Method and system for link adaptation using metric feedback

• US 8,687,561 B2
• Filed: 05/04/2007
• Issued: 04/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sayana, Krishna Kamal, Zhuang, Xiangyang
• Primary Examiner(s): Hu, Jinsong
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hong, Dung
• Application Number:
  US11/744,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20080273490A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,524 Days
• Field of Search: 370/329, 370/465, 370/79, 370/335, 370/342, 370/479, 455/24, 455/69, 455/126
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0417 Feedback systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0003 by switching between different modulation schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0025 Transmission of mode-switching indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0028 Formatting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0035 evaluation of received explicit signalling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/06 using space diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A method for link adaptation at a base station using metric feedback is disclosed. The method can include the steps of communicating with a mobile station over a communication link having one or more sub-channels and during the communication, receiving from the mobile station information relating to one or more mutual information per coded bit metrics for one or more candidate modulation types. The mutual information per coded bit metrics can be based on channel state knowledge of the sub-channels. Also, based on the received information, the operational performance of the mobile station can be predicted in view of one or more transmission parameters and performance factors and one or more of the transmission parameters can be selected based on a transmission condition of the communication link.

Claims

1. A method for link adaptation at a base station using metric feedback, comprising:

communicating with a mobile station over a communication link having one or more sub-channels using hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ);

during the communication, receiving from the mobile station a plurality of mutual information per coded bit metrics for a plurality of candidate modulation types, wherein the plurality of mutual information per coded bit metrics are based on channel state knowledge of the one or more sub-channels;

based on the plurality of mutual information per coded bit metrics, computing a new mutual information per coded bit metric corresponding to first and subsequent HARQ transmissions taking into account a new effective code rate and a new code size, wherein the mobile station is to combine the first and subsequent HARQ transmissions;

predicting operational performance of the mobile station in view of one or more transmission parameters corresponding to the first and subsequent HARQ transmissions and one or more performance factors; and

selecting one or more of the transmission parameters based on the predicting.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the transmission parameters include open-loop multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission mode information or closed-loop MIMO transmission mode information and a modulation type, a coding rate or a packet size for the coding layers of the open-loop and closed-loop MIMO transmission modes.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the open-loop MIMO transmission mode information and the closed-loop MIMO transmission mode information include a number of symbol streams to be sent or a number of coding layers and the closed-loop MIMO transmission mode information further includes closed-loop antenna beamforming weights of each symbol stream.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of mutual information per coded bit metrics is received as an index from the mobile station.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the index references a predetermined table known to both the base station, and the mobile station is defined based on different quantization ranges for mutual information per coded bit metrics of each candidate modulation type.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the index is mapped into a bit field.

7. A method for link adaptation at a base station using metric feedback, comprising:

communicating with a mobile station over a communication link having one or more sub-channels;

during the communication, receiving from the mobile station a plurality of mutual information per coded bit metrics for a plurality of candidate modulation types, wherein the plurality of mutual information per coded bit metrics are based on channel state knowledge of the one or more sub-channels;

based on the plurality of mutual information per coded bit metrics, predicting operational performance of the mobile station in view of one or more transmission parameters by mapping a mutual information per coded bit metric corresponding to a candidate modulation type to a packet error rate under potential coding rates and packet sizes according to a parameterized relationship defined as

8. A method for link adaptation at a mobile station, comprising:

for each candidate modulation type of a plurality of candidate modulation types, computing a mutual information per coded bit on at least one sub-channel as the mutual information between each coded bit and a log-likelihood ratio of that bit based on a receiver type and one or more of;

eigenvalues, eigen-subspace powers, and a condition number of a channel state matrix, wherein the eigen values and the eigen-subspace powers are used to obtain a minimum eigen value, a maximum eigen value, and an eigen mode power distribution parameter;

averaging the mutual information per coded bit over one or more of the sub-channels;

generating feedback information, wherein the feedback information includes the plurality of mutual information per coded bit metrics for the plurality of candidate modulation types according to a request from a base station with which the mobile station is communicating; and

transmitting the generated feedback information to the base station.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein mapping the variables to the mutual information per coded bit is based on a predetermined numerical table or a function parameterized by the variables.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the feedback information is an index that the mutual information per coded bit metrics are mapped to based on a predetermined table known to the base station and the mobile station or is a recommended setting for one or more transmission parameters as requested by the base station or is a combination of both.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the minimum eigen value, the maximum eigen vale, and the eigen mode power distribution parameters are used to calculate conditional means.

12. A mobile station for link adaptation using metrics, comprising:

a transceiver for communicating with a base station; and

a processor coupled to the transceiver, wherein the processor;

computes a plurality of mutual information per coded bit metrics for a plurality of candidate modulation types based on a channel state knowledge of one or more sub-channels by;

deriving one or more variables relating to channel condition based on the channel state knowledge and a receiver type; and

mapping the one or more variables to the mutual information per coded bit I(H) of a measured channel H as