The present invention is designed to improve spectral efficiency in a radio communication system which can use non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). Steps are provided in which a radio base station configures one of a plurality of transmission mode including a first transmission mode, which groups a plurality of transmission methods including a transmission method to employ non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and multiple-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO), and a second transmission mode, which groups a plurality of transmission methods including a transmission method to employ this NOMA and open-loop transmit diversity, and transmits a downlink signal for this user terminal based on the configured transmission mode.

Radio base station, user terminal, and radio communication method

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a feed point of a dielectric antenna, electromagnetic waves from a dielectric core coupled to the feed point without an electrical return path, where at least a portion of the dielectric antenna comprises a conductive surface, directing, by the feed point, the electromagnetic waves to a proximal portion of the dielectric antenna, and radiating, via an aperture of the dielectric antenna, a wireless signal responsive to the electromagnetic waves being received at the aperture. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Method and apparatus for coupling an antenna to a device

According to the present invention, there are provided a base station device, a terminal device, a communication method, and an integrated circuit capable of performing communication more efficiently when the terminal device transmits an uplink signal based on scheduling by the base station device. The terminal device includes a setting unit that sets a first uplink-downlink configuration, a second uplink-downlink configuration, and a third uplink-downlink configuration, a reception unit that monitors a physical downlink control channel accompanied with a downlink control information format which is used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel in a downlink subframe based on the third uplink-downlink configuration and includes information making a request for transmitting a sounding reference signal, and a transmission unit that transmits or drops the sounding reference signal and transmit an HARQ-ACK for transmission with the physical downlink shared channel.

Terminal device, base station device, communication method, and integrated circuit

Embodiments contemplate methods and systems for determining and communicating channel state information (CSI) for one or more transmission points (or CSI reference signal resources). Embodiments further contemplate determining transmission states may include applying at least one CSI process for channel state information (CSI) reporting. Embodiments also contemplate aperiodic and/or periodic reporting of one or more report types (e.g., rank indicator (RI)) of CSI, perhaps based on one or more reporting modes that may be configured for each of the one or more CSI process.

Communicating channel state information (csi) of multiple transmission points

A distributed antenna and backhaul system provide network connectivity for a small cell deployment. Rather than building new structures, and installing additional fiber and cable, embodiments described herein disclose using high-bandwidth, millimeter-wave communications and existing power line infrastructure. Above ground backhaul connections via power lines and line-of-sight millimeter-wave band signals as well as underground backhaul connections via buried electrical conduits can provide connectivity to the distributed base stations. An overhead millimeter-wave system can also be used to provide backhaul connectivity. Modules can be placed onto existing infrastructure, such as streetlights and utility poles, and the modules can contain base stations and antennas to transmit the millimeter-waves to and from other modules.

Backhaul link for distributed antenna system

A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) in a wireless communication system supporting multiple antennas are disclosed. The method includes transmitting, at a base station, information of one or more CSI-RS configurations to a mobile station, wherein the one or more CSI-RS configurations include one CSI-RS configuration for which the mobile station assumes non-zero transmission power for CSI-RS, transmitting, at the base station, information indicating a CSI-RS configuration for which the mobile station assumes zero transmission power for the CSI-RS among the one or more CSI-RS configurations to the mobile station, mapping, at the base station, CSI-RSs to resource elements of a downlink subframe based on the one or more CSI-RS configurations, and transmitting, at the base station, the downlink subframe mapped with the CSI-RSs to the mobile station.

Method and apparatus for providing channel state information-reference signal (csi-rs) configuration information in a wireless communication system supporting multiple antennas

Disclosed is a wireless communication system. A method for transmitting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system includes receiving information about reference CSI configuration and following CSI configuration configured to have the same rank indicator (RI) as RI of the reference CSI configuration, determining a wideband precoding matrix index (PMI) according to the following CSI configuration to be the same as a wideband PMI according to the reference CSI configuration when reports of the wideband PMI and the RI according to the reference CSI configuration and reports of the wideband PMI and the RI according to the following CSI configuration collide in one subframe, and transmitting the RI and the wideband PMI according to any one selected from the reference CSI configuration and the following CSI configuration.

Method for providing feedback of channel state information in wireless communication system and apparatus for same

Provided are a method and apparatus for the feedback of channel information in a wireless communication system. User equipment transmits a recommended rank to a base station. The user equipment receives, from the base station, an indicating rank that has been determined in consideration of the recommended rank, and transmits a channel status determined on the basis of the indicating rank to the base station.

Method and apparatus for transmitting information about a channel in a wireless communication system

The present invention relates to a method for enabling a terminal to report channel state information in a wireless communication system for supporting coordinated multi point (CoMP) transmission. Specifically, the method for enabling the terminal to report the channel state information in the wireless communication system for supporting CoMP transmission includes the steps of: receiving a reference signal from a serving cell and one or more cooperated cells; forming the channel state information for the CoMP transmission on the basis of the reference signal; and reporting the channel state information through a physical uplink shared channel to the serving cell, wherein the channel state information includes channel quality indicator (CQI) information and precoding matrix index (PMI) information, the CQI information includes a wideband CQI and a CQI for each selected sub-band of the CoMP transmission, and the PMI information includes a wideband PMI and a PMI for each of the selected sub-bands.

Method for reporting channel state information in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor

The embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for transmitting control information by a base station in a wireless communication system, wherein the method comprises a step of transmitting a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The downlink control information of the PDCCH may include an indicator indicating whether or not a reference signal is transmitted in a time domain corresponding to the subframe in which the PDCCH is transmitted.

Hyungtae Kim

Papers

Method and apparatus for providing channel state information-reference signal (csi-rs) configuration information in a wireless communication system supporting multiple antennas

Method for providing feedback of channel state information in wireless communication system and apparatus for same

Method and apparatus for transmitting information about a channel in a wireless communication system

Method for reporting channel state information in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor

Method and apparatus for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system