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Limited channel information feedback error-free channel vector quantization scheme for precoding MU-MIMO

US8761288B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 26, 2009
Grant dateJun 24, 2014
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Expiry dateNov 2, 2030

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

Abstract

A multiuser downlink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with limited channel information feedback includes an error-free channel vector quantization scheme. Each user has multiple antennas, and the base station includes a matching number of antennas. Each MIMO channel is measured at the terminus end of a corresponding user, and used to obtain the channel state information at the receiver (CSIR). A few data bits of CSIR information are feed back to the base station through the limited feedback channels. The base station collects all these CSIR feedback data bits into a CSI at the transmitter (CSIT). The CSIT is used to determine which users are served, and how to configure a corresponding multi-user precoder. The user data channels will later all be transmitted through such precoder. A codebook of channel quantization vectors is pre-defined and distributed amongst the base station and all the users.

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