摘要:
This invention presents methods for estimating MU-MIMO channel information using SU-MIMO channel information to choose a modulation and channel coding appropriate for the quality of the MU-MIMO channels, for adaptively selecting MU-MIMO precoding methods based on estimations of a plural of UEs and for compensating hardware impairments in MU-MIMO precoding.
摘要:
This invention presents methods for power allocation for each data stream on each transmitting antennas in MU-MIMO wireless communication systems comprising the BS computing the temporary beamforming matrix, constructing special matrices and vectors with the maximum transmitting power on each antenna, the allocated power to each data stream, the channel quality of each data stream, and the amplitude of each element of the temporary beamforming matrix, calculating the power allocated to each data stream on each antenna with the calculated special matrices and vectors, and adjusting each element of the temporary beamforming matrix to obtain the final beamforming matrix.
摘要:
This invention presents a method and apparatuses for wireless networking comprising one or more BS with Nbs antennas; two or more SCs in the range of a BS where a SC has Nsc antennas, uses Nsc1≤Nsc antennas for communication with a BS and uses Nsc2≤Nsc antennas for communication with one or more UEs; at the same time a BS transmitting DL signals to K SCs using multi-user transmit BF in a frequency channel, a SC simultaneously transmitting DL signals to one or more UEs in its range using the same frequency channel; and, at the same time a BS receiving UL signals from K SCs using multi-user receive BF in a frequency channel, a SC simultaneously receiving UL signals from one or more UEs in its range using the same frequency channel. Furthermore, beamforming using antennas on the SCs is performed to reduce the inter-SC interferences.
摘要:
This invention presents methods for MU-MIMO wireless communication systems comprising a BS with plural of antennas placed as a linear array or planar array, plural of UEs, for conducting two-level signal processing at the BS to reduce the system implementation complexity, i.e., the RF precoding/combination and the baseband precoding/detection, for the BS to obtain the second-order statistical information of the channel matrix of each UE to computing the RF precoding matrix through a much smaller number of pilots than that of the transceiving antennas at the BS, where the second-order statistical information of the channel matrix can be obtained through the uplink reference signals or downlink reference signals plus uplink feedback.
摘要:
This invention presents a method for uplink SRS transmission in MU-MIMO wireless communication systems comprising the BS reserving resources for SRS transmission and multiplexing the reserved resources among neighboring cells and among multiple UEs allocated to the same SRS transmission resource; the BS estimating the CQI of each UE through the uplink channel; and the BS allocating the same resource to a group of UEs to transmit uplink SRSs based on the estimated CQI and the QoS requirement.
摘要:
This invention presents methods for power allocation for each data stream on each transmitting antennas in MU-MIMO wireless communication systems comprising the BS computing the temporary beamforming matrix, constructing special matrices and vectors with the maximum transmitting power on each antenna, the allocated power to each data stream, the channel quality of each data stream, and the amplitude of each element of the temporary beamforming matrix, calculating the power allocated to each data stream on each antenna with the calculated special matrices and vectors, and adjusting each element of the temporary beamforming matrix to obtain the final beamforming matrix.
摘要:
This invention presents methods comprising a BS with a plural of antennas capable of beamforming two or more spatial multiplexed streams with two or more antennas on UEs; using one or more of relays to project the capacity of the BS to cover one or more UEs; the BS estimating the uplink channel state information (CSI) between each antenna on the BS and each antenna on the one or more UEs using pilots transmitted from the UE antennas in the presence of the relays which amplifies and forwards the one or more pilots; and, the BS making use of the perseverance of the reciprocity of the over the air channel by the symmetry of the DL and UL paths of the relays to obtain the downlink CSI using the estimated uplink CSI that includes the effect of the relays.
摘要:
This invention presents a method and apparatuses for wireless networking comprising one or more BS with Nbs antennas; two or more SCs in the range of a BS where a SC has Nsc antennas, uses Nsc1≦Nsc antennas for communication with a BS and uses Nsc2≦Nsc antennas for communication with one or more UEs; at the same time a BS transmitting DL signals to K SCs using multi-user transmit BF in a frequency channel, a SC simultaneously transmitting DL signals to one or more UEs in its range using the same frequency channel; and, at the same time a BS receiving UL signals from K SCs using multi-user receive BF in a frequency channel, a SC simultaneously receiving UL signals from one or more UEs in its range using the same frequency channel. Furthermore, beamforming using antennas on the SCs is performed to reduce the inter-SC interferences.
摘要:
This invention presents a repeater enhanced MU-MIMO wireless communication system comprising a BS, a plural of repeaters, and a plural of UEs, where a repeater estimates the channel between itself and its upper communication node in the system, a repeater computes equalization coefficients based on the estimation of the channel coefficients, and a repeater applies the equalization coefficients to reduce the channel delay spread or increase the coherence bandwidth of the channel between communication nodes containing the BS, the UEs, or the repeaters.
摘要:
This invention provides methods for Distributed Massive MIMO (DM-MIMO) that use one or more central Baseband Units (BBUs), one or more Multi-User Beamformers for each BBU performing multi-user MIMO computations, and a number of RRHs distributed over a geographic area.