Method and apparatus for allocating channel state information-reference signal in wireless communication system

A method for transmitting a Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS), the method comprising:

• generating a CSI-RS sequence for antenna ports of a maximum number of 8 for transmission of the CSI-RS;
• mapping the generated CSI-RS sequence to Resource Elements (REs) allocated for transmission of the CSI-RS;
• and
• generating an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal including the mapped CSI-RS sequence and transmitting the generated OFDM signal to a User Equipment,
• wherein, in the mapping the generated CSI-RS sequence to the REs:
• the CSI-RS sequence is mapped to REs corresponding to one sub-carrier at every 12 sub-carriers for each antenna port with respect to two OFDM symbols within a sub-frame by which the CSI-RS is transmitted,
• for antenna port sets, each of which includes an Mth antenna port and an (M+1)th antenna port for transmission of the CSI-RS, the CSI-RS of antenna ports within each of the antenna port sets are allocated to REs having the same time-frequency resource and are discriminated from each other by orthogonal codes, and
• the CSI-RS allocated for two adjacent antenna port sets within a resource block are spaced apart from each other with an interval of 3 REs in the frequency axis.

A method for receiving a Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS), the method comprising:

• receiving a signal;
• extracting the CSI-RS for each of maximum N antenna ports (N being an integer larger than or equal to 1) allocated to Resource Elements (REs) through resource element demapping from the received signal;
• and
• acquiring channel state information from the extracted CSI-RS,
• wherein, in the extracting the CSI-RS:
• for the maximum N antenna ports for transmission of the CSI-RS, the CSI-RS sequence is mapped to the REs corresponding to one sub-carrier at every 12 sub-carriers for each antenna port with respect to two Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols within a sub-frame by which the CSI-RS is transmitted,
• for ┌N/2┐ antenna port sets, each of which includes either both an Mth (M≦N, and M being an odd number) antenna port and an (M+1)th antenna port or only the Mth antenna port if the (M+1)th antenna port does not exist and is used as an antenna port set for transmission of the CSI-RS, the CSI-RS of antenna ports within each of the antenna port sets are allocated to REs having the same time-frequency resource and are discriminated from each other by orthogonal codes, and
• the CSI-RS allocated for two adjacent antenna port sets within a resource block are spaced apart from each other with an interval of 3 REs in the frequency axis.

An apparatus to transmit a Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS), the apparatus comprising:

• a CSI-RS generator to generate a CSI-RS sequence for each of a maximum N antenna ports (N being an integer larger than or equal to 1) for transmission of the CSI-RS;
• a CSI-RS resource allocator to map the generated CSI-RS sequence to Resource Elements (REs) for transmission of the CSI-RS;
• and
• a signal generator to generate an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal including the mapped CSI-RS sequence and to transmit the generated OFDM signal to a User Equipment,
• wherein the CSI-RS resource allocator maps the CSI-RS sequence to REs corresponding to one sub-carrier at every 12 sub-carriers for each antenna port with respect to two OFDM symbols within a sub-frame by which the CSI-RS is transmitted,
• wherein, for ┌N/2┐ antenna port sets, each of which includes either both an Mth (M≦N, and M being an odd number) antenna port and an (M+1)th antenna port or only the Mth antenna port if the (M+1)th antenna port does not exist and is used as an antenna port set for transmission of the CSI-RS, a CSI-RS of antenna ports within each of the antenna port sets is allocated to REs having the same time-frequency resource and are discriminated from each other by orthogonal codes, and
• wherein the CSI-RS allocated for two adjacent antenna port sets within a resource block are spaced apart from each other with an interval of 3 REs in the frequency axis.

An apparatus to receive a Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS), the apparatus comprising:

• a reception processing unit to receive a signal;
• a CSI-RS extraction unit to extract the CSI-RS for each of maximum N antenna ports (N being an integer larger than or equal to 1) allocated to Resource Elements (REs) through resource element demapping from the received signal;
• and
• a channel state measurement unit to acquire channel state information from the extracted CSI-RS,
• wherein for the maximum N antenna ports for transmission of the CSI-RS, the CSI-RS sequence is mapped to REs corresponding to one sub-carrier at every 12 sub-carriers for each antenna port with respect to two Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols within a sub-frame by which the CSI-RS is transmitted,
• wherein, for ┌N/2┐ antenna port sets, each of which includes either both an Mth (M≦N, and M being an odd number) antenna port and an (M+1)th antenna port or only the Mth antenna port if the (M+1)th antenna port does not exist and is used as an antenna port set for transmission of the CSI-RS, a CSI-RS of antenna ports within each of the antenna port sets is allocated to REs having the same time-frequency resource and are discriminated from each other by orthogonal codes, and
• wherein the CSI-RS allocated for two adjacent antenna port sets within a resource block are spaced apart from each other with an interval of 3 REs in the frequency axis.

A method for transmitting a Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS), the method comprising:

• generating CSI-RS sequence for N antenna ports (N being an integer larger than or equal to 1);
• mapping the generated CSI-RS sequence to predetermined Resource Elements (REs);
• and
• transmitting a signal comprising the mapped CSI-RS sequence,
• wherein the mapping the generated CSI-RS sequence to the REs comprises:
• grouping the N antenna ports into at least one antenna port set;
• and
• allocating that each of the at least one antenna port sets includes a pair of two antenna ports, two antenna ports in the same antenna port set being allocated to identical REs of a time-frequency resource configured by symbols and sub-carriers, in a sub-carrier having an offset determined by a cell among 12 sub-carriers and consecutive two symbols within one sub-frame, wherein the two antenna ports in the same antenna port set are discriminated from each other by Orthogonal Cover Codes (OCCs), and an interval between antenna port sets are spaced by 3 in a frequency domain.