CSI Feedback Compression With Beam Groups and Transform Bases

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Solution Overview

Problem

The increasing demand for mobile broadband access in wireless communication systems, particularly in LTE and NR technologies, necessitates improvements in channel state information feedback to reduce overhead and optimize resource utilization.

Innovation Solution

Implementing channel state information feedback compression techniques by grouping beams into transform domain bases and transmitting reduced-bit representations of beam group identification and transform domain basis selection information, thereby reducing uplink radio resource consumption.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If channel state information feedback is transmitted with full detail, then measurement precision is improved, but uplink radio resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvechannel state information accuracyVSAvoiduplink radio resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential information needed for channel state feedback by grouping beams into transform domain bases and transmitting reduced-bit representations. Instead of sending complete channel state data, the system extracts and transmits only the beam group identification and transform domain basis selection information, significantly reducing uplink radio resource consumption while maintaining sufficient measurement precision for effective channel characterization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the representation parameters of channel state information by transforming detailed channel data into a compressed format based on beam groups and transform domain bases. This parameter transformation reduces the bit width from full precision channel state feedback to reduced-bit representations, achieving efficient use of uplink radio resources while preserving the essential channel state characteristics needed for communication optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Quantity of substance

If channel state information feedback is compressed, then uplink radio resource consumption is reduced, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuplink radio resourcesVSAvoidfeedback processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the channel state feedback process into distinct manageable components: beam grouping, transform domain basis selection, and reduced-bit representation generation. By dividing the complex feedback compression task into these segmented operations, the system reduces the computational burden on individual processing units while achieving effective compression of uplink radio resources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces transform domain bases as an intermediary representation between the detailed channel state information and the compressed feedback. This intermediary layer simplifies the processing complexity by providing a standardized basis for beam group representation, making the compression process more manageable and efficient while reducing the direct complexity of transforming raw channel data into compact feedback.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP3895332B1Channel state information feedback compression
Publication Date: 2025.08.27 QUALCOMM INC
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AI summary

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify, based at least in part on a codebook, a set of beams to feedback in a channel state information (CSI) feedback communication, and may identify one or more beam groups associated with the set of beams. The UE may select respective one or more transfer domain bases, from a plurality of transfer domain bases, for each beam group of the one or more beam groups, and may determine a plurality of values, for a plurality of bits, that represent beam group identification information associated with the one or more beam groups and transfer domain basis selection information associated with the respective one or more transfer domain bases. The UE may transmit, to a base station (BS), the plurality of bits in the CSI feedback communication. Numerous other aspects are provided.