System and method for beamforming in a wireless communication system
View Patent ↗The method for beamforming in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving a sounding packet so as to estimate channel state information between a transmitter and a receiver; generating a beamforming matrix in accordance with the channel state information; generating a beamforming steering matrix by multiplying the beamforming matrix by a rotation matrix; and feeding back the beamforming steering matrix.
1. A method for beamforming in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of:
receiving a sounding packet so as to estimate channel state information;
generating a beamforming matrix in accordance with the channel state information;
generating a beamforming steering matrix by multiplying the beamforming matrix by a rotation matrix; and
feeding back the beamforming steering matrix.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the beamforming matrix is generated in accordance with a singular value decomposition.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the rotation matrix is generated in accordance with an optimized signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a previous SNR.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the rotation matrix is a diagonal matrix generated in accordance with a singular value decomposition.