Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are provided for generating a Reference Signal (RS) in a communication system. At least one Physical Resource Block (PRB) is allocated for a User Equipment (UE). An RS sequence corresponding to an antenna port for the UE is mapped on the at least one PRB for the UE. The RS sequence corresponding to the antenna port for the UE is based on an initial sequence derived by an initialization value based on a Cell IDentifier (ID) and an index of the at least one PRB for the UE. The antenna port includes three RE groups in a PRB pair. One RE group includes two RE pairs. One RE pair includes two consecutiveOrthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a time domain and one subcarrier in a frequency domain.