC signal 216 that is transmitted towards thebase station 200. Any STBC format can be employed. In effect, the twomobile stations FIG. 4 as discussed above. At the same time,mobile station 211 is sending its signal directly to thebase station 200, andmobile station 212 sending its signal to thebase station 200 viarelay 206. - The
base station 200 receives on its fourantennas 201 and initially performs spatial multiplexing processing. For example, it might perform V-BLAST processing to resolve what was transmitted on each of the four incoming signals. Having performed spatial multiplexing processing, the signals received from themobile station 211 and themobile station 212 via therelay 206 will be recovered directly. To recover the transmissions ofmobile stations relays - Thus, it can be seen that for the content ultimately originating from
mobile stations base station 200. First a spatial multiplexing processing is performed to extract streams relevant to the two mobile stations. Then a STBC processing is performed to extract mobile station specific streams. It is common to refer to different streams in spatial multiplexing as “layers” and to the MIMO processing that is performed as layer decomposition. In the above scenarios it is assumed that the overall spatial multiplexing is equivalent to a V-BLAST transmission, but other spatial multiplexing approaches can alternatively be implemented. - Referring now to
FIG. 9 , shown is a flowchart of a method performing MIMO transmission as provided by an embodiment of the invention. At step 9-1, N≧2 nodes transmit using STBC. At the same time, at step 9-2 M≧1 other nodes are transmitting. Note that the other nodes may also include combinations of nodes that are transmitting STBC and/or nodes that are transmitting using spatial multiplexing, or only a single other node. At step 9-3, performing spatial multiplexing processing to extract components relating to content transmitted by the N antennas and components relating to content transmitted by the M antennas using at least N+M receive antennas. After this has been done, appropriate subsets of the spatial multiplexing processed symbols are then further processed using STBC processing to recover the STBC content at step 9-4. - Applying numbers for the scenario of
FIG. 8 , there were N=2 nodes, namely relays 202,204, that were transmitting using STBC. There were M=2 nodes, namely themobile station 211 and therelay 206 that were transmitting respective streams, effectively amounting to spatial multiplexing. Then, the base station performed spatial multiplexing processing to extract the N+M=4 layers. The layers that were extracted in respect of signals received from therelays mobile stations - In an even further generalization, the method of
FIG. 9 can be applied in the context of multiple layers being transmitted by a single node. For example, in step 9-1, where there are N≧2 nodes transmitting STBC, more generally N≧2 transmit antennas can be transmitting STBC, the antennas being either on one or more different nodes. Similarly, in step 9-2 M≧1 nodes are said to be transmitting, but more generally M≧1 antennas are transmitting in addition to the antennas referred to in step 9-1 that are transmitting using STBC. - Referring now to
FIG. 10 , shown is a flowchart of an example method of performing MIMO transmission as provided by an embodiment of the invention. At step 10-1, N≧2 antennas transmit using STBC. At the same time, at step 10-2 M≧1 other antennas are transmitting. Note that the other antennas may also include combinations of antennas that are transmitting STBC and/or antennas that are transmitting using spatial multiplexing, or only a single other antennas. At step 10-3, performing spatial multiplexing components relating to content transmitted by the N antennas and components relating to content transmitted by the M antennas using at least N+M receive antennas. After this has been done, appropriate subsets of the spatial multiplexing processed symbols are then further processed using STBC processing to recover the STBC content at step 10-4. - Applying numbers for the scenario of
FIG. 8 , there were N=2 antennas, namely relays 202,204, that were transmitting using STBC. There were M=2 antennas, namely themobile station 210 and therelay 206 that were transmitting respective streams, effectively amounting to spatial multiplexing. Then, the base station performed spatial multiplexing processing to extract the N+M=4 layers. The layers that were extracted in respect of signals received from therelays mobile stations - In an even further generalization, the method of
FIG. 10 can be applied in the context of multiple layers being transmitted by a single node. For example, in step 10-1, where there are N≧2 antennas transmitting STBC, more generally N≧2 transmit antennas can be transmitting STBC, the antennas being either on one or more different antennas. Similarly, in step 10-2 M≧1 antennas are said to be transmitting, but more generally M≧1 antennas are transmitting in addition to the antennas referred to in step 10-1 that are transmitting using STBC. - Preferably, at least one of the nodes referred to above in
FIG. 9 is a relay in which case the method becomes a special case of one or more of the previously discussed methods. - For the methods of
FIGS. 9 and 10 , it can be seen how this can be generalized to accommodate multiple STBC groups that would be processed separately after spatial multiplexing processing at the receiver. For example, two antenna STBC transmissions could be received by a four antenna receiver where spatial multiplexing is performed first and then two separate STBC processings are performed. - Furthermore, antennas can be adaptively added and/or removed from a given group of N+M transmit antennas, for example due to movement of mobile nodes, addition of further mobile nodes in a coverage are. In addition, the manner in which the antennas are allocated for STBC transmission can also be adaptively selected.
- In a generalization that encompasses both the embodiments of
FIGS. 2A and 5A , a system is provided that has a MIMO processing node having at least two antennas. This might be a base station or other wireless node. There is a first relay node (such asrelay 86 ofFIG. 2A or relay 56 ofFIG. 5A ). The MIMO processing node performs MIMO processing on signals received from the first relay node and at least one other node. InFIG. 2A , the at least one other node ismobile station 92, and inFIG. 5A , the at least one other node ismobile station 70. - In some embodiments, the first relay node is relaying a signal received from other than one received directly from the at least one other node. This is the case for the example of
FIG. 2A where the relay is relaying content received frommobile station 94. In other embodiments, the first relay node is relaying a signal received from the at least one other node. This is the case forFIG. 5A where therelay 56 is relaying content received frommobile station 70 which is the “at least one other node”. - In some embodiments, the first and second relay nodes exchange first and second content received for relaying and transmit respective signals based on both the first and second content to the MIMO processing node, the respective signals collectively comprising an STBC signal. The STBC signal can be any of the types discussed herein, or some other STBC format.
- Another embodiment provides a MIMO processing node that functions as the receiving node for any of the above-described methods. For example, a MIMO processing node suitable for implementing the receive aspects of
FIGS. 9 and 10 is depicted inFIG. 11 generally indicated at 300, and can be a base station or some other wireless node. TheMIMO processing node 300 has at least N+M antennas 301 adapted to receive signals from transmissions comprising an STBC transmission from N>=2 antennas and transmissions on M>=1 additional antenna. There is aspatial multiplexing processor 302 for performing spatial multiplexing processing on signals received on at least N+M antennas to extract components relating to the content transmitted by the N antennas and components relating to the content transmitted by the M antennas. There is also anSTBC processor 304 for performing processing on the components relating to the content transmitted by the N antennas to recover the content transmitted using STBC. While shown as physically distinct entities, theSM processor 302 and theSTBC processor 304 could alternatively be combined. Any one or suitable combination of hardware, firmware and software can be used to implement the processors. - Some of the embodiments have been described as methods or systems in which multiple nodes are participating. Further embodiments of the invention provide individual wireless nodes that are acting out their roles in one or combination of methods or systems as described herein.
- Numerous modifications and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the above teachings. It is therefore to be understood that within the scope of the appended claims, the invention may be practiced otherwise than as specifically described herein.
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