System and method for distributed input-distributed output wireless communications
First Claim
1. A method for compensating for in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) imbalances in a multiple antenna system (MAS) with multi-user (MU) transmissions (“
- MU-MAS”
) comprising;
transmitting a training signal from each antenna of a base station to each of a plurality of wireless client devices, each of the client devices analyzing each training signal to generate channel characterization data, and receiving the channel characterization data at the base station;
computing a plurality of MU-MAS precoder weights based on the channel characterization data, the MU-MAS precoder weights calculated to pre-cancel interference due to I/Q gain and phase imbalances and/or inter-user interference;
precoding data using the MU-MAS precoder weights to generate precoded data signals for each antenna of the base station; and
transmitting the precoded data signals through each antenna of the base station to each respective client device;
wherein the MU-MAS system is a distributed-input distributed-output (DIDO) communication system and wherein the MU-MAS precoder weights are DIDO precoder weights; and
wherein the precoder weights are calculated to cancel inter-user interference but not inter-carrier interference (“
ICI”
) and wherein the client wireless client devices include receivers with filters for cancelling the ICI.
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Abstract
A system for compensating for in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) imbalances for multiple antenna systems (MAS) with multi-user (MU) transmissions (defined with the acronym MU-MAS), such as distributed-input distributed-output (DIDO) communication systems, comprising multicarrier modulation, such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). For example, one embodiment of the system comprises one or more coding modulation units to encode and modulate information bits for each of a plurality of wireless client devices to produce encoded and modulated information bits; one or more mapping units to map the encoded and modulated information bits to complex symbols; and a MU-MAS or DIDO IQ-aware precoding unit to exploit channel state information obtained through feedback from the wireless client devices to compute MU-MAS or DIDO IQ-aware precoding weights, the MU-MAS or DIDO IQ-aware preceding unit precoding the complex symbols obtained from the mapping units using the weights to pre-cancel interference due to I/Q gain and phase imbalances and/or inter-user interference.
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11 Claims
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1. A method for compensating for in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) imbalances in a multiple antenna system (MAS) with multi-user (MU) transmissions (“
- MU-MAS”
) comprising;transmitting a training signal from each antenna of a base station to each of a plurality of wireless client devices, each of the client devices analyzing each training signal to generate channel characterization data, and receiving the channel characterization data at the base station; computing a plurality of MU-MAS precoder weights based on the channel characterization data, the MU-MAS precoder weights calculated to pre-cancel interference due to I/Q gain and phase imbalances and/or inter-user interference; precoding data using the MU-MAS precoder weights to generate precoded data signals for each antenna of the base station; and transmitting the precoded data signals through each antenna of the base station to each respective client device; wherein the MU-MAS system is a distributed-input distributed-output (DIDO) communication system and wherein the MU-MAS precoder weights are DIDO precoder weights; and wherein the precoder weights are calculated to cancel inter-user interference but not inter-carrier interference (“
ICI”
) and wherein the client wireless client devices include receivers with filters for cancelling the ICI. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
- MU-MAS”
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5. A wireless client device for use in a system for compensating for in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) imbalances for MU-MAS communication comprising:
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one or more radio frequency (“
RF”
) units to receive signals transmitted from one or more MU-MAS transmitter units, and downconvert the signals to baseband;one or more analog to digital (A/D) conversion units to receive the downconverted signals and to convert the signals from analog signals to digital signals; one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (“
OFDM”
) units to remove cyclic prefix and perform a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the digital signals to report the signals in the frequency domain;an I/Q-aware channel estimate unit which receives a signal output from the one or more OFDM units during a training period and responsively calculates channel estimate data; and a feedback generator unit to transmit the channel estimate data to a base station for use in precoding signals prior to transmission to the wireless client device, wherein the feedback generator unit further comprises logic for quantizing the channel estimates prior to transmission to the base station. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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