COMPUTING PMIs, PARTICULARLY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS HAVING THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMMUNICATIONS CHANNELS, USING A REFERENCE ANTENNA OR A REFERENCE ANTENNA SUBSET

摘要

A system includes an eNB which is operable to communicate with one or UEs and a set of multiple transmit antennas associated with the eNB. The antennas are partitioned into multiple antenna subsets. In a first form of the method, one of the antennas is designated as a reference antenna and the reference antenna forms part of each antenna subset. In a second form of the method, one of the subsets is designated as a reference subset. The UE(s) are operable to compute multiple PMIs for the respective multiple subsets and to report the multiple PMIs to the eNB for the eNB to use in precoding. The first form involves computing a PMI for a given antenna subset independently of the PMIs of any of the other antenna subsets. The second form involves computing a PMI for a given subset based on or using the PMI for the reference subset.

主权项

1. A method for computing precoder matrix indicators (PMIs) in a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system including a base station (eNB) which is operable to communicate with one or more user equipments (UEs) and a set of multiple transmit antennas associated with the eNB that are partitioned into multiple transmit antenna subsets with one of the subsets designated as a reference subset, wherein the UE(s) are operable to compute multiple PMIs for the respective multiple subsets and to report the multiple PMIs to the eNB for the eNB to use in precoding, the method comprising:
computing a PMI for a given subset based on or using the PMI for the reference subset.