Method and device for transmitting a downlink reference signal in a wireless communication system supporting multiple antennas

A method of estimating a channel at a user equipment (UE) using channel state information-reference signals (CSI-RSs) for 8 or fewer antenna ports received from a base station, the method comprising:

• receiving the CSI-RSs for the 8 or fewer antenna ports in a downlink subframe having an extended cyclic prefix (CP) configuration in which the CSI-RSs for the 8 or fewer antenna ports are mapped to a data region according to a predetermined pattern;
• and
• estimating the channel using the CSI-RSs,
• wherein the predetermined pattern is defined such that the CSI-RSs for the 8 or fewer antenna ports are mapped to two consecutive orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the data region and are mapped to one or more of four subcarrier locations in each of the two consecutive OFDM symbols, in one resource block pair,
• wherein the two consecutive OFDM symbols are defined in the predetermined pattern and are OFDM symbol indexes 4 and 5 or OFDM symbol indexes 10 and 11,
• wherein the CSI-RSs are subjected to code division multiplexing (CDM) using orthogonal codes,
• wherein CSI-RSs for two antenna ports of the 8 or fewer antenna ports are mapped to same OFDM symbol and same subcarrier, and are multiplexed by the CDM over the two consecutive OFDM symbols, and
• wherein the four subcarrier locations are defined in the predetermined pattern and include “n”-th subcarrier index, “n+3”-th subcarrier index, “n+6”-th subcarrier index, and “n+9”-th subcarrier index.

A base station (BS) for transmitting channel state information-reference signals (CSI-RSs) for 8 or fewer antenna ports, the BS comprising:

• a reception module configured to receive an uplink signal from a user equipment (UE);
• a transmission module configured to transmit a downlink signal to the UE;
• and
• a processor configured to control the reception module and the transmission module,
• wherein the processor is further configured to control the transmission module to transmit the CSI-RSs for the 8 or fewer antenna ports to a data region of a downlink subframe having an extended cyclic prefix (CP) configuration, the CSI-RSs for the 8 or fewer antenna ports mapped according to a predetermined pattern,
• wherein the predetermined pattern is defined such that the CSI-RSs for the 8 or fewer antenna ports are mapped to two consecutive orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the data region of the downlink subframe and are mapped to one or more of four subcarrier locations in each of the two consecutive OFDM symbols, in one resource block pair,
• wherein the two consecutive OFDM symbols are defined in the predetermined pattern and are OFDM symbol indexes 4 and 5 or OFDM symbol indexes 10 and 11,
• wherein the CSI-RSs are subjected to code division multiplexing (CDM) using orthogonal codes,
• wherein CSI-RSs for two antenna ports of the 8 or fewer antenna ports are mapped to same OFDM symbol and same subcarrier, and are multiplexed by the CDM over the two consecutive OFDM symbols, and
• wherein the four subcarrier locations are defined in the predetermined pattern and include “n”-th subcarrier index, “n+3”-th subcarrier index, “n+6”-th subcarrier index, and “n+9”-th subcarrier index.

A user equipment (UE) for estimating a channel using channel state information-reference signals (CSI-RSs) for 8 or fewer antenna ports received from a base station (BS), the UE comprising:

• a reception module configured to receive a downlink signal from the BS;
• a transmission module configured to transmit an uplink signal to the BS;
• and
• a processor configured to control the reception module and the transmission module,
• wherein the processor is further configured to receive the CSI-RSs for the 8 or fewer antenna ports in a downlink subframe having an extended cyclic prefix (CP) configuration in which the CSI-RSs for the 8 or fewer antenna ports are mapped to a data region according to a predetermined pattern, to estimate the channel using the CSI-RSs,
• wherein the predetermined pattern is defined such that the CSI-RSs for the 8 or fewer antenna ports are mapped to two consecutive orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the data region of the downlink subframe and are mapped to one or more among four subcarrier locations in each of the two consecutive OFDM symbols, in one resource block pair,
• wherein the two consecutive OFDM symbols are defined in the predetermined pattern and are OFDM symbol indexes 4 and 5 or OFDM symbol indexes 10 and 11,
• wherein the CSI-RSs are subjected to code division multiplexing (CDM) using orthogonal codes,
• wherein CSI-RSs for two antenna ports of the 8 or fewer antenna ports are mapped to same OFDM symbol and same subcarrier, and are multiplexed by the CDM over the two consecutive OFDM symbols, and
• wherein the four subcarrier locations are defined in the predetermined pattern and include “n”-th subcarrier index, “n+3”-th subcarrier index, “n+6”-th subcarrier index, and “n+9”-th subcarrier index.