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US 11,218,208 · App. 16/797,482 · Granted Jan 4, 2022

CSI-RS measurement feedback method and device

Inventors: Yi Huang (Shenzhen, CN); Haibao Ren (Shanghai, CN); Yuanjie Li (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
H04B7/0626H04B7/0417H04L5/0048
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Patent No.
US 11,218,208
App. No.
16/797,482
Granted
Jan 4, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A CSI-RS measurement feedback method and device are provided to optimize analog and digital precoding. A network device sends S CSI-RSs to a terminal device. Each CSI-RS corresponds to one antenna port number. The terminal device sends M antenna port numbers that correspond to M CSI-RSs and sends a PMI that corresponds to a channel matrix H or the quantization result of a channel matrix H to the network device. The terminal device selects the M antenna port numbers that correspond to the M CSI-RSs from the S antenna port numbers that correspond to the S CSI-RSs, and feeds back the M antenna port numbers to the network device.

Claims (974)

1. A channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) measurement feedback method, wherein the method comprises:

receiving S channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) from a network device, wherein each CSI-RS corresponds to one antenna port number, and S is a positive integer; and

sending M antenna port numbers that correspond to M CSI-RSs to the network device, and sending a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) that corresponds to a quantization result of a channel matrix H to the network device, wherein the channel matrix H corresponds to the M CSI-RSs, any row in the channel matrix H comprises M elements, S>M or S=M, and M is a positive integer;

wherein the quantization result of the channel matrix H comprises quantized values of modulus values and quantized values of phases that respectively correspond to M elements that are comprised in a quantization matrix that corresponds to the channel matrix H.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the M CSI-RSs are M CSI-RSs whose signal receiving strengths are selected in descending order from signal receiving strengths that respectively correspond to the S CSI-RSs.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the sending M antenna port numbers that correspond to M CSI-RSs to the network device comprises:

sending the M antenna port numbers on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH); or

sending PMIs of first matrices that correspond to the M antenna port numbers in a first codebook, wherein the first codebook comprises a plurality of predefined first matrices, each first matrix corresponds to one PMI, each first matrix is an S×1 matrix, S elements in each first matrix correspond one-to-one to S antenna port numbers that correspond to the S CSI-RSs, values of elements that respectively correspond to the M antenna port numbers in each of the first matrices that correspond to the M antenna port numbers are 1, and values of remaining SM elements in each of the first matrices are 0.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the quantization result of the channel matrix H comprises M groups of values, and an i th group of values comprises a value of an i th k 1 and a value of an i th k 2 that respectively correspond to |h i1 | and ϕ i1 , wherein

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5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the quantization result of the channel matrix H comprises a quantized value |H| of a modulus value of a quantization matrix H′, quantized values of phases (ϕ 1,1 , . . . , ϕ i,1 , . . . , ϕ M,1 ) that respectively correspond to the M elements, and quantized values of transformation phases (ψ M,1 , L, ψ i,1 , L, ψ 2,1 ) that respectively correspond to an M th element to the second element, so that the network device recovers H 1 according to the following formula:

H 1 =|H|DG M1 T (ψ M,1 ) L G i1 T (ψ i,1 ) L G 21 T (ψ 2,1 ) e 1 , wherein

H′=[h 11 , . . . , h i1 , . . . , h M1 ] T =[|h 11 |e jϕ 1,1 , . . . , |h i1 |e jϕ i,1 , . . . , |h M1 |e jϕ M,1 ] T ,

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6. The method according to claim 1 , the method further comprises:

receiving, from the network device, data of antenna ports that respectively correspond to the M antenna port numbers, wherein the data is data encoded based on a precoding matrix.

7. An apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors coupled to the memory, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:

receive S channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) from a network device, wherein each CSI-RS corresponds to one antenna port number, and S is a positive integer; and

send M antenna port numbers that correspond to M CSI-RSs to the network device, and send a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) that corresponds to a quantization result of a channel matrix H to the network device, wherein the channel matrix H corresponds to the M CSI-RSs, any row in the channel matrix H comprises M elements, S>M or S=M, and M is a positive integer;

wherein the quantization result of the channel matrix H comprises quantized values of modulus values and quantized values of phases that respectively correspond to M elements that are comprised in a quantization matrix H′ that corresponds to the channel matrix H.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the M CSI-RSs are M CSI-RSs whose signal receiving strengths are selected in descending order from signal receiving strengths that respectively correspond to the S CSI-RSs.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to:

send the M antenna port numbers on a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH or a physical uplink control channel PUCCH; or

send PMIs of first matrices that correspond to the M antenna port numbers in a first codebook, wherein the first codebook comprises a plurality of predefined first matrices, each first matrix corresponds to one PMI, each first matrix is an S×1 matrix, S elements in each first matrix correspond one-to-one to S antenna port numbers that correspond to the S CSI-RSs, values of elements that respectively correspond to the M antenna port numbers in the first matrices that correspond to the M antenna port numbers are 1, and values of remaining S-M elements are 0.

10. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the quantization result of the channel matrix H comprises M groups of values, and an i th group of values comprises a value of an i th k 1 and a value of an i th k 2 that respectively correspond to |h i1 | and ϕ i1 , wherein

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11. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the quantization result of the channel matrix H comprises a quantized value |H| of a modulus value of a quantization matrix H′, quantized values of phases (ϕ i,1 , . . . , ϕ i,1 , . . . , ϕ M,1 ) that respectively correspond to the M elements, and quantized values of transformation phases (ψ M,1 , L, ψ i,1 , L, ψ 2,1 ) that respectively correspond to an M th element to the second element, so that the network device recovers H 1 according to the following formula:

H 1 =|H|DG M1 T (ψ M,1 ) L G i1 T (ψ i,1 ) L G 21 T (ψ 2,1 ) e 1 , wherein

H′=[h 11 , . . . , h i1 , . . . , h M1 ] T =[|h 11 |e jϕ i,i , . . . , |h i1 |e jϕ i,1 , . . . , |h M1 |e jϕ M,1 ] T ,

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12. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

receive from the network device, data of antenna ports that respectively correspond to the M antenna port numbers, wherein the data is data encoded based on a precoding matrix.

13. An apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors coupled to the memory, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:

send S CSI-RSs, wherein each CSI-RS corresponds to one antenna port number, and S is a positive integer; and

receive M antenna port numbers that correspond to M CSI-RSs from a terminal device, and a PMI that corresponds to a quantization result of a channel matrix H, wherein the channel matrix H corresponds to the M CSI-RSs, the channel matrix H comprises M elements, S≥M, and M is a positive integer;

wherein the quantization result of the channel matrix H comprises quantized values of modulus values and quantized values of phases that respectively correspond to M elements that are comprised in a quantization matrix H′ that corresponds to the channel matrix H.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the M CSI-RSs are M CSI-RSs whose signal receiving strengths are selected in descending order from signal receiving strengths that respectively correspond to the S CSI-RSs.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to:

receive the M antenna port numbers that correspond to the M CSI-RSs and that are sent by the terminal device on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH); or

receive PMIs that are sent by the terminal device and that are of first matrices that correspond to the M antenna port numbers in a first codebook, wherein the first codebook comprises a plurality of predefined first matrices, each first matrix corresponds to one PMI, each first matrix is an S×1 matrix, S elements in each first matrix correspond one-to-one to S antenna port numbers that correspond to the S CSI-RSs, values of elements that respectively correspond to the M antenna port numbers in the first matrices that correspond to the M antenna port numbers are 1, and values of remaining S-M elements are 0.

16. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the quantization result of the channel matrix H comprises M groups of values, and an i th group of values comprises a value of an i th k 1 and a value of an i th k 2 that respectively correspond to |h i1 | and ϕ i1 , wherein

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17. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the quantization result of the channel matrix H comprises a quantized value |H| of a modulus value of a quantization matrix H′, quantized values of phases (ϕ 1,1 , . . . , ϕ i,1 , . . . , ϕ M,1 ) that respectively correspond to the M elements, and quantized values of transformation phases (ψ M,1 , L, ψ i,1 , L, ψ 2,1 ) that respectively correspond to an M th element to the second element, so that the network device recovers H 1 according to the following formula:

H 1 =|H|DG M1 T (ψ M,1 ) L G i1 T (ψ i,1 ) L G 21 T (ψ 2,1 ) e 1 , wherein

H′=[h 11 , . . . , h i1 , . . . , h M1 ] T =[|h 11 |e jϕ i,i , . . . , |h i1 |e jϕ i,1 , . . . , |h M1 |e jϕ M,1 ] T ,

a diagonal matrix D is:

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Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 28, 2020
From: HUANG, YI; REN, HAIBAO; LI, YUANJIE
To: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 053324/0794 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201710751755.9 · Aug 28, 2017 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2018102539 · Aug 27, 2018
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