Apparatus and method for allocating channel state information-reference signal in wireless communication system

An apparatus to receive Channel State Information-Reference Signals (CSI-RSs), the apparatus comprising:

• a signal receiver to receive an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal, which is generated through allocation of CSI-RSs for maximum 8 antenna ports under a condition of a subframe in which an extended Cyclic Prefix (CP) is employed as a CP and a Time Division Duplex (TDD) scheme is employed as a duplex scheme;
• a CSI-RS extractor to extract CSI-RSs for antenna ports allocated to particular REs from a signal received by the signal receiver;
• and
• a channel state measurer to acquire Channel State Information (CSI) based on the extracted CSI-RSs,
• wherein CSI-RSs for a pair of antenna ports are allocated to REs corresponding to one sub-carrier at every 12 sub-carriers in a frequency band and corresponding to 8th and 9th symbols in a subframe, one subframe having a total of 12 symbols for the extended CP,
• CSI-RSs for the pair of antenna ports are allocated to identical REs, the CSI-RS for a first antenna port in the pair of antenna ports and the CSI-RS for a second antenna port in the pair of antenna ports being discriminated from each other by different orthogonal codes, and
• CSI-RSs for a first pair of two neighboring pairs of antenna ports are allocated in first REs and CSI-RSs for a second pair of the two neighboring pairs are allocated in second REs, the first REs and the second REs being spaced apart by having two REs between the first REs and the second REs along a frequency axis.

A method for an apparatus comprising a signal receiver to receive Channel State Information-Reference Signals (CSI-RSs), the method comprising:

• receiving, by the signal receiver, an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal, which is generated through allocation of CSI-RSs for maximum 8 antenna ports under a condition of a subframe in which an extended Cyclic Prefix (CP) is employed as a CP and a Time Division Duplex (TDD) scheme is employed as a duplex scheme;
• extracting CSI-RSs for antenna ports allocated to particular REs from the received signal;
• and
• acquiring Channel State Information (CSI) based on the extracted CSI-RSs,
• wherein CSI-RSs for a pair of antenna ports are allocated to REs corresponding to one sub-carrier at every 12 sub-carriers in a frequency band and corresponding to 8th and 9th symbols in a subframe, one subframe having a total of 12 symbols for the extended CP,
• CSI-RSs for the pair of antenna ports are allocated to identical REs, the CSI-RS for a first antenna port in the pair of antenna ports and the CSI-RS for a second antenna port in the pair of antenna ports being discriminated from each other by different orthogonal codes, and
• CSI-RSs for a first pair of two neighboring pairs of antenna ports are allocated in first REs and CSI-RSs for a second pair of the two neighboring pairs are allocated in second REs, the first REs and the second REs being spaced apart by having two REs between the first REs and the second REs along a frequency axis.