Patent classifications
H04L25/021
RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE
A radio communication device that receives signals by using a plurality of reception antennas in a radio communication system employing multi-station simultaneous transmission includes: processing circuitry that estimates channel information on the basis of training symbol sequences, which are different depending on the base-station antennas, included in received signals, and outputs a channel information estimation result; performs a channel matrix extending process of extending dimension of a channel matrix on the basis of the channel information estimation result and a coding rule of the received signals, and extending array's degree of freedom; generates an interference suppression weight by using the channel matrix resulting from the channel matrix extending process; and extends dimension of a received signal vector by using a result of observation over symbol duration time for a plurality of symbols, and multiplies the received signal vector resulting from the extension of dimension by the interference suppression weight.
CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION MEASUREMENT METHOD, CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, TERMINAL AND NETWORK DEVICE
A CSI measurement method, a CSI acquisition method, a terminal and a network device are provided, to measure CSI. The terminal performs interference measurement to acquire initial interference measurement result, determine the CSI based on the initial interference measurement result and an interference measurement parameter configured by the network device, and then report the determined CSI to the network device. The interference measurement parameter is configured by the network device, so the interference measurement parameter configured by the network device is capable of reflecting an actual situation of interference information, and interference information acquired by the terminal based on the interference measurement parameter matches interference information for actual transmission in a better manner. As a result, it is able to improve a matching degree between the interference information acquired by the terminal and the interference information for the actual transmission, thereby to enable a network to select a more appropriate parameter for link adaptation.
Systems and methods for communication of channel state information
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for communicating Channel State Information (CSI) feedback. In some aspects, the CSI feedback is communicated in a very high throughput (VHT) wireless communications system.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING DOWNLINK CHANNEL INFORMATION AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE
This application provides a method for obtaining downlink channel information. The method includes: performing preceding weighting on M CSI-RSs of each of N sub-cycles, where each sub-cycle is a quantity of measurement pilot subframes for bearing and transmitting the M CSI-RSs; sending the M weighted CSI-RSs to UE; receiving M PMIs and M CQIs that are sent by the UE and that correspond to the M CSI-RSs, where the M PMIs and the M CQIs are obtained by the UE by separately measuring the M weighted CSI-RSs based on a set a rank 1 preceding codebooks corresponding to the predetermined antenna quantity; obtaining M signal-to-noise ratios of a downlink channel of the UE according to the M CQIs, obtaining M equivalent codebooks according to the M PMIs and weights of the preceding weighting; and obtaining a covariance matrix according to the M signal-to-noise ratios and the M equivalent codebooks.
ESTIMATION METHOD OF DISCRETE DIGITAL SIGNALS IN NOISY OVERLOADED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS WITH CSI ERRORS
A computer-implemented reconstruction method of discrete digital signals in noisy overloaded wireless communication systems with CSI Errors that is characterized by a channel matrix of complex coefficients, the method including receiving the signal from channel by a signal detector, estimation of the CSI error parameter τ is done at the receiver, estimation noise power is done by a noise power estimator, forwarding the detected signal and the CSI error parameter τ and noise power estimation to a decoder that estimates the transmitted symbol, wherein the estimation of the decoder produces a symbol that could probably have been transmitted it is forwarded to a de-mapper, which outputs the bit estimates corresponding to the estimated transmit signal and the corresponding estimated symbol to a microprocessor for further processing.
Method for transmitting and receiving channel state information in wireless communication system and device therefor
Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system and a device therefor. Particularly, a method by which a terminal reports channel state information in a wireless communication system can comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, configuration information relating to the CSI report on a downlink channel; receiving, from the base station, at least one CSI-RS for the CSI report; outputting feedback information by means of the at least one CSI-RS; and reporting the CSI to the base station by using the outputted feedback information.
Method and system for determining uplink and downlink weights for antenna elements of modular antenna arrays
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving sounding reference signal (SRS) symbols from antenna elements of each of multiple modular antenna arrays, wherein the multiple modular antenna arrays are operatively combined to form a coherent antenna system, performing an uplink (UL) channel estimation and a downlink (DL) channel estimation, across a plurality of physical resource blocks (PRBs), based on the SRS symbols, calculating, for the antenna elements, a plurality of uplink (UL) combining weights based on the UL channel estimation and a plurality of downlink (DL) precoder weights based on the DL channel estimation, and causing the plurality of UL combining weights and the plurality of DL precoder weights to be applied to the antenna elements, thereby adjusting beamforming of the coherent antenna system. Other embodiments are disclosed.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-PATH DELAY ESTIMATION
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method performed by a communication device. The method includes obtaining, in frequency domain, channel estimation for a transmission unit for a channel between the communication device and another communication device, and calculating correlation coefficients for the transmission unit based on the channel estimation. The method also includes obtaining a delay spread for the channel from the calculated correlation coefficients.
Mutual WLAN and WAN interference mitigation in unlicensed spectrum
The disclosure provides for interference mitigation for wireless signals in unlicensed spectrum. A wireless device may receive a combined signal including a first radio access technology (RAT) signal and a second RAT signal. The wireless device may generate, using a first RAT receiver in a first processing path, a channel estimate for the first RAT signal based on a previously decoded signal of the first RAT. The wireless device may reduce interference to the second RAT signal caused by the first RAT signal, in a second processing path, using the channel estimate. The wireless device may further decode the second RAT signal. The wireless device may remodulate the decoded signal using a transmitter to generate a remodulated second RAT signal. The remodulated second RAT signal may be canceled from the combined signal. The wireless device may decode a remaining portion of the combined signal including the first RAT signal.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERFERENCE ESTIMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
An apparatus including a processor configured to receive a digital communication signal, wherein the digital communication signal includes a common reference signal and transmitted data. The processor determines a first interfering channel matrix for a first interfering cell based on a channel estimation of the common reference signal, and estimates a first power offset ratio and a first effective pre-coding matrix for the first interfering cell by evaluating a maximum likelihood metric, wherein the maximum likelihood metric is based on a first interfering channel correlation. The processor then reconstructs a channel covariance matrix based on the estimated first power offset ratio and the first effective pre-coding matrix and detects the transmitted data based on the reconstructed channel covariance matrix.