Channel state information feedback apparatus and method in wireless communication system operating in FDD mode

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9408086-B2
Application number	US-201213728510-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 27, 2012
Priority date	Dec 27, 2011
Publication date	Aug 2, 2016
Grant date	Aug 2, 2016

Abstract

A Channel State Information (CSI) feedback method and apparatus is provided for transmitting, at a base station, the CSIs for plural transmit antennas with a limited amount resource and receiving, at a mobile station, the CSIs efficiently in a massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system operating in the Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) mode.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A channel state information feedback method of a mobile station in a massive Multiple-Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system, the method comprising: receiving N beams from a base station:
estimating a channel vector comprising N, which is a non-negative integer value, channel coefficients of each N beams transmitted from the base station;
comparing result values of a function having an input of the N channel coefficients to each other;
selecting an index of a beam formed with a maximum value of the result values;
selecting indices of beams, when result values of the beams are greater than or equal to a threshold value multiplied by the maximum value of the result value and a difference between phases of the channel coefficient of the beams and a phase of the beam formed with the maximum value of the result values is less than or equal to a phase threshold value:
generating an active beam index set including the selected indices of beams; estimating channel state information on the active beam index set; and feeding back the channel state information and the active beam index set to the base station, and
wherein the N beams are generated based on N beamforming vectors of size M by the base station, and
the size M is associated with a number of transmit antennas of the base station.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the active beam set comprises:
quantizing phases of the channel coefficients of the selected indices of beams or phase differences between the channel coefficients of the selected indices of beams and a phase of the beam formed with the maximum value of the result values;
determining phase indices corresponding to the selected indices of beams according to the quantized phases; and
compensating weight vectors indicated by the selected indices of beams with phase values indicated by the phase indices.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining the phase indices comprises selecting the phase indices from a phase codebook for phase quantization, wherein the phase codebook is known to the base station and mobile station.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein feeding back the channel state information and the active beam index set comprises transmitting the quantized phase indices and channel state information corresponding to the quantized phase indices of the selected indices of beams.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the active beam index set comprises:
determining phase indices and size indices by quantizing sizes, phases, and size ratios of the channel coefficients of the beams indicated by the selected indices of beams; and
compensating weight vectors indicated by the selected indices of beams with quantized values indicated by the phase indices and the size indices.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein determining the phase and size indices comprises selecting the phase indices and the size indices from a phase codebook for phase quantization and a size codebook for size quantization, wherein the phase codebook and size codebook are known to the base and mobile station.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein feeding back the channel state information and the active beam index set comprises transmitting the phase indices, the size indices, and channel state information corresponding to the phase and size indices of the selected indices of beams.

8. A channel state information feedback apparatus, the apparatus comprising:
a radio communication receiver which receives, via at least one antenna, N, which is a nonnegative integer value, beams from a base station;
a channel estimator which estimates a channel vector comprising N channel coefficients of each N beams transmitted from the base station;
an active beam index determiner which compares result values of a function having input of the N channel coefficients to each other, selects an index of a beam formed with a maximum value of the result values, selects indices of beams, when result values of the beams are greater than or equal to a threshold value multiplied by the maximum result value and a difference between phases of the channel coefficient of the beams and a phase of the beam formed with the maximum value of the result values is less than or equal to a phase threshold value, generates an active beam index set including the selected indices of beams;
a feedback information generator which estimates channel state information on the active beam index set; and
a control unit which feeds back the channel state information and the active beam index set to the base station, and
wherein the N beams are generated based on N beamforming vectors of size M by the base station, and
the size M is associated with a number of transmit antennas of the base station.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the active beam index determiner quantizes phases of the channel coefficients of the selected indices of beams or phase differences between the channel coefficients of the selected indices of beams and a phase of the beam formed with maximum result value of the result values, determines phase indices corresponding to the selected indices of beams according to the quantized phases, and compensates weight vectors indicated by the selected indices of beams with phase values indicated by the phase indices.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the control unit feeds back the quantized phase indices and channel state information corresponding to the quantized phase indices of the selected indices of beams.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the active beam index determiner determines phase indices and size indices by quantizing sizes, phases, and size ratios of the channel coefficients of the beams indicated by the selected indices of beams, and compensates weight vectors indicated by the selected indices of beams with quantized values indicated by the phase indices and the size indices.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the control unit feeds back the phase indices, the size indices, and channel state information corresponding to the phase and size indices of the selected indices of beams.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
• Industry-Academic Coop Found Korea Nat Univ Of Transp
• Industry-Academic Coop Found Korean Nat Univ Of Transp

Inventors

• Kim Kiil
• Mun Cheol
• Kim Younsun
• Lee Juho
• Lee Hyojin
• Cho Joonyoung

Classifications

• H04W72/542

  using measured or perceived quality · CPC title

• H04L25/0202

  Channel estimation · CPC title

• H04B7/0632

  Channel quality parameters, e.g. channel quality indicator [CQI] · CPC title

• H04B7/0663

  using vector or matrix manipulations · CPC title

• H04B7/0682

  using phase diversity (e.g. phase sweeping) · CPC title