Techniques for combined digital pre-distortion with over-the-air signaling

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12388478-B2
Application number	US-202217932516-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 15, 2022
Priority date	Sep 15, 2022
Publication date	Aug 12, 2025
Grant date	Aug 12, 2025

Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an UE may receive an indication of a configuration for receiving reference signals (RSs) and for transmitting a digital pre-distortion (DPD) measurement. The UE may receive the RSs from a network node. The UE may transmit a first signal that indicates the DPD measurement as observed via the RSs at the first UE, the first signal configured for coherent combination over the air with a second signal that indicates a DPD measurement as observed via the RSs at a second UE, the first signal and the second signal scheduled for transmission via overlapping network resources. Numerous other aspects are described.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of wireless communication performed by a first user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving an indication of a configuration for receiving reference signals (RSs) and for transmitting an indication of a digital pre-distortion (DPD) measurement;
receiving the RSs from a network node; and
transmitting a first signal that indicates the DPD measurement as observed via the RSs at the first UE, the first signal configured for coherent combination over the air with a second signal that indicates a DPD measurement as observed via the RSs at a second UE, the first signal and the second signal scheduled for transmission via overlapping network resources.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the DPD measurement comprises:
an estimation of power amplifier non-linearity coefficients based at least in part on measurement of the RSs at the first UE.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the RSs are associated with a control message that is one or more of:
UE-specific,
beam-specific, or
cell-specific.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first signal is configured for coherent combination over the air with the second signal based at least in part on the overlapping resources being fully overlapping resources.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first signal is configured for coherent combination over the air with the second signal based at least in part on the first signal comprising:
analog values of the DPD measurement,
quantized values of the DPD measurement, or
a scalar multiplier of the DPD measurement.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the scalar multiplier of the DPD measurement is based at least in part on one or more of:
a channel response as observed via the RSs, or
an angle associated with an estimated channel.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmission of the first signal comprises:
transmitting one or more repetitions of the first signal.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first signal comprises:
an indication of a matrix associated with the DPD measurement,
indications of components of the matrix associated with the DPD measurement, or
an indication of a quantized value of a partitioned component of the DPD measurement.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first signal comprises:
an indication of power amplifier non-linearity coefficients, or
an indication of DPD coefficients.

10. A method of wireless communication performed by a network node, comprising:
transmitting, to multiple user equipments (UEs) an indication of a configuration for receiving reference signals (RSs) and for transmitting a digital pre-distortion (DPD) measurement, the configuration indicating an allocation of a single set of resources for transmission, by the multiple UEs, of a signal that indicates a digital pre-distortion (DPD) measurement as observed via the multiple UEs;
transmitting the RSs to the multiple UEs; and
receiving the signal as a coherently combined signal that indicates the DPD measurement as observed at the multiple UEs.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the DPD measurement comprises:
an estimation of power amplifier non-linearity coefficients based at least in part on measurement of the RSs at the multiple UEs.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the RSs are associated with a control message that is one or more of:
UE-specific,
beam-specific, or
cell-specific.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the signal is configured for coherent combination over the air based at least in part on the signal comprising:
analog values of the DPD measurement,
quantized values of the DPD measurement, or
UE-specific scalar multipliers of the DPD measurement.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the UE-specific scalar multipliers of the DPD measurement is based at least in part on one or more of:
a UE-specific channel response as observed via the RSS,
a UE-specific angle of a beam used to receive the RSs, or
an angle associated with an estimated channel.

15. The method of claim 10 , wherein reception of the signal comprises:
receiving one or more repetitions of the signal.

16. The method of claim 10 , wherein the signal comprises:
an indication of a matrix associated with the DPD measurement, or
indications of components of the matrix associated with the DPD measurement.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein receiving the signal comprises:
calculating a linear combination of the components of the matrix associated with the DPD measurement,
calculating a weighted average of elements of the signal.

18. The method of claim 10 , wherein the signal comprises:
an indication of power amplifier non-linearity coefficients, or
an indication of DPD coefficients.

19. A first user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:
a memory; and
one or more processors, coupled to the memory, configured to:
receive an indication of a configuration for receiving reference signals (RSs) and for transmitting an indication of a digital pre-distortion (DPD) measurement;
receive the RSs from a network node; and
transmit a first signal that indicates the DPD measurement as observed via the RSs at the first UE, the first signal configured for coherent combination over the air with a second signal that indicates a DPD measurement as observed via the RSs at a second UE, the first signal and the second signal scheduled for transmission via overlapping network resources.

20. The UE of claim 19 , wherein the DPD measurement comprises:
an estimation of power amplifier non-linearity coefficients based at least in part on measurement of the RSs at the first UE.

21. The UE of claim 19 , wherein the RSs are associated with a control message that is one or more of:
UE-specific,
beam-specific, or
cell-specific.

22. The UE of claim 19 , wherein the first signal is configured for coherent combination over the air with the second signal based at least in part on the overlapping resources being fully overlapping resources.

23. The UE of claim 19 , wherein the first signal is configured for coherent combination over the air with the second signal based at least in part on the first signal comprising:
values of the DPD measurement,
quantized values of the DPD measurement, or
a scalar multiplier of the DPD measurement.

24. The UE of claim 23 , wherein the scalar multiplier of the DPD measurement is based at least in part on one or more of:
a channel response as observed via the RSs,
an angle of a beam used to receive the RSs, or
an angle associated with an estimated channel.

25. The UE of claim 19 , wherein the first signal comprises:
an indication of power amplifier non-linearity coefficients, or
an indication of DPD coefficients.

26. A network node for wireless communication, comprising:
a memory; and
one or more processors, coupled to the memory, configured to:
transmit, to multiple user equipments (UEs) an indication of a configuration for receiving reference signals (RSs) and for transmitting a digital pre-distortion (DPD) measurement, the configuration indicating an allocation of a single set of resources for transmission, by the multiple UEs, of a signal that indicates a digital pre-distortion (DPD) measurement as observed via the multiple UEs;
transmit the RSs to the multiple UEs; and
receive the signal as a coherently combined signal that indicates the DPD measurement as observed at the multiple UE

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• KUTZ Gideon Shlomo
• Bar-Or Tillinger Amit
• Oved Tal
• Meir Elad
• Krips Ram

Classifications

• H04L5/0092

  Indication of how the channel is divided · CPC title

• H04L5/0048

  Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091) · CPC title

• H04B2001/0425

  with linearisation using predistortion · CPC title

• H04B1/0475 Primary

  with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion (H04B1/0483 takes precedence) · CPC title