Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, and wireless communication method
A wireless communication system is disclosed. The wireless communication system performs data transmission using spatially multiplexed streams from a first terminal including N antennas to a second terminal including M antennas (N and M are integers larger than or equal to 2 and N>M).
1. An electronic device for wireless communication, the electronic device comprising:
circuitry configured to:
receive sounding dimension information indicating a maximum value of streams corresponding to a beamformer capability, the sounding dimension information being included in a beamforming capability field defined in wireless network standard IEEE 802.11; and
transmit signals to a receiving device based at least in part on information included in the beamforming capability field, so as to establish a wireless communication channel,
wherein the sounding dimension information is included in the beamforming capability field adjacent to a beamformee capability,
wherein both the sounding dimension information and the beamformee capability are for compressed beamforming.
2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the beamforming capability field is present in a management frame.
3. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the management frame includes:
a beacon signal, a measure pilot, an association response, a re-association response, and/or a probe response.
4. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the beamforming capability field further includes both implicit beamforming capability information and explicit beamforming capability information.
5. The electronic device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a plurality of antennas configured to transmit or receive signals including channel estimation capability information.
6. The electronic device of claim 5 , wherein a number of the plurality of antennas is two.
7. The electronic device of claim 5 , wherein a number of the plurality of antennas is three.
8. The electronic device of claim 5 , further comprising:
a plurality of digital filters configured to perform band limitation, the number of the plurality of digital filters being equal to a number of the plurality of antennas.
9. A mobile electronic apparatus for wireless communication, the mobile electronic apparatus comprising:
a plurality of antennas; and
circuitry configured to:
receive sounding dimension information indicating a maximum value of streams corresponding to a beamformer capability, the sounding dimension information being included in a beamforming capability field defined in wireless network standard IEEE 802.11; and
transmit signals to a receiving device based at least in part on information included in the beamforming capability field, so as to establish a wireless communication channel,
wherein the sounding dimension information is included in the beamforming capability field adjacent to a beamformee capability,
wherein both the sounding dimension information and the beamformee capability are for compressed beamforming.
10. The mobile electronic apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the mobile electronic apparatus is a mobile telephone.
11. A method for wireless communication, the method comprising:
receiving sounding dimension information indicating a maximum value of streams corresponding to a beamformer capability, the sounding dimension information being included in a beamforming capability field defined in wireless network standard IEEE 802.11; and
transmitting signals to a receiving device based at least in part on information included in the beamforming capability field, so as to establish a wireless communication channel,
wherein the sounding dimension information is included in the beamforming capability field adjacent to a beamformee capability,
wherein both the sounding dimension information and the beamformee capability are for compressed beamforming.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the beamforming capability field is present in a management frame.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the management frame includes:
a beacon signal, a measure pilot, an association response, a re-association response, and/or a probe response.
14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the transmit beamforming capability field further includes both implicit beamforming capability information and explicit beamforming capability information.