IP Library Granted Patent US 12,494,827
Granted Patent B2
US 12,494,827 · App. 18/738,590 · Granted Dec 9, 2025

Doppler-delay codebook-based precoding and CSI reporting for wireless communications systems

Inventors: Marcus Großmann (Erlangen, DE); Venkatesh Ramireddy (Erlangen, DE); Markus Landmann (Erlangen, DE); Sutharshun Varatharaajan (Erlangen, DE)
Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
H04B7/0478H04B7/0482H04B7/0486H04B7/0617H04B7/0626H04B7/0632H04B7/0634H04B7/0639H04W76/27
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Patent No.
US 12,494,827
App. No.
18/738,590
Granted
Dec 9, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A communication device for providing a channel state information, CSI, feedback in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver to receive, from a transmitter a radio signal via a time-variant, frequency-selective MIMO channel, the radio signal including downlink reference signals according to a reference signal configuration including a number of antenna ports, and downlink signals including the reference signal configuration; and a processor. The processor estimates an explicit CSI in the frequency domain using measurements on the downlink reference signals on the radio channel, selects a Doppler-delay precoder matrix (W) for a composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, calculates either one or more of a channel quality indicator, CQI, and/or a precoder matrix indicator, PMI, and/or a rank indicator, RI, and reports to the transmitter the CSI feedback including either one or more of the CQI, and/or the PMI and/or the RI.

Claims (55)

1 . A communication device for providing a channel state information, CSI, feedback in a wireless communication system,

wherein the communication device is configured to receive a reference signal resource configuration comprising a parameter, the parameter indicating a time-domain-repetition of the downlink reference signals,

wherein the communication device is configured to determine the CSI feedback based on the repeated downlink reference signals and to report the determined CSI feedback,

wherein the communication device is configured to determine the CSI feedback using a Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, and

wherein the Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder is based on three separate codebooks, and wherein the three separate codebooks comprise

a first codebook for the spatial beam components of the composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder,

a second codebook for the one or more delay components of the composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, and

a third codebook for the one or more Doppler-frequency components of the composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder.

2 . The communication device of claim 1 , wherein

the first codebook comprises a first oversampled DFT-codebook matrix of size N 1 N 2 ×O 1,1 N 1 O 1,2 N 2 from which spatial beams b u (l) are selected, where N 1 and N 2 refer to the first and second numbers of antenna ports, respectively, and O 1,1 and O 1,2 refer to the oversampling factors with O 1,1 ∈{1, 2, 3, . . . } and O 1,2 ∈{1, 2, 3, . . . },

wherein the second codebook comprises a second oversampled DFT-codebook matrix of size S×SO 2 from which delay vectors d u,d (l) are selected, where S refers to the number of configured sub-bands, and O 2 refers to the oversampling factor O 2 =1, 2, . . . , and

wherein the third codebook comprises a third oversampled DFT-codebook matrix of size T×TO 3 from which Doppler-frequency vectors f p,u,d,v (l) , are selected, where T refers to a number of time instances, and O 3 refers to the oversampling factor with O 3 =1, 2, . . . .

3 . The communication device of claim 2 , wherein the communication device is configured to receive the following values from the transmitter using Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer or physical layer parameters:

values of S and T for the configuration of the second and third codebooks, and

parameters N 1 , N 2 for the configuration of the first codebook.

4 . The communication device of claim 2 , wherein the oversampled factors O 1,1 , O 1,2 and/or O 2 and/or O 3 of the DFT-codebook matrices are known by the communication device.

5 . The communication device of claim 1 , wherein the spatial beam components are configured as follows:

a number of spatial beams U (l) is identical for all layers such that U (l) =U, ∀l.

6 . The communication device of claim 1 , wherein the CSI feedback comprises a precoding matrix index, PMI, the and the communication device is configured to report at least a two-component PMI,

where the first PMI indicates to the selected spatial beams b u (l) , delay vectors d p,u,d (l) and Doppler-frequency vectors f p,u,d,v (l) , and

where the second PMI indicates a number of beam combining coefficients.

7 . The communication device of claim 1 , wherein a delay component configuration is configured via a higher layer signaling, e.g., RRC or MAC signaling, from the transmitter to the communication device, or wherein the delay component configuration is a-priori known by the communication device.

8 . The communication device of claim 1 , wherein a Doppler-frequency component configuration is configured via a higher layer signaling, e.g., RRC or MAC signaling, from the transmitter to the communication device, or wherein the Doppler-frequency component configuration is a-priori known by the communication device.

9 . The communication device of claim 1 , wherein the communication device is configured to predict a CQI value for a time-instant/slot “n+K”, where n denotes a current time-instant/slot, and K denotes a relative time difference with respect to the current time-instant/slot n.

10 . The communication device claim 1 , wherein the communication device is configured to

predict K future CQI values “n+k” (k=0, . . . , K) future time instants, and

report a predicted single CQI value or the predicted K CQI values or the predicted K differential CQI values.

11 . A transmitter in a wireless communication system comprising a communication device, wherein:

the transmitter is configured to transmit to a communication device a reference signal resource configuration comprising a parameter, the parameter indicating a time-domain-repetition of the downlink reference signals, and

wherein transmitter is configured to receive from the communication device a channel state information, CSI, feedback, the CSI feedback determined by the communication device based on the repeated downlink reference signals,

wherein the communication device is configured to determine the CSI feedback using a Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, and

wherein the Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder is based on three separate codebooks, and wherein the three separate codebooks comprise

a first codebook for the spatial beam components of the composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder,

a second codebook for the one or more delay components of the composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, and

a third codebook for the one or more Doppler-frequency components of the composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder.

12 . The transmitter of claim 11 , wherein the transmitter is configured to:

extract at least the two component precoder matrix identifier and the rank indicator from the plurality of CSI reports; and

construct a Doppler-delay-beam precoder matrix applied on the antenna ports using a first component and a second component of the PMI, and determine the beamforming weights responsive to the constructed precoder matrix.

13 . A method for providing a channel state information, CSI, feedback in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, by a communication device a reference signal resource configuration comprising a parameter from a transmitter, the parameter indicating a time-domain-repetition of the downlink reference signals,

determining, by the communication device, the CSI feedback based on the repeated downlink reference signals, and

reporting, by the communication device, the determined CSI feedback to the transmitter,

wherein the communication device determines the CSI feedback using a Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, and

wherein the Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder is based on three separate codebooks, and wherein the three separate codebooks comprise

a first codebook for the spatial beam components of the composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder,

a second codebook for the one or more delay components of the composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, and

a third codebook for the one or more Doppler-frequency components of the composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder.

14 . A method, comprising:

transmitting, by a transmitter of a wireless communication system, a reference signal resource configuration comprising a parameter, the parameter indicating a time-domain-repetition of the downlink reference signals, and

receiving, by the transmitter, from a communication device of the wireless communication system a channel state information, CSI, feedback, the CSI feedback determined by the communication device based on the repeated downlink reference signals,

wherein the communication device is configured to determine the CSI feedback using a Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, and

wherein the Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder is based on three separate codebooks, and wherein the three separate codebooks comprise

a first codebook for the spatial beam components of the composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder,

a second codebook for the one or more delay components of the composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, and

a third codebook for the one or more Doppler-frequency components of the composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 10, 2024
From: GROßMANN, MARCUS; RAMIREDDY, VENKATESH; LANDMANN, MARKUS; VARATHARAAJAN, SUTHARSHUN
To: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
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Continuity (4)
Continuation 18171777 · Feb 21, 2023
Continuation 17098592 · Nov 16, 2020
Continuation PCTEP2019064024 · May 29, 2019
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