Granted Patent B2

US 12,289,146 · App. 18/204,187 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

Inventors: Jian Mengnan (Shenzhen, CN); Yijian Chen (Shenzhen, CN); Guanghui Yu (Shenzhen, CN)

Assignee: ZTE Corporation

H04B7/0469H04L25/0204

Abstract

Claims (42)

1. A method for wireless communication, the method comprising:

receiving, by a receiving node, an orbital angular momentum (OAM) signal from a transmitting node;

determining, by the receiving node, one or more non-coaxial parameters according to the OAM signal by traversing a set of grid points corresponding to a non-coaxial parameter of the one or more non-coaxial parameters and selecting a value from the set of grid points for the non-coaxial parameter; and

selecting, by the receiving node, at least one beam from a plurality of beams for communication with the transmitting node according to the one or more non-coaxial parameters.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the OAM signal comprises receiving the OAM signal with a uniform circular array (UCA) of the receiving node.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more non-coaxial parameters comprises at least one of:

at least one offset non-coaxial parameter; or

at least one rotational non-coaxial parameter, the at least one rotational non-coaxial parameter comprising at least one of a rotation angle around an x-axis relative to the receiving node or a rotation angle around a y-axis relative to the receiving node.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

estimating, by the receiving node, a channel as a cyclic matrix or as a coaxial line-of-sight (LOS) channel.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

comparing, by the receiving node, a plurality of modulus values of channel elements corresponding to the OAM signal,

wherein determining the one or more non-coaxial parameters according to the OAM signal comprises: in response to the comparing, determining, by the receiving node, a set of non-coaxial parameters that renders the plurality of modulus values closest to each other.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more non-coaxial parameters comprises a first type of non-coaxial parameters, and wherein determining the one or more non-coaxial parameters comprises determining, by the receiving node, a second type of non-coaxial parameter that comprises a combination of two or more of the first type of non-coaxial parameters.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more non-coaxial parameters comprises one or more deviation parameters corresponding to a deviation matrix, wherein determining the one or more non-coaxial parameters comprises:

determining the deviation matrix for the transmitting node or for the receiving node in response to determination of only offset non-coaxiality between the transmitting node and the receiving node;

determining the deviation matrix only for the receiving node in response to determination of only rotational non-coaxiality between the transmitting node and the receiving node;

determining the deviation matrix and a second deviation matrix in response to determination of both offset non-coaxiality and rotational non-coaxiality between the transmitting node and the receiving node, wherein the deviation matrix is for one of the transmitting node and the receiving node and the second deviation matrix is for the other of the transmitting node and the receiving node.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more non-coaxial parameters comprises one or more channel deviation parameters corresponding to a first deviation matrix for the transmitting node and a second deviation matrix for the receiving node, wherein determining the one or more non-coaxial parameters comprises estimating the one or more channel deviation parameters according to the following mathematical formula:

H=BH C A

where His an estimated channel, A is the first deviation matrix for the transmitting-side node, B is the second deviation matrix for the receiving node, and C is a real channel without compensation.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the one or more non-coaxial parameters according to the OAM signal comprises:

determining a channel expression h m,n for an mth antenna element of the transmitting node and an nth antenna element of the receiving node based on a radius of a transmitting uniform central array of the transmitting node, a radius of a receiving uniform central array of the receiving node, a transmission distance between the transmitting node and the receiving node, an angular difference between an antenna element of the transmitting uniform central array and an x-axis, and an angular difference between an antenna element of a UCA of the receiving node and the x-axis.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-coaxial parameters comprises a rotation angle around an x-axis and a rotation angle around a y-axis, wherein determining the one or more non-coaxial parameters comprising:

traversing, by the receiving node, a first set of values corresponding to the rotation angle around the x-axis and a second set of values corresponding to the rotation angle around the y-axis;

selecting a first value from the first set for the rotation angle around the x-axis and a second value from the second set for the rotation angle around the y-axis based on the first value and the second value corresponding to a channel expression h m,n that is closest to a circulant matrix, wherein m corresponds to an mth antenna element of the transmitting node and n corresponds to an nth antenna element of the receiving node.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the one or more non-coaxial parameters comprises: determining parts a m and b n of a channel variation for channel elements n and m.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the one or more non-coaxial parameters comprises: determining an optimization target that is a closest target from a plurality of candidate targets that is closest to an equivalent matrix representing a coaxial channel between the transmitting node and the receiving node.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining, by the receiving node, a compensation parameter for an nth antenna element of the receiving node based on the one or more coaxial parameters, wherein selecting the at least one beam from the plurality of beams is according to the compensation parameter.

14. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining at least one of a precoding matrix for a pth transmitting UCA or a precoding matrix for a qth receiving UCA based on the one or more non-coaxial parameters.

15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: further comprising:

determining, by the receiving node, a channel within a certain proximity a circulant matrix, the certain proximity maintaining orthogonality between a plurality of OAM modes of the OAM signal.

16. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining, by the receiving node, a receiving-side beam forming matrix based on the one or more non-coaxial parameters, wherein selecting the at least one beam form the plurality of beams is based on the receiving-side beam forming matrix.

17. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining, by the receiving node, a channel matrix H according to single value decomposition, and a first precoding matrix for the transmitting node and a second precoding matrix for the receiving node; and sending the precoding matrix to the transmitting node.

18. A method for wireless communication, the method comprising:

transmitting, by a transmitting node, an orbital angular momentum (OAM) signal to a receiving node;

receiving, by the transmitting node, one or more non-coaxial parameters determined according to receipt of the OAM signal by the receiving node, wherein the one or more non-coaxial parameters are determined by traversing a set of grid points corresponding to a non-coaxial parameter of the one or more non-coaxial parameters and selecting a value from the set of grid points for the non-coaxial parameter; and

selecting, by the transmitting node, at least one beam from a plurality of beams for communication with the receiving node according to the one or more non-coaxial parameters.

19. A system comprising:

a receiving node configured to:

receive an orbital angular momentum (OAM) signal from a transmitting node; and

select at least one beam from a plurality of beams for communication with the transmitting node according to one or more non-coaxial parameters corresponding to the OAM signal, wherein the one or more non-coaxial parameters are determined by traversing a set of grid points corresponding to a non-coaxial parameter of the one or more non-coaxial parameters and selecting a value from the set of grid points for the non-coaxial parameter.

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