Beam characterization

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11764888-B2
Application number	US-202016892982-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 4, 2020
Priority date	Jun 7, 2019
Publication date	Sep 19, 2023
Grant date	Sep 19, 2023

Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication and testing. In some aspects, a device may receive information identifying a mount orientation of a wireless communication device, wherein the mount orientation indicates an orientation of a coordinate system of the wireless communication device relative to a coordinate system of a positioner. The device may capture measurement information at each position of a set of positions of the wireless communication device, wherein the set of positions comprises positions of the wireless communication device as the wireless communication device is rotated around an axis by the positioner, and wherein the measurement information is captured based at least in part on the mount orientation. The device may provide information identifying the measurement information. Some techniques and apparatuses described herein may use the measurement information to generate a codebook for beam generation. Numerous other aspects are provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method performed by a device, comprising:
receiving electric field information regarding a plurality of beams generated by a plurality of antennas of a wireless communication device, wherein the electric field information is based on a per-antenna measurement procedure;
generating a codebook based at least in part on the electric field information,
wherein the electric field information includes magnitude information and phase information for a single antenna of the plurality of antennas of the wireless communication device,
wherein the codebook identifies codewords corresponding to the plurality of beams, and
wherein the codebook identifies beam pairs to be used for communication by the wireless communication device; and

providing information identifying the codebook.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the codebook is further based on trace delay information associated with the plurality of antennas.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving hardware information relating to a testing device used to collect the electric field information, wherein the hardware information identifies, for an antenna of the plurality of antennas, at least one of:
a modem chain,
a radio frequency chain,
a polarity, or
an antenna pin mapping.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
receiving subarray information for the plurality of antennas, wherein the subarray information identifies one or more subarrays used to generate the plurality of beams, and wherein the codebook is based at least in part on the subarray information.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining whether a beam, generated by the wireless communication device using the codebook, matches an expected beam defined by the codebook.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein determining whether the beam matches the expected beam is based at least in part on a per-beam measurement of phase or amplitude.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein determining whether the beam matches the expected beam is based at least in part on a spherical cumulative distribution function of beam power.

8. A method performed by a device, comprising:
receiving electric field information regarding a plurality of beams generated by a plurality of antennas of a wireless communication device, wherein the electric field information is based on a per-antenna measurement procedure;
receiving information identifying a mount orientation of the wireless communication device, wherein the mount orientation indicates an orientation of a coordinate system of the wireless communication device relative to a coordinate system of a positioner;
generating a codebook based at least in part on the electric field information, and
wherein the codebook identifies codewords corresponding to the plurality of beams,
wherein the codebook identifies beam pairs to be used for communication by the wireless communication device, and
wherein the codebook is based at least in part on the mount orientation; and

providing information identifying the codebook.

9. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
loading a codebook,
wherein the codebook indicates parameters for beam generation for communication by the UE using a plurality of antennas of the UE,
wherein the codebook is based at least in part on measurement information gathered using a per-antenna measurement procedure, and
wherein the measurement information includes magnitude information and phase information for a single antenna of the plurality of antennas of the UE; and

generating a plurality of beams based at least in part on the codebook,
wherein one or more first antennas of the UE are active during generation of a beam of the plurality of beams, and
wherein one or more second antennas of the UE are not active during generation of the beam.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the one or more first antennas and the one or more second antennas are part of a same antenna subarray or a same antenna module.

11. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
loading a codebook,
wherein the codebook indicates parameters for beam generation for communication by the UE using a plurality of antennas of the UE,
wherein the codebook is based at least in part on measurement information gathered using a per-antenna measurement procedure,
wherein the parameters for beam generation relate to two or more levels of beams,
wherein a first level, of the two or more levels, is associated with a wider beam width and a lower beam gain, and
wherein a second level, of the two or more levels, is associated with a narrower beam width and a higher beam gain; and

generating a plurality of beams based at least in part on the codebook,
wherein a first beam of the plurality of beams is associated with the first level, and
wherein a second beam of the plurality of beams is associated with the second level.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the two or more levels of beams include three levels of beams.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein a first beam of the plurality of beams and a second beam of the plurality of beams are associated with a parent-child relationship.

14. The method of claim 9 , wherein the UE includes an antenna subarray that includes at least two antennas of the plurality of antennas, and
wherein the codebook is associated with an odd number of beams for the antenna subarray.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein each subarray of the UE is associated with an odd number of beams.

16. The method of claim 9 , wherein each subarray, of subarrays of the UE, is associated with a same number of beams per multiple-input multiple-output layer.

17. The method of claim 9 , wherein the parameters for beam generation are configured parameters that are based at least in part on characteristics of the UE.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the characteristics of the UE include at least one of:
a number of the plurality of antennas of the UE,
a geometry of the plurality of antennas,
a radio frequency chain configuration of the UE, or
an antenna module configuration of the UE.

19. The method of claim 17 , wherein the configured parameters include at least one of:
an amplitude associated with an antenna of the plurality of antennas or the beam,
a phase associated with the antenna or the beam,
a parent-child relationship between two or more beams of the plurality of beams,
a beam pair relationship between at least two beams of the plurality of beams, or
a polarity associated with the antenna or a beam of the plurality of beams.

20. The method of claim 9 , wherein generating the plurality of beams based at least in part on the codebook further comprises:
generating the plurality of beams using a respective codeword of a plurality of codewords identified by the codebook,
wherein a codeword corresponding to the beam indicates that the one or more first antennas are to be active during generation of the beam and that the one or more second antennas are not to be active during generation of the beam.

21. A device for wireless communication, comprising:
a memory; and
one or more processors, coupled to the memory, configured to:
receive electric field information regarding a plurality of beams generated by a plurality of antennas of a wireless communication device, wherein the electric field information is based on a per-antenna measurement procedure;
generate a codebook

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Cai Mingming
• Challa Raghu Narayan
• Sundara Raghavan Revathi
• Burke Michael
• Bangalore Ravi Abhilash
• Laghate Mihir Vijay
• Patel Shrenik
• Park Sang-June
• Tassoudji Mohammad Ali
• Krishnan Sudarsan
• Raghavan Vasanthan
• Kamath Siddharth

Classifications

• H04B7/0456 Primary

  Selection of precoding matrices or codebooks, e.g. using matrices antenna weighting · CPC title

• H04B17/364 Primary

  Delay profiles · CPC title

• H04B7/0814

  based on current reception conditions, e.g. switching to different antenna when signal level is below threshold · CPC title

• H04B7/0822

  according to predefined selection scheme · CPC title

• H04B7/0413

  MIMO systems · CPC title