Alcatel Lucent

Yang Song

Hongwei Yang

Di Lv

Jinhui Chen

Lu Wu

Hao Liu

Dong Sheng Li

A method and device for generating and feeding back high rank adaptive codebook in multiple input multiple output system are disclosed in the embodiments of the invention. The method for generating high rank adaptive codebook includes: using different levels of a long time channel correlation matrix to transform different row vectors in high rank basic codebook, so as to aim at the directions of different eigenvectors of the long time channel correlation matrix; and using the transformed row vectors to construct the high rank adaptive codebook. The method of the invention has well system performance gain and no any additional feedback cost.

Methods and apparatuses for generating and feeding back high rank adaptive codebook in multiple input multiple output system

Methods and apparatuses for information feedback and precoding have been provided. A method for processing communication data at a user equipment in a wireless communication system may comprise: deriving a spatial correlation matrix R of multiple transmit antennas of a base station based on an obtained downlink channel transmission matrix H; transforming a precoding codebook F according to the spatial correlation matrix R; selecting a precoding matrix Fbased on the transformed precoding codebook; and feeding back information about the spatial correlation matrix R and information about the selected precoding matrix Fto the base station. A method for data precoding at a base station in a wireless communication system may comprise: obtaining, from a user equipment, information about a spatial correlation matrix R of multiple transmit antennas of the base station and information about a precoding matrix Fselected by the user equipment; determining a desired precoding matrix Fbased on the obtained information and a precoding codebook; and precoding downlink data to be transmitted to the user equipment with the desired precoding matrix F.

Method and apparatus for information feedback and precoding

The present invention provides a transformation apparatus for transforming a long-term wideband channel property feedback. The transformation apparatus comprises: a first transformation unit for constructing an estimation Rof a long-term wideband transmit spatial correlation matrix with a long-term wideband beamforming matrix uas fed back from a receiver, wherein R=uu, wherein H indicates the conjugate transposition of a matrix; and/or a second transformation unit for directly obtaining a long-term wideband beamforming matrix or a precoding matrix by using a long-term wideband transmit spatial correlation matrix as fed back from a receiver. According to the technical solution of the present invention, a corresponding transformation method and apparatus is also provided.

Transformation apparatus and method

In order to improve the performance of the precoding scheme for closely-spaced cross-polarized CLA antennas, the invention proposes a new precoding codebook and precoding matrix. The invention also proposes a method for determining precoding matrix based on the new precoding codebook, and corresponding method and device for communicating by using this precoding matrix. The precoding codebook and matrix proposed in the invention has better performance.

Method of determining precoding matrix and corresponding communication methods and devices

A method for determining precoding matrix for the sub-band precoding in a transmitter with M transmitting antennas. The method includes determining an optimized first matrix Waccording to wideband and/or long-term channel properties, multiplying the optimized first matrix W, with each second matrix W, in a second codebook, to obtain a plurality of candidate precoding matrices, the second matrix Wcorresponds to frequency-selective and/or short-term channel properties; selecting an optimized one from the plurality of candidate preceding matrices for precoding the data to be transmitted, according to a frequency selection and/or a short-term channel state information. The amount of DFT beams may be increased to improve the spatial resolution; a diagonal matrix is involved in the first matrix W; and phase adjustment is involved in the second matrix W, so as to guarantee the adjusted phase is evenly distributed among the whole phase space.

Method for determining precoding matrix and corresponding communication methods and devices

The present invention provides a method and device for obtaining precoding matrix. A network apparatus comprises a plurality of groups of cross-polarized linear array antennas. The method comprises: obtaining first channel indicating information indicating a first code word; obtaining second channel indicating information indicating a second code word; determining the precoding matrix, according to the first channel indicating information and the second channel indicating information, the first code word and/or the second code word comprises phase shifts and/or amplitude differences among the plurality of groups of cross-polarized linear array antennas. Since the first code word and the second code word for determining the precoding matrix by the network apparatus comprise phase shifts and amplitude differences among cross-polarized linear array antennas, the phase shifts and amplitude differences among cross-polarized linear array antennas are considered when the network apparatus sends downlink data according to the precoding matrix, so as to be able to improve the receiving quality of the sent data, thereby improving the system performance effectively.

Method and device for obtaining precoding matrix

The present invention provides a method for feeding back a correlation matrix in a multi-input multi-output system, comprising: constructing codebooks for the correlation matrix based on a conjugation nature of the correlation matrix and based on a predetermined relationship between diagonal elements and off-diagonal elements in the correlation matrix; selecting a codeword from the constructed codebook; and feeding back a corresponding index of the selected codeword in the codebook. Through the present invention, the throughput of the multi-input multi-output system can be enhanced, while reducing the encoder complexity or transfer load.

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