User equipment and methods for codebook subsampling for enhanced 4TX codebooks

• US 10,312,981 B2
• Filed: 01/23/2017
• Issued: 06/04/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intel IP Corporation (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: Chen, Xiaogang, Zhu, Yuan, Li, Qinghua
• Primary Examiner(s): Corrielus, Jean B
• Application Number:
  US15/413,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20170272136A1
• Time in Patent Office: 862 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0452 Multi-user MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0456 Selection of precoding matrices or codebooks, e.g. using matrices antenna weighting
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0486 taking channel rank into account
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0626 Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/063 Parameters other than those covered in groups H04B7/0623 - H04B7/0634, e.g. channel matrix rank or transmit mode selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0632 Channel quality parameters, e.g. channel quality indicator [CQI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0639 Using selective indices, e.g. of a codebook, e.g. pre-distortion matrix index [PMI] or for beam selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/20 Modulator circuits; Transmitter circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/75 Temporary identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/24 between backbone network devices

Abstract

Embodiments of user equipment (UE) and methods for codebook subsampling for enhanced 4TX codebooks in 3GPP LTE wireless networks are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is configured for transmission of channel state information (CSI) feedback including a rank indicator (RI) and a precoding matrix (W1). The rank indicator (RI) and a precoding matrix (W1) are jointly encoded and codebook subsampling is performed for the enhanced 4Tx codebook for at least one of: PUCCH report type 5 (RI/1st PMI) in PUCCH 1-1 submode 1; PUCCH report type 2c (CQI/1st PMI/2nd PMI) in PUCCH 1-1 submode 2; and PUCCH report type 1a (subband CQI/2nd PMI) in PUCCH 2-1.

Claims

1. An apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) arranged for channel state information (CSI) reporting using a subsampled four transmit (4TX) antenna codebook, the apparatus comprising:

memory; and

processing circuitry coupled to the memory, to;

configure the UE for periodic physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) channel-state information (CSI) reporting in accordance with one of a plurality of PUCCH reporting types, the CSI reporting including a rank indicator (RI) and a precoding matrix (W1) that are jointly coded using the subsampled 4TX antenna codebook, the PUCCH reporting types including PUCCH reporting types for four antenna ports,

the PUCCH reporting types for four antenna ports including;

a PUCCH reporting type 1a for reporting a subband channel quality indicator (CQI) and a second precoding matrix indicator (PMI),

a PUCCH reporting type 2c for reporting a CQI, a first PMI and the second PMI, and

a PUCCH reporting type 5 for reporting the RI and the first PMI; and

encode a CSI report for transmission on the PUCCH in accordance with the one of the plurality of PUCCH reporting types,

wherein the PUCCH reporting types indicate a CQI report or a PMI report,

wherein when the UE is configured for PUCCH reporting type 2c, the processing circuitry is configured to select a single precoding matrix from the subsampled enhanced 4Tx codebook,

wherein the CQI is calculated based on the selected single precoding matrix, and

wherein the first PMI and the second PMI correspond to the selected single precoding matrix,

wherein the memory is configured to store configuration information for the PUCCH reporting types and PUCCH reporting sub-modes, and

wherein when the UE is configured to support a maximum 2 layer transmission, there is no subsampling and the RI and the W1 are jointly encoded following Table 1,

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the PUCCH reporting types include a PUCCH 1-1 and a PUCCH 2-1, and

wherein for the PUCCH reporting type 5, when the UE is configured to use the PUCCH 1-1, the processing circuitry is configured to jointly code the RI and the first PMI.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein for the PUCCH reporting type 5, when the UE is configured to use the PUCCH 1-1, and the first PMI corresponds to a set of precoding matrices selected from the subsampled 4-Tx codebook.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the CQI report indicated by the PUCCH reporting types comprises either a wideband CQI or UE selected subband CQI, and

wherein the PMI report indicated by the PUCCH reporting types comprises either no PMI feedback or single PMI feedback.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the PUCCH reporting type 2c is configured for reporting a wideband CQI, the first PMI and the second PMI.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by processing circuitry of a User Equipment (UE), the UE arranged for channel state information (CSI) reporting using a subsampled four transmit (4TX) antenna codebook, the processing circuitry configured to:

configure the UE to perform operations for periodic physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) channel-state information (CSI) reporting in accordance with one of a plurality of PUCCH reporting types for four antenna ports, the CSI reporting including a rank indicator (RI) and a precoding matrix (W1) that are jointly precoded using the subsampled 4TX antenna codebook, the PUCCH reporting types including PUCCH reporting types for four antenna ports,

wherein the PUCCH reporting types for four antenna ports include;

a PUCCH reporting type 1a for reporting a subband channel quality indicator (CQI) and a second precoding matrix indicator (PMI),

a PUCCH reporting type 2c for reporting a CQI, a first PMI and the second PMI, and

a PUCCH reporting type 5 for reporting the RI and the first PMI; and

configure the UE to encode a CSI report for transmission on the PUCCH in accordance with the one of the plurality of PUCCH reporting types,

wherein the PUCCH reporting types indicate a CQI report or a PMI report

wherein when the UE is configured for PUCCH reporting type 2c, the processing circuitry is configured to select a single precoding matrix from the subsampled 4TX codebook,

wherein the CQI is calculated based on the selected single precoding matrix,

wherein the first PMI and the second PMI correspond to the selected single precoding matrix,

wherein the memory is configured to store configuration information for the PUCCH reporting types and PUCCH reporting sub-modes, and

wherein when the UE is configured to support a maximum 2 layer transmission, there is no subsampling and the RI and the W1 are jointly encoded following Table 1,

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the PUCCH reporting types include a PUCCH 1-1 and a PUCCH 2-1, and

wherein for the PUCCH reporting type 5, when the UE is configured to use the PUCCH 1-1, the instructions configure the UE to jointly code the RI and the first PMI.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein for the PUCCH reporting type 5, when the UE is configured to use the PUCCH 1-1, and the first PMI indicates at least one precoding matrix that is selected from the subsampled 4Tx codebook.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 wherein the CQI report indicated by the PUCCH reporting types comprises either a wideband CQI or UE selected subband CQI, and

wherein the PMI report indicated by the PUCCH reporting types comprises either no PMI or a single PMI.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the PUCCH reporting type 2c is configured for reporting a wideband CQI, the first PMI and the second PMI.

11. A method for reporting channel state information (CSI) using a subsampled four transmit 4Tx antenna codebook, performed by a User Equipment (UE), the method comprising:

configuring the UE to perform operations for periodic physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) channel-state information (CSI) reporting in accordance with one of a plurality of PUCCH reporting types, the CSI reporting including a rank indicator (RI) and a precoding matrix (W1) that are jointly precoded using the subsampled 4TX antenna codebook, the PUCCH reporting types including PUCCH reporting types for four antenna ports,

wherein the PUCCH reporting types for four antenna ports include;

a PUCCH reporting type 1a for reporting a subband channel quality indicator (CQI) and a second precoding matrix indicator (PMI),

a PUCCH reporting type 2c for reporting a CQI, a first PMI and the second PMI, and

a PUCCH reporting type 5 for reporting the RI and the first PMI; and

encoding a CSI report for transmission on the PUCCH in accordance with the one of the plurality of PUCCH reporting types,

wherein the PUCCH reporting types indicate one of a CQI report and a PMI report,

wherein UE is configured to store configuration information for the PUCCH reporting types and PUCCH sub-modes

wherein when the UE is configured for PUCCH reporting type 2c, the method further comprises configuring the UE to select a single precoding matrix from the subsampled 4TX codebook,

wherein the CQI is calculated based on the selected single precoding matrix,

wherein the first PMI and the second PMI correspond to the selected single precoding matrix, and for ranks 1 and 2, Table 4-1 or Table 4-2 is used for codebook subsampling

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the reporting includes a PUCCH 1-1 and a PUCCH 2-1, and

wherein for the PUCCH reporting type 5, when the UE is configured to use the PUCCH 1-1, the method further comprises configuring the UE to jointly encode the RI and the W1 using the subsampled 4Tx antenna codebook.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein for the PUCCH reporting type 5, when the UE is configured to use the PUCCH 1-1, the first PMI indicates at least one precoding matrix selected from the subsampled 4Tx codebook.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the CQI report indicated by the PUCCH reporting types comprises either a wideband CQI or UE selected subband CQI, and

wherein the PMI report indicated by the PUCCH reporting types comprises either no PMI or a single PMI.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the PUCCH reporting type 2c is configured for reporting a wideband CQI, the first PMI and the second PMI.