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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
May. 20, 2011
Jimmy Nsenga, Brussels, BE;
André Bourdoux, Esneux, BE;
Jimmy Nsenga, Brussels, BE;
André Bourdoux, Esneux, BE;
IMEC, Leuven, BE;
CETIC asbl, Charleroi, BE;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for mixed analog/digital beamforming in a wireless communication system having transmit and receive antennas and analog front-ends connected to either the transmit antennas or the receive antennas. The method includes determining transmit and receive analog/digital beamforming coefficients by a) determining information representative of communication channels formed between a transmit antenna and a receive antenna, b) defining coefficients representing the transmit analog beamforming coefficients and the receive analog beamforming coefficients, c) determining a beamforming cost function using the information and the coefficients, the cost function taking into account the analog front-ends, d) computing an optimized set of transmit/receive analog beamforming coefficients by exploiting the cost function, e) deriving an estimate of the frequency responses of the communication channels using the information determined in process a, and f) deriving for each channel transmit/receive digital beamforming coefficients using the estimated frequency responses and the optimized beamforming coefficients.