Channel state information feedback method, user equipment, and base station
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a channel state information feedback method, which includes: determining, by user equipment, N CSI-RS resources according to a quantity N, configured by a base station, of CSI-RS resources that need to be fed back; performing channel estimation on a port included in the N CSI-RS resources, to obtain channel state information in a horizontal dimension; then selecting M CSI-RS resources from the N CSI-RS resources; and feeding back channel state information of the M CSI-RS resources in the horizontal dimension and indication information of the M CSI-RS resources to the base station, so that the base station determines channel state information in a vertical dimension according to the indication information, so as to finally obtain channel state information in the two dimensions, thereby resolving a problem that channel state information in only a horizontal dimension is fed back during conventional channel estimation.
1. User equipment, comprising:
a receiver configured to receive N configured channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources, wherein the CSI-RS resources comprise at least one port, N>2, and N is an integer;
a processor configured to:
perform channel measurement on the N CSI-RS resources, to obtain channel state information (CSI) of the N CSI-RS resources,
select M CSI-RS resources from the N CSI-RS resources, wherein the M CSI-RS resources belong to different CSI processes, or the M CSI-RS resources belong to different configurations of one CSI process, wherein the CSI of each of the M CSI-RS resources comprises a rank indication (RI), a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to a first codeword (W 1 ), a second PMI corresponding to a second codeword (W 2 ), and a channel quality indicator (CQI), wherein the W 1 and the W 2 of the CSI correspond, respectively, to a W 1 and a W 2 in a double codebook structure W, and W=W 1 *W 2 , and
determine CSI of the M CSI-RS resources from the CSI of the N CSI-RS resources according to the M CSI-RS resources; and
a transmitter configured to feed back the CSI of the M CSI-RS resources and indication information of the M CSI-RS resources to a base station according to a feedback mode and a feedback type, wherein the feedback type comprises a feedback parameter fed back by the user equipment at a feedback moment, and the feedback parameter comprises at least one of the RI, the first PMI, the second PMI, the CQI, or the indication information.
2. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the RIs of the M CSI-RS resources are obtained by means of measurement according to the M CSI-RS resources.
3. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein M is notified by the base station to the UE, or M is determined by the UE.
4. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the indication information of the M CSI-RS resources comprises first indication information and/or second indication information, and wherein the first indication information is a value of M and the second indication information comprises indexes of the M CSI-RS resources.
5. The user equipment according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to feed back the first indication information and the second indication information in different feedback types.
6. The user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to aperiodically feed back the indication information of the M CSI-RS resources to the base station.
7. A base station, comprising:
a receiver configured to receive channel state information (CSI) of M CSI-RS resources and indication information of the M CSI-RS resources that are fed back by user equipment (UE), wherein the M CSI-RS resources are selected by the UE from N CSI-RS resources, the N CSI-RS resources are configured by the base station and received by the UE, the CSI-RS resources comprise at least one port, N >2, and N is an integer, wherein the CSI of each of the M CSI-RS resources comprises a rank indication (RI), a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to a first codeword (W 1 ), a second PMI corresponding to a second codeword (W 2 ), and a channel quality indicator (CQI), wherein the W 1 and the W 2 of the CSI correspond, respectively, to a W 1 and a W 2 in a double codebook structure W, and W=W 1 *W 2 ; and
a processor configured to perform precoding according to the M CSI-RS resources,
wherein the receiver is configured to receive the CSI of the M CSI-RS resources arid the indication information of the M CSI-RS resources that are fed back by the UE according to a feedback mode and a feedback type, wherein the feedback type comprises a feedback parameter fed back by the UE at a feedback moment, and the feedback parameter comprises at least one of the RI, the PMI 1 , the PMI 2 , the CQI, or the indication information.
8. The base station according to claim 7 , wherein the RIs of the M CSI-RS resources are obtained by means of measurement according to the M CSI-RS resources.
9. The base station according to claim 7 , wherein the indication information of the M CSI-RS resources comprises first indication information and/or second indication information, and wherein the first indication information is a value of M and the second indication information comprises indexes of the M CSI-RS resources.
10. The base station according to claim 9 , wherein the receiver is further configured to receive the first indication information and the second indication information that are fed back by the UE in different feedback types.
11. The base station according to claim 7 , wherein the receiver is further configured to receive the indication information of the M CSI-RS resources that is aperiodically fed back by the UE according to triggering by the base station.
12. A channel state information feedback method, comprising:
receiving, by user equipment (UE), N configured channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources, wherein the CSI-RS resources comprise at least one port, N >2, and N is an integer;
performing, by the UE, channel measurement on the N CSI-RS resources, to obtain channel state information (CSI) of the N CSI-RS resources;
selecting, by the UE, M CSI-RS resources from the N CSI-RS resources, wherein the M CSI-RS resources belong to different CSI processes, or the M CSI-RS resources belong to different configurations of one CSI process, wherein the CSI of each of the M CSI-RS resources comprises a rank indication (RI), a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to a first codeword (W 1 ), a second PMI corresponding to a second codeword (W 2 ), and a channel quality indicator (CQI), wherein the W 1 and the W 2 of the CSI correspond, respectively, to a W 1 and a W 2 in a double codebook structure W, and W=W 1 *W 2 ;
determining, by the UE, CSI of the M CSI-RS resources from the channel state information CSI of the N CSI-RS resources according to the M CSI-RS resources; and
feeding back, by the UE, the CSI of the M CSI-RS resources and indication information of the M CSI-RS resources to a base station according to a feedback mode and a feedback type, wherein the feedback type comprises a feedback parameter fed back by the user equipment at a feedback moment, and the feedback parameter comprises at least one of the RI, the first PMI, the second PMI, the CQI, or the indication information.
13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the RIs of the M CSI-RS resources are obtained by means of measurement according to the M CSI-RS resources.
14. The method according to claim 12 , wherein M is notified by the base station to the UE, or M is determined by the UE.
15. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the indication information of the M CSI-RS resources comprises first indication information and/or second indication information, and wherein the first indication information is a value of M and the second indication information comprises indexes of the M CSI-RS resources.
16. The method according to claim 15 , further comprising:
feeding back the first indication information and the second indication information in different feedback types.
17. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the indication information of the M CSI-RS resources is aperiodically fed back to the base station.