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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Louay Jalloul, San Jose, CA (US);
Ghaith N. Hattab, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are for configuring multi-user multiple-input multiple output (MU-MIMO) operation by a base station and a plurality of UEs include requesting sounding reference signals (SRS) or channel state information (CSI) data from each UE of the plurality; configuring, based on the SRS or CSI data from each UE, a precoder matrix, the precoder matrix allocating a plurality of precoded CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources for each UE; scheduling, for each UE, the precoded CSI-RS resources; receiving, from each UE, a CQI report that is based on the precoded CSI-RS resources received by that respective UE; generating a CQI matrix from the CQI reports of each UE; selecting a subset of UEs from the plurality based on the CQI matrix; and scheduling DL resources for the subset of UEs, the DL resources including reference signals.