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Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2009
Applicants:

Man-on Pun, Cambridge, MA (US);

Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);

Philip V. Orlik, Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Man-On Pun, Cambridge, MA (US);

Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);

Philip V. Orlik, Cambridge, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Channel state information for closed-loop transmit precoding in MIMO networks is fed back from the MSs to the BSs. The feedback is quantized using codebooks shared by the MSs and BSs to reduce overhead. The codebooks can be full-rank or rank-one. The quantized feedback is applicable to any definitions of MIMO channel covariance matrix as well as MIMO channel matrix. Since these codebooks are designed for closed-loop MIMO precoded transmissions, no additional memory is needed to store the codebooks at the BS and the MS only for the quantized feedback purposes.


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