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System and method for employing six-bit rank 1 and 2 codebooks for four transmit antennas

US8565064B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 11, 2009
Grant dateOct 22, 2013
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Expiry dateFeb 20, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2025/03808
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for employing six-bit rank 1 and 2 codebooks for four transmit antennas is provided. A method for communications device operation includes estimating a communications channel between the communications device and a controller serving the communications device, thereby producing a channel estimate, quantizing the channel estimate using a codebook, thereby producing a selected codeword, and transmitting an index corresponding to the selected codeword from the codebook to the controller. The codebook includes a plurality of first level codewords, with each first level codeword having a plurality of subsidiary codewords. The quantizing is a search of only the first level codewords followed by a search of a subset of the plurality of subsidiary codewords, and the codebook is based on a rank of communications between the communications device and the controller.

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