5G_AntennaPorts

Antenna Ports

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The concept and definition of Antenna Ports are same as LTE Antenna Ports. It is defined as follows (38.211-4.4.1).

An antenna port is defined such that the channel over which a symbol on the antenna port is conveyed can be inferred from the channel over which another symbol on the same antenna port is conveyed.

What does this mean ? I interpret this as follows :

Each Antenna ports carries its own resource grid and a specific set of reference signal in the grid. The channel properties for RE(resource element) for the reference signal is assumed to be same (or very close to same) as the resource elements for other data(e.g, REs for PDSCH). Due to this facts, we can help demodulate the data by using the channel information obtained by the anaysis of reference channel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In NR, a certain range of antenna port number is assigned for each channel and signal as follows.

 

<38.211 - 6.2, 7.2>

Channel/Signal	Antenna Ports
PDSCH	Antenna ports starting with 1000
PDCCH	Antenna ports starting with 2000
CSI-RS	Antenna ports starting with 3000
SS/PBCH	Antenna ports starting with 4000
PUSCH/DMRS	Antenna ports starting with 0
SRS	Antenna ports starting with 1000
PUCCH	Antenna ports starting with 2000
PRACH	Antenna port 4000

 

天线端口的概念和定义与LTE天线端口相同。其定义为（38.211-4.4.1）。

 

天线端口被定义为，通过该端口传输的符号所经过的信道可以从同一天线端口上的另一个符号所经过的信道推断出来。

 

这意味着什么？我这样解释：

 

每个天线端口都携带自己的资源网格和网格中的特定参考信号集。参考信号的资源元素（RE）的信道属性假定与其他数据（例如PDSCH）的资源元素相同（或非常接近相同）。由于这些事实，我们可以使用通过分析参考信道获得的信道信息来帮助解调数据。

 

在NR中，为每个信道和信号分配一定范围的天线端口号，如下所示。

 

<38.211 - 6.2, 7.2>

 

信道/信号

 

天线端口

 

PDSCH

 

以1000开头的天线端口

 

PDCCH

 

以2000开头的天线端口

 

CSI-RS

 

以3000开头的天线端口

 

SS/PBCH

 

以4000开头的天线端口

 

PUSCH/DMRS

 

以0开头的天线端口

 

SRS

 

以1000开头的天线端口

 

PUCCH

 

以2000开头的天线端口

 

PRACH

 

以4000开头的天线端口