Channel information feedback method and wireless communication device using the same

• US 9,178,590 B2
• Filed: 12/27/2011
• Issued: 11/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Kuo, Ping-Heng, Kung, Hsiang-Tsung, Ting, Pang-An
• Primary Examiner(s): Liu, Shuwang
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bolourchi, Nader
• Application Number:
  US13/338,207
• Publication Number:
  US 20130163645A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,407 Days
• Field of Search: 375/219, 375/224, 375/267
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0478 Special codebook structures directed to feedback optimisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0663 using vector or matrix manipulations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03949 equalizer selection or adaptation based on feedback multiple signaling inclusive of a precoding command for adapting the transmitter H04L1/0031; feedback for transmit diversity systems H04B7/0619; selection of codebook or precoding matrix for MIMO diversity systems H04B7/0456

Abstract

A channel information feedback method for multi-antenna system, and a wireless communication device using the same method are provided. The proposed method could reduce feedback overhead for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless channel information, and is based on compressive sensing technique. Prior to sending back channel information, a receiver estimates the channel and multiplies the vectorized channel with a random matrix to generate compressed feedback content. Upon receiving the compressed feedback content at a transmitter, the channel information could be restored with signal recovery algorithms of compressive sensing technique. In the other embodiment, the proposed method further adaptively adjusts compression ratio of the compressed feedback content in accordance to the prevailing channel quality. Further, for slow-varying MIMO channels, there is proposed another channel information feedback method which switches between a fixed sparcifying-basis and a signal-dependent sparcifying-basis.

Claims

1. A channel information feedback method, adapted to a multi-antenna system, comprising:

estimating, at a wireless communication device, parameters of a MIMO channel as a MIMO channel matrix based on signals received from a transmitter, and vectorizing the MIMO channel matrix into a first vector as an estimated MIMO channel representation;

applying compressive sensing technique, at the wireless communication device, to take random measurements of the estimated MIMO channel representation by a pre-configured random matrix, so as to obtain compressive sensing measurements; and

feeding back the compressive sensing measurements to the transmitter from the wireless communication device,

wherein the step of applying the compressive sensing technique to take random measurements of the estimated MIMO channel representation by the pre-configured random matrix comprises;

reducing, at the wireless communication device, dimension of the first vector from N to M by multiplying the first vector with a M×

N pre-configured random matrix to obtain a second vector, wherein N>

M and M and N are positive integers;

wherein the step of feeding back the compressive sensing measurements to the transmitter comprises;

transmitting, at the wireless communication device, the second vector to the transmitter;

wherein before the step of reducing dimension of the first vector from N to M by multiplying the first vector with a M×

N pre-configured random matrix to obtain the second vector, the channel information feedback method further comprises;

determining, at the wireless communication device, error rate based on the signals received from the transmitter;

comparing, at the wireless communication device, the error rate with pre-determined multi-level thresholds; and

determining, at the wireless communication device, a compression ratio corresponding to the value of M, in accordance to the comparison result of the error rate and the pre-determined multi-level thresholds.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the estimated MIMO channel representation comprises a real part representation and an imaginary part representation, and the step of applying compressive sensing technique to take random measurements of the estimated MIMO channel representation by the pre-configured random matrix comprises:

respectively applying the compressive sensing technique, at the wireless communication device, to take random measurements of the real part representation and the imaginary part representation by the pre-configured random matrix; and

obtaining compressive sensing measurements of real part of the estimated MIMO channel representation and compressive sensing measurements of imaginary part of the estimated MIMO channel representation.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein before the step of reducing dimension of the first vector from N to M by multiplying the first vector with a M×

N preconfigured random matrix to obtain the second vector, the channel information feedback method further comprises;

estimating, at the wireless communication device, instantaneous channel gain, and obtaining the instantaneous channel gain;

adaptively adjusting a compression ratio corresponding to a value of M, at the wireless communication device, according to the instantaneous channel gain; and

obtaining, at the wireless communication devices, the second vector of the compression ratio.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

calculating Kahrunen-Loeve Transform (KLT) basis of the first vector; and

emulating, at the wireless communication device, a channel recovery process to obtain an estimated version of the first vector, and computing the KLT basis of the estimated version of the first vector.

4. The method of 2, further comprising:

transmitting, at the wireless communication device, an index indicating the adjusted compression ratio to the transmitter.

5. The method of 2, wherein before the step of reducing dimension of the first vector from N to M by multiplying the first vector with a M×

N preconfigured random matrix to obtain the second vector, the channel information feedback method further comprises;

determining, at the wireless communication device, whether detects any error; and

determining, at the wireless communication device, a compression ratio corresponding to the value of M, in accordance to the determination result of detecting any error.

7. A wireless communication device, comprising:

a transceiver module, configured for receiving signals from a transmitter and feeding back information to the transmitter;

a channel estimator, connected to the transceiver module, configured for estimating parameters of a MIMO channel as a MIMO channel matrix based on the signals received from the transmitter, and vectorizing the MIMO channel matrix into a first vector as an estimated MIMO channel representation; and

a baseband processor, connected to the transceiver module and the channel estimator, configured for;

applying compressive sensing technique to take random measurements of the estimated MIMO channel representation by a random matrix, so as to obtain compressive sensing measurements, and feeding back the compressive sensing measurements to the transmitter through the transceiver module; and

reducing dimension of the first vector from N to M by multiplying the first vector with a M×

N random matrix to obtain a second vector, wherein N>

M and M and N are positive integers; and

the baseband processor is also configured for feeding back the second vector to the transmitter;

wherein before obtaining the second vector, the channel estimator is configured for estimating instantaneous channel gain, and the baseband processor is configured for adaptively adjusting a compression ratio corresponding to the value of M in accordance to the instantaneous channel gain, and obtaining the second vector under the adjusted compression ratio.

8. The wireless communication device of claim 7, wherein the estimated MIMO channel representation comprises a real part representation and an imaginary part representation, and the baseband processor is further configured for respectively applying the compressive sensing technique to take random measurements of the real part representation and the imaginary part representation by the pre-configured random matrix, and then separately obtain compressive sensing measurements of real part of the estimated MIMO channel representation and compressive sensing measurements of imaginary part of the estimated MIMO channel representation.

9. The wireless communication device of claim 8, wherein:

before obtaining the second vector, the baseband processor is configured for determining whether detect any error, and determining a compression ratio according to the determination result of detecting any error.

10. The wireless communication device of claim 8, wherein:

before obtaining the second vector, baseband processor is configured for determining error rate based on the signals received from the transmitter, comparing the error rate with predetermined multi-level thresholds, and determining a compression ratio according to the comparison result of the error rate and the pre-determined multi-level thresholds.

11. The wireless communication device of claim 8, wherein:

the baseband processor is also configured for calculating Kahrunen-Loeve Transform (KLT) basis of the first vector, reducing the dimension of the first vector from N to M by multiplying the first vector with a M×

N random matrix to obtain a second vector, emulating a channel recovery process from the second vector applying compressive sensing technique to obtain an estimated version of the first vector, and then computing KLT basis of the estimated version of the first vector.

12. A channel information feedback method, adapted to a multi-antenna system, comprising:

transmitting, at a wireless communication device, signals to a receiver through a MIMO channel;

receiving, at the wireless communication device, compressive sensing measurement parameters of the MIMO channel from the receiver;

applying compressive sensing technique, at the wireless communication device, to recover the compressive sensing measurement parameters of the MIMO channel by using a N×

N sparcifying basis and a M×

N pre-configured random matrix, the step comprises;

applying the compressive sensing technique, at the wireless communication device, to estimate a signal by using a first vector received from the receiver, the N×

N sparcifying basis and the M×

N pre-configured random matrix, wherein M<

N, N=Nr×

Nt, Nt is the number of transmitting antennas at the wireless communication device, and Nr is the number of receiving antennas at the receiver, where M, N, Nr, and Nt are positive integers; and

recovering, at the wireless communication device, a second vector from the N×

N sparcifying basis and the signal, and converting the second vector into an estimated MIMO channel matrix, wherein all entries of the estimated MIMO channel matrix are parameters of the MIMO channel;

applying, at the wireless communication device, transmission parameters for a next session based on a recovered MIMO channel in transmission of signals;

receiving, at the wireless communication device, an index indicating a compression ratio associated with the-first vector;

from the receiver, where the compression ratio is directly corresponding to a value of M; and

determining, at the wireless communication device, a dimension of the M×

N pre-configured random matrix according to the compression ratio.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the compressive sensing measurement parameters of the MIMO channel comprises a real part representation and an imaginary part representation, and the step of applying compressive sensing technique to recover the compressive sensing measurement parameters of the MIMO channel by using the N×

N sparcifying basis and the M×

N pre-configured random matrix comprises;

separately applying the compressive sensing technique on the real part representation and the imaginary part representation with the N×

N sparcifying basis and the M×

N pre-configured random matrix to respectively recover real part parameters and imaginary part parameters of the MIMO channel; and

combining the real part parameters and the imaginary part parameters of the MIMO channel as the recovered MIMO channel.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

calculating, at the wireless communication device, an estimated Kahrunen-Loeve Transform (KL T) basis of the recovered second vector; and

when receiving only non-zero elements of a sparse vector from the receiver, the wireless communication device reconstructs the sparse vector with the non-zero elements of the sparse vector, multiplies the sparse vector by the estimated KL T basis calculated previously to recover the MIMO channel matrix, and then configures the transmission parameters for the next session

based on the recovered MIMO channel matrix.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

calculating Kahrunen-Loeve Transform (KLT) basis as eigenvectors of the estimated MIMO channel matrix; and

when receiving a small amount of the first vector from the receiver, the wireless communication device uses the compressive sensing technique to recover the MIMO channel matrix with the small amount of the first vector and the estimated KL T basis calculated previously, and then configures the transmission parameters for the next session based on the recovered MIMO channel matrix.

16. A wireless communication device, comprising:

a transceiver module, configured for transmitting signals to a receiver through a MIMO channel and receiving signals from the receiver; and

a communication protocol module, connected to the transceiver module, configured for;

receiving compressive sensing measurement parameters of the MIMO channel from the receiver,

applying compressive sensing technique to estimate a signal by using a first vector received from the receiver, a N×

N-sparcifying basis and a M×

N pre-configured random matrix,

applying the compressive sensing technique to recover the parameters of the MIMO channel by using the N×

N sparcifying basis and the M×

N pre-configured random matrix,

applying transmission parameters for a next session based on the recovered MIMO channel, wherein M<

N, N=Nr×

Nt, Nt is the number of transmitting antennas at the wireless communication device, and Nr is the number of receiving antennas at the receiver, where M, N, Nr, and Nt are positive integers,

recovering a second vector from the N×

N sparcifying basis and the signal, and then converting the second vector into an estimated MIMO channel matrix, wherein all entries of the estimated MIMO channel matrix are parameters of the MIMO channel, and

receiving an index through the transceiver module from the receiver, wherein the index indicates a compression ratio associated with the first vector, and the compression ratio directly corresponding to a value of M; and

the communication protocol module is configured for further determining the M×

N pre-configured random matrix according to the compression ratio.

17. The wireless communication device of claim 16, wherein the compressive sensing measurement parameters of the MIMO channel comprises a real part representation and an imaginary part representation, and the communication protocol module is further configured for separately applying the compressive sensing technique on the real part representation and the imaginary part representation with the N×

N sparcifying basis and the M×

N pre-configured random matrix to respectively recover real part parameters and imaginary part parameters of the MIMO channel; and

combining the real part parameters and the imaginary part parameters of the MIMO channel as the recovered MIMO channel.

18. The wireless communication device of claim 17, wherein:

the communication protocol module is configured for calculating an estimated Kahrunen-Loeve Transform (KL T) basis of the recovered second vector; and

when receiving only non-zero elements of a sparse vector from the receiver, the communication protocol module reconstructs the sparse vector with the non-zero elements of the sparse vector, multiplies the sparse vector by the estimated KL T basis calculated previously to recover a MIMO channel matrix, and then configures the transmission parameters for the next session based on the recovered MIMO channel matrix.

19. The wireless communication device of claim 17, wherein:

the communication protocol module is configured for calculating Kahrunen-Loeve Transform (KLT) basis as eigenvectors of the estimated MIMO channel matrix; and

when the communication protocol module receives only a small amount of the first vector fed back from the receiver, the communication protocol module uses the compressive sensing technique to recover a MIMO channel matrix with the small amount of the first vector the estimated KLT basis calculated previously, and then configures the transmission parameters for the next session based on the recovered MIMO channel matrix.