User Equipment CSI Report Override for Enhanced Type-II Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing wireless communication systems face challenges in accurately reporting channel state information (CSI) due to insufficient configurations in enhanced type-II CSI report settings, leading to degraded communication performance.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for user equipment (UE) to override or improve the enhanced type-II CSI report configuration by determining the need to use an alternative CSI report configuration or an identity matrix as the frequency domain basis, thereby transmitting a CSI report that includes feedback and an indication of the override or improvement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If enhanced type-II CSI report configuration is used, then CSI reporting capability is improved, but reporting accuracy deteriorates when configuration is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveCSI reporting capabilityVSAvoidCSI feedback accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The UE dynamically determines whether to override the configured CSI report format based on calculated metrics (such as payload size thresholds or channel conditions). This dynamic decision-making allows the system to adapt between configured and alternative report formats, ensuring accurate CSI feedback while maintaining improved reporting capability when conditions permit.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The invention changes the CSI report format parameters by switching between the configured enhanced type-II format and an alternative format (such as type-I or simplified type-II). This parameter change enables the system to maintain reporting capability while improving accuracy by selecting the appropriate format based on current channel conditions and configuration sufficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Device complexity

If conventional CSI report configuration is used, then device complexity is reduced, but communication performance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveCSI reporting complexityVSAvoidcommunication performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically selects between conventional and enhanced CSI report configurations based on determined override conditions. When the configured format is deemed insufficient, the UE switches to an alternative format, thereby maintaining communication performance without permanently increasing device complexity. The complexity increase is conditional and only activated when performance requirements demand it.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Measurement precision

If enhanced type-II CSI report configuration is overridden, then CSI feedback accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveCSI feedback accuracyVSAvoidreport configuration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention segments the CSI reporting process into distinct paths: one following the configured enhanced type-II format and another using alternative formats. The UE evaluates override conditions and selects the appropriate path, thereby improving accuracy when needed while avoiding unnecessary complexity in normal operation. This segmentation allows selective application of complex reporting only when configuration insufficiency is detected.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP3912386B1User equipment override for enhanced type-ii channel state information
Publication Date: 2025.03.19 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 may determine that an enhanced type-II channel state information (CSI) report configuration, associated with transmitting CSI feedback to a base station, is to be overridden; and transmit, based at least in part on determining that the enhanced type-II CSI report configuration is to be overridden, a CSI report using another CSI report configuration, wherein the CSI report includes the CSI feedback and an indication that the enhanced type-II CSI report configuration has been overridden. Numerous other aspects are provided.