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US 12,255,718 · App. 18/497,539 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

CSI feedback and receiving methods, apparatus, device, and storage medium

Inventors: Hao Wu (Shenzhen, CN); Yijian Chen (Shenzhen, CN); Guozeng Zheng (Shenzhen, CN); Yong Li (Shenzhen, CN); Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, CN); Yu Ngok Li (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: ZTE Corporation
H04B7/0626H04B7/0417H04B7/0456H04B7/0639H04W72/0453
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Patent No.
US 12,255,718
App. No.
18/497,539
Granted
Mar 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are CSI feedback and receiving methods, apparatuses, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: a terminal determines PMI, the PMI includes at least one of: first base vector information, second base vector information, second coefficient amplitude information or phase information; for one transmission layer, a frequency domain resource in one preset frequency domain unit corresponds to one precoding vector, the precoding vector is a linear combination of first base vectors, and weighting coefficients used in the linear combination of the first base vectors are first coefficients; on multiple frequency domain units contained in a CSI feedback band, a vector composed of first coefficients corresponding to a same first base vector is a linear combination of second base vectors, and weighting coefficients used in the linear combination of the second base vectors are second coefficients; and the terminal feeds back CSI containing the PMI to a base station.

Claims (65)

1. A channel state information (CSI) feedback method, comprising:

determining, by a terminal, precoding matrix indication information (PMI), wherein:

the PMI comprises:

first base vector information associated with first base vectors;

second base vector information associated with second base vectors; and

second coefficient information, used to derive first coefficients and second coefficients, the second coefficient information comprising second coefficient amplitude information and second coefficient phase information; and

a CSI feedback band comprises a plurality of frequency domain units, each frequency domain unit having a plurality of frequency domain resources and the frequency domain units respectively belong to a plurality of frequency domain unit sets; and

feeding back, by the terminal, CSI containing the PMI to a base station.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a frequency domain unit of the plurality of frequency domain units comprises at least one of: a sub-band or a first resource block (RB), wherein a number of RBs in the first RB set is less than a number of RBs contained in a sub-band of the CSI feedback band.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein a dimension of each second base vector is equal to a number of frequency domain units contained in the CSI feedback band.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the feeding back CSI includes:

feedbacking a first portion of the CSI including a number of the plurality of frequency domain unit sets; and

feedbacking a second portion of the CSI.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein feeding back the CSI containing the PMI to the base station comprises:

feeding back, by the terminal, second base vector information corresponding to each of the plurality of frequency domain unit sets and second coefficient information corresponding to each of the plurality of frequency domain unit sets to the base station; or

feeding back, by the terminal, second coefficient information corresponding to each of the plurality of frequency domain unit sets and second base vector information in common to all of the plurality of frequency domain unit sets to the base station.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second base vector information fed back by the terminal to the base station respectively corresponds to each piece of first base vector information.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein a same second base vector information corresponds to the first based vector is reported for a precoding vector of a same layer, the precoding vector being a linear combination of the first base vectors.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the frequency domain unit set satisfies at least one of:

the frequency domain units in each of the frequency domain unit set are a plurality of consecutive RBs in the CSI feedback band;

frequency domain units in each of the frequency domain unit set are a plurality of RBs, which are distributed with a preset number of spacings, in the CSI feedback band; or

frequency domain units in each of the frequency domain unit set are a plurality of RBs, which are distributed with a preset number of spacings, on a bandwidth part (BWP) corresponding to the CSI.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein a number of the frequency domain unit sets is determined based on a total number of the frequency domain units contained in the CSI feedback band.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining whether a number of the plurality of frequency domain unit sets is greater than a preset threshold; and

in response to a determination result that the number of the plurality of frequency domain unit sets is greater than the preset threshold, determining to select K1 second base vectors, or alternatively, in response to a determination result that the number of the plurality of frequency domain unit sets is less than or equal to the preset threshold, determining to select K2 second base vectors, wherein K1 and K2 are positive integers, and K1 is less than K2.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second base vectors belong to a second base vector candidate set, the second base vector candidate set is determined based on a parameter N, and the second base vector candidate set is {v 1 , . . . , v N } or a subset of {v 1 , . . . , v N }; and wherein N is a number of frequency domain units contained in the CSI feedback band.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein when the second base vector candidate set is the subset of {v 1 , . . . , v N }, a method of determining the second base vector candidate set comprises:

determining the second base vector candidate set based on a starting position of the second base vector candidate set and a number of vectors in the second base vector candidate set.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the second base vector information comprises:

a vector group index of a selected vector group, or

a vector group index of a selected vector group and a vector index of a vector selected from the selected vector group;

feeding back, by the terminal, the CSI containing the PMI back to the base station comprises:

feeding back, by the terminal, a same vector group index back to the base station for multiple frequency domain unit sets among the plurality of frequency domain unit sets in the CSI feedback band; or

feeding back, by the terminal for all of the plurality of frequency domain unit sets in the CSI feedback band, a same vector group index to the base station, and feeding back, for each of the plurality of frequency domain unit sets, a vector index corresponding to the each of the plurality of frequency domain unit sets.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second base vectors comprise K base vectors selected from X consecutive base vectors in a second base vector candidate set, and X and K are positive integers.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second coefficient amplitude information comprises:

two components to be quantized to be between 0 and 1 to generate two quantized components, wherein a coefficient amplitude used in a precoding vector is a product of the two quantized components and the two components comprise a first amplitude component and a second amplitude component.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein a dimension of a second base vector on a frequency domain unit set is equal to a number of frequency domain units in the frequency domain unit set.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the frequency domain units in a same frequency domain unit set are consecutives frequency domain units, frequency domain units distributed with a preset number of spacings, in the CSI feedback band, and/or on a BWP where the frequency domain unit set is located.

18. A channel state information (CSI) receiving method, comprising:

receiving, by a base station, CSI containing precoding matrix indication information (PMI) from a terminal; and

acquiring, by the base station, first base vector information associated with first base vectors, second base vector information associated with second base vectors, and second coefficient information from the PMI, the second coefficient information being used to derive first coefficients and second coefficients, wherein:

the second coefficient information comprising second coefficient amplitude information and second coefficient phase information; and

a CSI feedback band comprises a plurality of frequency domain units, each frequency domain unit having a plurality of frequency domain resources and the frequency domain units respectively belong to a plurality of frequency domain unit sets.

19. A terminal, comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one memory; and

a communication bus, coupled between the at least one processor and the at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to execute one or more computer programs stored in the at least one memory to perform steps comprising:

determining, by the terminal, precoding matrix indication information (PMI), wherein:

the PMI comprises:

first base vector information associated with first base vectors;

second base vector information associated with second base vectors; and

second coefficient information, used to derive first coefficients and second coefficients, the second coefficient information comprising second coefficient amplitude information and second coefficient phase information; and

a CSI feedback band comprises a plurality of frequency domain units, each frequency domain unit having a plurality of frequency domain resources and the frequency domain units respectively belong to a plurality of frequency domain unit sets; and

feeding back, by the terminal, CSI containing the PMI to a base station.

20. A base station, comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one memory; and

a communication bus, coupled between the at least one processor and the at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to execute one or more computer programs stored in the at least one memory to perform steps comprising:

receiving, by the base station, CSI containing precoding matrix indication information (PMI) from a terminal; and

acquiring, by the base station, first base vector information associated with first base vectors, second base vector information associated with second base vectors, and second coefficient information from the PMI, the second coefficient information being used to derive first coefficients and second coefficients, wherein:

the second coefficient information comprising second coefficient amplitude information and second coefficient phase information; and

a CSI feedback band comprises a plurality of frequency domain units, each frequency domain unit having a plurality of frequency domain resources and the frequency domain units respectively belong to a plurality of frequency domain unit sets.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 31, 2023
From: WU, HAO; ZHENG, GUOZENG; CHEN, YIJIAN; LI, YONG; LU, ZHAOHUA; LI, YU NGOK
To: ZTE CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 201811302880.2 · Nov 2, 2018 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17244724 · Apr 29, 2021
Continuation PCTCN2019114977 · Nov 1, 2019
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