IP Library Granted Patent US 11,916,634
Granted Patent B2
US 11,916,634 · App. 17/451,641 · Granted Feb 27, 2024

Channel state information (CSI) prediction and reporting

Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego, CA); Yi Huang (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04B7/0626H04B17/345H04B17/373
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Patent No.
US 11,916,634
App. No.
17/451,641
Granted
Feb 27, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Wireless communication systems and methods related to interference prediction and reporting are provided. A user equipment (UE) obtains a sequence of interference measurements, where each interference measurement in the sequence is obtained at a different measurement time instant. The UE may determine, based on an interference predictor associated with the sequence of interference measurements, one or more predicted channel state information (CSI) values at one or more future time instants. The UE may transmit, to a base station (BS), a report including the one or more predicted CSI values.

Claims (104)

1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

obtaining a sequence of interference measurements, wherein each interference measurement in the sequence is obtained at a different measurement time instant; and

transmitting, to a base station (BS), a report including a plurality of predicted channel state information (CSI) values at a plurality of future time instants, the plurality of predicted CSI values being based at least in part on an interference predictor associated with the sequence of interference measurements.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, from the BS, a configuration indicating a set of interference measurement resources spaced apart from each other in time,

wherein the obtaining the sequence of interference measurements is based at least in part on the set of interference measurement resources.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the set of interference measurement resources are spaced apart from each other by a same amount of time.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the set of interference measurement resources comprises at least one of zero power-channel state information-reference signal (ZP-CSI-RS) resources or channel state information-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resources.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the obtaining the sequence of interference measurements comprises:

determining a first interference measurement of the sequence of interference measurements from a first interference measurement resource of the set of interference measurement resources; and

determining a second interference measurement of the sequence of interference measurements from a second interference measurement resource of the set of interference measurement resources, the second interference measurement resource being different from the first interference measurement resource.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining the interference predictor based on at least one of an average of the sequence of interference measurements or an autocorrelation between a first interference measurement and a second interference measurement of the sequence of interference measurements.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

a first interference measurement of the sequence of interference measurements comprises a first measurement associated with a first receive antenna of the UE at a first time instant and a second measurement associated with a second receive antenna of the UE at the first time instant;

a second interference measurement of the sequence of interference measurements comprises a third measurement associated with the first receive antenna at a second time instant and a fourth measurement associated with the second receive antenna at the second time instant; and

the method further comprising:

determining the interference predictor based on at least one of an average of the sequence of interference measurements, an autocorrelation between the first measurement and the third measurement, an autocorrelation between the second measurement and the fourth measurement, a cross-correlation between the first measurement and the fourth measurement, or a cross-correlation between the second measurement and the third measurement.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining, based on the sequence of interference measurements, the interference predictor comprising a set of one or more prediction filter coefficients.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, from the BS, a request for the plurality of predicted CSI values via at least one of:

radio resource control (RRC) signaling;

medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) signaling;

downlink control information (DCI); or

a DCI scheduling one or more of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of predicted CSI values comprises at least one of:

a channel quality indicator (CQI);

a modulation and coding scheme (MCS);

a rank indicator (RI);

a precoding matrix indicator (PMI);

a spectral efficiency; or

beam information.

11. A method of wireless communication performed by a base station (B S), the method comprising:

transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), a configuration indicating a set of interference measurement resources spaced apart in time, the set of interference measurement resources associated with an interference prediction;

transmitting, to the UE, a request for a plurality of predicted channel state information (CSI) values at a plurality of future time instants; and

receiving, from the UE, a report including the one or more plurality of predicted CSI values for the plurality of future time instants.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the set of interference measurement resources are spaced apart from each other by a same amount of time.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the set of interference measurement resources comprises at least one of zero power-channel state information-reference signal (ZP-CSI-RS) resources or channel state information-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resources.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the transmitting the request includes transmitting the request via at least one of:

radio resource control (RRC) signaling;

medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) signaling;

downlink control information (DCI); or

a DCI scheduling one or more of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission.

15. The method of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of predicted CSI values comprises at least one of:

a channel quality indicator (CQI);

a modulation and coding scheme (MCS);

a rank indicator (RI);

a precoding matrix indicator (PMI);

a spectral efficiency; or

beam information.

16. A user equipment (UE), comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors, coupled to the memory, wherein the memory stores instructions that are executable by the one or more processors, individually or in any combination, to cause the UE to:

obtain a sequence of interference measurements, wherein each interference measurement in the sequence is obtained at a different measurement time instant; and

transmit, to a base station (B S), a report including a plurality of predicted channel state information (CSI) values at a plurality of future time instants, the plurality of predicted CSI values being based at least in part on an interference predictor associated with the sequence of interference measurements.

17. The UE of claim 16 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured, individually or in any combination, to cause the UE to:

receive, from the BS, a configuration indicating a set of interference measurement resources spaced apart from each other in time; and

obtain the sequence of interference measurements based at least in part on the set of interference measurement resources.

18. The UE of claim 17 , wherein the set of interference measurement resources are spaced apart from each other by a same amount of time.

19. The UE of claim 17 , wherein the set of interference measurement resources comprises at least one of zero power-channel state information-reference signal (ZP-CSI-RS) resources or channel state information-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resources.

20. The UE of claim 17 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured, individually or in any combination, to cause the UE to:

determine a first interference measurement of the sequence of interference measurements from a first interference measurement resource of the set of interference measurement resources; and

determine a second interference measurement of the sequence of interference measurements from a second interference measurement resource of the set of interference measurement resources, the second interference measurement resource being different from the first interference measurement resource.

21. The UE of claim 16 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured, individually or in any combination, to cause the UE to:

determine the interference predictor based on at least one of an average of the sequence of interference measurements or an autocorrelation between a first interference measurement and a second interference measurement of the sequence of interference measurements.

22. The UE of claim 16 , wherein:

a first interference measurement of the sequence of interference measurements comprises a first measurement associated with a first receive antenna of the UE at a first time instant and a second measurement associated with a second receive antenna of the UE at the first time instant;

a second interference measurement of the sequence of interference measurements comprises a third measurement associated with the first receive antenna at a second time instant and a fourth measurement associated with the second receive antenna at the second time instant; and

the one or more processors are further configured, individually or in any combination, to cause the UE to:

determine the interference predictor based on at least one of an average of the sequence of interference measurements, an autocorrelation between the first measurement and the third measurement, an autocorrelation between the second measurement and the fourth measurement, a cross-correlation between the first measurement and the fourth measurement, or a cross-correlation between the second measurement and the third measurement.

23. The UE of claim 16 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured, individually or in any combination, to cause the UE to:

determine, based on the sequence of interference measurements, the interference predictor comprising a set of one or more prediction filter coefficients.

24. The UE of claim 16 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured, individually or in any combination, to cause the UE to receive, from the BS, a request for the plurality of predicted CSI values via at least one of:

radio resource control (RRC) signaling;

medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) signaling;

downlink control information (DCI); or

a DCI scheduling one or more of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission.

25. The UE of claim 16 , wherein the plurality of predicted CSI values comprises at least one of:

a channel quality indicator (CQI);

a modulation and coding scheme (MCS);

a rank indicator (RI);

a precoding matrix indicator (PMI);

a spectral efficiency; or

beam information.

26. A base station (BS), comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors, coupled to the memory, wherein the memory stores instructions that are executable by the one or more processors, individually or in any combination, to cause the BS to:

transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a configuration indicating a set of interference measurement resources spaced apart in time, the set of interference measurement resources associated with an interference prediction;

transmit, to the UE, a request for a plurality of predicted channel state information (CSI) values at a plurality of future time instants; and

receive, from the UE, a report including the plurality of predicted CSI values for the plurality of future time instants.

27. The BS of claim 26 , wherein the set of interference measurement resources are spaced apart from each other by a same amount of time.

28. The BS of claim 26 , wherein the set of interference measurement resources comprises at least one of zero power-channel state information-reference signal (ZP-CSI-RS) resources or channel state information-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resources.

29. The BS of claim 26 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured, individually or in any combination, to cause the BS to transmit the request via at least one of:

radio resource control (RRC) signaling;

medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) signaling;

downlink control information (DCI); or

a DCI scheduling one or more of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission.

30. The BS of claim 26 , wherein the plurality of predicted CSI values comprises at least one of:

a channel quality indicator (CQI);

a modulation and coding scheme (MCS);

a rank indicator (RI);

a precoding matrix indicator (PMI);

a spectral efficiency; or

beam information.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 3, 2021
From: ELSHAFIE, AHMED; HUANG, YI
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 058005/0877 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63104392 · Oct 22, 2020
Related Publication 20220131588A1 · Apr 28, 2022
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