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Method and apparatus for efficient feedback in a wireless communication system supporting multiple antennas

US8611243B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 23, 2011
Grant dateDec 17, 2013
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Expiry dateMay 9, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W72/00
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for performing effective feedback in a wireless communication system supporting multiple antennas. A method for transmitting CSI of downlink transmission via uplink in a wireless communication system includes transmitting a joint-coded rank indicator (RI) and a first wideband (WB) precoding matrix indicator (PMI) at a first subframe, and transmitting a wideband channel quality indicator (WB CQI) and a second WB PMI at a second subframe. A user equipment (UE) preferred precoding matrix is indicated by a combination of the first PMI and the second PMI. If the RI is Rank-1 or Rank-2, the first PMI indicates one of subsets each having 8 indexes from among 16 indexes of the first PMI of a precoding codebook.

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