Systems and methods to exploit areas of coherence in wireless systems

• US 10,277,290 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2011
• Issued: 04/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2004
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rearden, LLC
• Original Assignee: Rearden, LLC
• Inventors: Forenza, Antonio, Perlman, Stephen G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Phu, Phuong
• Application Number:
  US13/232,996
• Publication Number:
  US 20120087430A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,785 Days
• Field of Search: 375296, 375260, 375346, 375285, 370347, 342354
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/024 Co-operative use of antennas of several sites, e.g. in co-ordinated multipoint or co-operative multiple-input multiple-output [MIMO] systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0434 using multiple eigenmodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0452 Multi-user MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0626 Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI]

Abstract

Non-linear or linear precoding is used to create separate areas of coherence to different users. Limited feedback techniques may also be employed to send channel state information (CSI) from the plurality of users to the MU-MAS. In some embodiments, a codebook is built based on basis functions that span the radiated field of a transmit array. Additionally, the precoding may be continuously updated to create non-interfering areas of coherence to the users as the wireless channel changes due to Doppler effect. Moreover, the size of the areas of coherence may be dynamically adjusted depending on the distribution of users.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

distributing a plurality of transceiver devices and connected antennas of a multi-user multi-antenna system (MU-MAS);

simultaneously transmitting pre-coded radio signals from the plurality of distributed transceiver devices, the pre-coding causing deliberate radio frequency interference to create concurrent, non-interfering enclosed shapes in space of coherent wireless signals,

adjusting the pre-coding to adapt a size of the enclosed shapes in space, and

adapting the size of the enclosed shapes in space by selecting a subset of distributed transceiver devices.

2. A method comprising:

distributing a plurality of transceiver devices and connected antennas of a multi-user multi-antenna system (MU-MAS);

simultaneously transmitting pre-coded radio signals from the plurality of distributed transceiver devices, the pre-coding causing deliberate radio frequency interference to create concurrent, non-interfering enclosed shapes in space of coherent wireless signals,

adjusting the pre-coding to adapt a size of the enclosed shapes in space, and

changing the size of the enclosed shapes in space by adjusting spacing of the distributed transceiver devices.

3. A method comprising:

distributing a plurality of transceiver devices and connected antennas of a multi-user multi-antenna system (MU-MAS);

simultaneously transmitting pre-coded radio signals from the plurality of distributed transceiver devices, the pre-coding causing deliberate radio frequency interference to create concurrent, non-interfering enclosed shapes in space of coherent wireless signals,

adjusting the pre-coding to adapt a size of the enclosed shapes in space, and

changing the size of the enclosed shapes in space by adjusting elevations of the distributed transceiver devices.

4. A method comprising:

distributing a plurality of transceiver devices and connected antennas of a multi-user multi-antenna system (MU-MAS);

simultaneously transmitting pre-coded radio signals from the plurality of distributed transceiver devices, the pre-coding causing deliberate radio frequency interference to create concurrent, non-interfering enclosed shapes in space of coherent wireless signals,

adjusting the pre-coding to adapt a size of the enclosed shapes in space, and

changing the size of the enclosed shapes in space by adjusting angular diversity of the distributed transceiver devices.