MU-MIMO-OFDMA SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-RANK CQI COMPUTATION AND PRECODER SELECTION

摘要

Methods and systems for determining attributes of communication channels of MU-MIMO users in an OFDMA system are disclosed. One method comprises receiving from a base station, for at least one sub-band of contiguous sub-carriers, an indication of an estimate of or an upper-bound on a total number of streams that are co-scheduled by the base station on the at least one sub-band. In addition, the method further comprises determining one or more signal quality measures for the at-least one sub-band based on the estimate of or the upper-bound on the total number of streams that are scheduled by the base station on the at least one sub-band. Moreover, an indication of the one or more signal quality measures is transmitted to the base station.