Patent ID: 9712304
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for transmitting a reference signal to a user equipment at a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining a reference signal resource interval expressed in a unit of one or more resource blocks (RBs) and an offset value indicating an index of a resource block in which the reference signal resource is configured firstly; configuring reference signal resources for a downlink bandwidth defined by a plurality of RBs in accordance with the reference signal resource interval and the offset value; and transmitting the reference signal to the user equipment by using the configured reference signal resources, wherein configuring the reference signal resources comprises configuring the reference signal resources in accordance with the following Equation A: (where k is an index of the resource block in which the reference signal resource is configured, M is the reference signal resource interval, O represents the offset value, and m represents an index of the reference signal resources).