Abstract: A Method of scrambling reference signals, device and user equipment using the method are provided. In the method, a plurality of layers of reference signals assigned on predetermined radio resource of a plurality of layers of resource blocks with the same time and frequency resources are scrambled, the method comprising: an orthogonalizing step of multiplying each layer of reference signal selectively by one of a plurality of orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) with the same length wherein the OCC multiplied to a first layer of reference signal can be configured as different from those multiplied to other layers of reference signals; and a scrambling step of multiplying all of symbols obtained from the OCC multiplied to each of the other layers of reference signals by a symbol-common scrambling sequence wherein the symbol-common scrambling sequences can be different from each other for reference signals multiplied by the same OCC.

Abstract: Provided is reporting one or more long term CSI components to an eNode B, wherein at least one long term CSI component being reported with multiple values; and reporting a transmission scheme assumption indicator (TSAI) together with a set of short term CSI components to the eNode B, wherein the TSAI indicating the eNode B of a value of the multiple values of the at least one long term CSI component to be currently used and of the set of short term CSI components being conditioned on the value indicated by the TSAI, wherein the short term CSI components being reported more frequently.

Abstract: A method and a system of setting up a reference signal in a radio communication system are disclosed. The radio communication system includes a serving cell and a neighboring cell, and a mobile terminal of the serving cell uses the same temporal frequency resource to receive a serving resource block from the serving cell and an interference resource block from the neighboring cell. The method includes setting up a user-specific reference signal in the interference resource block and puncturing at the same temporal frequency position as the temporal frequency position at which the user-specific reference signal is set up on the interference resource block of the serving resource block to prevent any signal from being transmitted at the punctured temporal frequency position. When the method and the system are used and the interference power between cells is measured, it is possible to effectively reduce feedback overhead in a coordinated beamforming.

Abstract: A Method of scrambling reference signals, device and user equipment using the method are provided. In the method, a plurality of layers of reference signals assigned on predetermined radio resource of a plurality of layers of resource blocks with the same time and frequency resources are scrambled, the method comprising: an orthogonalizing step of multiplying each layer of reference signal selectively by one of a plurality of orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) with the same length wherein the OCC multiplied to a first layer of reference signal can be configured as different from those multiplied to other layers of reference signals; and a scrambling step of multiplying all of symbols obtained from the OCC multiplied to each of the other layers of reference signals by a symbol-common scrambling sequence wherein the symbol-common scrambling sequences can be different from each other for reference signals multiplied by the same OCC.

Abstract: A method and a system of setting up a reference signal in a radio communication system are disclosed. The radio communication system includes a serving cell and a neighboring cell, and a mobile terminal of the serving cell uses the same temporal frequency resource to receive a serving resource block from the serving cell and an interference resource block from the neighboring cell. The method includes setting up a user-specific reference signal in the interference resource block and puncturing at the same temporal frequency position as the temporal frequency position at which the user-specific reference signal is set up on the interference resource block of the serving resource block to prevent any signal from being transmitted at the punctured temporal frequency position. When the method and the system are used and the interference power between cells is measured, it is possible to effectively reduce feedback overhead in a coordinated beamforming.

Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.

Abstract: A base station and a related method are provided. The base station includes a transmitter which, in operation, transmits, to a user equipment (UE), values configured for different base station coordination types, respectively, wherein each of the base station coordination types defines which base stations among multiple base stations perform coordinated transmission in that base station coordination type. The base station further includes a receiver which, in operation, receives a channel quality indicator (CQI) reported from the UE, wherein the CQI is calculated at the UE in reference to the values.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a process for producing hydrogen and graphitic carbon from a hydrocarbon gas comprising: contacting at a temperature between 600° C. and 1000° C. the catalyst with the hydrocarbon gas to catalytically convert at least a portion of the hydrocarbon gas to hydrogen and graphitic carbon, wherein the catalyst is a low grade iron oxide.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a Node B configures a first Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) and ports configured to send the first CSI-RS; and the Node B sends the first CSI-RS to User Equipment (UE) at the configured ports. Therefore, downlink channel information feedback in Three-Dimensional Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (3D-MIMO) may be supported.

Abstract: A Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) port indication method, device and a base station are disclosed. A provided DMRS port indication table covers all cases of transmission maximally supporting 8 layers, and 4 bits defined by DMRS port indication information may indicate all the cases in the DMRS port indication table in combination with single-codeword transmission and double-codeword transmission cases of a related standard, so that bit overhead of the DMRS port indication information may be reduced.

Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.

Abstract: A base station and a related method are provided. The base station includes a transmitter which, in operation, transmits, to a user equipment (UE), values configured for different base station coordination types, respectively, wherein each of the base station coordination types defines which base stations among multiple base stations perform coordinated transmission in that base station coordination type. The base station further includes a receiver which, in operation, receives a channel quality indicator (CQI) reported from the UE, wherein the CQI is calculated at the UE in reference to the values.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a Network Assisted Interference Cancellation and Suppression (NAICS) method, apparatus, system and related device, for NAICS based on existing hardware configuration of a terminal. A first NAICS method includes the following steps. NAICS capability information reported by a User Equipment (UE) is received. NAICS assisted signalling is issued to the UE according to the NAICS capability information and/or interference information of a neighbouring base station. A second NAICS method includes the following steps. Transmission Modes (TM) are divided into N TM subsets, each TM subset including at least one TM, N being a natural number. A neighbouring base station is notified of a TM subset scheduled for an interfering UE, wherein the interfering UE includes a UE located at the edge of a coverage area of the neighbouring base station, and the notified TM subset does not include a high-complexity TM.

Abstract: A Method of scrambling reference signals, device and user equipment using the method are provided. In the method, a plurality of layers of reference signals assigned on predetermined radio resource of a plurality of layers of resource blocks with the same time and frequency resources are scrambled, the method comprising: an orthogonalizing step of multiplying each layer of reference signal selectively by one of a plurality of orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) with the same length wherein the OCC multiplied to a first layer of reference signal can be configured as different from those multiplied to other layers of reference signals; and a scrambling step of multiplying all of symbols obtained from the OCC multiplied to each of the other layers of reference signals by a symbol-common scrambling sequence wherein the symbol-common scrambling sequences can be different from each other for reference signals multiplied by the same OCC.

Abstract: There are provided a method, user equipment, and transmission point device for feeding back channel quality indicator (MU-CQI) to the transmission point in a communication system including the transmission point and a plurality of user equipments, the method comprising steps: the transmission point sending a message to an intended user equipment of the plurality of user equipments; and the intended user equipment calculating the MU-CQI based on the message, and feeding back the MU-CQI to the transmission point. The present disclosure enables dynamic MU operation, and improves link adaptation performance with marginal downlink overhead. And the accuracy is not limited by codebook size.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses Network Assisted Interference Cancellation and Suppression (NAICS), methods and devices for controlling the same, which are configured to reduce processing complexity of User Equipment (UE) in NAICS under the condition of no excessive high-layer signalling overhead and no waste of a Carrier Aggregation (CA) capability of the UE in a CA scenario. The method for NAICS includes that: the UE receives an Interference Cancellation (IC) indication message sent by a Node B, and the IC indication message includes an Identifier (ID) of a Component Carrier (CC) which is targeted when the UE performs NAICS. The CC is a CC which performs CA transmission on the UE; and the UE performs NAICS on the CC according to the IC indication message.

Abstract: A Method of scrambling reference signals, device and user equipment using the method are provided. In the method, a plurality of layers of reference signals assigned on predetermined radio resource of a plurality of layers of resource blocks with the same time and frequency resources are scrambled, the method comprising: an orthogonalizing step of multiplying each layer of reference signal selectively by one of a plurality of orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) with the same length wherein the OCC multiplied to a first layer of reference signal can be configured as different from those multiplied to other layers of reference signals; and a scrambling step of multiplying all of symbols obtained from the OCC multiplied to each of the other layers of reference signals by a symbol-common scrambling sequence wherein the symbol-common scrambling sequences can be different from each other for reference signals multiplied by the same OCC.

Abstract: A method and a system of setting up a reference signal in a radio communication system are disclosed. The radio communication system includes a serving cell and a neighboring cell, and a mobile terminal of the serving cell uses the same temporal frequency resource to receive a serving resource block from the serving cell and an interference resource block from the neighboring cell. The method includes setting up a user-specific reference signal in the interference resource block and puncturing at the same temporal frequency position as the temporal frequency position at which the user-specific reference signal is set up on the interference resource block of the serving resource block to prevent any signal from being transmitted at the punctured temporal frequency position. When the method and the system are used and the interference power between cells is measured, it is possible to effectively reduce feedback overhead in a coordinated beamforming.