Derivation and feedback of transmit steering matrix

• US 8,290,089 B2
• Filed: 05/17/2007
• Issued: 10/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Howard, Steven J., Ketchum, John W., Wallace, Mark S., Walton, J. Rodney
• Primary Examiner(s): Payne, David C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Haider, Syed
• Application Number:
  US11/750,220
• Publication Number:
  US 20070268181A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,979 Days
• Field of Search: 375/220, 375/260, 375/267, 375/285, 375/299, 375/340, 375/346, 375/347, 375/316, 375/345, 375/350, 455/67.11, 455/101, 455/103, 455/500, 455/561
• US Class Current: 375/316
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/00 Antenna arrays or systems arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system H01Q3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0404 the mobile station comprising multiple antennas, e.g. to provide uplink diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0417 Feedback systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0634 Antenna weights or vector/matrix coefficients
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/066 Combined feedback for a number of channels, e.g. over several subcarriers like in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing [OFDM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0675 characterised by the signaling

Abstract

Techniques for efficiently deriving a transmit steering matrix and sending feedback for this matrix are described. A receiver determines a set of parameters defining a transmit steering matrix to be used for transmission from a transmitter to the receiver. The receiver may derive the transmit steering matrix based on a set of transformation matrices, which may be used for multiple iterations of Jacobi rotation to zero out off-diagonal elements of a channel matrix. The receiver may then determine the set of parameters based on the transformation matrices. The set of parameters may comprise at least one angle, at least one value, at least one index, etc., for each transformation matrix. The receiver sends the set of parameters defining the transmit steering matrix (instead of elements of the transmit steering matrix) to the transmitter for use by the transmitter to derive the transmit steering matrix.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor configured to determine a set of parameters defining a set of transformation matrices for deriving a transmit steering matrix to be used for transmission from a transmitter using multiple transmit antennas to a receiver using multiple receive antennas, wherein the transmit steering matrix is representable as a product of the transformation matrices, and send the set of parameters to the transmitter for use by the transmitter to derive the transmit steering matrix;

a memory coupled to the at least one processor, and

wherein the at least one processor is configured to perform a plurality of iterations of Jacobi rotation on a channel matrix which is derived based on a channel response estimate with the plurality of transformation matrices to zero out off-diagonal elements of the channel matrix,

wherein for each iteration of the Jacobi rotation the at least one processor is configured to derive a transformation matrix as an identity matrix having diagonal and off-diagonal elements replaced with elements derived from eigenvectors of the channel matrix, to update the transmit steering matrix based on the transformation matrix to zero out off-diagonal elements of the channel matrix,

identify a largest off-diagonal element of the channel matrix, and to derive the transformation matrix based on row and column indices of the largest off-diagonal element.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to derive the transmit steering matrix based on the plurality of transformation matrices, and to determine the set of parameters based on the plurality of transformation matrices.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein for each iteration of the Jacobi rotation, the at least one processor is configured to form a submatrix of the channel matrix, to decompose the submatrix to obtain an intermediate matrix of eigenvectors of the submatrix, and to form the transformation matrix based on the intermediate matrix.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to select elements of the channel matrix in a predetermined order for the plurality of iterations of the Jacobi rotation, and to derive the transformation matrix for each iteration of the Jacobi rotation based on elements of the channel matrix selected for the iteration.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to initialize the transmit steering matrix to an identity matrix, a transmit steering matrix for another subcarrier, or a transmit steering matrix for another time interval prior to the plurality of iterations of the Jacobi rotation.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to derive the channel matrix based on a channel response estimate.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to to derive a correlation matrix for a channel response matrix and to use the correlation matrix as the channel matrix.

8. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the set of parameters comprises at least one angle of a complex value for at least one element of each of the transformation matrices.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the at least one processor is configured to obtain the at least one angle for each transformation matrix with uniform quantization.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the at least one processor is configured to obtain the at least one angle for each transformation matrix with non-uniform quantization from CORDIC computation.

11. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the set of parameters comprises at least one value for at least one element of each transformation matrix, at least one index for the at least one element of each transmit, an indication of a form of each transformation matrix, or a combination thereof.

12. A method comprising:

determining a set of parameters defining a set of transformation matrices for deriving a transmit steering matrix to be used for transmission from a transmitter using multiple transmit antennas to a receiver using multiple receive antennas, wherein the transmit steering matrix is representable as a product of the transformation matrices; and

sending the set of parameters to the transmitter for use by the transmitter to derive the transmit steering matrix,

wherein the determining the set of parameters comprises deriving the transmit steering matrix based on the plurality of transformation matrices, and determining the set of parameters based on the plurality of transformation matrices,

wherein the deriving the transmit steering matrix comprises performing a plurality of iterations of Jacobi rotation on a channel matrix which is derived based on a channel response estimate with the plurality of transformation matrices, and

for each iteration of the Jacobi rotation,

deriving a transformation matrix as an identity matrix having diagonal and off-diagonal elements replaced with elements derived from eigenvectors of the channel matrix,

updating the channel matrix based on the transformation matrix, and

updating the transmit steering matrix based on the transformation matrix to zero out off-diagonal elements of the channel matrix,

identifying a largest off-diagonal element of the channel matrix, and to derive the transformation matrix based on row and column indices of the largest off-diagonal element.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the determining the set of parameters based on the plurality of transformation matrices comprises forming the set of parameters with at least one angle of a complex value for at least one element of each transformation matrix.

14. An apparatus comprising:

means for determining a set of parameters defining a set of transformation matrices for deriving a transmit steering matrix to be used for transmission from a transmitter using multiple transmit antennas to a receiver using multiple receive antennas, wherein the transmit steering matrix is representable as a product of the transformation matrices; and

means for sending the set of parameters to the transmitter for use by the transmitter to derive the transmit steering matrix, wherein the means for determining the set of parameters comprises means for deriving the transmit steering matrix based on the plurality of transformation matrices, and means for determining the set of parameters based on the plurality of transformation matrices,

wherein the means for deriving the transmit steering matrix comprises means for performing a plurality of iterations of Jacobi rotation on a channel matrix which is derived based on a channel response estimate with the plurality of transformation matrices, and

means for, for each iteration of the Jacobi rotation,

deriving a transformation matrix as an identity matrix having diagonal and off-diagonal elements replaced with elements derived from eigenvectors of the channel matrix,

updating the channel matrix based on the transformation matrix, and

updating the transmit steering matrix based on the transformation matrix to zero out off-diagonal elements of the channel matrix,

identifying a largest off-diagonal element of the channel matrix, and to derive the transformation matrix based on row and column indices of the largest off-diagonal element.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the means for determining the set of parameters based on the plurality of transformation matrices comprises means for forming the set of parameters with at least one angle of a complex value for at least one element of each transformation matrix.

16. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor configured to receive a set of parameters defining a set of transformation matrices for deriving a transmit steering matrix, wherein the transmit steering matrix is representable as a product of the transformation matrices, to form the set of transformation matrices based on the set of parameters, to derive the transmit steering matrix based on the set of transformation matrices, and to use the transmit steering matrix for transmission from a transmitter using multiple transmit antennas to a receiver using multiple receive antennas;

a memory coupled to the at least one processor, and

wherein the at least one processor is configured to perform a plurality of iterations of Jacobi rotation on a channel matrix which is derived based on a channel response estimate with the plurality of transformation matrices to zero out off-diagonal elements of the channel matrix,

wherein for each iteration of the Jacobi rotation the at least one processor is configured to derive a transformation matrix as an identity matrix having diagonal and off-diagonal elements replaced with elements derived from eigenvectors of the channel matrix, to update the transmit steering matrix based on the transformation matrix to zero out off-diagonal elements of the channel matrix,

identify a largest off-diagonal element of the channel matrix, and to derive the transformation matrix based on row and column indices of the largest off-diagonal element.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the at least one processor is configured to initialize the transmit steering matrix and to update the transmit steering matrix with each of the transformation matrices.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the at least one processor is configured to obtain at least one angle of a complex value for at least one element of each transformation matrix from the set of parameters, and to form each transformation matrix based on the at least one angle for the transformation matrix.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the at least one processor is configured to derive the at least one element of each transformation matrix by performing CORDIC computation based on the at least one angle for the transformation matrix.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the at least one processor is configured to initialize the transmit steering matrix to an identity matrix, a transmit steering matrix for another subcarrier, or a transmit steering matrix for another time interval.