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US 12,341,579 · App. 18/438,862 · Granted Jun 24, 2025

Mitigation of transmission errors of quantized channel state information feedback in multi antenna systems

Inventors: Bartosz Mielczarek (Edmonton, CA); Witold A. Krzymien (Edmonton, CA)
Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.
H04B7/0417H04B7/0413H04B7/0456H04B7/0619H04B7/063H04B7/0652H04B7/0656H04L1/0026H04L1/0029H04L1/0042H04L25/0248H04L25/0204H04L25/03203H04L2025/03426H04L2025/03802
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Patent No.
US 12,341,579
App. No.
18/438,862
Granted
Jun 24, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods are disclosed for improving communications on feedback transmission channels, in which there is a possibility of bit errors. The basic solutions to counter those errors are: proper design of the CSI vector quantizer indexing (i.e., the bit representation of centroid indices) in order to minimize impact of index errors, use of error detection techniques to expurgate the erroneous indices and use of other methods to recover correct indices.

Claims (25)

1. A method implemented in a wireless device, the method comprising:

transmitting an encoded sequence on an uplink feedback channel, the encoded sequence transmitted in a number of symbols that is based on a number of bits available for transmission on the uplink feedback channel; and receiving a downlink channel based on the encoded sequence.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the encoded sequence is associated with a codebook which has a Hamming distance that reduces an effect of feedback error.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the encoded sequence is based on an index that is selected from a plurality of indices based on a channel state of the downlink channel, each of the plurality of indices associated with at least one of a plurality of channel states, wherein the index is selected from the plurality of indices based on an estimated channel matrix for the downlink channel.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the downlink channel is received by multiple transmit antennas.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising detecting errors based on channel error detection check bits in the encoded sequence.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the encoded sequence comprises channel error detection check bits.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the encoded sequence comprises channel error correction check bits.

8. A wireless device comprising:

transmitter circuitry operable to transmit an encoded sequence based on a number of bits available for transmission on an uplink feedback channel; and

receiver circuitry operable to receive a downlink channel based on the encoded sequence.

9. The wireless device of claim 8 , wherein the encoded sequence is associated with a codebook which has a Hamming distance that reduces an effect of feedback error.

10. The wireless device of claim 8 , wherein the encoded sequence is based on an index that is selected from a plurality of indices based on a channel state of the downlink channel, each of the plurality of indices associated with at least one of a plurality of channel states, wherein the index is selected from the plurality of indices based on an estimated channel matrix for the downlink channel.

11. The wireless device of claim 8 , further comprising multiple receive antennas operable to receive signals on the downlink channel.

12. The wireless device of claim 8 , wherein the encoded sequence comprises channel error detection check bits.

13. The wireless device of claim 8 , wherein the encoded sequence comprises channel error correction check bits.

14. A method implemented in a wireless device, the method comprising:

transmitting an encoded sequence based on a number of bits available for transmission on an uplink feedback channel; and

receiving a downlink channel based on the encoded sequence.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the encoded sequence is associated with a codebook which has a Hamming distance that reduces an effect of feedback error.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the encoded sequence is based on an index that is selected from a plurality of indices based on a channel state of the downlink channel, each of the plurality of indices associated with at least one of a plurality of channel states, wherein the index is selected from the plurality of indices based on an estimated channel matrix for the downlink channel.

17. The method of claim 14 , wherein the downlink channel is received by multiple transmit antennas.

18. The method of claim 14 , further comprising detecting errors based on channel error detection check bits in the encoded sequence.

19. The method of claim 14 , wherein the encoded sequence comprises channel error detection check bits.

20. The method of claim 14 , wherein the encoded sequence comprises channel error correction check bits.

Continuity (7)
Continuation 18097676 · Jan 17, 2023
Continuation 16538218 · Aug 12, 2019
Continuation 15144743 · May 2, 2016
Continuation 14270074 · May 5, 2014
Continuation 13541631 · Jul 3, 2012
Continuation 12107047 · Apr 21, 2008
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