Adaptive MIMO systems
First Claim
1. An adaptive MIMO communications system comprising a MIMO transmitter and a MIMO receiver and having a feedback path from said receiver to said transmitter, said MIMO transmitter including a receiver to receive a feedback signal from said receiver sent via said feedback path and a controller responsive to said feedback signal to configure a MIMO transmission from said transmitter to said receiver;
- said MIMO receiver being configured to receive said MIMO transmission; and
wherein said MIMO receiver includes a decision module, said decision module having a power indicating input to input a signal indicating a desired receiver power consumption, and an output for sending a MIMO configuration signal to said MIMO transmitter, said decision module being configured to determine a MIMO transmission configuration responsive to said power indicating input and to output a MIMO configuration signal for feedback to said transmitter to configure said transmitter in accordance with said determination.
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Abstract
This invention is generally concerned with apparatus, methods and processor control code for MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) communications systems. An adaptive MIMO communications system comprising a MIMO transmitter and a MIMO receiver and having a feedback path from said receiver to said transmitter, said MIMO transmitter including a receiver to receive a feedback signal from said receiver sent via said feedback path and a controller responsive to said feedback signal to configure a MIMO transmission from said transmitter to said receiver, said MIMO receiver being configured to receive said MIMO transmission; and wherein said MIMO receiver includes a decision module, said decision module having a power indicating input to input a signal indicating a desired receiver power consumption, and an output for sending a MIMO configuration signal to said MIMO transmitter, said decision module being configured to determine a MIMO transmission configuration responsive to said power indicating input and to output a MIMO configuration signal for feedback to said transmitter to configure said transmitter in accordance with said determination.
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33 Claims
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1. An adaptive MIMO communications system comprising a MIMO transmitter and a MIMO receiver and having a feedback path from said receiver to said transmitter,
said MIMO transmitter including a receiver to receive a feedback signal from said receiver sent via said feedback path and a controller responsive to said feedback signal to configure a MIMO transmission from said transmitter to said receiver; said MIMO receiver being configured to receive said MIMO transmission; and
wherein said MIMO receiver includes a decision module, said decision module having a power indicating input to input a signal indicating a desired receiver power consumption, and an output for sending a MIMO configuration signal to said MIMO transmitter, said decision module being configured to determine a MIMO transmission configuration responsive to said power indicating input and to output a MIMO configuration signal for feedback to said transmitter to configure said transmitter in accordance with said determination.- View Dependent Claims (2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 26, 30)
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3. An adaptive MIMO communications system comprising a MIMO transmitter and a MIMO receiver and having a feedback path from said receiver to said transmitter,
said MIMO transmitter including a receiver to receive a feedback signal from said receiver sent via said feedback path and a controller responsive to said feedback signal to configure a MIMO transmission from said transmitter to said receiver; said MIMO receiver being configured to receive said MIMO transmission; and
wherein said MIMO receiver includes a communications quality of service (QoS) measuring system having measured QoS signal output, and a decision module, said decision module having a first, measured QoS input and a second input to input a signal indicating a desired QoS, and an output to output a MIMO configuration signal, and wherein said decision module is configured to input a said desired QoS signal, determine a first MIMO transmission configuration responsive to said desired QoS signal, output a first MIMO configuration signal for feedback to said transmitter to configure said transmitter in accordance with said determination, input a said measured QoS signal, determine a second MIMO transmission configuration responsive to said measured QoS signal, and output a second MIMO configuration signal for feedback to said transmitter to configure said transmitter in accordance with said second determination.- View Dependent Claims (7, 9, 23, 27)
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20. An adaptive MIMO communications system comprising a MIMO transmitter and a MIMO receiver and having a feedback path from said receiver to said transmitter,
said MIMO transmitter including a receiver to receive a feedback signal from said receiver sent via said feedback path and a controller responsive to said feedback signal to configure a MIMO transmission from said transmitter to said receiver; said MIMO receiver being configured to receive said MIMO transmission; and
wherein said MIMO receiver includes a channel metric computation module having a channel metric output and a decision module, said decision module having a channel metric input and an output for sending a MIMO configuration signal to said MIMO transmitter, said decision module being configured to determine a MIMO transmission configuration responsive to said channel metric input and to output a MIMO configuration signal for feedback to said transmitter to configure said transmitter in accordance with said determination;
wherein said receiver is further configured to estimate a MIMO channel response matrix for decoding a received signal and for computing a said channel metric, and to determine a decomposition of said channel response matrix, for computing a said channel metric and/or decoding a received signal, in parallel with said channel response estimation.- View Dependent Claims (24, 28)
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21. An adaptive MIMO communications system comprising a MIMO transmitter and a MIMO receiver and having a feedback path from said receiver to said transmitter,
said MIMO transmitter including a receiver to receive a feedback signal from said receiver sent via said feedback path and a controller responsive to said feedback signal to configure a MIMO transmission from said transmitter to said receiver; said MIMO receiver being configured to receive said MIMO transmission; and
wherein said MIMO receiver includes channel metric computation module having a channel metric output and a decision module, said decision module having a channel metric input and an output for sending a MIMO configuration signal to said MIMO transmitter, said decision module being configured to determine a MIMO transmission configuration responsive to said channel metric input and to output a MIMO configuration signal for feedback to said transmitter to configure said transmitter in accordance with said determination;
wherein said receiver is further configured to estimate a MIMO channel response matrix for decoding a received signal and for computing a said channel metric, and to determine a decomposition of said channel response matrix, for computing a said channel metric and for decoding a received signal using shared computational resources.- View Dependent Claims (25, 29)
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31. A MIMO receiver for receiving a MIMO transmission, the receiver comprising:
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a MIMO channel matrix estimator to estimate a MIMO channel response matrix for decoding a received signal; and
a matrix decomposition module to determine a decomposition of said channel response matrix for decoding a received signal; and
wherein said receiver is configured to estimate said channel response in parallel with said channel matrix response decomposition determination.
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32. A method of configuring an adaptive MIMO communications system comprising a MIMO transmitter and a MIMO receiver and having a feedback path from said receiver to said transmitter, said MIMO transmitter including a receiver to receive a feedback signal from said receiver sent via said feedback path and a controller responsive to said feedback signal to configure a MIMO transmission from said transmitter to said receiver, said MIMO receiver being configured to receive said MIMO transmission, the method comprising:
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inputting a signal indicating a desired receiver power consumption;
determining a MIMO transmission configuration responsive to said power indicating input; and
outputting a MIMO configuration signal for feedback to said transmitter to configure said transmitter in accordance with said determination.
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33. A method of configuring an adaptive MIMO communications system comprising a MIMO transmitter and a MIMO receiver and having a feedback path from said receiver to said transmitter, said MIMO transmitter including a receiver to receive a feedback signal from said receiver sent via said feedback path and a controller responsive to said feedback signal to configure a MIMO transmission from said transmitter to said receiver, said MIMO receiver being configured to receive said MIMO transmission, the method comprising:
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inputting a desired communications quality of service (QoS) signal;
determining a first MIMO transmission configuration responsive to said desired QoS signal;
outputting said first MIMO configuration signal for feedback to said transmitter to configure said transmitter in accordance with said determination;
measuring a communications quality of service (QoS);
determining a second MIMO transmission configuration responsive to said measured QoS; and
outputting a second MIMO configuration signal for feedback to said transmitter to configure said transmitter in accordance with said second determination.
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