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US 10,200,103 · App. 15/796,584 · Granted Feb 5, 2019

Method and apparatus to enable multi-resolution CSI reporting in advanced wireless communication systems

Inventors: Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX); Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX)
Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
H04B7/0626H04B7/0634
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,200,103
App. No.
15/796,584
Filed
Oct 27, 2017
Granted
Feb 5, 2019
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2637
USPC
375/267
Abstract

A method of user equipment (UE) for channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI feedback configuration information for a pre-coding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback indicating a linear combination (LC) pre-coding matrix that corresponds to a linear combination of a plurality of L beams and a plurality of coefficients, determining the first PMI (i 1 ) and the second PMI (i 2 ), and transmitting, to the BS, the CSI feedback including the first PMI (i 1 ) and the second PMI (i 2 ) over an uplink channel.

Claims (2230)

1. A user equipment (UE) for channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive, from a base station (BS), CSI feedback configuration information for a pre-coding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback indicating a linear combination (LC) pre-coding matrix that corresponds to a linear combination of a plurality of L beams and a plurality of coefficients, wherein:

each of the plurality of coefficients comprises at least an amplitude coefficient and a phase coefficient;

the PMI comprises a first PMI (i 1 ) and a second PMI (i 2 ) indicating wideband (WB) and subband (SB) components of the LC pre-coding matrix, respectively;

the first PMI (i i ) includes first and second sets of indicators indicating common WB components for all layers of a plurality of layers and independent WB components for each layer of the plurality of layers, respectively;

the second PMI (i 2 ) includes a set of indicators indicating independent SB components for each layer of the plurality of layers; and

the plurality of layers is determined based on a value v associated with a rank indicator (RI); and

at least one processor configured to determine the first PMI (i 1 ) and the second PMI (i 2 ), wherein the transceiver is further configured to transmit, to the BS, the CSI feedback including the first PMI (i 1 ) and the second PMI (i 2 ) over an uplink channel.

2. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the first PMI (i i ) includes a first set of indicators s 1 =[i 1,1 i 1,2 ] indicating the plurality of L beams that comprise common WB components for all layers of the plurality of layers.

3. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the first PMI (i i ) includes a second set of indicators

S

2

=

{

[

i

1

,

3

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

1

,

4

,

1

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

1

[

i

1

,

3

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

1

,

4

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

1

,

3

,

2

⁢

⁢

i

1

,

4

,

2

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

2

to indicate independent WB components for each layer of the plurality of ν=1 or ν=2 layers, and wherein ν=1 corresponds to a first layer and ν=2 corresponds to first and second layers, i 1,3,1 and i 1,3,2 indicate a strongest coefficient among the plurality of coefficients for each of the first layer and the second layer, respectively, and i 1,4,1 and i 1,4,2 indicate a plurality of WB amplitude coefficients for each of the first layer and the second layer, respectively.

4. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the second PMI (i 2 ) includes the set of indicators

i

2

,

1

=

{

[

i

2

,

1

,

1

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

1

[

i

2

,

1

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

2

,

1

,

2

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

2

to indicate independent SB components for each layer of the plurality of ν=1 or ν=2 layers, and wherein ν=1 corresponds to a first layer and ν=2 corresponds to first and second layers, and wherein i 2,1,1 and i 2,1,2 indicate a plurality of SB phase coefficients for each of the first layer and the second layer, respectively.

5. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the second PMI (i 2 ) includes the set of indicators

i

2

,

2

=

{

[

i

2

,

2

,

1

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

1

[

i

2

,

2

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

2

,

2

,

2

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

2

to indicate independent SB components for each layer of the plurality of ν=1 or ν=2 layers, and wherein ν=1 corresponds to a first layer and ν=2 corresponds to first and second layers, and wherein i 2,2,1 and i 2,2,2 indicate a plurality of SB amplitude coefficients for each of the first layer and the second layer, respectively.

6. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the amplitude coefficient is determined as given in table:

Indicator

Amplitude coefficient

0

0

1

{square root over (1/64)}

2

{square root over (1/32)}

3

{square root over (1/16)}

4

{square root over (1/8)}

5

{square root over (1/4)}

6

{square root over (1/2)}

7

1.

7. The UE of claim 1 , wherein an LC codebook for ν=1 and ν=2 is given by:

Layers

υ = 1

W

q

1

,

q

2

,

n

1

,

n

2

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

(

1

)

=

W

q

1

,

q

2

,

n

1

,

n

2

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

1

υ = 2

W

q

1

,

q

2

,

n

1

,

n

2

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

,

p

2

(

1

)

,

p

2

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

2

(

2

)

=

1

2

⁡

[

W

q

1

,

q

2

,

n

1

,

n

2

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

1

W

q

1

,

q

2

,

n

1

,

n

2

,

p

2

(

1

)

,

p

2

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

2

2

]

where:

W

q

1

,

q

2

,

n

1

,

n

2

,

p

l

(

1

)

,

p

l

(

2

)

,

c

l

l

=

1

N

1

⁢

N

2

⁢

∑

i

=

0

2

⁢

L

-

1

⁢

⁢

(

p

l

,

i

(

1

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

(

2

)

)

2

⁡

[

∑

i

=

0

L

-

1

⁢

⁢

v

m

1

(

i

)

,

m

2

(

i

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

(

1

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

(

2

)

⁢

φ

l

,

i

∑

i

=

0

L

-

1

⁢

⁢

v

m

1

(

i

)

,

m

2

(

i

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

+

L

(

1

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

+

L

(

2

)

⁢

φ

l

,

i

+

L

]

,

l

=

1

,

2

,

(N 1 , N 2 ) is dual polarized CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) port layout values that determine a number of CSI-RS ports P CSI-RS =2N 1 N 2 at the BS,

ν m 1 (i) ,m 2 (i) is i-th of a plurality of L discrete Fourier transform (DFT) beams indicated by i 1,1 and i 1,2 ,

u

m

=

{

[

1

⁢

⁢

e

j

⁢

2

⁢

π

⁢

⁢

m

O

2

⁢

N

2

⁢

⁢

…

⁢

⁢

e

j

⁢

2

⁢

π

⁢

⁢

m

⁡

(

N

2

-

1

)

O

2

⁢

N

2

]

N

2

>

1

1

N

2

=

1

⁢

⁢

v

l

,

m

=

[

u

m

⁢

⁢

e

j

⁢

2

⁢

π

⁢

⁢

l

O

1

⁢

N

1

⁢

u

m

⁢

⁢

…

⁢

⁢

e

j

⁢

2

⁢

π

⁢

⁢

l

⁡

(

N

1

-

1

)

O

1

⁢

N

1

⁢

u

m

]

T

,

[p l,0 (1) , p l,1 (1) , . . . , p l,2L−1 (1) ] are WB amplitude coefficients for layer l=1, . . . , ν indicated by i 1,3,1 , i 1,3,2 , i 1,4,1 and i 1,4,2 ,

[p l,0 (2) , p l,1 (2) , . . . , p l,2L−1 (2) ] are SB amplitude coefficients for layer l=1, . . . , ν indicated by i 2,2,1 and i 2,2,2 ,

[c l,0 , c l,1 , . . . , c l,2L−1 ] are SB phase coefficient indicator for layer l=1, . . . , ν, indicated by i 2,1,1 and i 2,1,2 , a phase value is given by φ l,i =e j2πc l,i /N PSK , O 1 and O 2 are oversampling factors, N PSK indicates an order of phase shift keying (PSK), and ν=1 corresponds to a first layer and ν=2 corresponds to first and second layers.

8. The UE of claim 7 , wherein CSI feedback configuration information includes a value of the plurality of L DFT beams, a value of a phase alphabet size N PSK , and a value of (N 1 , N 2 ), and wherein the L is determined as L∈{2,3,4}, the N PSK is determined as N PSK ∈{4,8}, and values for (N 1 , N 2 ) and (O 1 ,O 2 ) are determined as:

Number of CSI-RS ports, P CSI-RS

(N 1 , N 2 )

(O 1 , O 2 )

4

(2, 1)

(4, 1)

8

(2, 2)

(4, 4)

(4, 1)

(4, 1)

12

(3, 2)

(4, 4)

(6, 1)

(4, 1)

16

(4, 2)

(4, 4)

(8, 1)

(4, 1)

24

(4, 3)

(4, 4)

(6, 2)

(4, 4)

(12, 1) 

(4, 1)

32

(4, 4)

(4, 4)

(8, 2)

(4, 4)

(16, 1) 

 (4, 1).

9. The UE of claim 1 , wherein:

the CSI feedback configuration information includes a value of L∈{2,3,4}, a value of N PSK ∈{4,8}, a value of a number of CSI-RS ports P CSI-RS ∈{4,8,12,16,24,32} at the BS, and a value of d∈{1,2,3,4} where

d

≤

min

⁡

(

P

CSI

-

RS

2

,

L

)

;

the first PMI (i i ) comprises a first set of indicators s 1 =[i 1,1 ] indicating the plurality of L beams out of P CSI-RS /2 antenna port selection where this selection is common for all layers of the plurality of layers; and

an LC codebook for both ν=1 and ν=2 is given by:

Layers

υ = 1

W

i

1

,

1

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

(

1

)

=

W

i

1

,

1

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

1

υ = 2

W

i

1

,

1

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

,

p

2

(

1

)

,

p

2

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

2

(

2

)

=

⁢

1

2

⁡

[

W

i

1

,

1

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

1

W

i

1

,

1

,

p

2

(

1

)

,

p

2

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

2

2

]

where:

W

i

1

,

1

,

p

l

(

1

)

,

p

l

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

l

l

=

1

∑

i

=

0

2

⁢

L

-

1

⁢

(

p

l

,

i

(

1

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

(

2

)

)

2

⁡

[

∑

i

=

0

L

-

1

⁢

⁢

v

i

1

,

1

⁢

d

+

i

⁢

p

l

,

i

(

1

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

(

2

)

⁢

φ

l

,

i

∑

i

=

0

L

-

1

⁢

⁢

v

i

1

,

1

⁢

d

+

i

⁢

p

l

,

i

+

L

(

1

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

+

L

(

2

)

⁢

φ

l

,

i

]

,

l

=

1

,

2

,

ν i 1,1 d+i , is i-th of the plurality of L selected antenna ports indicated by i 1,1 , where ν m is a P CSI-RS /2-element column vector containing a value of 1 in element (m mod P CSI-RS /2) and zeros elsewhere where a first element is element 0;

[p l,0 (1) , p l,1 (1) , . . . , p l,2L−1 (1) ] are WB amplitude coefficients for layer l=1, . . . , ν indicated by i 1,3,1 , i 1,3,2 , i 1,4,1 and i 1,4,2 ;

[p l,0 (2) , p l,1 (2) , . . . , p l,2L−1 (2) ] are SB amplitude coefficients for layer l=1, . . . , ν indicated by i 2,2,1 and i 2,2,2 ;

[c l,0 , c l,1 , . . . , c l,2L−1 ] are SB phase coefficient indicator for layer l=1, . . . , ν, indicated by i 2,1,1 and i 2,1,2 ; a phase value is given by φ l,i =e j2πc l,i /N PSK ; and ν=1 corresponds to a first layer and ν=2 corresponds to first and second layers.

10. A method of user equipment (UE) for channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI feedback configuration information for a pre-coding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback indicating a linear combination (LC) pre-coding matrix that corresponds to a linear combination of a plurality of L beams and a plurality of coefficients, wherein:

each of the plurality of coefficients comprises at least an amplitude coefficient and a phase coefficient;

the PMI comprises a first PMI (i 1 ) and a second PMI (i 2 ) indicating wideband (WB) and subband (SB) components of the LC pre-coding matrix, respectively;

the first PMI (i i ) includes first and second sets of indicators indicating common WB components for all layers of a plurality of layers and independent WB components for each layer of the plurality of layers, respectively;

the second PMI (i 2 ) includes a set of indicators indicating independent SB components for each layer of the plurality of layers, and

the plurality of layers is determined based on a value ν associated with a rank indicator (RI);

determining the first PMI (i i ) and the second PMI (i 2 ); and

transmitting, to the BS, the CSI feedback including the first PMI (i i ) and the second PMI (i 2 ) over an uplink channel.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first PMI (i i ) includes a first set of indicators s 1 =[i 1,1 i 1,2 ] indicating the plurality of L beams that comprise common WB components for all layers of the plurality of layers.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first PMI (i 1 ) includes a second set of indicators

S

2

=

{

[

i

1

,

3

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

1

,

4

,

1

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

1

[

i

1

,

3

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

1

,

4

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

1

,

3

,

2

⁢

⁢

i

1

,

4

,

2

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

2

to indicate independent WB components for each layer of the plurality of ν=1 or ν=2 layers, and wherein ν=1 corresponds to a first layer and ν=2 corresponds to first and second layers, i 1,3,1 and i 1,3,2 indicate a strongest coefficient among the plurality of coefficients for each of the first layer and the second layer, respectively, and i 1,4,1 and i 1,4,2 indicate a plurality of WB amplitude coefficients for each of the first layer and the second layer, respectively.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the second PMI (i 2 ) includes the set of indicators

i

2

,

1

=

{

[

i

2

,

1

,

1

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

1

[

i

2

,

1

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

2

,

1

,

2

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

2

to indicate independent SB components for each layer of the plurality of ν=1 or ν=2 layers, and wherein ν=1 corresponds to a first layer and ν=2 corresponds to first and second layers, and wherein i 2,1,1 and i 2,1,2 indicate a plurality of SB phase coefficients for each of the first layer and the second layer, respectively.

14. The method of claim 10 , wherein the second PMI (i 2 ) includes the set of indicators

i

2

,

2

=

{

[

i

2

,

2

,

1

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

1

[

i

2

,

2

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

2

,

2

,

2

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

2

to indicate independent SB components for each layer of the plurality of ν=1 or ν=2 layers, and wherein ν=1 corresponds to a first layer and ν=2 corresponds to first and second layers, and wherein i 2,2,1 and i 2,2,2 indicate a plurality of SB amplitude coefficients for each of the first layer and the second layer, respectively.

15. The method of claim 10 , wherein the amplitude coefficient is determined as given in table:

Indicator

Amplitude coefficient

0

0

1

{square root over (1/64)}

2

{square root over (1/32)}

3

{square root over (1/16)}

4

{square root over (1/8)}

5

{square root over (1/4)}

6

{square root over (1/2)}

7

1.

16. The method of claim 10 , wherein an LC codebook for ν=1 and ν=2 is given by:

Layers

υ = 1

W

q

1

,

q

2

,

n

1

,

n

2

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

(

1

)

=

W

q

1

,

q

2

,

n

1

,

n

2

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

1

υ = 2

W

q

1

,

q

2

,

n

1

,

n

2

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

,

p

2

(

1

)

,

p

2

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

2

(

2

)

=

⁢

1

2

⁡

[

W

q

1

,

q

2

,

n

1

,

n

2

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

1

W

q

1

,

q

2

,

n

1

,

n

2

,

p

2

(

1

)

,

p

2

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

2

2

]

where:

W

q

1

,

q

2

,

n

1

,

n

2

,

p

l

(

1

)

,

p

l

(

2

)

,

c

l

l

=

1

N

1

⁢

N

2

⁢

∑

i

=

0

2

⁢

L

-

1

⁢

⁢

(

p

l

,

i

(

1

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

(

2

)

)

2

⁡

[

∑

i

=

0

L

-

1

⁢

⁢

v

m

1

(

i

)

,

m

2

(

i

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

(

1

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

(

2

)

⁢

φ

l

,

i

∑

i

=

0

L

-

1

⁢

⁢

v

m

1

(

i

)

,

m

2

(

i

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

+

L

(

1

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

+

L

(

2

)

⁢

φ

l

,

i

+

L

]

,

l

=

1

,

2

,

(N 1 , N 2 ) is dual polarized CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) port layout values that determine a number of CSI-RS ports P CSI-RS =2N 1 N 2 at the BS,

ν m 1 (i) ,m 2 (i) is i-th of a plurality of L discrete Fourier transform (DFT) beams indicated by i 1,1 and i 1,2

u

m

=

{

[

1

⁢

⁢

e

j

⁢

2

⁢

π

⁢

⁢

m

O

2

⁢

N

2

⁢

⁢

…

⁢

⁢

e

j

⁢

2

⁢

π

⁢

⁢

m

⁡

(

N

2

-

1

)

O

2

⁢

N

2

]

N

2

>

1

1

N

2

=

1

⁢

⁢

v

l

,

m

=

[

u

m

⁢

⁢

e

j

⁢

2

⁢

π

⁢

⁢

l

O

1

⁢

N

1

⁢

u

m

⁢

⁢

…

⁢

⁢

e

j

⁢

2

⁢

π

⁢

⁢

l

⁡

(

N

1

-

1

)

O

1

⁢

N

1

⁢

u

m

]

T

,

[p l,0 (1) , p l,1 (1) , . . . , p l,2L−1 (1) ] are WB amplitude coefficients for layer l=1, . . . , ν indicated by i 1,3,1 , i 1,3,2 , i 1,4,1 and i 1,4,2 ,

[p l,0 (2) , p l,1 (2) , . . . , p l,2L−1 (2) ] are SB amplitude coefficients for layer l=1, . . . , ν indicated by i 2,2,1 and i 2,2,2 ,

[c l,0 , c l,1 , . . . , c l,2L−1 ] are SB phase coefficient indicator for layer l=1, . . . , ν, indicated by i 2,1,1 and i 2,1,2 , a phase value is given by φ l,i =e j2πc l,i /N PSK , O 1 and O 2 are oversampling factors, N PSK indicates an order of phase shift keying (PSK), and ν=1 corresponds to a first layer and ν=2 corresponds to first and second layers.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the CSI feedback configuration information includes a value of the plurality of L DFT beams, a value of a phase alphabet size N PSK , and a value of (N 1 , N 2 ), and wherein the L is determined as L∈{2,3,4}, the N PSK is determined as N PSK ∈{4,8}, and values for (N 1 , N 2 ) and (O 1 , O 2 ) are determined as:

Number of CSI-RS ports, P CSI-RS

(N 1 , N 2 )

(O 1 , O 2 )

4

(2, 1)

(4, 1)

8

(2, 2)

(4, 4)

(4, 1)

(4, 1)

12

(3, 2)

(4, 4)

(6, 1)

(4, 1)

16

(4, 2)

(4, 4)

(8, 1)

(4, 1)

24

(4, 3)

(4, 4)

(6, 2)

(4, 4)

(12, 1) 

(4, 1)

32

(4, 4)

(4, 4)

(8, 2)

(4, 4)

(16, 1) 

 (4, 1).

18. The method of claim 10 , wherein:

the CSI feedback configuration information includes a value of L∈{2,3,4}, a value of N PSK ∈{4, 8}, a value of a number of CSI-RS ports P CSI-RS ∈{4,8,12,16,24,32} at the BS, and a value of d∈{1,2,3,4} where

d

≤

min

⁡

(

P

CSI

-

RS

2

,

L

)

;

the first PMI (i i ) comprises a first set of indicators s 1 =[i 1,1 ] indicating the plurality of L beams out of P CSI-RS /2 antenna port selection where this selection is common for all layers of the plurality of layers; and

an LC codebook for both ν=1 and ν=2 is given by:

Layers

υ = 1

W

i

1

,

1

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

(

1

)

=

W

i

1

,

1

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

1

υ = 2

W

i

1

,

1

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

,

p

2

(

1

)

,

p

2

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

2

(

2

)

=

⁢

1

2

⁡

[

W

i

1

,

1

,

p

1

(

1

)

,

p

1

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

1

1

W

i

1

,

1

,

p

2

(

1

)

,

p

2

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

2

2

]

where:

W

i

1

,

1

,

p

l

(

1

)

,

p

l

(

2

)

,

i

2

,

1

,

l

l

=

1

∑

i

=

0

2

⁢

L

-

1

⁢

(

p

l

,

i

(

1

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

(

2

)

)

2

⁡

[

∑

i

=

0

L

-

1

⁢

⁢

v

i

1

,

1

⁢

d

+

i

⁢

p

l

,

i

(

1

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

(

2

)

⁢

φ

l

,

i

∑

i

=

0

L

-

1

⁢

⁢

v

i

1

,

1

⁢

d

+

i

⁢

p

l

,

i

+

L

(

1

)

⁢

p

l

,

i

+

L

(

2

)

⁢

φ

l

,

i

]

,

l

=

1

,

2

,

v i 1,1 d+i is i-th of the plurality of L selected antenna ports indicated by i 1,1 , where ν m is a P CSI-RS /2-element column vector containing a value of 1 in element (m mod P CSI-RS /2) and zeros elsewhere where a first element is element 0;

[p l,0 (1) , p l,1 (1) , . . . , p l,2L−1 (1) ] are WB amplitude coefficients for layer l=1, . . . , ν indicated by i 1,3,1 , i 1,3,2 , i 1,4,1 and i 1,4,2 ,

[p l,0 (2) , p l,1 (2) , . . . , p l,2L−1 (2) ] are SB amplitude coefficients for layer l=1, . . . , ν indicated by i 2,2,1 and i 2,2,2 ;

[c l,0 , c l,1 , . . . , c l,2L−1 ] are SB phase coefficient indicator for layer l=1, . . . , ν, indicated by i 2,1,1 and i 2,1,2 ; a phase value is given by φ l,i =e j2πc l,i /N PSK ; and ν=1 corresponds to a first layer and ν=2 corresponds to first and second layers.

19. A base station (BS) for channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system, the BS comprising:

a transceiver configured to transmit, to a user equipment (UE), CSI feedback configuration information for a pre-coding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback indicating a linear combination (LC) pre-coding matrix that corresponds to a linear combination of a plurality of L beams and a plurality of coefficients, wherein:

each of the plurality of coefficients comprises at least an amplitude coefficient and a phase coefficient;

the PMI comprises a first PMI (i 1 ) and a second PMI (i 2 ) indicating wideband (WB) and subband (SB) components of the LC pre-coding matrix, respectively;

the first PMI (i i ) includes first and second sets of indicators indicating common WB components for all layers of a plurality of layers and independent WB components for each layer of the plurality of layers, respectively;

the second PMI (i 2 ) includes a set of indicators indicating independent SB components for each layer of the plurality of layers; and

the plurality of layers is determined based on a value v associated with a rank indicator (RI); and

at least one processor configured to reconstruct the LC pre-coding matrix indicated by the first PMI (i i ) and the second PMI (i 2 ), wherein the transceiver is further configured to receive, from the UE, the CSI feedback including the first PMI (i i ) and the second PMI (i 2 ) over an uplink channel.

20. The BS of claim 19 , wherein:

the first PMI (i i ) includes:

a first set of indicators s 1 =[i 1,1 i 1,2 ] indicating the plurality of L beams comprises common WB components for all layers of the plurality of layers; and

a second set of indicators

S

2

=

{

[

i

1

,

3

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

1

,

4

,

1

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

1

[

i

1

,

3

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

1

,

4

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

1

,

3

,

2

⁢

⁢

i

1

,

4

,

2

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

2

 to indicate independent WB components for each layer of the plurality of ν=1 or ν=2 layers, wherein ν=1 corresponds to a first layer and ν=2 corresponds to first and second layers, and wherein i 1,3,1 and i 1,3,2 indicate a strongest coefficient among the plurality of coefficients for each of the first layer and the second layer, respectively, and i 1,4,1 and i 1,4,2 indicate a plurality of WB amplitude coefficients for each of the first layer and the second layer, respectively; and

the second PMI (i 2 ) includes:

the set of indicators

i

2

,

1

=

{

[

i

2

,

1

,

1

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

1

[

i

2

,

1

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

2

,

1

,

2

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

2

 to indicate independent SB components for each layer of the plurality of ν=1 or ν=2 layers where i 2,1,1 and i 2,1,2 indicate a plurality of SB phase coefficients for each of the first layer and the second layer, respectively; and

the set of indicators

i

2

,

2

=

{

[

i

2

,

2

,

1

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

1

[

i

2

,

2

,

1

⁢

⁢

i

2

,

2

,

2

]

if

⁢

⁢

υ

=

2

 to indicate independent SB components for each layer of the plurality of ν=1 or ν=2 layers where i 2,2,1 and i 2,2,2 indicate a plurality of SB amplitude coefficients for each of the first layer and the second layer, respectively.

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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 27, 2017
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To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
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