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MIMO precoding enabling spatial multiplexing, power allocation and adaptive modulation and coding

US7702029B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 2, 2006
Grant dateApr 20, 2010
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Expiry dateNov 30, 2028

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L1/0009
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a closed-loop wireless communication system, a codebook-based feedback mechanism is provided to enable non-unitary precoding for multi-stream transmission, where in each stream is optimized with suitable transmission power allocation and AMC. The codebook-based feedback mechanism uses a precoding codebook having a power allocation matrix which is constrained to specify that beamforming always applies full power to a predetermined beam. With this constraint, a one-bit power allocation feedback index may be used to switch between beamforming and spatial multiplexing.

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