Differential feedback within single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications

摘要

Differential feedback within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. After full feedback signal(s) have been received by a communication device (e.g., one that is to be performing beamforming for use in subsequent signal transmission), differential feedback signal(s) are received. Those differential feedback signal(s) are employed to update the full feedback signal(s) thereby generating updated/modified full feedback signals. Over time, such updated/modified full feedback signals may subsequently be further updated based upon later received inferential feedback signal(s). Such differential feedback signaling takes advantage of time and/or frequency correlation in a communication channel to provide for reduced feedback overhead by feeding back a difference or delta (Δ) relative to a previous value. For example, instead of providing full feedback signals in each respective/successive communication, feedback overhead is reduced by providing a difference or delta (Δ).

主权项

1. A wireless communication device comprising:
a processor configured to:
transmit a full feedback signal to another wireless communication device; andtransmit a differential feedback signal to the another wireless communication device for use by the another wireless communication device to generate an updated feedback signal using the full feedback signal and the differential feedback signal.