Apparatus, system and method of multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) beamformed communication with space block coding

• US 10,177,825 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2017
• Issued: 01/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Maltsev, Alexander Alexandrovich, Pudeyev, Andrey, Davydov, Alexei Vladimirovich, Sadri, Ali S., Cordeiro, Carlos
• Primary Examiner(s): Bocure, Tesfaldet
• Application Number:
  US15/683,950
• Publication Number:
  US 20180123651A1
• Time in Patent Office: 503 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0413 MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0669 using different channel coding between antennas space-time coding H04L1/0618
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/068 using space frequency diversity space-frequency coding H04L1/0606
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0689 using different transmission schemes, at least one of them being a diversity transmission scheme
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0691 using subgroups of transmit antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0606 Space-frequency coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0643 block codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0668 Orthogonal systems, e.g. using Alamouti codes

Abstract

Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of beamformed communication with space block coding. For example, an apparatus may include a controller to control a plurality of antenna subarrays to form a plurality of directional beams directed in a plurality of different directions for communicating a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) wireless transmission, which is encoded according to a space-block coding scheme.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a memory having stored thereon instructions; and

a processor configured to execute the instructions to cause a wireless communication station (STA) to;

encode a stream of data symbols into first and second encoded streams according to a Space-Time-Block-Code (STBC) encoding scheme by encoding a data symbol in the stream of data symbols into a pair of encoded data symbols to be included in the first and second encoded streams, respectively; and

transmit a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission based on the first and second encoded streams by hybrid beamforming over a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) channel, the hybrid beamforming comprising baseband beamforming and antenna beamforming of an antenna configuration.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the STA to encode a first data symbol in the stream of data symbols into a first pair of encoded symbols and to encode a second data symbol in the stream of data symbols into a second pair of encoded symbols, the second data symbol consecutive to the first data symbol, the first pair of encoded symbols comprising the first data symbol and a complex conjugate of the first data symbol, the second pair of encoded symbols comprising the second data symbol and a sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data symbol.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the STA to modulate the MIMO transmission according to a Single Carrier (SC) modulation scheme.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the STA to modulate the MIMO transmission according to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation scheme.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the STA to transmit the MIMO transmission via a plurality of Radio Frequency (RF) chains.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the STA to control a plurality of antennas for the antenna beamforming.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the DMG channel comprises a channel in a frequency band above 40 Gigahertz (GHz).

8. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a plurality of Radio Frequency (RF) chains to transmit the MIMO transmission.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a radio.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a plurality of antennas.

11. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a wireless communication station (STA) to:

encode a stream of data symbols into first and second encoded streams according to a Space-Time-Block-Code (STBC) encoding scheme by encoding a data symbol in the stream of data symbols into a pair of encoded data symbols to be included in the first and second encoded streams, respectively; and

transmit a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission based on the first and second encoded streams by hybrid beamforming over a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) channel, the hybrid beamforming comprising baseband beamforming and antenna beamforming of an antenna configuration.

12. The product of claim 11, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the STA to encode a first data symbol in the stream of data symbols into a first pair of encoded symbols and to encode a second data symbol in the stream of data symbols into a second pair of encoded symbols, the second data symbol consecutive to the first data symbol, the first pair of encoded symbols comprising the first data symbol and a complex conjugate of the first data symbol, the second pair of encoded symbols comprising the second data symbol and a sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data symbol.

13. The product of claim 11, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the STA to modulate the MIMO transmission according to a Single Carrier (SC) modulation scheme.

14. The product of claim 11, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the STA to modulate the MIMO transmission according to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation scheme.

15. The product of claim 11, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the STA to transmit the MIMO transmission via a plurality of Radio Frequency (RF) chains.

16. The product of claim 11, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the STA to control a plurality of antennas for the antenna beamforming.

17. The product of claim 11, wherein the DMG channel comprises a channel in a frequency band above 40 Gigahertz (GHz).

18. An apparatus comprising:

means for causing a wireless communication station (STA) to encode a stream of data symbols into first and second encoded streams according to a Space-Time-Block-Code (STBC) encoding scheme by encoding a data symbol in the stream of data symbols into a pair of encoded data symbols to be included in the first and second encoded streams, respectively; and

means for causing the STA to transmit a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission based on the first and second encoded streams by hybrid beamforming over a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) channel, the hybrid beamforming comprising baseband beamforming and antenna beamforming of an antenna configuration.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 comprising means for causing the STA to encode a first data symbol in the stream of data symbols into a first pair of encoded symbols and to encode a second data symbol in the stream of data symbols into a second pair of encoded symbols, the second data symbol consecutive to the first data symbol, the first pair of encoded symbols comprising the first data symbol and a complex conjugate of the first data symbol, the second pair of encoded symbols comprising the second data symbol and a sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data symbol.

20. The apparatus of claim 18 comprising means for causing the STA to modulate the MIMO transmission according to a Single Carrier (SC) modulation scheme.