Configurable spatial channel information feedback in wireless communication system

• US 9,496,938 B2
• Filed: 09/25/2014
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Zhuang, Xiangyang, Sayana, Krishna Kamal, Stewart, Kenneth A
• Primary Examiner(s): PHU, PHUONG M
• Application Number:
  US14/496,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20150049829A1
• Time in Patent Office: 782 Days
• Field of Search: 375/260, 375/346, 375/267, 375/299, 375/347, 375/296, 455/500, 455/501, 455/101, 455/504
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0626 Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI]
• 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 5/0037 Inter-user or inter-terminal allocation

Abstract

A method for configurable spatial channel information feedback in wireless communication systems is disclosed including receiving, at the wireless communication device, transmission from a plurality of antennas, receiving an indication of a feedback mode for feeding back spatial channel information that is based on correlations among at least some of the plurality of antennas, decomposing a correlation matrix representative of the correlations among at least some of the plurality of antennas into at least two Kronecker components, and feeding back parameters representative of the Kronecker components according to the feedback mode indicated.

Claims

1. A method in a wireless communication device for providing spatial channel information feedback, the method comprising:

receiving, at the wireless communication device, transmissions from a plurality of antennas;

receiving, at the wireless communication device, an indication of a feedback mode for feeding back spatial channel information, the spatial channel information based on transmission from at least some of the plurality of antennas;

determining, at the wireless communication device, the spatial channel information comprising at least two Kronecker components;

generating parameters representative of the Kronecker components by extracting Eigen information according to the feedback mode indicated based on an Eigenvalue decomposition of the Kronecker components; and

feeding back, from the wireless communication device, the parameters representative of the Kronecker components according to the feedback mode indicated.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of antennas further comprises transmit antennas of a plurality of cells or a single cell.

3. The method of claim 1, where a plurality of antennas correspond to a plurality of physical antennas or a plurality of virtualized antennas, wherein the corresponding virtualization is the operation of applying a set of weightings onto a signal before transmission from the plurality of physical antennas.

4. The method of claim 1, receiving the transmission from a plurality of virtual antennas wherein a corresponding virtualization scheme is indicated to the wireless communication device.

5. The method of claim 1, receiving the transmission from a plurality of virtual antennas wherein a corresponding virtualization scheme is applied by a base station dynamically.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the spatial channel information comprising into at least two Kronecker components further comprises approximating the spatial channel information as a Kronecker product of the Kronecker components, wherein the approximation is based on a matrix norm.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the Kronecker components is a Hermitian matrix.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising feeding back the parameters representative of at least one of the Kronecker components at a different temporal interval than feedback the parameters representative of another Kronecker component.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising,

feeding back the parameters representative of the Kronecker components according to the feedback mode indicated for a set of sub-bands,

wherein the parameters representative of at least one of the Kronecker components for the set of sub-bands is the same.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising generating the parameters representative of the Kronecker components by extracting unique entries from the Kronecker components.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the parameters representative of the Kronecker components include a precoding matrix index to a precoding matrix from a set of predetermined precoding matrices for each of the Kronecker components.

12. A method in a wireless communication device for providing spatial channel information feedback, the method comprising:

receiving, at the wireless communication device, transmissions from a plurality of antennas, wherein the plurality of antennas further comprises antennas of a plurality of transmission points in a network;

receiving, at the wireless communication device, an indication of a feedback mode for feeding back spatial channel information, the spatial information based on a subset of the plurality of antennas;

generating parameters representative of the spatial channel information based on transmissions from the sub-set of the plurality of antennas, wherein the generating is performed by extracting Eigen information according to the feedback mode indicated based on an Eigenvalue decomposition of a correlation matrix representative of the spatial channel information for the sub-set of the plurality of antennas; and

feeding back, from the wireless communication device, the parameters according to the feedback mode indicated.

13. The method of claim 12, where the plurality of antennas correspond to a plurality of physical antennas or a plurality of virtualized antennas, wherein a corresponding virtualization is an operation of applying a set of weightings onto a signal before transmission from the plurality of physical antennas.

14. The method of claim 12 further comprising determining the spatial channel information comprising at least two Kronecker components, wherein the parameters are representative of the Kronecker components.

15. The method of claim 12 further comprising generating the parameters representative of the spatial channel information by extracting unique entries from a correlation matrix representative of the spatial channel information for the sub-set of the plurality of antennas.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the feedback mode indicates the subset of the plurality of antennas on which the spatial channel information is based.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein generating parameters representative of the spatial channel information comprises determining a precoding matrix index to a precoding matrix from a set of predetermined precoding matrices.