Abstract:
An apparatus is configured to be employed within a base station. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to generate control information, the control information including a configured number of ports; receive a plurality of sounding reference signals (SRS) via the RF interface from a user equipment (UE) device, wherein each of the plurality of SRS is associated with one of the one or more precoders; and generate a ranking of a the one or more precoders based on the received plurality of SRS, wherein the plurality of SRS are associated with the one or more precoders.
Abstract:
Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to assist a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) for beamforming is disclosed. The UE can determine a covariance matrix for a channel between the UE and the gNB. The UE can quantize the covariance matrix to obtain a quantized covariance matrix. The quantized covariance matrix can include M best diagonal entries that are selected from the covariance matrix, wherein M is an integer. The UE can encode the quantized covariance matrix as feedback for transmission to the gNB.
Abstract:
An apparatus is configured to be employed within a base station. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry, which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to generate channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) for an antenna array and provide the CSI-RS to the RF interface for transmission to a user equipment (UE) device, receive one or more report matrices based on sets of measurements of the CSI-RS and from the RF interface, and generate a channel covariance matrix based on the received one or more report matrices.
Abstract:
An apparatus is configured to be employed within one or more nodes. The apparatus includes control circuitry and a transceiver. The control circuitry is configured identify a set of beam sector pairs using a sector level sweep (SLS), rank the set of beam sector pairs to generate a ranked set of beam sector pairs based on beam ranking criteria, and provide the ranked set of beam sector pairs to a second node. The transceiver is configured to communicate with the second node using a primary beam pair of the ranked set of beam sector pairs. The control circuitry of the nodes is further configured to detect blockage on the primary beam pair and to switch to alternative beam pairs according to the ranking exchanged between the communicating nodes upon blockage detection.
Abstract:
Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to select codebook indexes from discrete Fourier transform (DFT) codebooks is disclosed. The UE can decode a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) received from a base station. The UE can estimate a channel vector between the UE and the base station based on the CSI-RS. The UE can select a codebook index from a DFT codebook. The DFT codebook can be configured at the UE based on different inter-element distances and inter-panel distances in a uniform rectangular antenna panel array of a base station antenna. The UE can encode feedback that includes the codebook index for transmission to the base station.
Abstract:
Described is an apparatus. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to select a set of coding rates comprising a plurality of coding rates. The second circuitry may be operable to, for each coding rate of the plurality of coding rates, estimate a corresponding reliability ranking, such that a plurality of reliability rankings is estimated for the corresponding plurality of coding rates. The third circuitry may be operable to estimate a final reliability ranking, based at least in part on the plurality of reliability rankings. A transmitter is to encode data in accordance with polar coding, based at least in part on the final reliability ranking.
Abstract:
Embodiments of an Evolved Node-B (eNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The eNB may generate a plurality of adaptive codebooks based on a base codebook. Each adaptive codebook may be generated for a different beam-width for directional transmissions by an antenna array. The adaptive codebooks may be generated based at least partly on matrix products of a first matrix based at least partly on a configurable broadening factor and a second matrix that includes codewords of the base codebook. A predetermined plurality of broadening factor values may be used in the first matrix to produce the different beam-widths for the adaptive codebooks.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides for performing polar encoding. Performing polar encoding can include selecting a length S of a number of shortened bits and a length P of a number of punctured bits based on a HARQ scheme, encoding the plurality of information bits to generate a base code, interleaving a result of shortened polar encoder module to generate a codeword which includes the base code minus the shortened bits minus the number of punctured bits plus a number of extension bits with a length of E, and providing the codeword to a modulation module to generate a division of the codeword by a result of a multiplication of a number of spatial streams by a number of bits per modulation and providing a result of the division to a channel to transmit a polar code to a receiving device.