R1-084169 DL RS design for higher order MIMO.docVIP

3GPP TSG RAN WG1 #55 R1-084169 Prague, Czech Republic, November 10 – 14, 2008 Agenda item: 11.3 Source: Samsung Title: Issues on DL RS Design for Higher Order MIMO Document for: Discussion and decision Introduction LTE advanced LTE-A is expected to achieve higher DL peak and average sector throughput than LTE and the LTE-A feasibility study includes the support of higher order MIMO in the DL. Higher order MIMO considers up to 8X8 multi-antenna configuration to achieve the peak spectrum efficiency target [1]. This issue necessitates the design of additional reference signal RS for LTE-A. Key aspects for the RS design would be: Backward compatibility: LTE UEs shall be supported in LTE-A networks. This means any operation of LTE UEs should not be affected by the introduction of new RS; in particular, implementations associated with RS-based estimation functions channel estimation, CQI/PMI feedback determination, RSSI measurement, etc should not be affected. Low overhead: Higher order MIMO shall provide substantial gains over the existing MIMO schemes, even taking into account higher RS overhead. Otherwise, introducing higher order MIMO is counter-productive. In this sense, we have to investigate trade-off between the gain from better channel estimation and the loss from the additional RS overhead. Simplicity: The introduction of the additional RS should not be unnecessary complex. Several documents have considered the above aspects [2-4]. In this contribution, we identify the issues on the RS design to support higher order MIMO. Classification of RS RS can be categorized into several types according to its purpose. CQI-CRS: is the common RS for measurements. UEs determine CQI, PMI, and RI for feedback to the eNB by measuring CQI-CRS. CQI-CRS needs to be distributed over the entire band. DM-CRS: is the common RS for demodulation. Since multiple UEs use the DM-CRS for channel estimation, the precoding scheme chosen for a given UE cannot be applied to DM-CRS. Ther