CSI Feedback Spatial Time Domain Compression

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current wireless communication systems face challenges in efficiently reporting channel state information (CSI) due to high overhead associated with spatial and time domain compression.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a multi-stage compression technique for tap information, which includes spatial and time domain compression, to reduce the overhead of CSI feedback reporting.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If spatial and time domain compression is applied to CSI feedback reporting, then the payload size is reduced, but the device complexity increases due to multi-stage compression processing

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepayload sizeVSAvoidcompression processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The CSI feedback reporting is divided into multiple stages of compression processing. The multi-stage compression technique segments the overall compression task into distinct phases, where each stage handles specific aspects of the data reduction process. This segmentation allows the system to achieve significant payload size reduction while managing complexity through structured, modular processing steps rather than attempting single-stage compression of the entire CSI dataset.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Quantity of substance

If multi-stage compression technique is implemented for tap information, then the overhead of CSI feedback reporting is reduced, but the processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveoverheadVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The multi-stage compression technique performs preliminary compression actions on the tap information before final CSI feedback reporting. By pre-processing and compressing the data in multiple stages ahead of time, the system reduces the overhead that would otherwise need to be transmitted. This preliminary action allows the compression to be performed methodically across different time intervals, managing the processing time burden rather than attempting instantaneous compression of all data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP3857730B1Channel state information (CSI) with spatial and time domain compression
Publication Date: 2025.01.22 QUALCOMM INC
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AI summary

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reporting channel state information (CSI) with spatial and time domain compression. A method comprises receiving one or more signals from a second wireless communications device, determining a precoder matrix index (PMI) based on the signals, performing a channel- tap compression of the PMI and transmitting the channel-tap compressed PMI to the second wireless communications device.