Patent ID: 8416885

Claim:
An apparatus for data transmission, comprising: a resource element mapping unit for receiving modulation symbols which comprise data to be transmitted and reference signals, mapping modulation symbols to be beamformed onto resource elements of a first group of antenna ports mapping modulation symbols not to be beamformed onto resource elements of a second group of antenna ports and transmitting the modulation symbols which comprise the data to be transmitted and the reference signals to the antenna port mapping unit; an antenna port mapping unit for receiving the modulation symbols comprising the data to be transmitted and the reference signals from the resource element mapping unit, mapping the modulation symbols onto physical antenna elements corresponding to the antenna ports, whose resource elements the modulation symbols are mapped onto, according to a mapping rule defined by the antenna port mapping unit, and transmitting the modulation symbols to the OFDM signal generator; an OFDM signal generator for generating, for each antenna port, complex-valued time-domain OFDM signals on the antenna port based on all complex-valued modulation symbols mapped to resource elements of the antenna port, and transmitting the OFDM signals via physical antenna elements corresponding to the antenna port; a Cell-specific Reference Signal (CsRS) generator for generating CsRS and transmitting the CsRS to the resource element mapping unit; and a User-specific Reference Signal (UsRS) generator for generating UsRS and transmitting the UsRS to the resource element mapping unit; wherein the antenna port mapping unit comprises a beamforming port mapping unit and a non-beamforming port mapping unit; wherein the resource element mapping unit is to receive the CsRS transmitted by the CsRS generator, to map the modulation symbols which comprise the CsRS and the data to be transmitted and which are allocated to the second group of antenna ports onto resource elements, and to transmit the modulation symbols to the non-beamforming port mapping unit; and wherein the resource element mapping unit is to receive the UsRS transmitted by the UsRS generator, to map the modulation symbols which comprise the UsRS and the data to be transmitted and which are allocated to the first group of antenna ports onto resource elements, and to transmit the modulation symbols to the beamforming port mapping unit.