Communication method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12407381-B2
Application number	US-202418412571-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 14, 2024
Priority date	Aug 25, 2021
Publication date	Sep 2, 2025
Grant date	Sep 2, 2025

Abstract

Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method and apparatus. Therefore, a beam gain of downlink channel transmission is improved, and a phase mismatch performance loss is small. The method in embodiments of this application includes: A network device may determine a first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix of a downlink channel based on a first uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix of an uplink channel, indicate, based on a first weight indicated by a terminal, the terminal to receive a second weight of data, then determine a third weight different from the second weight based on the first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix and the second weight, and send the data to the terminal based on the third weight.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A communication method, comprising:
obtaining a first uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix of an uplink channel with a terminal;
determining, based on the first uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix, a first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix of a downlink channel with the terminal;
obtaining a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) from the terminal, wherein the first PMI indicates a first weight;
determining a second weight based on the first weight;
determining a third weight based on the first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix and the second weight, wherein the third weight is different from the second weight;
sending a second PMI to the terminal, wherein the second PMI indicates the second weight; and
sending data to the terminal based on the third weight.

2. The communication method of claim 1 , wherein the determining, based on the first uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix, the first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix of the downlink channel with the terminal comprises:
determining the first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix based on the first uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix and one or more of a first uplink/downlink frequency, a first antenna form, or a first dipole spacing.

3. The communication method of claim 2 , wherein the determining the first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix based on the first uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix and one or more of the first uplink/downlink frequency, the first antenna form, or the first dipole spacing comprises:
processing the first uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix based on a first transformation matrix, to obtain the first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix, wherein the first transformation matrix is related to one or more of the first uplink/downlink frequency, the first antenna form, or the first dipole spacing.

4. The communication method of claim 1 , wherein the third weight satisfies:
w d =( R DL +δ 2 I ) −1 R DL w p , wherein

w d represents the third weight, w p represents the second weight, R DL represents the first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix, δ 2 represents a first channel estimation error and a first quantization error, I represents an identity matrix, and (⋅) −1 represents inversion.

5. A communication method, comprising:
obtaining a second downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix of a downlink channel with a network device;
determining, based on the second downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix, a second uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix of an uplink channel with the network device;
obtaining a third precoding matrix indicator (PMI) from the network device, wherein the third PMI indicates a fourth weight;
determining a fifth weight based on the second uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix and the fourth weight, wherein the fifth weight is different from the fourth weight; and
sending data to the network device based on the fifth weight.

6. The communication method of claim 5 , wherein the determining, based on the second downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix, the second uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix of the uplink channel with the network device comprises:
determining the second uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix based on the second downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix and one or more of a second uplink/downlink frequency, a second antenna form, or a second dipole spacing.

7. The communication method of claim 6 , wherein the determining the second uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix based on the second downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix and one or more of the second uplink/downlink frequency, the second antenna form, or the second dipole spacing comprises:
processing the second downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix based on a second transformation matrix, to obtain the second uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix, wherein the second transformation matrix is related to one or more of the second uplink/downlink frequency, the second antenna form, or the second dipole spacing.

8. The communication method of claim 5 , wherein the fifth weight satisfies:
w d ′=( R UL ′+(δ′) 2 I ) −1 R UL ′w p ′, wherein

w d ′ represents the fifth weight, w p ′ represents the fourth weight, R UL ′ represents the second uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix, (δ′) 2 represents a second channel estimation error and a second quantization error, I represents an identity matrix, and (⋅) −1 represents inversion.

9. An apparatus, comprising:
one or more processors configured to execute instructions causing the apparatus to:
obtain a first uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix of an uplink channel with a terminal;
determine, based on the first uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix, a first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix of a downlink channel with the terminal;
obtain a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) from the terminal, wherein the first PMI indicates a first weight;
determine a second weight based on the first weight;
determine a third weight based on the first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix and the second weight, wherein the third weight is different from the second weight;
send a second PMI to the terminal, wherein the second PMI indicates the second weight; and
send data to the terminal based on the third weight.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the instructions are executed to cause the apparatus to determine, based on the first uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix, the first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix of the downlink channel with the terminal by determining the first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix based on the first uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix and one or more of a first uplink/downlink frequency, a first antenna form, or a first dipole spacing.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the instructions are executed to cause the apparatus to determine the first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix based on the first uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix and one or more of the first uplink/downlink frequency, the first antenna form, or the first dipole spacing by
processing the first uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix based on a first transformation matrix, to obtain the first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix, wherein the first transformation matrix is related to one or more of the first uplink/downlink frequency, the first antenna form, or the first dipole spacing.

12. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the third weight satisfies:
w d =( R DL +δ 2 I ) −1 R DL w p , wherein

w d represents the third weight, w p represents the second weight, R DL represents the first downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix, δ 2 represents a first channel estimation error and a first quantization error, I represents an identity matrix, and (⋅) −1 represents inversion.

13. An apparatus, comprising:
one or more processors configured to execute instructions causing the apparatus to:
obtain a second downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix of a downlink channel with a network device;
determine, based on the second downlink statistical autocorrelation matrix, a second uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix of an uplink channel with the network device;
obtain a third precoding matrix indicator (PMI) from the network device, wherein the third PMI indicates a fourth weight;
determine a fifth weight based on the second uplink statistical autocorrelation matrix and the fourth weight, wherein the f

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Guo Senbao
• Yang Ye
• Meng Xin

Classifications

• H04B7/0634

  Antenna weights or vector/matrix coefficients · CPC title

• H04B7/0617

  for beam forming · CPC title

• H04B7/0478

  Special codebook structures directed to feedback optimisation · CPC title

• H04B7/0456 Primary

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

• H04B7/0639 Primary

  Using selective indices, e.g. of a codebook, e.g. pre-distortion matrix index [PMI] or for beam selection · CPC title