Codebook Subsampling for FD-MIMO Channel State Information Reporting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mobile communication systems face challenges in efficiently transmitting and receiving channel state information (CSI) in FD-MIMO systems due to the increased number of antennas, which requires more complex codebook management and precoding matrix indicators, leading to inefficiencies in reporting channel status information.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of codebook subsampling schemes to generate a sub-sampled codebook for feedback components, allowing for reduced payload size and efficient reporting of channel status information, regardless of codebook subset configurations, enabling effective CSI reporting in FD-MIMO systems with multiple antennas.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the number of antennas is increased in FD-MIMO systems, then beamforming accuracy and system performance are enhanced, but the payload size of feedback components increases and codebook management becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebeamforming accuracyVSAvoidcodebook management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The codebook is divided into multiple codebook subsets, each corresponding to different antenna configurations or beamforming scenarios. This segmentation allows the system to manage large codebooks by organizing them into smaller, more manageable subsets that can be selectively used based on channel conditions and antenna configurations, thereby reducing the effective complexity of codebook management while maintaining high beamforming accuracy with increased antennas

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically selects appropriate codebook subsets and precoding matrix indicators based on channel state information and antenna configurations. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to optimize feedback payload size by only reporting relevant PMI information for the currently active antenna subsets, rather than managing all possible antenna combinations statically, thus reducing complexity while maintaining measurement precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Productivity

If the number of antennas is increased in FD-MIMO systems, then system performance is enhanced, but the payload size of feedback components increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem performanceVSAvoidpayload size of feedback components
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts and reports only the essential precoding matrix indicator information needed for system operation, rather than transmitting complete codebook data. By identifying and reporting only the relevant PMI indices that characterize the channel state and beamforming configuration, the system maintains enhanced performance with multiple antennas while significantly reducing the feedback payload size

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter representation by using compact PMI indices to represent complex precoding matrices. Instead of transmitting full matrix data or detailed channel state information, the system encodes the essential characteristics into condensed PMI parameters that reference pre-defined codebook subsets, thereby maintaining system performance while reducing feedback payload size through efficient parameterization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If various types of codebooks are used to report channel state information, then channel status reporting accuracy is improved, but processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvechannel status reporting accuracyVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention creates a universal codebook subset selection mechanism that can handle multiple antenna configurations and channel conditions through a unified framework. The same codebook subset selection and PMI reporting procedure works across different FD-MIMO configurations, eliminating the need for separate processing logic for each codebook type, thereby maintaining channel status reporting accuracy while reducing processing complexity through standardized multi-functional procedures

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP3343797B1Method and device for transmitting and receiving channel state information in mobile communication system
Publication Date: 2021.01.13 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A method and a device for transmitting channel state information in a mobile communication system are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: receiving an upper layer signaling message including information, which indicates a report mode for channel state information, and information related to a codebook subset configuration to be used for the report of the channel state information; determining whether to apply a codebook subsampling for the report of a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) according to the report mode and the codebook subset configuration; generating, when the codebook subsampling is determined to be applied, a subsampled codebook by subsampling a given master codebook, and generating the channel state information including a PMI generated on the basis of the subsampled codebook; and transmitting the channel state information to a base station.