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Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2013
Applicant:

Ntt Docomo, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Andreas Dotzler, Munich, DE;

Wolfgang Utschick, Munich, DE;

Guido Dietl, Munich, DE;

Assignee:

NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K 1/02 (2006.01); H04B 7/04 (2006.01); H04L 25/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0456 (2013.01); H04B 7/0426 (2013.01); H04B 7/0452 (2013.01); H04L 25/03343 (2013.01); H04L 25/03898 (2013.01); H04B 7/0465 (2013.01);
Abstract

A transmission filter calculator for calculating at least a transmit filter for communication from a multi-antenna transmit communication device to a multi-antenna receive communication device via a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) channel iteratively determines transmit filters for multiple data streams. The transmission filter calculator chooses a transmit filter in a given iteration such that the transmit filter is orthogonal to one or more transmit filters chosen in one or more previous iterations, and such that a weighted or unweighted transmission rate obtainable using the transmit filter chosen in the given iteration is maximized, and chooses the transmit filter in dependence on a matrix product term which is based on a channel matrix describing MIMO channel characteristics between the transmit communication device and a currently considered one of the receive communication devices and on a distortion covariance matrix describing a noise, an inter-cell interference and an upper limit of an intra-cell interference.


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