Dual Codebook Precoding for Eight-Antenna MIMO Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

In multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication systems with eight transmit antennas, existing codebooks fail to accurately share channel information efficiently, leading to suboptimal precoding matrix determination and performance degradation.

Innovation Solution

The proposed solution involves using two codebooks stored in both the transmitter and receiver, where each codebook contains precoding matrices that account for short-term and long-term channel properties, allowing for the selection and combination of codewords to generate an optimal precoding matrix based on channel conditions, specifically utilizing DFT vectors and orthogonal columns to ensure robustness and efficient beamforming.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If a single codebook is used for precoding matrix determination, then the system complexity is reduced, but the accuracy of channel information sharing deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecodebook structureVSAvoidchannel information accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The codebook is divided into two separate codebooks: a first codebook for long-term channel properties and a second codebook for short-term channel properties. This segmentation allows each codebook to specialize in capturing specific channel characteristics, improving overall channel information accuracy while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Measurement precision

If two codebooks are used to capture short-term and long-term channel properties, then the accuracy of precoding matrix determination is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprecoding matrix accuracyVSAvoidcodebook management
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The codebook is divided into two separate codebooks: a first codebook for long-term channel properties and a second codebook for short-term channel properties. This segmentation allows each codebook to specialize in capturing specific channel characteristics, improving overall channel information accuracy while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The first codebook containing long-term channel statistics is pre-configured and stored in both transmitter and receiver before communication begins. This preliminary preparation eliminates the need for real-time computation of long-term statistics, reducing processing complexity while maintaining high precoding accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of manufacture

If existing codebook designs are used for eight transmit antennas, then the implementation is simplified, but the performance of MIMO communication system deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimplementation simplicityVSAvoidcommunication performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The codebook is divided into two separate codebooks: a first codebook for long-term channel properties and a second codebook for short-term channel properties. This segmentation allows each codebook to specialize in capturing specific channel characteristics, improving overall channel information accuracy while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The codebook design parameters are specifically optimized for eight transmit antennas, with the first codebook containing long-term channel statistics and the second codebook containing short-term channel statistics. This parameter optimization improves MIMO communication performance while maintaining implementation feasibility through structured organization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP3544199B1Codebook for eight transmit antennas and multiple input multiple output communication system using the codebook
Publication Date: 2023.11.01 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

The invention is directed to a communication method of a receiver, the communication method comprising determining a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) indicating a first codebook and a second precoding matrix indicator (PMI) indicating a second codebook, and transmitting, to a transmitter, the first and the second PMIs as a feedback information, wherein a precoding matrix is configured to be determined using the first and the second PMIs.