Embodiments can include receiving transmissions over a channel at a receiver of a MIMO communication system; the transmissions are received from a plurality of transmitters in communication with the receiver. Each communication is a separate communication having a modulation and coding scheme. An estimate of the channel is converted into an estimate, for each of a plurality of transmitters, of a bit-metric decoding rate for each of a plurality of MIMO detectors. The estimated bit-metric decoding rate for each of the transmitters for each of the MIMO detectors is converted into an estimated bit error rate for each of the MIMO detectors for each of the transmitters. One of the MIMO detectors is selected for use in generating log-likelihood ratios for bits transmitted from the transmitters to the receiver. The one of the MIMO detectors is selected based on the estimated bit-error rates and a target block error rate.

A method of receiving data transmitted by a plurality of communications devices includes receiving at each of a plurality of M antennas reference signals transmitted by each of a plurality of K communications devices, and processing by each of a plurality of antenna modules the reference signals. The processing by each of the antenna module includes estimating for each of the K detected reference signals received from the K communications devices a sample of a radio channel through which the received signals have passed, generating for each of the K samples of the radio channel a K×K partial matrix forming a part of a signal processing matrix for performing zero forcing equalisation of the received signals, and transmitting the partial matrix K×K from each of the M antenna modules to a central processing unit.

Beamformers and beamforming methods are disclosed which involve diagonal loading (regularization). Features may include the automatic determination of the regularization parameter using a linearly constrained minimum power (LCMP) bounded perturbation regularization (BPR) approach.

Methods and systems that can enable antenna selection (AS) and data bits in transmitted spatially modulated (SM) streams to be detected at a receiver using different detection methods. In example embodiments, encoding for an AS stream is done separately at a transmitter than encoding for data streams, enabling a receiver to use one type of detection for AS bits and a reduced complexity type of MIMO detection for the data bits.

Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for multi-antenna transmission. The method which may be performed by a communication device comprises determining first correlation information in response to interference to data on a first subset of multiple antenna branches of the communication device. The first correlation information may indicate at least correlation between the data on the first subset of the multiple antenna branches and data on a second subset of the multiple antenna branches which is not affected by interference. The method further comprises correcting the data on the first subset of the multiple antenna branches, based at least in part on the first correlation information.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, based at least in part on at least one of a plurality of conditions being met, to switch from a static analog beamforming codebook to a dynamic analog beamforming beam weight calculation for selecting beam weights for communications between the UE and a base station. The UE may select the beam weights for the communications using the dynamic beam weight calculation. The UE may communicate, using the beam weights, with the base station. Numerous other aspects are described.

Aspects are provided which allow a UE to manage a number of antennas in adaptive receive diversity (ARD) based on packet error rate (PER). The UE measures a downlink PER and determines a number of antennas for receiving a downlink transmission based on the measured, downlink PER. The UE measures downlink PER during switching from a fallback state to a steady state in an ARD state machine, and the UE changes a size of a fallback window in the ARD state machine based on the measured, downlink PER. The UE also disables switching from the steady state to the fallback state based on the measured downlink PER. As a result, a balance between UE reception performance and power savings is maximized and improved downlink data throughput is achieved.

A base station grants communications of a plurality of wireless communication terminals with the base station without allocating wireless resources upon occurrence of requests for the communications. The base station receives radio signals incoming from the wireless communication terminals and having encoded data, executes a first process of obtaining, from the received radio signals, first signals with at least ones of amplitudes and phases being adjusted, the first signals being incoming from a first wireless communication terminal among the plural wireless communication terminals, a second process of generating replicas of the radio signals incoming from the first wireless communication terminal before at least ones of the amplitudes and the phases are adjusted, a third process of extracting signals given by removing the replicas of the incoming radio signals from the received radio signals, and a process of iterating the first through third processes successively.

A reception-side apparatus includes: M receive antennas; and a processor configured to execute a first process of acquiring a first signal received from a first transmission-side apparatus from among signals simultaneously received from the N transmission-side apparatuses by receive diversity processing, and acquiring first data by demodulating and decoding the first signal. In the case of N>M, the processor acquires, for each of all patterns of a combination of a first signal, second signals from M-1 transmission-side apparatuses which are to be cancelled by receive diversity processing and third signals from N-M transmission-side apparatuses which are not to be cancelled by the receive diversity processing, a power ratio of power of the first signal relative to total power of the second and third signals based on a predetermined weight and a channel estimate of each signal, and selects a combination with the largest power ratio from among all the patterns.

A system and method for beamforming beams including: matching weights T to a distribution of resources for each of the beams based on a traffic variation for each of the beams; calculating, with a signal processor for each of the beams based on the weights T, a power scalar β and a weighted minimum mean squared error (WMMSE) matrix W.sub.WMSE; and transmitting/receiving the beams based on the power scalar β and the WMMSE matrix W.sub.WMSE, where the power scalar β satisfies a total power constraint of an antenna subsystem.