Title of Invention

METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING FEEDBACK INFORMATION, AND METHOD FOR TRNSMITTING/RECEIVING DATA USING THE SAME

Abstract A method for transmitting/receiving feedback information and a method for transmitting/receiving data using the same are disclosed, which acquire accurate channel information and reduces an amount of overhead, and effectively allocate resources during the initial transmission time A method for allowing a first reception end to transmit feedback information includes receiving a transmission request message of the feedback information from a transmission end, generating the feedback information including both band position information indicating a position of a data where data is received and a channel quality indication value indicating a channel quality of the band, and transmitting the feedback information.
Full Text [DESCRIPTION]
[invention Title]
METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING FEEDBACK
INFORMATION, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DATA
USING THE SAME
[Technical Field]
The present invention relates to a method for
transmitting/receiving feedback information and a method
for transmitting/receiving data using the same, and more
particularly to a method for transmitting/receiving
feedback information such that it acquires accurate channel
information and reduces an amount of overhead, and a method
for transmitting/receiving data to effectively allocate
resources during the initial transmission time.
[Background Art]
A transmission end for transmitting data in a mobile
communication system must receive two kinds of channel
information from a reception end.
First channel information from among the two kinds
of channel information is indicative of CSI (Channel State
Information) . The CSI indicates correct information for a
mobile communication channel generated during a specific
time from data transmission to the reception end, and is
directly received from the reception end.

Second channel information is CQI (Channel
Quality Information) which is indicative of the simplified
CSI information. In more detail, if the transmission end
desires to extract transmission (Tx) data and control
information from the received signals after receiving
transmission (Tx) signals from the reception end, the
transmission end requires the CSI, such that distortion
caused by propagation signals received via a radio
frequency (RF) channel can be removed by using the CSI.
Generally, the above-mentioned distortion-removing action
has been called a channel equalization function.
In the case where the reception end receives a
signal from the transmission end, the CQI indicates how
strong the channel carrying the received signal is. In
other words, the CQI indicates the channel intensity of the
signal received in the reception end.
Typically, the CQI has been widely used by a
resource scheduler. The resource scheduler determines
which one of channels can most effectively transmit data
from the transmission end to the reception end.
In the meantime, the CQI indicates average
characteristics of the channel. Generally, the CQI
averages the CSI according to a predetermined bandwidth,
such that it indicates the average value of the CSI. In
other words, if a channel response is denoted by "H", the
CQI at a specific band "k" can be represented by the
following equation 1:


where, G is indicative of the number of subcarriers
summed up in the selected band "k".
The CQI is based on an average value of a channel
power. If the CQI is really applied to the transmission
end, this CQI is properly mapped and refined to a set of
range definition according to modulation and channel-coding
scheme, so that the resultant CQI is transmitted to a
destination. This modulated CQI value is called an MCS
(Modulation and Coding Scheme) level.
The CQI indicates which one of MCS levels for use in
a specific band "k" can effectively deliver a data signal
from the transmission end to the reception end without
generating significant problems.
As described above, the modulation-coding scheme is
selectively and/or repeatedly changed according to the CQI
value, and a variety of parameters (e.g., proper Tx power)
can also be regulated by the CQI of the reception end. A
detailed description of the above-mentioned parameters
capable of being regulated by the CQI value has been
described in the 3GPP TS 25.214 V6.7.1 (published on
December 2005).

According to a conventional method for
measuring the CQI value, the CSI is firstly estimated, and
the CQI is then measured. Indeed, in the case of
estimating the CQI, the above-mentioned Equation 1 based on
the CSI is not used, and a plurality of reception powers of
a specific carrier is summed up, such that the CQI can be
estimated. Therefore, the above-mentioned equation 1 can
be represented by the following equation 2:

where, R() is indicative of a reception (Rx) signal
of the i-th subcarrier, P is indicative of an interval
among pilots selected for the CQI estimation, and G' is
indicative of the number of Rx signals selected in the
frequency band interval of the G value.
FIG. 1 exemplarily shows the CQI mapped by the
modulation/coding scheme level.
In more detail, FIG. 1 exemplarily shows a method
for mapping the calculated CQI to a MCS level. In this
case, the mapping method is designed to change the MCS
level whenever the calculated CQI is higher than a
predetermined threshold value. This threshold value
changes the modulation and channel encoding actions to
others, and a BER (bit error rate), a PER (packet error

rate), and a processing performance are crossed at a
specific location corresponding to the threshold value,
such that the specific location is generally set to the
threshold value.
Also, the threshold value changes the MCS level
according to the CQI value, and changes a variety of
parameters such as Tx power of the transmission end. In
more detail, a method for performing the modulation and
channel encoding actions according to the MCS 0 ~ MCS N-l
levels shown in FIG. 1 can be changed according to the
system requirements.
For example, in the case of a channel (i.e., a good
channel) having the CQI value of 30, a coding rate may be
set to 1/2, and a modulation scheme may be set to the 16QAM
method. In the case of a channel (i.e., a bad channel)
having the CQI value of 1, a coding rate may be set to 1/3,
and a modulation scheme may be set to the QPSK method.
And, in association with the mapping relationship
among other parameters, the 3GPP LTE may use a method of
the Tables 7A~7E prescribed in the 3GPP TS 25.214 V.6.7.1
(2005.12) or 3GPP TS 36 series (211,212,213,etc), however,
it should be noted that the scope of the above-mentioned
parameter mapping relationship is not limited to the above-
mentioned example, and can also be applied to other
examples as necessary.
In the meantime, if the CQI reporting period becomes
shorter, a channel variation status can be quickly

considered, however, an unexpected overhead occurs
during the CQI reporting time. Otherwise, if the CQI
reporting period becomes longer, the channel variation
characteristics cannot be quickly reflected whereas the
amount of overhead is reduced, so that a system performance
is deteriorated. Therefore, as the importance of the
effective usage of radio resources becomes greater, a
variety of techniques for reducing an amount of call-
origination overhead (i.e., outgoing overhead) created
during the CQI transmission have been recently proposed.
FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
general CQI feedback scheme.
Referring to FIG. 2, the Node-B transmits a common
pilot signal to individual users to measure the downlink
(DL) channel quality at step (1). Each user measures the
channel quality on the basis of the common pilot signal by
exploiting orthogonal pilot sequence property, calculates
the SINR per measuring bandwidth at step (2), and reports a
CQI level index or multiple indices with frequency-
positions corresponding to the calculated SINR to the Node-
B at step (3). The Node-B properly allocates resources
according to channel states of the individual users by
referring to the CQI value at step (4) . Therefore, the
Node-B determines the modulation scheme or the coding rate,
and transmits data to a user equipment (UE) acting as a
destination at step (5).

There are a variety of methods for transmitting the
above-mentioned CQI value to the transmission end, and a
detailed description thereof will hereinafter be described
with reference to the annexed drawings.
FIGS. 3 and 4 show a conventional method for
transmitting the conventional CQI value to the transmission
end.
The periodic CQI reporting scheme of FIG. 3 has been
used to report the CQI to the UE, such that it has been
widely used by a plurality of communication standards. In
more detail, the periodic CQI reporting scheme commands the
UE to periodically report the CQI value to the Node-B.
Although the method of FIG. 3 uses four sub-frames as a
reporting period, it should be noted that the reporting
period of the UE is determined by the Node-B and may also
be changed according to status information of the UE. The
configuration of CQI reporting period can be informed
through UL grant or high layer signaling.
According to the periodic reporting scheme, as shown
in FIG. 3, the CQI reporting of each UE is periodically
executed, irrespective of the presence or absence of DL
(downlink) traffic data of each UE. If there are no CQI
report messages on the condition that a specific UE
includes the DL traffic information as denoted by oval-
shaped circles in FIG. 3, and if there is no DL traffic
information under the same condition, the individual UEs
must report the CQI.

FIG. 4 shows a triggered CQI reporting
scheme. Differently from the periodic CQI reporting scheme
executed irrespective of data transmission, the above-
mentioned triggered CQI reporting scheme has been designed
to receive the CQI only when data transmission is required,
such that it prevents uplink channel resources from being
unnecessarily wasted.
If the Node-B has data to be transmitted to a
specific UE, the triggered CQI reporting scheme reports the
CQI to the specific UE at intervals of a predetermined
period of time. If data transmission is completed, the CQI
transmission is no longer performed. Therefore, the CQI
reporting is performed only when DL data is allocated to
the specific UE as shown in FIG. 4.
Also, during the above-mentioned CQI transmission, a
variety of CQI formats can be made available and applied to
the following three schemes, a detailed description thereof
will hereinafter be described in detail. The three schemes
are a Full Band CQI reporting scheme, a Best M CQI
reporting scheme, and a Hybrid CQI reporting scheme.
The Full Band CQI reporting scheme transmits CQI
information of all the scheduling bands to the Node-B when
the UE transmits the CQI information to the Node-B. Since
the Full Band CQI reporting scheme transmits CQI
information of all the bands of a channel to the Node-B,
the Node-B can recognize detailed information associated
with the channel bands of the UE. Therefore, the Node-B

can effectively use the UE' s channel bands. However,
provided that the Full Band CQI reporting scheme transmits
the CQI information to all the channel bands, much more
uplink resources are consumed, so that an overall
throughput might be deteriorated.
Next, the Best M CQI reporting scheme will
hereinafter be described with reference to FIG. 5, and the
Hybrid CQI reporting scheme will hereinafter be described
with reference to FIG. 6.
The Best M CQI reporting scheme transmits the CQI of
a specific band profitable to each UE, instead of CQI
information of all the bands, such that it prevents
location information not to be used for the scheduling from
being unnecessarily transmitted. The UE calculates the CQI
values of all the bands (Bl ~ B12) as shown in FIG. 5, and
selects the best M CQI values from among the calculated CQI
values.
FIG, 5 shows an example in which the M value is set
to "4". In FIG. 5, four CQI values (B2, B4, B7 and B9)
having the highest CQI levels are selected from among all
the CQI values (Bl ~ B12) . In this case, the band
including the selected CQI values is transmitted to an
uplink channel along with the CQI values.
In the meantime, the Best M average CQI reporting
scheme is generally similar to the Best M CQI reporting
scheme. However, differently from the Best M CQI reporting
scheme, the Best M average CQI reporting scheme transmits

location information of the selected M bands (B2, B4, B7,
and B9), but it averages the selected M bands and transmits
the average value of the selected M bands. As a result,
the Best M average CQI scheme can slightly reduce the
overhead caused by the CQI transmission. However, the Best
B average CQI reporting scheme may incorrectly calculate
the CQI value of each band, so that the overall scheduling
performance may be deteriorated, resulting in the
occurrence of a reduced throughput.
In the meantime, differently from the above-
mentioned CQI reporting scheme, the hybrid CQI reporting
scheme shown in FIG. 6 generates/transmits the CQI to
recognize the profile of all the bands. All the bands are
hierarchically grouped so that the hierarchically-grouped
bands generate the level. The CQI values of individual
levels are averaged in the grouping units for each level,
so that the average CQI is calculated.
FIG. 6 shows a specific case in which the n value
indicating the hierarchically-grouped level is set to any
one of 1~4.
The CQI value (B13) at the level of n=2 is equal to
the average CQI value at the group band composed of Bl and
B2 at the level of n=l. The CQI value (B19) at the level
of n=3 is equal to the average CQI value at the group band
composed of B13 and B14. Then, the best CQI value of each
level and an index value including the best CQI are
transmitted to the Node-B.

In more detail, as shown in the right side of
FIG. 6, if n is set to 1 (i.e., n=l), the CQI value of the
band B4 and an index value including the B4 CQI value are
transmitted to the Node-B. If n is set to 2 (i.e., n=2),
the CQI value of the band B14 and an index value including
the B14 CQI value are transmitted to the Node-B. If n is
set to 3 (i.e., n=3) , the CQI value of the band B19 and an
index value including the B19 CQI value are transmitted to
the Node-B. If n is set to 4 (i.e., n=4), the CQI value of
the band B22 and an index value including the B22 CQI value
are transmitted to the Node-B.
In this case, the CQI value transmitted to the Node-
B is different in level according to individual
transmission times. For example, in the case of the
initial CQI transmission, a CQI value of the n=l level and
band index information including this CQI value are
transmitted to the Node-B. In the case of the next CQI
transmission, a CQI value of the n=2 level and band index
information including this CQI value are transmitted to the
Node-B. As a result, the CQI profile of an overall
transmission band can be estimated.
Presently, the above-mentioned CQI concept has been
applied to a mobile communication system in various ways.
Representative examples of the CQI application are a CDMA
communication technology for mobile phones and a mobile
WiMax technology based on the IEEE 802.16.

The CDMA communication technology for mobile phones
does not classify a transmission band, and transmits data
to a destination using a sequence of the whole band, so
that only one value for the whole band is transmitted to
the destination. In this case, there are a variety of
methods for transmitting the single value for the whole
band to the destination, for example, a first transmission
method (e.g., old-version method before CDMA2000) capable
of acquiring a desired performance by controlling only the
power, and a second transmission method (e.g., CDMA2000 or
HSDPA) for directly transmitting correct CQI information to
the destination.
In the case of the CDMA2000 capable of transmitting
correct CQI information, the CDMA2000 technology uses a
differential CQI to chase (or track) the changing CQI. In
other words, the CDMA2000 technology indicates a difference
between a previously-transmitted CQI value and a current
CQI value by 1-bit indicating the increment or decrement.
The OFDM transmission system such as the WiMax
system capable of splitting a wireless transmission band
transmits the CQI as to a channel scheduling subband
discriminated by the scheduler to the transmission end.
In this case, the method for transmitting the CQI to
the transmission end is the periodic CQI reporting scheme,
and is relevant to the Best M average CQI reporting scheme.
This transmission method of the CQI is the band-based CQI

reporting scheme, so that a large amount of overhead
unavoidably occurs.
The differential CQI is used to reduce the large
amount of overhead. In this case, a few bits(including
lbit) information having a predetermined option of +delta
dB increment or -delta dB decrement (or MCS level
differential) for each sub-band is transmitted to the
transmission end.
In the case of the conventional CQI reporting cases,
the differential CQI is used to reduce the amount of CQI's
overhead. According to the conventional art, it is assumed
that there is no change in the once-selected band during
the reporting time of the differential CQI. In other words,
the once-determined CQI might be continuously fixed in next
times, and only the CQI variation within the predetermined
band might be reported.
In addition, the CQI variation within the reported
band has been designed to indicate only the
increment/decrement on the basis of a specific value. So,
if the increment or decrement does not occur, i.e., if a
current status is maintained, either the increment
information or the decrement information is transmitted to
a destination, so that the transmission end may
unexpectedly have the loss rather than the gain.
In the case of transmitting the differential CQI, a
differential value between a current signal and a previous
signal indicates only the fixed-range value. Therefore, if

a variation range of the CQI value is very large, the
conventional system has difficulty in effectively coping
with the CQI value. The conventional system periodically
transmits the CQI of the whole band to a destination, so
that it indicates whether the differential CQI value is
correctly represented. Unless the variation of the CQI
value is represented by a current encoding scheme, the
conventional system has no method for quickly informing the
transmission end of this situation.
The conventional periodic CQI reporting scheme may
periodically report the CQI value when a corresponding user
is not allocated, or may not report the CQI value even when
the data of the corresponding user is allocated, resulting
in the occurrence of serious problems.
The triggered CQI reporting scheme transmits the CQI
value only when data of the corresponding user is allocated.
However, if several users simultaneously report the CQI
value, several CQI channels are used, so that CQI channel
capacity can be problematic.
In addition, the current CQI reporting schemes have
no CQI information received from the UE during the
transmission of initial data of the system. Also, the
current CQI reporting schemes have no CQI information
received from the UE, even when the user does not transmit
data for a long period of time and then begins to transmit
the data. For the convenience of description and better
understanding of the present invention, the above-mentioned

first case is called an "initial data transmission
case", and the above-mentioned second case is called "no
available feedback information case" (i.e., no CQI
information case).
In other words, according to the above-mentioned
initial data transmission case, the system must transmit
data of a base station (e.g., Node-B of 3GPP) to a
destination without using the CQI information received from
the UE. In this case, since the system has no CQI
information of a specific band, it is unable to select an
effective transmission band from among several bands so
that data of the effective transmission band cannot be
transmitted to the destination.
[Disclosure]
[Technical Problem]
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a
method for transmitting/receiving feedback information, and
a method for transmitting/receiving data using the same,
that substantially obviate one or more problems due to
limitations and disadvantages of the related art.
An object of the present invention is to provide a
method for transmitting a CQI value and information of a

band location at which data can be effectively transmitted,
so that it reduces the number of errors generated during
the tracking time of a variation of the CQI value.

Another object of the present invention is to
provide a method for diversifying values indicated by
differential information, so that it can more precisely
indicate the variation of differential information.
Yet another object of the present invention is to
provide a method for prescribing a specific function
required for transmitting feedback information such as CQI.
Yet another object of the present invention is to
provide a method for reducing an amount of CQI overhead,
and effectively using allocated resources, thereby
reporting feedback information such as CQI values of
several users.
Yet another object of the present invention is to
provide a method for reducing the number of bits of
feedback information such as CQI, such that it can quickly
consider an abruptly-changing channel status within limited
resources.
Yet another object of the present invention is to
provide a method and apparatus for effectively using
resources during the transmission of initial data, so that
it reduces the loss of data during the transmission time.
Yet another object of the present invention is to
provide a method and apparatus for prescribing default
feedback information during the transmission of initial
data, recognizing channel information via differential
feedback information transmitted or received, so that it
can effectively exchange information.

Additional advantages, objects, and features of the
invention will be set forth in part in the description
which follows and in part will become apparent to those
having ordinary skill in the art upon examination of the
following or may be learned from practice of the invention.
The objectives and other advantages of the invention may be
realized and attained by the structure particularly pointed
out in the written description and claims hereof as well as
the appended drawings.
[Technical Solution]
To achieve these objects and other advantages and in
accordance with the purpose of the invention, as embodied
and broadly described herein, a method for allowing a first
reception end to transmit feedback information, the method
comprising: receiving a transmission request message of the
feedback information from a transmission end; generating
the feedback information including both band position
information indicating a position of a data where data is
received and a channel quality indication value indicating
a channel quality of the band; and transmitting the
feedback information.
Preferably, when a number of total reception ends,
including the first reception end, which are going to
transmit the feedback information at a specific time, is a
plural number, the feedback information transmission
request message is transmitted to the first reception end

determined in consideration of individual priority
information of the total reception ends.
In another aspect of the present invention, there is
provided a method for requesting transmission of feedback
information comprising: if there are a plurality of
reception ends which are going to transmit the feedback
information at a specific timeslot, determining priority
information of the individual reception ends; selecting a
specific reception end which is going to transmit the
feedback information in consideration of the determined
priority information of the individual reception ends; and
requesting transmission of the feedback information from
the selected reception end.
In yet another aspect of the present invention,
there is provided a method for transmitting data of a Node-
B comprising: transmitting a request message of feedback
information to a User Equipment (UE}; receiving the
feedback information from the UE according to the feedback
information request message; and after receiving the
feedback information, starting transmission of downlink
data.
In yet another aspect of the present invention,
there is provided a method for transmitting data of a Node-
B comprising: if available feedback information is not
received from a User Equipment (UE), allocating downlink
resources according to a distributed resource allocation
scheme; and starting transmission of initial downlink data

to the UE via the allocated downlink resources.
In yet another aspect of the present invention,
there is provided a method for transmitting data of a Node-
B comprising: receiving default feedback information
established by a User Equipment (UE); and transmitting
initial downlink data via downlink resources allocated on
the basis of the default feedback information.
In yet another aspect of the present invention,
there is provided a method for transmitting data of a Node-
B comprising: establishing default feedback information to
be equally used by both a User Equipment (UE) and the Node-
B; transmitting initial downlink data via downlink
resources allocated on the basis of the default feedback
information; and receiving differential feedback
information from the UE after transmitting the initial
downlink data.
In yet another aspect of the present invention,
there is provided a method for receiving data of a User
Equipment (UE) comprising: receiving a feedback information
request message from a Node-B; transmitting a differential
value between feedback information generated by the
feedback information request message and default feedback
information commonly contained in the Node-B and the UE;
and receiving data via resources allocated from the Node-B
on the basis of the differential value.
In yet another aspect of the present invention,
there is provided a method for receiving data of a User

Equipment (UE) comprising: receiving initial downlink
data via downlink resources allocated by a distributed
resource allocation scheme; transmitting a differential
value between feedback information replying to the
reception of the initial downlink data and default feedback
information commonly contained in both the UE and a Node-B
to the Node-B; and receiving downlink data generated after
the initial downlink data from the Node-B via downlink
resources allocated on the basis of the differential value.
In yet another aspect of the present invention,
there is provided a method for receiving data of a User
Equipment (UE) comprising: establishing default feedback
information, and transmitting the established default
feedback information to a Node-B; and receiving initial
downlink data transmitted via downlink resources allocated
on the basis of the default feedback information.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing
general description and the following detailed description
of the present invention are exemplary and explanatory and
are intended to provide further explanation of the
invention as claimed.
[Advantageous Effects]
The present invention transmits the CQI value and
the position information of a received band (i.e., Rx band)
as feedback information, and reduces the number of errors
caused when the Node-B tracks a CQI variation in an OFDM

system capable of transmitting data via
divided Tx bands, thereby correctly performing the
scheduling of data.
The present invention allows the differential
information to indicate the increment, decrement, and the
same status between the current signal and the previous
signal, so that it can more accurately track the CQI
information. The present invention can easily change the
range of a differential value according to the variation
speed of the differential information, and the mobility is
gradually emphasized. As a result, the present invention
can be effectively applied to the rapidly-changing channel.
The present invention can reduce an amount of
overhead when the differential value is transmitted
according to the joint encoding scheme, and properly
selects a sequence indicating a necessary function
according to the encoding scheme during the transmission of
feedback information such as CQI, so that it quickly
informs the transmission end of the specific situation as
compared to the conventional art.
If several UEs which desire to transmit feedback
information at a specific timeslot, the Node-B decomposes
the resources allocated for transmission of the feedback
information according to priority information of individual
UEs, so that the allocated resources can be effectively
used.

Specifically, if the feedback information to be
transmitted is CQI information, the present invention
calculates the user priority in consideration of CQI
characteristics, so that information necessary for the DL
scheduling can be effectively transmitted via the limited
resources. In this case, the present invention transmits a
differential value of feedback information via each channel,
so that the number of bits of the feedback information to
be transmitted can be reduced, and the number of channels
allocated for transmission of the feedback information can
also be reduced. In this way, the present invention uses
the feedback information with the reduced bits, so that the
Node-B can quickly consider the abruptly-changing channel
status.
The present invention transmits the CQI reporting
request message to a corresponding UE during the initial
data transmission, starts transmission/reception of the DL
data after receiving the CQI value corresponding to the CQI
reporting request message, so that it can stably
transmit/receive data.
The present invention uses the distributed resource
allocation scheme capable of minimizing the influence of a
specific frequency band during the initial data
transmission, so that it can stably transmit/receive data
without generating an additional time delay.
The present invention exchanges information via the
differential CQI value using the default CQI value commonly

contained in the Node-B and the corresponding UE, so
that UL resources can be effectively allocated.
The present invention performs the initial DL data
transmission of the Node-B using the default CQI value
created by signals received via the synchronization
estimation process, before the corresponding UE receives
the initial DL data, so that the initial data transmission
can be effectively performed. Therefore, the present
invention can use the default CQI value as a reference for
calculating the differential CQI value.
[Description of Drawings!
The accompanying drawings, which are included to
provide a further understanding of the invention,
illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with
the description serve to explain the principle of the
invention.
In the drawings:
FIG. *. exemplarily shows CQI mapped by the
modulation/coding scheme level;
FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
general CQI feedback scheme;
FIGS. 3~4 show a conventional method for
transmitting a conventional CQI value to a transmission
end;
FIG. 5 shows the Best M CQI reporting scheme;
FIG. 6 shows the Hybrid CQI reporting scheme;

FIGS. 7 — 8 show position information of data
Rx bands of individual UEs;
FIG. 9 is an exemplary data structure for
transmitting position information of a CQI reporting band
according to the present invention;
FIG. 10 is an exemplary data structure for
transmitting information indicating a CQI value according
to the present invention;
FIG. 11 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for indicating a position variation of a band via
which the UE receives data according to the present
invention;
FIG. 12 is a graph illustrating a slow variation of
the CQI value according to the present invention;
FIG. 13 is a graph illustrating a rapid variation of
the CQI value according to the present invention;
FIGS. 14~19 show exemplary channel structures for
transmitting band position information and CQI values
according to the present invention;
FIG. 20 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus
for transmitting feedback information according to the
present invention;
FIG. 21 is a block diagram illustrating a method for
selecting UEs going to report CQI values according to a
preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 22 shows a method for sequentially selecting
UEs reporting the CQI using the method of FIG. 21 according
to the present invention;
FIGS. 23~26 shov; detailed concepts of the
sequential selection method shown in FIG. 22 according to
the present invention;
FIG. 27 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for reporting the CQI using a differential value
when the number of selected UEs is a plural number
according to the present invention;
FIGS. 28~30 are conceptual diagrams illustrating
methods for reporting the CQI using a differential value
when the number of selected UEs is a plural number
according to the present invention;
FIG. 31 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for sequentially selecting UEs reporting the CQI
using a differential value when the number of selected UEs
is a plural number according to the present invention;
FIGS. 32~33 show detailed concepts of the
sequential selection method shown in FIG. 31 according to
the present invention;
FIG. 34 is a block diagram illustrating
characteristics of a Node-B according to another preferred
embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 35 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for delaying data transmission until the CQI is
received from the UE, and transmitting the delayed result

according to a preferred embodiment of the present
invention;
FIG. 36 shows the preferred embodiment of FIG. 35
from the viewpoint of a data stream to be transmitted
according to individual steps according to the present
invention;
FIG. 37 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
distributed resource allocation scheme and a localized
resource allocation scheme according to the present
invention;
FIG. 38 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for transmitting initial data according to the
distributed resource allocation scheme according to a
preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 39 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for establishing a default CQI value during the
transmission of initial data, and transmitting the
established default CQI value according to a preferred
embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 40 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for transmitting the CQI of each user using the
default-CQI establishing method of FIG. 39 according to the
present invention;
FIG. 41 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus
for delaying data transmission until the CQI is received
during the initial data transmission, and transmitting the
delayed result, and the Node-B including the apparatus

according to a preferred embodiment of the present
invention;
FIG. 42 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus
for transmitting data according to the distributed resource
allocation scheme, and the Node-B including the apparatus
according to another preferred embodiment of the present
invention; and
FIG. 43 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus
for transmitting data using the default-CQI value during
the transmission of initial data, and the Node-B including
the apparatus according to still another preferred
embodiment of the present invention.
[Best Model
Reference will now be made in detail to the
preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of
which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Wherever possible, the same reference indexes will be used
throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts.
It should be noted that most terminology disclosed
in the present invention is defined in consideration of
functions of the present invention, and can be differently
determined according to intention of those skilled in the
art or usual practices. Therefore, it is preferable that
the above-mentioned terminology be understood on the basis
of all contents disclosed in the present invention.

For example, although feedback information
transmitted from the UE is exemplarily set to the CQI in
the present invention, it should be noted that the scope of
the feedback information is not always limited to the CQI
on the condition that the feedback information can report
location and status information of a data Rx band, so that
other feedback information may also be included in the
scope of the present invention
FIGS. 7~8 show position information of data Rx
bands of individual UEs.
FIGS. 7~8, differently from the CDMA communication
scheme capable of transmitting data via all bands without
dividing the transmission (Tx) band into sub-bands, the
communication scheme is shown, which divides a radio
frequency (RF) band into sub-bands so that it transmits
data via the the sub-bands, and may change a Tx channel of
data applied to each UE according to the lapse of time.
Particularly, provided that a specific system (e.g., a
cognitive radio communication system) for providing a new
communication service by recognizing a currently-unused
frequency band is used, the above-mentioned characteristics
become more serious.
According to the concept and system of FIG. 7,
downlink (DL) data transmitted to each UE is transmitted
over a channel having different bands for each sub-frame,
and the number of allocation channels for transmitting the
DL data is changeable.

According to the concept and system of FIG. 8,
although the number of allocation channels for DL data
applied to each UE is fixed to a predetermined number, data
applied to each UE is changeable according to sub-frames.
Therefore, if the system transmits a feedback signal on the
assumption that the once-selected band is unchangeable
during the reporting time of either the CQI value or the
differential CQI value, the system may transmit incorrect
information according to a communication scheme (e.g.,
WiMax), dividing the RF band into several sub-bands. In
more detail, the system may transmit incorrect information
according to a specific communication scheme (See FIG. 7 or
8) capable of changing a transmission band of DL data with
time.
Therefore, the frame structure for transmitting
feedback information (e.g., CQI) according to the present
invention can transmit only the CQI value, and can include
band position information indicating the position of a data
reception band in the CQI value, such that it transmits the
resultant CQI value indicating a channel quality of the
above-mentioned band to a destination. Needless to say,
all or either of the above-mentioned band position
information and the channel quality information may be
configured in the form of a differential signal, so that an
amount of a corresponding signal may be decreased.
A method for reporting feedback information of the
data reception channel according to the present invention

may basically include two steps for indicating the
differential CQI values, i.e., a first step for reporting
the. band position, and a second step for reporting a
variation of the band CQI value. The band position
information and the CQI value may be simultaneously
transmitted, or may be transmitted independent of each
other. Also, the above-mentioned method for reporting the
feedback information of the data reception channel may
further include not only different analysis results of the
values indicated by bits of the differential CQI value, but
also an adaptation step thereof.
In order to indicate the differential value using
bits, the system must consider the number of cases and the
available ranges of individual values. The resultant
number of cases may indicate the number of necessary bits.
There are a variety of methods for indicating the above-
mentioned values, i.e., a separate encoding scheme, and a
joint encoding scheme.
The separate encoding scheme allocates individual
differential values to independent bit sequences. In other
words, differential values are encoded by differential
positions and/or bits to which the differential CQI values
are assigned, and the encoded values are concatenated in
the form of a single signal. If reporting channel capacity
cannot afford the concatenated bit sequences, the
combination of differential position and CQI can be
transmitted separately in a time division-wise. One of

aspect for above mentioned separate transmission is to
divide the selected band information into separate
transmission unit. Another aspect of above mentioned
separate transmission is to divide the concatenated
sequence to fit into the reporting channel capacity and the
segmented sequences is transmitted in time division-wise.
In this case, in order to extract information of each band,
the separate encoding scheme must recognize only positions
of corresponding bits, so that the separate encoding scheme
can be easily implemented. Provided that the number of
cases to be indicated by K-th information is N* , the
number of necessary bits is . In this case,
M
is indicative of a minimum integer number higher than
"x". Therefore, provided that M independent information
must be transmitted, the total number of necessary bits is
denoted by
The joint encoding scheme binds values of several
bands associated with the combination of individual
differential values into a single group, such that it
considers the number of cases under the above-mentioned
situation. In this case, the combination of all
differential values is assigned to a single bit sequence.
In order to recognize either the position information
corresponding to individual bands or the CQI variation of
the individual bands, the system must check all the bit

sequences according to the joint encoding scheme. In
this way, if several values are grouped into a single
structure, the system may indicate the values with the
least number of bits, so that the total amount of overhead
can be reduced. If the number of cases to be indicated by
the K-th value is is Nh, and the number of Nk, values is M,
the total number of cases to be indicated can be
represented by the following equation 3:
[Equation 3]

Therefore, the total number of necessary bits can be
represented by
Generally, in the case of comparing the separate
encoding scheme with the joint encoding scheme, the total
number of used bits can be represented by the following
equation 4:
[Equation 4]

Next, a method for transmitting the reporting band
position information and/or the CQI value using the above-

mentioned encoding scheme will hereinafter be
described with reference to FIG. 9.
FIG. 9 is an exemplary data structure for
transmitting the CQI reporting band position information
according to the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 9, the left side of FIG. 9 shows a
specific case in which differential position information is
indicated by independent bits, and the right side of FIG. 9
shows another case in which the differential position
information is grouped into a single structure, so that the
grouped structure is shown in the right side of FIG. 9.
According to the present invention, if the
differential position information values DP1—DP5 are
combined and transmitted as shown in the right side of FIG.
9, the position information values DP1~DP5 are not
considered to be equal to each other and then combined, but
different weights are assigned to the position information
values DP1~DP5 so that the position information values
DP1~DP5 having different weights are combined with each
other. For example, if col is assigned to DPI,  is
assigned to DP2,  is assigned to DP3, 4 is assigned to
DP4, and 5 is assigned to DP5, the order of the weights
col ~ 5 can be represented by col this case, the highest weight is assigned to specific
information indicating position information of a band at

which the most recent data is received, so that the
resultant data may be transmitted to a desired destination.
A detailed description of the above-mentioned method
for assigning weights to individual information during the
joint encoding, and combining the assigned resultant values
with each other will hereinafter be described.
If several bit information values are combined and
transmitted, the bit information values may be combined by
either a soft combine scheme or a hard combine scheme. If
the system desires to separately transmit only differential
information using the above-mentioned method for
transmitting feedback information, the left side or the
right side of FIG. 9 may be selectively used to transmit
feedback information.
FIG. 10 is an exemplary data structure for
transmitting information indicating a CQI value according
to the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 10, the left side of FIG. 10 shows
a specific case in which differential CQI values are
indicated by independent bits, and the right side of FIG.
10 shows another case in which the differential CQI values
are grouped into a single structure so that the grouped
structure is shown in the right side of FIG. 10. Needless
to say, in the same manner as in FIG. 9, if the individual
CQI values are grouped into one and the grouped result is
transmitted as shown in the right side of FIG. 10, the
system of FIG. 10 assigns weights to individual bit

information and combines the resultant bit information
with each other. In this way, if the system desires to
transmit only specific information indicating only the
differential CQI values, the right side or the left side of
FIG. 10 may be selectively used to transmit the specific
information.
FIG. 11 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for indicating a position variation of a band via
which the UE receives data according to the present
invention.
A band position of a transmission (Tx) channel of
current data and a current CQI value of data transmitted
via the band may be higher than a previous band position
and CQI, may be lower than the same, or may be equal to the
same as necessary.
In the case of transmitting the CQI value via the
differential CQI value, the conventional system is designed
to indicate the increment or decrement of a current signal
in association with a previous signal, so that it is unable
to indicate a specific case in which the current signal is
equal to the previous signal.
Although the error of +1 or -1 in the CQI variation
does not greatly affect the scheduling caused by an overall
CQI level variation, position information of a reception
(Rx) band (hereinafter referred to as Rx band position
information) may encounter a serious problem because the

error of +1 and the error of -1 in index information of a
corresponding band may indicate different bands.
Differently from the CQI variation, the position of
the data Rx band is maintained during a predetermined frame
as shown in FIG. 11. Therefore, if the data Rx band
position is indicated by an index indicating a previous Rx
band position, the value of +1, and the value of -1, the
accuracy of the scheduling task may be greatly deteriorated.
Therefore, the present invention provides a method
for indicating the CQI value and the data Rx band position
signal using the increment value of +1 indicating that the
current signal is higher than the previous signal, the
decrement value of -1 indicating the current signal is
lower than the previous signal, and the same status value
of 0 indicating that the current signal is equal to the
previous signal, so that it can transmit more accurate
feedback information.
As shown in FIG. 11, the band position may be
maintained during a predetermined frame, and the method for
reporting feedback information according to the present
invention transmits the Rx band position information much
more infrequently than the CQI reporting method, so that
the overhead of uplink resources is reduced. In this case,
it is preferable that the transmission of the band position
information may be limited to only a specific case in which
the position of the Rx band is changed to another position.

In the meantime, the increment is indicated by
the value of +1, the decrement is indicated by the value of
and the same status is indicated by the value of 0.
And, the variation of the difference value between the
current signal and the previous signal can be adjusted by
the signal-variation width, and a detailed description
thereof will hereinafter be described with reference to
FIGS. 12 and 13.
FIG. 12 is a graph illustrating a slow variation of
the CQI value according to the present invention. FIG. 13
is a graph illustrating a rapid variation of the CQI value
according to the present invention.
In the case of updating the CQI information via the
differential value, the present invention may change the
range of a value indicated by each bit so as to track the
rapid variation of the CQI value.
A horizontal axis of FIG. 12 or 13 indicates a time
(i.e., a sub-frame), and a vertical axis of FIG. 12 or 13
indicates a CQI level at a sub-frame of a corresponding
time. In other words, as shown in FIG. 12, the present
invention is able to track a CQI value of a slowly-changing
channel by the combination of three values -1, 0, and 1.
However, in order to rapidly update the differential value
due to the faster channel-variation speed, the present
invention may perform scaling of the range of the CQI value,
or may exponentially change the range of the CQI value.
There are a variety of mapping methods for use in the

above-mentioned scheme, i.e.,a first mapping method, a
second mapping method, and a third mapping method.
The first mapping method is indicative of a mapping
model based on a single parameter (M), so that it
exemplarily indicates a differential value in the form of ..,
-3*M, -2*M, -M, 0, M, 2*M, and 3*M, .... In this case, the
M value is changed in the order of 1, 2, ..., according to
the variation speeds, so that the variation speed of the
differential value can be smoothly adjusted.
The second mapping method is designed to use two
parameters M and P. The second mapping method indicates
the differential value in the form of ..., -M-2P, -M, -P, 0,
M, M+P, and M+2P, .... For example, if the M or P value is
set to "1", the differential value between the M and P
values may be denoted by ..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, and 3, ....
If the M value is set to "1" and the P value is set to "2",
the differential value between the M and P values may be
denoted by ..., -5, -3, -1, 0, 1, 3, and 5, ... The above-
mentioned second mapping method has an advantage in that it
indicates a differential value (e.g., values between M and
2M values) within the range of the magnitude M.
The third mapping method may exponentially use four
parameters X, M, P, and N. In other words, the third
mapping method may indicate the differential value in the
form of ..., X+M*P(N*2), X+M*P*"*1', X+M*P(0), 0, -X-M*P(0), -X-
M*P(Nn), and -X-M*P(N*2),.... For example, if the X value is
set to 0, the M value is set to 1, the P value is set to 2,

and the N value is set to 1, the differential value may
be denoted by ..., 4, 2, 1, 0, -1, -2, and -4, ... For example,
if the X value is set to 0, the M value is set to 2, the P
value is set to 3, and the N value is set to 1, the
differential value may be denoted by ..., 18, 6, 2, 0, -2, -6,
and -18, .... For example, if the X value is set to 2, the M
value is set to 1, the P value is set to 2, and the N value
is set to 1, the differential value may be denoted by ..., 6,
4, 3, 0, -3, ~4, and -6, ... As a result, the third
mapping method can adjust the interval between a first
differential value at a part close to a central value and a
second differential value at a part distant from the
central value, such that the differential values can be
combined in various ways.
In the case of adjusting the parameters M, P, X, and
N using the above-mentioned mapping models, the range of a
value capable of being tracked by the differential value
can also be adjusted. In order to change the above-
mentioned models, the part for requesting the CQI may
transmit the variation of the above-mentioned model to the
other party using a specific bit sequence or command, and
may report the differential CQI from the other party.
A method for encoding the CQI value and the band
position information using the differential value denoted
by the aforementioned mapping models, and transmitting the
encoded result will hereinafter be described in detail.

FIGS. 14~19 show exemplary channel structures
for transmitting band position information and CQI values
according to the present invention.
The recording data of the CQI variation value is
converted into' a bit sequence by the separate encoding
scheme and the joint encoding scheme. In order to estimate
the CQI variation, an index value of a selected band and
the CQI variation value within the selected band must be
tracked. In order to report the above-mentioned situation,
the present invention may request a differential CQI value
for the selected band as shown in FIG. 10. Also, the
present invention may report whether the position of bands
selected at the same transmission time or different
transmission times is unchanged. The reporting scheme may
be executed as shown in FIG. 9. In the case of
transmitting differential values of the position and CQI
value, the differential values can be transmitted as shown
in FIGS. 9 and In. However, in the case of simultaneously
transmitting the differential values, the differential
values may be combined in various ways as shown in FIGS. 14
to 19.
FIG. 14 shows a specific case in which separately-
encoded differential CQI values are attached to the
differential index values of the selected band, and the
attached result is transmitted to a desired destination.
FIG. 15 shows a modified example of FIG. 14. In
more detail, FIG. 15 shows a specific case in which only

differential position information is merged-
encoded. FIG. 17 shows a specific case in which the
differential position information and the differential CQI
value are merged-encoded, respectively, so that the merged-
encoded result is transmitted to a destination. FIG. 18
shows a specific case in which the differential position
information and the differential CQI value are considered
to be only one information, so that the merged-encoding
process is applied to the resultant information. FIG. 19
shows a specific case in which the differential band
position information and the differential CQI value are
merged-encoded in units of sequential bits, and the merged-
encoded result is transmitted to a destination. In this
case, the reception end has an advantage in that it can
track the sequential band position information and CQI
values.
According to the present invention, in the case of
combining the above-mentioned differential CQI information
with the differential position information, and
transmitting the combined result, the differential CQI
information and the differential position information are
not equally combined with each other, but predetermined
weights are assigned to individual bits of the above-
mentioned information, so that the resultant data having
different weights is transmitted. In this case, in the
case of transmitting individual bit information separately
from each other, in association with the differential CQI

value and differential position information
transmitted by the joint encoding scheme, the Node-B
divides the received information into individual bit
information, so that the Node-B can analyze the
differential CQI value and differential position
information on the basis of the divided bit information.
And, the differential CQI value and the differential
position information received by the joint encoding scheme
may also be used to perform the next scheduling.
For example, the band position is unchanged during a
specific sub-frame and only the CQI value of each sub-frame
is changed during the specific sub-frame, the highest
weight is assigned to the CQI value of the most recently
received signal, so that the resultant CQI value including
the highest weight is transmitted to a desired destination.
Therefore, the CQI value of the data Rx band can reflect
the most recent CQI value. In the case of assigning a
weight to Tx data and transmitting the resultant Tx data,
the reception end can extract a differential CQI value and
differential band position information for each bit. In
the case of assigning the highest weight to the most recent
information, and transmitting the resultant data, the
possibility of inaccurately damaging the most recent
differential CQI value and the differential position
information due to signal distortion is lowered during the
transmission time.

As described above, the present invention can
properly track the variation of CQI values and the
variation of a selected band. It is obvious to those
skilled in the art that various modifications of the
present invention can be implemented in various ways as
shown in FIGS. 14 to 19.
In the meantime, a special function may be added to
either the above-mentioned joint encoding scheme or the
separate encoding scheme.
The conventional system has been designed to
periodically transmit an overall-band CQI to indicate
whether a differential CQI value is correctly expressed.
As a result, if the abrupt CQI variation cannot be
represented by the current encoding scheme, the
conventional system is unable to quickly inform the
transmission end of this situation.
In order to solve the problems of the conventional
art, in the case where the CQI value and the band position
information cannot be correctly denoted by only the
currently-used differential CQI information due to the
abrupt CQI variation, the present invention provides a
method for defining a special function capable of informing
the transmission end of the above-mentioned case. And, the
special function may be relevant to the method for
indicating the CQI information using the separate encoding
scheme or the joint encoding scheme.

A method for defining the special function using
each encoding scheme, and analyzing associated values will
hereinafter be described in detail.
Firstly, the unary data mapping method for the
separate encoding will be described in detail. The unary-
data mapping method (also called a unidirectional data
mapping method) is designed to define only unidirectional
variation of data in the number of several cases associated
with bit sequences. In more detail, only the positive( + )-
directional variation of data or the negative(-)-
directional variation of data can be defined by the unary
data mapping method. For example, if 1-bit has two numbers
(i.e., 1 and 0) of cases, the numbers of cases are mapped
by the increasing/decreasing permutations as denoted by
{2,1} or {-1,-2}. The two bits (i.e., 2-bit) has the
number of cases denoted by {00, 01, 10, 11}, and the
resultant number denoted by {00, 01, 10, 11} is mapped by
the increasing/decreasing permutations as denoted by
{1,2,3,4} and {-1,-2,-3, -4}.
In this case, a special function may be mapped to a
specific bit sequence as necessary. For example, in the
case of using three bits (i.e., 3-bit), a specific sequence
{111} from among several sequences denoted by 3 bits may be
designed to describe a specific situation incapable of
being explained by a currently-defined mapping scheme. If
the Node-B receiving the differential value composed of 3
bits meets the sequence {111}, the Node-B recognizes that

the current CQI cannot be estimated by a corresponding
mapping scheme, so that it requests an overall CQI from the
UE.
If the CQI value is changed in the direction from
the increment to the decrement or in the direction from the
decrement or increment during the above-mentioned unary
data mapping scheme, the UE transmits a sequence for a
special function to the Node-B, so that the Node-B can
recognize that the CQI variation cannot be represented by
the unary data mapping scheme indicating only the
unidirectional increment/decrement. The Node-B receives
the sequence from the UE, generates a command for switching
the increasing/decreasing direction, and transmits the
command to the UE as necessary. Needless to say, the UE
may recognize that the CQI variation cannot be represented
in the increasing/decreasing directions, and may switch the
increasing/decreasing directions to other directions.
Next, the binary data mapping method for the
separate encoding will be described in detail. The binary
mapping method is similar to the unary mapping method,
however, it should be noted that the increment/decrement
actions of data are executed in all of positive/negative
directions, differently from the unary mapping method.
For example, if the binary differential information
is established by 1-bit, the binary differential
information may be indicated by the combination of positive
and negative values, as shown in the combination {1,-1}.

If the binary differential information is established
by 2-bit, the binary differential information may be
indicated by the combination {-1,0,1,2} or {-2,-1,0,1} of
positive and negative values.
If the CQI variation cannot be explained under the
current mapping references, the binary data mapping method
may define the special function in the same manner as in
the unary mapping method. For example, in the case of
using the 2-bit, the sequence {11} is established by a
special function, and the Node-B receives the sequence {11},
the binary mapping method determines that the CQI value
cannot be tracked by the current mapping references, such
that the UE requests the overall CQI.
Next, the joint encoding scheme will hereinafter be
described in detail. The joint encoding scheme may have
the combination more easily than the separate encoding
scheme. In other words, in the case of indicating the
combination of individual values, the joint encoding scheme
can represent the bit sequence more effectively than the
separate encoding scheme.
For example, in order to indicate the status {-1, 0,
1}, the separate encoding scheme requires 2 bits. In order
to transmit the status {-1,0,1} three times, the separate
encoding scheme requires 6 bits. However, according to the
joint encoding scheme, the number of total available cases
is 27, and is denoted by 5 bits. Since only 27 sequences
from among 32 sequences denoted by the 5-bit are defined,

the joint encoding scheme can define the special
function using the.remaining values.
For example, it is assumed that each differential
value may have three values {-1,0,1} and the value denoted
by {-1,0,1} should be transmitted five times. Under this
assumption, the total number of combinations is denoted by
35=243, and the 243 combinations can be represented by 8
bits. Accordingly, the above-mentioned 24 3 sequences from
among 256 sequences, each of which is represented by 8 bits,
are expressed and the remaining 13 sequences are left. One
of the aforementioned sequences may indicate an overall
failure of the differential mapping. In the case of other
combinations, first CQI information from among the CQI
information may indicate the error, and second CQI
information may also indicate the error as necessary.
In the meantime, in the case of creating a bit
sequence using the real joint encoding scheme, the
following regulations are needed. Provided that the number
of cases of all the differential values (hereinafter
referred to as the case-number of all the differential
values) is set to X, and M differential values must be
transmitted, the total number of cases is denoted by XM, so
that XM cases occur. If the above-mentioned number of
cases is re-defined, the bit sequence value to be
transmitted can be represented by the following equation 5:
[Equation 5]


where dk is indicative of k-th transmission (Tx)
data.
In the meantime, provided that weights are assigned
to individual differential values according to the joint
encoding scheme and are then combined with the differential
values, Equation 5 can also be represented by the following
equation 6:

where a>k is indicative of a weight of the dk value.
If a transmission (Tx) bit sequence is given as
shown in the Equations 5 and 6, the reception end may
decide CQI information on the basis of the L value, may
search for each differential value dk, and may decide the
CQI information on the basis of the retrieved differential
value dk. If the CQI information is decided by the joint-
encoding value (L) , it is preferable that the highest
weight is assigned to differential value information
relevant to the most recently-received data, so that the
channel status can be properly decided. The above-
mentioned case may be effectively applied to a specific

case in which a CQI value indicating the final channel
status of a corresponding band is the most important matter,
because the band position is unchanged in the above-
mentioned case, however, it should be noted that the scope
and spirit of the present invention is not limited to only
this example, and can also be applied to other examples as
necessary.
A method for searching for the dk value
corresponding to each differential value from among the
joint-encoding value (L) can be performed as follows.
Firstly, in the case where no weight is assigned to each
differential value information and the differential values
having no weights are combined with each other, this
situation can be represented by the following equation 7:

where, mod(x,y) is indicative of an operator for
calculating a remainder created when "x" is divided by "y".
also, if the joint-encoding value (L) is received on
the condition that weights are assigned to individual bit
information as shown in Equation 5, the d* value can be
calculated by the following equation 8:

[Equation 8]

In this way, if the joint encoding scheme is used as
described above, the number of Rx data bits can be reduced,
and an amount of overhead of uplink resources can also be
reduced. The highest weight is assigned to the final
differential value during the joint encoding operation, so
that the possibility of damaging the final differential
value during the transmission time is minimized.
Needless to say, the method for analyzing the
feedback information according to the present invention
acquires information indicating a data Rx band position
from feedback information entered by the UE, and acquires
CQI information at the data Rx band. And, if the band
position information and the CQI value are represented by
the differential values as described above, the
differential values are compared with previous values, so
that the perfect band position information and the perfect
CQI information can be acquired.
In the meantime, the above-mentioned channel
structure and an apparatus for implementing the method for
transmitting feedback information using the channel
structure will hereinafter be described in detail.

FIG. 20 is a block diagram illustrating an
apparatus for transmitting feedback information according
to the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 20, Tx data of the Node-B is
received via an antenna, and is received in the controller
1001 via a duplexer. The controller 1001 according to the
present invention may extract information (pk) indicating a
Rx band position and a CQI value (rk) of the corresponding
band from the Rx data (R). The controller 1001 transmits a
control signal (c) to the calculator 1003 and the encoder
1004, so that it controls operations of the calculator 1003
and the encoder 1004.
The information (rk and pk) extracted by the
controller 1001 may be applied to the buffer 1002 and the
calculator 1003. The buffer 1002 stores received
information (rk and pk) , so that it may output information
(rk_i and pk-i) stored after 'the lapse of a single frame
(i.e., 1-frame) to the calculator 1003.
Needless to say, if the CQI value used as feedback
information is not continuously transmitted in the same
manner as in the CQI transmission case activated only when
the presence of Rx data is decided, corresponding
information can be stored in the buffer 1002 until the next
feedback information is transmitted. For the convenience
of description and better understanding of the present
invention, the buffer 1002 may store a plurality of
information pieces during the interval of the 1 frame, and

a detailed description thereof will hereinafter be
described in detail.
Next, the calculator 1003 receives the information
values (rk-1 and Pk-1) stored during a frame period
corresponding to the 1-frame interval, and receives new
information values (rk and p>) from the controller 1001,
such that it can calculate differential values (dvk and
dpk) of the received information values. In this case, as
can be seen from FIG. 20, the calculator 1001 calculates a
differential value of the band position information and a
differential value of the CQI value. However, the band
position information having a relatively-low variation
determines whether the data Rx band position is changed
less times than in the CQI value information. Preferably,
if the controller 1001 determines whether the data Rx band
position is changed or not, and informs the calculator 1003
of the variation of data Rx band position via the control
signal (c) , the differential calculation process reduces
the amount of Tx signal only when the data Rx band position
variation is notified to the calculator 1003 via the
control signal (c), so that the amount of overhead can also
be reduced.
Thereafter, the differential values (dvn and dpk)
generated by the calculator 1003 may enter the encoder 1004.
The encoder 1004 receives the differential band position
information (dpk) and the differential CQI value (dvk)
according to the control signal (c) of the controller 1001,

encodes the received data (dpk and dvk) in various ways
as shown in FIGS. 14 to 19. If required, a specific
sequence performs data mapping for a special function, and
may generate Tx data (L) . The Tx data (L) is transmitted
to the Node-B via the antenna after passing through the
duplexer.
In the meantime, the selected CQI reporting scheme
for determining the CQI reporting on the basis of the UE
priority information will hereinafter be described in
detail. In this case, the UE priority is determined on the
basis of a channel variation status of UEs, a CQI
transmission time interval, and a throughput in a wireless
communication environment.
In order to effectively use the limited radio
resources, the selected CQI reporting scheme considers a
channels status, a CQI transmission time, and a data rate
when determining the UE priority reporting the CQI, so that
it transmits the CQI in descending numerical orders of the
UE priority. As a result, the selected CQI reportint
scheme reduces the CQI overhead, can effectively use the
resources, and sufficiently considers a changing channel
status via the limited CQI reporting channel using a
differential CQI value, so that the system performance is
improved.
FIG. 21 is a block diagram illustrating a method for
selecting UEs going to report CQI values according to a
preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 21, in order to measure a
channel quality of downlink (DL) data, the Node-B transmits
a common pilot signal to individual UEs of users, and each
UE measures a SINR of the received signal and determines a
CQI index indicating a channel quality level of downlink
(DL) data. Each UE transmits this CQI value in an uplink
direction to effectively report the CQI value, so that the
resources can be maximally used.
According to the present invention, the system of
FIG. 21 transmits the CQI value only when user data to be
transmitted to a DL traffic path exists, so that it can
reduce the number of unnecessary reporting times. If there
are several users who desire to transmit data at the same
time, the Node-B selects a specific UE acting as the CQI
transmission target according to the priority information
determined by a variety of factors, so that it reduces the
number of channels used for CQI transmission. And, the
system firstly transmits the CQI of the high-priority user
according to the channel status and condition of the users,
so that it solves the CQI overhead problems and improves
the performance.
In the meantime, the priority of UEs (i.e., the UE
priority) can be determined by the following
characteristics, as represented by the following equation
9:
[Equation 9]


where, "i" is indicative of index information of UEs,
VVQI is indicative of the degree of a difference between a
CQI value of a previous sub-frame of the i-th UE and a CQI
value of a current sub-frame of the i-th UE, ∆tcot indicates
how long the transmission time interval between a previous
CQI value of the i-th UE and a current CQI value is, and
SINR, is indicative of the degree of the SINR value of the
i-th UE. And, deterro^ is indicative of the degree of
errors of Rx data of the i-th UE, {T, the throughput of the i-th UE is lower than that of the
system, and Rt is how tall the data rate of the i-th UE is.
If the above-mentioned characteristics increase, the
priority of each UE also increases.
Therefore, the priority function P (xl, x2,..., xn) shown
in Equation 9 is configured in the form of an increasing
function for each characteristic parameter (xi). In order
to construct the characteristic function, a specific weight
is multiplied by each characteristic parameter according to
system requirements, as represented by the following
equation 10:
[Equation 10]


where  — b indicate the weights assigned to
individual parameters.
As described above, the UE having the priority
determined by Equation 9 or 10 is selected as a CQI
reporting object by the Node-B. In this case, the UEs are
selected as the CQI reporting objects in descending
priority orders. For this purpose, the Node-B transmits a
CQI transmission request message to high-priority UEs
selected as the CQI reporting objects, and the CQI
transmission request message is transmitted to the UEs
along with Tx data of each UE.
In the meantime, there is no need to consider all
the characteristic parameters shown in Equation 9 or 10.
Only some characteristic parameters may be considered
according to weights multiplied by characteristic
parameters for the system requirements.
Generally, if feedback information to be transmitted
is a CQI of a DL channel, the most important matters of the
above-mentioned characteristic parameters are the values of
VVQI and ∆tCQT . In this case, VVQI is indicative of a
difference between a CQI value of a previous frame and a
CQI value of a current frame, and ∆tCQT is indicative of a
time interval between the CQI value of the previous frame
and the CQI value of the current frame. The present


invention can determine the priority of UEs by
considering only the above-mentioned two values VQI and
AtCQI .

In the meantime, in order to more correctly indicate
the DL-channel quality, there is proposed a method for
sequentially assigning weights in the order of increasing-
subscripts of the weights coi~a>&.
FIG. 22 shows a method for sequentially selecting
UEs reporting the CQI using the method of FIG. 21 according
to the present invention.
FIGS. 23 — 26 show detailed concepts of the
sequential selection method shown in FIG. 22 according to
the present invention.
Referring to FIGS. 22 and 23~26, the present
invention basically assumes that the CQI transmission
request occurs only when data to be transmitted by the UE
exists. And, it is assumed that each UE receives two
uplink channels (e.g., HD-SICH) for CQI transmission from
the Node-B. In order to easily recognize the relationship
between data and CQI of individual UEs, the DL traffic data
(See upper part of FIGS. 22 and 23 — 26) and the CQI traffic
data (See lower part of FIGS. 22 and 23~26) of the same UE

are denoted by the same oblique lines, as shown in
FIGS. 22 and 23~26.
Referring to FIG. 23, the Node-B transmits the CQI
transmission request to UE3 and UE4, each of which has the
DL traffic data in the two allocated UL channels at step ®.
Provided that the VyQK value is not high due to the rapidly-
changing channels of other UEs at step ©, UE1 and UE2 are
selected as the transmission targets by the ktCQI value.
Next, if the UE1 has a low SINR at step ©, the UE1
is selected by the SINRi value. If unexpected errors occur
in Rx data of the UE4, the UE4 can also be selected by the
det_errori value. In the meantime, since the UE having
data in the DL traffic information is only the UE1, only
the UE1 is selected as the CQI reporting object at step ©.
The UE which is going to transmit the CQI at the
above steps is selected by the Equations 9 and 11.
Generally, the number of selected UEs is equal to the
number of channels allocated for CQI transmission. If the
number of UEs, each of which has Rx data in the DL traffic,
is less than the number of allocated channels, the Node-B
transmits only the CQI of the UE having data to be received.
During the initial selection step, the Node-B may select
the UE, which is going to transmit the CQI, from among
several UEs in consideration of channel capacity for CQI
transmission of each UE. During the initial selection step,
the Node-B selects all of UEs, each of which has priority

higher than a predetermined priority value. Thereafter,
if the Node-B has difficulty in reporting the CQI values of
all the selected UEs in consideration of the CQI reporting
scheme and channel capacity, the Node-B may transmit the
CQI transmission request to only some UEs instead of all
the selected UEs.
Referring to FIG. 24, if unexpected errors occur in
Rx data of the UE3 at step ©, the UE3 is selected by the
det_errori value, and at the same time the UE4 is selected
by the AtCQti value. Next, the UE2 is selected by the AtCQI
value at step©. Provided that the DL channel of the UE3
is abruptly changed and errors occur in Rx data of the UE1,
the weight multiplied by the VyQI weight multiplied by the det_errorj. value, so that the UE3
is selected. Needless to say, the above-mentioned cases
has been disclosed as examples of the present invention,
and the weight multiplied by each parameter may also be
changed.
Referring to FIG. 25, provided that all the UE
channels are abruptly changed at step ©, individual UEs
have the same VVQl) value, so that the UE3 and the UE4 are
selected by the Atc value. Thereafter, the individual UEs
have the same VVQIi value at step ®, so that the UE1 is
selected if the throughput of the UE1 is less than a
requested throughput. And, if the channel of the UE3 is
abruptly changed, the UE3 is selected by the VVQU value.

Thereafter, the Node-B selects the UE1 having the
abruptly-changing channel and the UE2 having a long Tx-time
interval at step ®. In this way, if the UE is selected as
a CQI transmission target, the Node-B transmits the CQI
transmission request rressage to the UEs, so that the CQI
may be reported to individual UEs according to the
allocated band and capacity.
Finally, referring to FIG. 26, if the channels of
all the UEs are abruptly changed, the UE3 and the UE4 are
selected as the CQI reporting objects by the AtCQl value at
step ©. The Node-B selects the UE1 and UE4 receiving data
at step ©. If all the channels are not abruptly changed,
the Node-B selects the UE2 and the UE4 as the CQI reporting
objectts by the &tCQI value at step ©.
According to the concepts of FIGS. 22 and 23 to 26,
the Node-B transmits the CQI request message to only the UE
having Rx data in the DL traffic information. In the case
of determining the individual priority, weights are
sequentially assigned to the priority function of Equation
10 in the order of subscripts attached to the weights.
However, differently from the concepts of FIGS. FIGS. 22
and 23 to 26, it should be noted that other examples of the
present invention can be readily implemented by those
skilled in the art.
If there are several UEs capable of transmitting the
CQI using the method for transmitting the feedback

information, a differential CQI value may be transmitted
to the UEs, and a detailed description thereof will
hereinafter be described in detail.
FIG. 27 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for reporting the CQI using a differential value
when the number of selected UEs is a plural number
according to the present invention.
The system of FIG. 27 is based on the CQI reporting
scheme for reporting the priority information of individual
UEs, and employs a differential CQI value to effectively
use radio resources, so that it reduces the number of bits
of the CQI information. According to the concept of FIG.
27, in the case of using the differential value under the
abruptly-changing channel situation, CQI information of UEs
which desire to transmit data can be effectively
transmitted via a limited channel, resulting in an
increased system performance. The above-mentioned scheme
is called a SDV (Selection Differential Value) CQI
reporting scheme, and a detailed description thereof will
hereinafter be described in detail.
The SDV CQI reporting scheme measures the SINR of a
received signal (Rx signal) in the same manner as in the
above-mentioned selection CQI reporting scheme, and
measures the DL-channel status on the basis of the measured
SINR of the Rx signal. The priority is determined
according to the measured CQI value and the UE condition.
If there are several UEs which are going to transmit the

CQI according to the priority, the Node-B
transmits the CQI using the differential value indicating a
difference between the previous CQI value and the current
CQI value. The SDV CQI reporting scheme can reduce the CQI
overhead because the UE for selectively transmitting the
CQI is determined according to the priority information,
and at the same time it reports the differential CQI value
so that it reduces the number of information bits. As a
result, CQI of several UEs can be effectively transmitted
to a destination without increasing an additional CQI
transmission channel. There are a variety of schemes for
implementing the above-mentioned scheme, and detailed
description thereof will hereinafter be described in detail.
FIGS. 28~30 are conceptual diagrams illustrating
methods for reporting the CQI using a differential value
when the number of selected UEs is a plural number
according to the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 28, the Node-B equally allocates
the same resources to individual CQI reporting channels.
Needless to say, the UEs receiving the CQI transmission
channel are selected as the CQI transmission targets in
consideration of their priority information. According to
the concept of FIG. 28, resources are equally allocated to
the selected UEs, so that the CQI values having the same
accuracy are transmitted to the selected UEs.
Referring to FIG. 29, some UEs having low priority
have no opportunity for transmitting data according to the

CQI variation, however, the remaining UEs having high
priority divide resources into sub-units and transmit the
data via the divided resources.
UEs having priority higher than a predetermined
reference value are selected as the CQI transmission
targets according to the priority function shown in
Equations 9 to 11. However, if the CQI cannot be
transmitted to all the selected UEs according to the
differential values used for CQI transmission, the concept
of FIG. 29 excludes some UEs from the CQI transmission
targets in consideration of channel transmission capacity
according to a predetermined condition. In this case, the
predetermined condition indicates a difference between a
CQI value of a previous transmission frame and a CQI value
of a current frame on the basis of the priority information
indicating whether the reception end has correctly
recognized the previous CQI value. In other words,
according to a first selection step for selecting the UEs
as the CQI reporting objects, the Node-B determines whether
the priority of each UE is higher than a predetermined
value, and selects all the UEs, each of which has the
priority higher than the predetermined value, as the CQI
reporting objects. Thereafter, at a second selection step,
the Node-B re-selects the UE used as the CQI reporting
objectt in consideration of channel capacity.
The priority considered at the first selection step
may be equal to the priority considered at the second

selection step, however, the objects considered at first
and second steps are different from each other, so that
different weight may be assigned to individual parameters.
Finally, according to the concept of FIG. 30, UEs,
which are selected according to the priority information
and share the CQI transmission channel, are allocated a
different amount of resources. In this case, the Node-B
can more precisely transmit the CQI information of the
high-priority UE.
Exemplary methods of the above-mentioned SDV CQI
reporting scheme will hereinafter be described in detail.
FIG. 31 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for sequentially selecting UEs reporting the CQI
using a differential value when the number of selected UEs
is a plural number according to the present invention.
FIGS. 32~33 show detailed concepts of the
sequential selection method shown in FIG. 31 according to
the present invention.
Referring to FIGS. 31 to 33, the Node-B reports the
CQi only when DL data to be transmitted exists. If the CQI
information of at least two UEs is transmitted at the same
time, the concept of FIGS. 31 to 33 assumes that a
differential value between the CQI value of a previous sub-
frame and the CQI value of a current sub-frame should be
reported. In order to easily recognize the relationship
between data and CQI of individual UEs, the DL traffic data
(See upper part of each drawing) and the CQI traffic data

(See lower part of each drawing) of the same UE are
denoted by the same oblique lines, as shown in FIGS. 22 and
23~26.
Referring to FIG. 32, if the channels of all users
are not abruptly changed at step ®, transmission of the
CQI values of the UE2 and UE4 is selected by the VVQh value.
In this case, since several users are selected as CQI
transmission targets, the CQI values of the individual
users should be transmitted as differential values.
Next, if the channel of the UE2 is abruptly changed
at step ©, the UE2 is selected by the VVQI value. In this
case, the number of UEs used as the CQI transmission
targets is not a plural number, so that the Node-B does not
transmit the differential value, and requests transmission
of all CQI values of the current sub-frame. Thereafter,
if a Rx SINR of the UE3 is low at step requests the UE3 to transmit the CQI by the SINR± value.
Next, as shown in FIG. 33, if channels of all UEs
are abruptly changed at step ®, the CQI information of all
users is transmitted as a differential value. In this case,
an amount of information for CQI transmission is reduced,
so that the CQI differential value transmitted from each UE
has bits of less than 1/4 as compared to bits required for
the other case in which all the CQI information of the
current sub-frame. As a result, although the CQI
transmission channel is not additionally transmitted, all

the CQI values of the UE1, UE2, UE3, and UE4 can be
transmitted. Thereafter, if unexpected errors occur in the
Rx data of the UE3 at step ©, the Node-B can transmit only
the CQI value of the UE3 according to the det_errorx value.
If the throughput of the UE1 is lower than a required
throughput, the CQI value of the UE1 can be transmitted by
the Ti high, the CQI values of the UE2 and UE4 are transmitted as
a differential value by the VVQI value. If the SINR value
of the UE4 is low, the CQI values of the UE2 and UE4 are
transmitted as a differential value by the SINRx value.
The above-mentioned steps have exemplarily disclosed
the method for selecting UEs used as the CQI transmission
targets, and calculating a differential value when several
selected UEs exist, so that the capacity of the allocated
CQI transmission channel and the amount of differential
value information can be changed in various ways. However,
according to the method for calculating the CQI
transmission channel capacity and the differential value,
the degree of decreasing information amount may be unique
for each system, and the decreasing information may
maintain a specific level for a predetermined period.
Based on the above-mentioned explanation, the
general trigged CQI reporting scheme can be defined as
follows. The factors to be considered for the CQI
reporting can control the CQI reporting scheme of each UE

by determining whether the transmission end has correct
CQI information.
If the channel variation is not high at a previous
reporting time and a current reporting time, a
corresponding UE may be excluded from the CQI reporting
objects at the current CQI reporting time. Also, if the
channels of several UEs are abruptly changed at the
previous and current reporting times, the present invention
must correctly transmit a large amount of UE information to
the transmission end. For this purpose, the present
invention excludes a specific UE which has not established
as the CQI reporting objectt from all the UEs, and must
distribute the CQI reporting channel resources to the
remaining UEs. This distribution method may equally
distribute the channel resources to individual UEs, or may
allocate different-amount resources to the UEs in
consideration of the characteristics (e.g., priority or
QoS) of the UEs. If the CQI channel resources are
insufficient, the accuracy of the CQI reported by each UE
may be decreased, and an overall CQI reporting and a
differential CQI reporting can be made available.
FIG. 34 is a block diagram illustrating
characteristics of a Node-B according to another preferred
embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 34, in order to perform the
feedback-information requesting method and the feedback-
information receiving method according to the present

invention, the Node-B includes the priority
decision unit 1201, the UE selection unit, and the
feedback-information transmission request unit 1203.
If there are several UEs which are going to transmit
feedback information at a specific timeslot, the priority
decision unit 1201 determines the priority of the UEs. The
above-mentioned priority decision may be performed by a
variety of parameters shown in FIG. 34. The parameters do
not have the same importance, so that the system of FIG. 34
may further include the weight assignment unit 1201a for
assigning different weights according to importance
information of the parameters. The weights a>y ~ ab may be
set to "0" if some parameters are excluded from parameters
to be considered. Individual parameters to which
differential weights are allocated are summed up by the
adder 1201b, the priority information is completed as
denoted by Priorityhigh.
The UE selection unit 1201 receiving the above-
mentioned priority information selects UEs used as the CQI
reporting objects in consideration of the received priority
information. In this case, the UE selection unit 1201
considers the allocation degree of the UL channel to be
used for the CQI reporting of individual UEs, and selects
UEs which are going to report the CQI.
In more detail, the Node-B of FIG. 34 determines
constituent modules of the UE selection unit 1201. If the
priority is higher than a predetermined value, the Node-B

selects a corresponding UE as the priority CQI
reporting object, and may exclude some UEs from selected
UEs according to channel condition information. The UE
selection unit 1210 considers not only the priority
information but also the UL channel allocation information
at a single step, and may select the CQI reporting object
according to the considered result.
If the UE which is going ro transmit feedback
information such as CQI is selected, information of the
selected UE is transmitted to the feedback-information
transmission request unit 1203. The feedback-information
transmission request unit 1203 transmits a CQI transmission
request to the selected UE selected as the CQI transmission
object.-
The feedback-information transmission request unit
1203 may include a resource-allocation adjusting unit 1203a
and a CQI request signal generator 1203b. The resource-
allocation adjusting unit 1203a determines whether the UL
channel, via which each UE generating the CQI transmission
request can report the CQI, will be equally allocated to
individual UEs, and determines whether resources
proportional to the priority information of the UEs will be
allocated. The CQI-request signal generator 1203b
generates the CQI request signal according to the resource
allocation information. The generated CQI request signal
is transmitted to the selected UEs by the transmitter (not
shown), and the receiver (not shown) receives the CQI

transmitted from the UEs having received the CQI
request signal.
In the meantime, a method for effectively reporting
initial CQI information to solve the problems of the
conventional art will hereinafter be described in detail.
In this case, the conventional problem occurs when the UE
used as a transmission object has no available CQI
information during the transmission of initial DL data.
FIG. 35 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for delaying data transmission until the CQI is
received from the UE, and transmitting the delayed result
according to a preferred embodiment of the present
invention.
The embodiment of FIG. 35 shows an exemplary case in
which the Node-B has data to be transmitted via the
downlink channel and transmits data after the lapse of a
long idle time, so that no CQI is received from the UE. In
brief, the embodiment of FIG. 35 has no information
available for recognizing the DL-channel status. In this
case, as can be seen from FIG. 35, the Node-B transmits the
CQI reporting request to the UE at the time (t) , receives
the CQI message from the UE, and transmits data to the UE
at the (t+1) time. As a result, Tx data may be delayed.
However, the 3GPP LTE scheme consumes the time of about
0.5ms from the CQI reporting request time of the Node-B to
the CQI reception time of the Node-B. The time of about

0.5ms is much shorter than a latency time of most traffic
data.
If the Node-B waits for a feedback message of the
initial CQI, receives the CQI reporting message from the UE,
and allocates DL resources on the basis of the received CQI
message, the embodiment of FIG. 35 can more effectively
manage resources according to a DL-channel situation
recognized by the CQI. The time delay of "+1" shown in FIG.
35 indicates the above-mentioned delay. In the case of the
above-mentioned 3GPP LTE, it is preferable that the time
delay may be set to 1 sub-frame.
The above-mentioned scheme is called a delayed
initial data transmission scheme. The delayed initial data
transmission scheme will be described in detail from the
viewpoint of data sequences to be transmitted at individual
steps.
FIG. 36 shows the preferred embodiment of FIG. 35
from the viewpoint of a data stream to be transmitted
according to individual steps according to the present
invention.
Referring to FIG. 36, if data to be transmitted via
the DL exists, a storage unit for storing the data is
required. FIG. 36 shows a method for storing the DL
transmission data in the buffer. In this way, the
embodiment of FIG. 36 determines whether the buffer stores
CQI information available for a corresponding DL channel to
transmit DL data. If the above-mentioned CQI information

is pre-guaranteed, the embodiment of FIG. 2 6
allocates the DL resources according to the general
scheduling, and transmits data via the allocated DL
resources. However, in the case of the initial data
transmission (e.g., if data is initially transmitted via a
corresponding DL channel, or- if data is transmitted after
the lapse of a long idle time), the embodiment of FIG. 36
has no CQI information available for a corresponding DL-
channel situation. In this case, the Node-B transmits the
CQI reporting request message to the UE via the DL traffic
channel at step (D.
Upon receiving the CQI reporting request message,
the UE reports the CQI of a corresponding DL via the UL.
In this case, the initial CQI information generated by the
UE is typically generated on the basis of a common pilot
signal simultaneously transmitted along with the CQI
request message. However, it should be noted that the
above-mentioned initial CQI information may be generated on
the basis of a predetermined signal capable of indicating a
DL-charmel situation. If the Node-B receives the CQI, it
transmits DL data delayed for a predetermined time consumed
for receiving the CQI reporting message. The delay degree
of DL data may be indicated by a predetermined timeslot, a
sub-frame, or an OFDM symbol according to the time consumed
for receiving the initial CQI reporting message.
As described above, the 3GPP LTE scheme requires the
time of about 0.5ms to receive the initial CQI message.

The time of about 0.5ms corresponds to the length of
a sub-frame selected by most schemes. Therefore, as shown
in FIG. 36, the embodiment of FIG. 36 considers the time
consumed for receiving the initial CQI, and delays Tx data
by a predetermined time corresponding to a single sub-frame,
so that it transmits the delayed data.
According to the above-mentioned delayed initial
data transmission scheme, the CQI information transmitted
from the UE may be configured in the form of a differential
CQI value, so that it reduces the number of bits indicating
corresponding information and effectively sues the UL
resources. In other words, the delayed initial data
transmission scheme transmits only a difference between a
previous CQI value and a current CQI value, so that it may
transmit a small amount of information as compared to the
scheme for transmitting all the CQI values.
However, if the above-mentioned initial data
transmission (e.g., if data is initially transmitted via a
corresponding DL channel, or if data is transmitted after
the lapse of a long idle time) is performed under the
condition that there is no CQI information indicating the
DL-channel situation, the CQI does not have previous CQI
information at a sub-frame given behind the initial data
transmission time, so that the delayed initial data
transmission scheme cannot reduce the amount of
corresponding information via the differential CQI.
Therefore, the present invention provides a method for

establishing a common default CQI at both the
Node-B and the UE during the initial data transmission, and
reporting/receiving only the differential CQI during the
next CQI transmission/reception time.
In more detail, as shown in FIG. 36, if the UE
receives the CQI reporting request message from the Node-B
at step (2), the UE replies to the CQI reporting request
message and transmits a differential value between a stored
default CQI value and the generated CQI value, instead of
transmitting all the CQI values.
The Node-B uses the same default CQI value as the
UE's default CQI value, acquires all the CQI values (i.e.,
an overall CQI value) on the basis of the received
differential value, allocates downlink resources to the UE,
and transmits data to the UE via the allocated DL resources.
As a result, the above-mentioned scheme of FIG. 36 can more
effectively use the UL traffic resources than the method
for reporting the entire CQI value. The scheme of FIG. 36
can be applied to all steps from the CQI reporting step
replying to the CQI reporting request message for initial
data transmission.
Next, a method for allocating DL resources without
intentionally delaying data transmission in the case of the
initial data transmission will hereinafter be described in
detail.
FIG. 37 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
distributed resource allocation scheme and a localized

resource allocation scheme according to the present
invention.
The distributed resource allocation scheme shown in
the left side of FIG. 37 distributes resources for data
transmission to several frequency bands, instead of
allocating the resources to only a specific frequency band,
so that data is transmitted via the distributed resources.
The localized resource allocation scheme shown in
the right side of FIG. 37 allocates resources for data
transmission to only a specific frequency band.
Generally, provided that relatively correct
information of individual frequency bands is recognized,
the localized resource allocation scheme selects frequency
band indicating good channel characteristics, and allocates
resources to the selected frequency band, such that an
overall throughput of the system can be increased. However,
provided that information of individual frequency bands is
insufficient and resources for data transmission are
concentrated at a specific frequency band, the overall
throughput of the system can be decreased. Therefore, the
present invention provides a method for transmitting data
according to the distributed resource allocation scheme
shown in the left side of FIG. 37.
FIG. 38 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for transmitting initial data according to the
distributed resource allocation scheme according to a
preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 38, in the case of initial data
transmission (e.g., if data is initially transmitted via
the DL channel, or if data is transmitted after the lapse
of a long idle time) under the condition that there is no
available CQI information for the DL-channels status, the
distributed resource, allocation scheme is designed to
transmit data via the band composed of only a specific-area
channel, so that an overall throughput of the system can be
decreased. In order to solve this problem, the present
invention provides a method for allocating/transmitting DL
resources according to the distributed resource allocation
scheme during the initial data transmission. As a result,
although a channel situation of a specific band is poor,
the present invention can reduce the number of data
transmission errors because data is transmitted via the
distributed channels. As shown in FIG. 38, after the
initial data transmission is completed, the DL resources
can be allocated according to the distributed resource
allocation scheme because CQI indicating each channel
condition of a corresponding DL is pre-guaranteed, and the
DL resources can be allocated according to the localized
resource allocation scheme.
After the initial data transmission is completed,
CQI information transmitted from the UE may be configured
in the form of a differential CQI value according to the
above-mentioned delayed initial data transmission scheme.
If the CQI value is an initially-reported CQI value, a

predetermined reference for calculating the differential
value is required. The default CQI value commonly used for
the Node-B and the UE is established and used to calculate
the differential value.
Differently from either the method for transmitting
initial data via the resources allocated by the distributed
resource allocation scheme or the method for delaying the
data transmission until receiving the CQI message for the
initial data transmission, a method for performing the
initial data transmission using the default CQI value will
hereinafter be described in detail.
FIG. 39 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for establishing a default CQI value during the
transmission of initial data, and transmitting the
established default CQI value according to a preferred
embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 39, if data is firstly transmitted
to a specific UE or there is no available CQI value for
recognizing the DL-channel situation because a long period
of time elapses from the final data transmission, the UE
according to the delayed initial data transmission scheme
may initially generate the CQI value using a common pilot
signal received along with the CQI reporting request
message. However, prior to receiving the CQI reporting
request message, the UE may receive the common pilot
channel via a cell searching process or a synchronization
acquisition process between the UE and the Node-B, such

that it may recognize the DL-channel situation via the
received common pilot channel.
In other words, prior to initiation of the initial
data transmission, the UE may easily generate the CQI
indicating the most recent DL-channel.situation as compared
to the Node-B. Therefore, the embodiment of FIG. 39
transmits a previous CQI value contained in the UE as a
default CQI value to the Node-B before starting the initial
data transmission, and the Node-B allocates DL resources
via the default CQI value, and transmits data via the
allocated DL resources.
As shown in FIG. 39, if data is firstly transmitted,
or data is transmitted after the lapse of a long idle time,
the embodiment of FIG. 39 transmits data using the default
CQI value received from the UE, and may continuously use
the default CQI value during the next data transmission.
However, it is preferable that the embodiment of FIG. 39
uses the new CQI value created by the common pilot signal
transmitted along with the DL data. More preferably, if a
differential CQI value is used as the CQI value, the UL
resources can be more effectively used. As a result, the
embodiment of FIG. 39 transmits data to the UE using
resources allocated by the CQI value.
FIG. 40 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a
method for transmitting the CQI of each user using the
default-CQI establishing method of FIG. 39 according to the
present invention.

If data is firstly transmitted to individual
UEs (e.g., UE1 and UE2), or data is transmitted to the UEs
after the lapse of a long idle time, the Node-B receives
the default CQI value from the UEs. In this case, the
default CQI value may be generated by a common pilot signal,
which has been received during either the synchronization
acquisition step or the cell searching step before the UE1
and UE2 receive the initial data from the Node-B, so that
the default CQI value indicates a predetermined-level DL
channel situation. In this waym if the Node-B receives the
default CQI value from each UE, it is preferable that the
CQI value to be received from each UE at the next step is
set to the differential CQI value. In this case, as shown
in FIG. 40, if there are several UEs, each of which reports
the CQI within a single sub-frame, the individual UEs can
effectively report the CQI.
Differently from the embodiment of FIG. 40, the
present invention does not report the default CQI value
generated by the UE to the Node-B, and allows the Node-B
and the UE to have the common default CQI value, so that it
may report the next CQI value on the basis of the
differential CQI value. In this case, the default CQI
value commonly used by the Node-B and the UE is used as a
reference value for reporting the next differential CQI, so
that the default CQI value may be pre-defined by a
communication system or may be generated by the module for
generating the same default CQI value contained in each of

the Node-B and the UE. If the initial data
transmission is performed using the predetermined default
CQI value, it is preferable that data may be transmitted
according to the delayed initial data transmission scheme
or the distributed resource allocation scheme.
Characteristics of the Node-B capable of
implementing the initial data transmission method according
to the present invention will hereinafter be described.
FIG. 41 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus
for delaying data transmission until the CQI is received
during the initial data transmission, and transmitting the
delayed result, and the Node-B including the apparatus
according to a preferred embodiment of the present
invention.
Referring to FIG. 41, the Node-B according to the
present invention includes a buffer 1101, a controller 1102,
and a transceiver 1103 used as a transmitter/receiver. If
data (DL_DATAk) to be transmitted via the DL exists, this
data (DL_DATAk) is applied to the buffer 1101. In this
case, the controller 1102 determines whether the available
CQI value is stored in the buffer 1101. In the case of
the initial data transmission (e.g., if data is firstly
transmitted to a specific UE, or if data is transmitted
after the lapse of a long idle time), the controller 1102
commands the transceiver 1103 to transmit the CQI reporting
request message because there is no CQI value available for
the buffer 1101. If the Node-B receives the CQI value

from a corresponding UE by replying to the CQI
reporting request message, the CQI value is transmitted to
the buffer 1101 and the controller 1102 as shown in FIG. 11.
Upon receiving the CQI value, the controller 1102 allocates
the DL resources. In this way, after the CQI value is
received in the controller 1102, the controller 1102
transmits DL data (DL_DATAk+1) . Generally, Tx DL data is
delayed by a predetermined time corresponding to the 1 sub-
frame as compared to the initial DL data, so that the DL
data can be stably transmitted.
FIG. 42 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus
for transmitting data according to the distributed resource
allocation scheme, and the Node-B including the apparatus
according to another preferred embodiment of the present
invention.
Referring to FIG. 42, the Node-B includes a buffer
1201, a controller 1202, and a transceiver 1203. The Node-
B of FIG. 42 determines whether the buffer 1201 includes
available CQI values during the initial DL data. If there
is no available CQI value, the controller 1201 generates a
command for performing initial data transmission according
to the distributed resource allocation scheme, so that DL
data stored in the buffer 1201 is transmitted. In this
case, it should be noted that the above-mentioned Tx DL
data has no delay until the CQI is received from the UE,
differently from the initial DL data transmitted from the
Node-B of FIG. 41.

If the initial DL data is transmitted from the
transceiver 1203, the embodiment of FIG. 42 receives a CQI
value corresponding to the initial DL data from the
corresponding UE. In this case, it is preferable that the
received CQI value may be a differential CQI value created
on the basis of the default CQI value commonly contained in
the Node-B and the UE, so that UL resources can be
effectively used.
FIG. 43 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus
for transmitting data using the default-CQI value during
the transmission of initial data, and the Node-B including
the apparatus according to a still another preferred
embodiment of the present invention.
The embodiment of FIG. 43 includes a buffer 1301, a
controller 1302, and a transceiver 1303. In this case, if
it is determined that the buffer 1301 has no CQI value
available for the initial DL data transmission at steps CD
and ©, the embodiment of FIG. 43 may generate a
transmission command of the initial DL data on the basis of
the default CQI value.
In this case, the default CQI value may be a default
CQI value commonly contained in the Node-B and the UE
according to the communication standard prescribed for the
communication system. Otherwise, the default CQI value may
be a default CQI value reported to the Node-B. In this
case, the default CQI value reported to the Node-B may be
generated by signals, which are received in the

synchronization estimation step and the cell searching
step before the corresponding UE receives the initial DL
data. In this way, if the transceiver 1303 transmits the
initial DL data using the default CQI value, it may receive
the CQI value from a corresponding UE. In this case,
provided that a differential value between the received CQI
value and the ~ above-mentioned default CQI value is
calculated and used, the UL resources can more effectively
used.
Althougn tne aoove-mentionea prererrea emooaxments
have disclosed an exemplary case in which the reception end
of data transmits the CQI value and the corresponding band
position information to the transmission end, it should be
noted that all kinds of predetermined feedback signals,
each of which transmits both feedback information
corresponding to the data reception and the position
information of the data Rx band, may also be covered with
the scope and spirit of the present invention.
It should be noted that most terminology disclosed
in the present invention is defined in consideration of
functions of the present invention, and can be differently
determined according to intention of those skilled in the
art or usual practices. Therefore, it is preferable that
the above-mentioned terminology be understood on the basis
of all contents disclosed in the present invention.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that
various modifications and variations can be made in the

present invention without departing from the spirit or
scope of the invention. Thus, it is intended that the
present invention cover the modifications and variations of
this invention provided they come within the scope of the
appended claims and their equivalents.
[industrial Applicability]
As apparent from the above description, the present
invention transmits not only the CQI value but also the Rx
band position information as feedback information, so that
it can reduce the number of errors created when the Node-B
tracks the CQI variation in the OFDM system capable of
transmitting data via divided Tx bands. Therefore, the
present invention can be effectively used for the cognitive
radio communication system.
The present invention allows the differential
information to indicate the increment, decrement, and the
same status between the current signal and the previous
signal, so that it can more accurately track the CQI
information. The present invention can easily change the
range of a differential value according to the variation
speed of the differential information, and the mobility is
gradually emphasized. As a result, the present invention
can be effectively applied to the rapidly-changing channel.
If several UEs which desire to transmit feedback
information at a specific timeslot, the Node-B decomposes
the resources allocated for transmission of the feedback

information according to priority information of
individual UEs, so that the allocated resources can be
effectively used. As a result, the present invention can
be effectively applied to a communication system equipped
with several UEs.
The present invention provides a method for
effectively transmitting data at the initial data
transmission. If data is not transmitted to a destination
during a long period of time, or if data is firstly
transmitted to the destination, the present invention can
be effectively used.
Although the preferred embodiments of the present
invention have been disclosed for illustrative purposes,
those skilled in the art will appreciate that various
modifications, additions and substitutions are possible,
without departing from the scope and spirit of the
invention as disclosed in the accompanying claims.

[CLAIMS]
[Claim 1] A method for allowing a first reception end to
transmit feedback information, the method comprising:
receiving a transmission request message of the
feedback information from a transmission end;
generating the feedback information including both
band position information indicating a position of a band
where data to be received and a channel quality indication
value indicating a channel quality of the band; and
transmitting the feedback information.
[claim 2\ The method according to claim 1, wherein:
when a number of total reception end, including the
first reception end, which are going to transmit the
feedback information at a specific time is plural number,
the feedback information transmission request message is
transmitted to the first reception end determined in
consideration of individual priority information of the
total reception ends.
[Claim 3] The method according to claim 2, wherein:
the feedback information includes a channel quality
indicator, and
the priority information is determined in
consideration of at least one of an element including a
difference between the channel quality indicator of a

previous frame and the channel quality indicator of
a current frame, and a reporting time interval between the
channel quality indicator of the previous frame and the
channel quality indicator of the current frame.
[Claim 4] The method according to claim 3, wherein the
elements considered for the priority information further
include first information indicating whether a signal-to-
noise ratio (SNR) of a corresponding transmission end is
low, second information indicating whether the data
received has a low error rate, third information indicating
whether a data rate of the corresponding transmission end
is high, and fourth information indicating whether a
throughput of the corresponding reception end is lower than
a system-required throughput.
[Claim 5] The method according to claim 1, wherein the
band position information and the channel quality
indication value are indicated by differential signals,
which indicate a differential value between a previous band
position and a current band position, and a differential
value between a previous channel quality indication value
and a current channel quality indication value,
respectively.
[Claim 6] The method according to claim 5, wherein the
differential signals indicate any one of a first status in

which a current signal is higher than a previous
signal, a second status in which a current signal is lower
than a previous signal, a third status in which a current
signal is equal to a previous signal.
[Claim 7] The method according to claim 5 or 6, wherein
the differential signals are adjustable signals, which have
an adjustable range of a difference value between the
previous signal and the current signal.
[Claim 8] The method according to claim 1, wherein at
least one of the band position information and the channel
quality indication value is merged-encoded.
[Claim 9] The method according to claim 8, wherein:
at least one of sequences of a specific number
corresponding to a difference between a first number of
cases and a second number of cases is used to define a
special function, in which
the first number of cases indicates a number of cases
the differential signals for the band position information
and the channel quality indication value can represent, and
the second number of cases indicates a number of
cases which can be represented by a number of bits which
can represent the first number of cases.
[Claim 10] The method according to claim 9, wherein the

special function reports a transmission error of the
band position information and the channel quality
indication value.
[Claim 11] The method according to claim 1, wherein the
feedback information transmission request message is
generated from the transmission end which desires to start
transmission of initial data to the first reception end.
[Claim 12] A method for reporting feedback information of
a data reception channel, the method comprising:
transmitting band position information indicating a
position of a data reception band of the data reception
channel; and
transmitting a channel quality indication value
indicating a channel quality of the data reception band.
[Claim 13] The method according to claim 12, wherein the
transmitting the band position information and/or the
transmitting the channel quality indication value report
differential values indicating a variation of the band
position information and a variation of the channel quality
indication value, respectively.
[Claim 14] The method according to claim 12 or 13,
wherein the transmitting the band position information is
performed less frequently than the transmitting the channel

quality indication value.
[Claim 15] The method according to claim 12 or 13,
wherein the transmitting the band position information and
the transmitting the channel quality indication value are
performed simultaneously.
[Claim 16] The method according to claim 12 or 13,
wherein one or more bit sequences for representing a
plurality of the band positions information and the channel
quality indication values are segmented and transmitted at
different transmission timing.
[Claim 17] A method for requesting transmission of
feedback information, the method comprising:
if there are a plurality of reception ends which are
going to transmit the feedback information at a specific
timeslot, determining individual priority information of
the plurality of reception ends;
selecting a specific reception end for transmiting
the feedback information, in consideration of the
determined individual priority information of the plurality
of reception ends; and
requesting transmission of the feedback information
from the selected reception end.
[Claim 18] The method according to claim 17, wherein the

plurality of reception end which are going to transmit
the feedback information at the specific timeslot are
reception end having data received.
[Claim 19] The method according to claim 18, wherein:
the feedback information includes a channel quality
indicator, and
the priority information is determined in
consideration of at least one of an element including a
difference between the channel quality indicator of a
previous frame and the channel quality indicator of a
current frame, and a reporting time interval between the
channel quality indicator of the previous frame and the
channel quality indicator of the current frame.
[Claim 20] The method according to claim 19, wherein the
elements considered for the priority information further
include first information indicating whether a signal-to-
noise ratio (SNR) of a corresponding transmission end is
low, second information indicating whether the data
received has a low error rate, third information indicating
whether a data rate of the corresponding transmission end
is high, and fourth information indicating whether a
throughput of the corresponding reception end is lower than
a system-required throughput.
[Claim 21] The method according to claim 19 or 20,

wherein the priority information is determined by-
assigning weights to the individual elements.
[Claim 22] A method for receiving feedback information,
the method comprising:
if there are a plurality of reception ends which are
going to transmit the feedback information at a specific
timeslot, requesting transmission of the feedback
information from a first reception end selected in
consideration of individual priority information of the
plurality of reception ends; and
receiving the feedback information including both
band position information indicating a position of a data
reception band of the first reception end and a channel
quality indication value indicating a channel quality of
the data reception band from the first reception end.
[Claim 23] The method according to claim 22, wherein the
feedback information includes differential value
information of each of the band position information and
the channel quality indication value.
[Claim 24] A method for requesting transmission of
feedback information, the method comprising:
if there are a plurality of users who are going to
transmit the feedback information at a specific timeslot,
determining individual priority information of the the

plurality of users;
selecting a specific user for transmiting the
feedback information, in consideration of the determined
individual priority information of the plurality of users;
and
if a number of the selected users is plural number,
requesting transmission of a differential value of the
feedback information of the selected users.
[Claim 25] The method according to claim 24, wherein the
differential value for use in the requesting transmission
of the differential value is a reduced value reduced to a
extent that an amount of the transmitted feedback
information is less than channel capacity allocated for the
transmission of the feedback information of the selected
users.
[Claim 26] The method according to claim 24, further
comprising:
if there are a plurality of the selected users in
the selecting the specific users, and the differential
value of the feedback information to be transmitted by the
selected users is greater than channel capacity allocated
for the transmission of the feedback information, selecting
high-priority users within the allocated channel capacity,
in which
the requesting the transmission of the differential

value requests transmission of the feedback information
from the users selected at the selecting the high-priority
users.
[Claim 27] A method for transmitting data of a Node-B,
the method comprising:
transmitting a request message of feedback
information to a User Equipment (UE);
receiving the feedback information from the UE
according to the feedback information request message; and
after receiving the feedback information, starting
transmission of downlink data.
[Claim 28] The method according to claim 27, wherein the
feedback information at the receiving the feedback
information is generated from the UE by a common pilot
signal having been transmitted along with the feedback
information request message.
[Claim 29] The method according to claim 27 or 28,
wherein:
the Node-B and the UE include the same default
feedback information, and
the receiving the feedback information includes:
receiving a differential value between the default
feedback information of the UE and feedback information
generated by the feedback information request message; and

acquiring the generated feedback
information using the received differential value and the
default feedback information stored in the Node-B.
[Claim 30] A method for receiving data of a User
Equipment (UE), the method comprising:
receiving a feedback information request message
from a Node-B;
transmitting a differential value between feedback
information generated by the feedback information request
message and default feedback information commonly contained
in the Node-B and the UE; and
receiving data via resources allocated from the
Node-B on the basis of the differential value.
[Claim 31] The method according to claim 30, wherein:
the receiving the feedback information request
message includes receiving a common pilot signal, and
the generated feedback information is generated by
the common pilot signal.
[Claim 32] A method for transmitting data of a Node-B,
the method comprising:
if available feedback information is not received
from a User Equipment (UE), allocating downlink resources
according to a distributed resource allocation scheme; and
starting transmission of initial downlink data to

the UE via the allocated downlink resources.
[Claim 33] The method according to claim 32, further
comprising:
after performing the starting transmission of the
initial downlink data, receiving feedback information
generated by the UE according to the initial downlink data
transmission; and
changing the distributed resource allocation scheme
used as a downlink resource allocation scheme to a
localized resource allocation scheme on the basis of the
received feedback information.
[Claim 34] The method according to claim 32 or 33,
wherein the Node-B and the UE include the same default
feedback information, and
the method further comprises:
after performing the starting transmission of the
initial downlink data,
receiving a differential value between the default
feedback information of the UE and the feedback information
generated by the UE by the initial downlink data
transmission, and
acquiring the generated feedback information using
the received differential value and the default feedback
information stored in the Node-B.

[Claim 35] A method for receiving data of a User
Equipment (UE), the method comprising:
receiving initial downlink data via downlink
resources allocated by a distributed resource allocation
scheme;
transmitting a differential value between feedback
information replying to the reception of the initial
downlink data and default feedback information commonly
contained in both the UE and a Node-B to the Node-B; and
receiving downlink data generated after the initial
downlink data from the Node-B via downlink resources
allocated on the basis of the differential value.
[Claim 36] The method according to claim 35, wherein the
downlink data generated after the initial downlink data is
received via downlink resources allocated by a localized
resource allocation scheme.
[Claim 37] A method for transmitting data of a Node-B,
the method comprising:
receiving default feedback information established
by a User Equipment (UE); and
transmitting initial downlink data via downlink
resources allocated on the basis of the default feedback
information.
[Claim 38] The method according to claim 37, wherein the

default feedback information is generated by a downlink
signal created before the transmitting the initial downlink
data.
[Claim 39] A method for transmitting data of a Node-B,
the method comprising:
establishing default feedback information to be
equally used by both a User Equipment (UE) and the Node-B;
transmitting initial downlink data via downlink
resources allocated on the basis of the default feedback
information; and
receiving differential feedback information from the
UE after the transmitting the initial downlink data.
[Claim 40] A method for receiving data of a User
Equipment (UE), the method comprising:
establishing default feedback information, and
transmitting the established default feedback information
to a Node-B; and
receiving initial downlink data transmitted via
downlink resources allocated on the basis of the default
feedback information.

A method for transmitting/receiving feedback information and a method for transmitting/receiving data using the
same are disclosed, which acquire accurate channel information and reduces an amount of overhead, and effectively allocate resources
during the initial transmission time A method for allowing a first reception end to transmit feedback information includes
receiving a transmission request message of the feedback information from a transmission end, generating the feedback information
including both band position information indicating a position of a data where data is received and a channel quality indication value
indicating a channel quality of the band, and transmitting the feedback information.

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Patent Number 271391
Indian Patent Application Number 540/KOLNP/2009
PG Journal Number 09/2016
Publication Date 26-Feb-2016
Grant Date 18-Feb-2016
Date of Filing 10-Feb-2009
Name of Patentee LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Applicant Address 20, YEOUIDO-DONG, YEONGDEUNGPO-GU, SEOUL
Inventors:
# Inventor's Name Inventor's Address
1 PARK, HYUN HWA LG INSTITUTE, HOGYE 1(IL)-DONG, DONGAN-GU, ANYANG-SI, GYEONGGI-DO, 431-749
2 NOH, MIN SEOK LG INSTITUTE, HOGYE 1(IL)-DONG, DONGAN-GU, ANYANG-SI, GYEONGGI-DO, 431-749
3 KIM, DONG CHEOL LG INSTITUTE, HOGYE 1(IL)-DONG, DONGAN-GU, ANYANG-SI, GYEONGGI-DO, 431-749
4 LEE, HYUN WOO LG INSTITUTE, HOGYE 1(IL)-DONG, DONGAN-GU, ANYANG-SI, GYEONGGI-DO, 431-749
5 KWON, YEONG HYEON LG INSTITUTE, HOGYE 1(IL)-DONG, DONGAN-GU, ANYANG-SI, GYEONGGI-DO, 431-749
6 HAN, SEUNG HEE LG INSTITUTE, HOGYE 1(IL)-DONG, DONGAN-GU, ANYANG-SI, GYEONGGI-DO, 431-749
PCT International Classification Number H04Q 7/38,H04L 27/26
PCT International Application Number PCT/KR2007/004014
PCT International Filing date 2007-08-22
PCT Conventions:
# PCT Application Number Date of Convention Priority Country
1 10-2006-0079341 2006-08-22 Republic of Korea
2 10-2006-0085189 2006-09-05 Republic of Korea
3 10-2006-0080360 2006-08-24 Republic of Korea