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- the present invention is related to wireless communication systems. More particularly, the present invention is related to a method and apparatus for calibration and channel state feedback to support transmit beamforming in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system.
- MIMO multiple-input multiple-output
- LTE long term evolution
- 3G third generation
- E-UTRA evolved universal terrestrial radio access
- OFDMA orthogonal frequency division multiple access
- SC-FDMA single carrier frequency division multiple access
- WCDMA wideband code division multiple access
- UMTS universal mobile telecommunication system
- HSPA+ evolved high speed packet access
- WTRU wireless transmit/receive unit
- a base station and/or a wireless transmit/receive unit enhances system performance.
- these antennas can be used to provide transmit diversity and/or beamforming.
- the combination of multiple transmit and receive antennas may increase throughput without the need for additional power or bandwidth.
- WLAN wireless local access network
- a base station generates a steering matrix for transmit beamforming.
- the base station In order for the base station to calculate an appropriate steering matrix to a particular WTRU, the base station needs to have an accurate estimate of the channel state information (CSI) to that WTRU.
- CSI channel state information
- RF radio frequency
- TDD time division duplex
- the present invention is related to a method and apparatus for calibration and channel state feedback to support transmit beamforming in a MIMO system.
- a first station sends a calibration request to a second STA, and the second STA sends a sounding packet to the first STA.
- the first STA receives the sounding packet, performs at least one channel measurement and performs calibration based on the channel measurement.
- the first STA and the second STA may exchange sounding packets and the second STA may send channel measurement to the first STA.
- the first STA then calculates calibration matrices for the first and second STAs and sends the calibration matrix for the second STA to the second STA.
- the first STA and the second STA then apply the calibration matrix, respectively.
- the first STA sends a channel state feedback request to the second STA.
- the second STA sends a sounding packet to the first STA.
- the first STA receives the sounding packet and performs at least one channel measurement with the sounding packet.
- the first STA then calculates a steering matrix for transmit beamforming based on the channel measurement.
- FIG. 1 is a signaling diagram of a process for obtaining CSI in a TDD mode in accordance with the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a signaling diagram of a process for calibration in a TDD mode in accordance with the present invention
- FIG. 3 is a signaling diagram of a process for calibration in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 4A and 4B show channel models for transmit side calibration for a channel from STA A to STA B and from STA B to STA A, respectively;
- FIGS. 5 and 6 show simulation results for comparing calibration matrix computation schemes in accordance with the present invention.
- STA stations
- UE user equipment
- WTRU wireless transmission control unit
- PDA personal digital assistant
- AP access point
- the present invention provides procedures for channel state feedback and RF calibration to support transmit beamforming in an LTE or HSPA+ system.
- the RF calibration is needed for TDD systems.
- FIG. 1 is a signaling diagram of a process 100 for obtaining CSI in a TDD mode in accordance with the present invention.
- STA A sends a channel state feedback request to STA B to obtain CSI (step 102 ).
- the channel state feedback request may be a higher layer message such as a radio resource control (RRC) message or a medium access control (MAC) message, (i.e., as an in-band signaling with a transport block), or may be a physical layer control message transmitted via a physical layer control channel.
- RRC radio resource control
- MAC medium access control
- the channel state feedback request may be explicitly or implicitly signaled.
- the channel state feedback request may be at a certain fixed position of a packet header, (MAC or physical layer header), with at least one bit to indicate the request.
- STA B Upon receipt of the channel state feedback request, STA B sends a sounding packet to STA A (step 104 ).
- the sounding packet is transmitted not-steered to STA A.
- the sounding packet may be any type of packet.
- the sounding packet may be a data packet coming from a higher layer or it may be a physical layer packet.
- the sounding packet must be sent via properly modulated antennas to prevent undesirable beamforming effects, (e.g., cyclic delay diversity).
- each transmit antenna is assigned to an orthogonal sounding data, (e.g., pilot symbols, training sequences, preambles or the like), so that the sounding data is used for the MIMO channel estimation at STA A.
- STA B may send a channel state feedback response message along with the sounding packet.
- the channel state feedback response message may be combined with the sounding packet or separated from the sounding packet.
- the channel state feedback response message and the sounding packet may be transmitted using different mechanisms, (e.g., association with a codeword, data, or physical channel).
- the channel state feedback response may be explicitly or implicitly signaled to STA A.
- STA A receives the sounding packet and performs MIMO channel estimation with the sounding packet (step 106 ). STA A then calculates a steering matrix for transmit beamforming based on the MIMO channel estimation and uses the steering matrix in transmission of a packet (or packets) to STA B (steps 108 , 110 ). The steps 102 - 108 may be repeated for ongoing transmissions.
- FIG. 2 is a signaling diagram of a process 200 for calibration in a TDD mode in accordance with the present invention.
- STA A sends a calibration request message to STA B to initiate a calibration procedure (step 202 ).
- STA B is informed of the number of transmit antennas of STA A either prior to the transmission of the calibration request message or simultaneously with the calibration request message.
- the calibration request message may be sent as a higher layer message or a MAC layer message, (i.e., as an in-band signaling with a transport block).
- the calibration request message may be sent as a physical layer control message via a physical layer control channel.
- the calibration request message may be put into either a shared control part or a dedicated control part.
- the calibration request message may be at a certain fixed position of a MAC or physical layer header with at least one bit to indicate the request.
- the calibration request message may be sent via a broadcast channel to all STAs on a periodic basis. The period is a configurable parameter.
- STA B After receiving the calibration request, STA B sends a sounding packet to STA A along with a calibration response message (step 204 ).
- the sounding packet may be any type of packet.
- the sounding packet may be a special packet dedicated for the sounding purpose or may be a data packet having the nature for the sounding purpose.
- the sounding packet may be a data packet coming from a higher layer, or the sounding packet may be a physical layer packet.
- the sounding packet must be sent via properly modulated antennas to prevent undesirable beamforming effects, (e.g., cyclic delay diversity).
- an orthogonal sounding data (e.g., pilot symbols, training sequences, preambles or the like) is transmitted via each of the antennas so that the sounding data is used for the MIMO channel estimation at STA A.
- STA A After receiving the sounding packet from STA B, STA A performs MIMO channel measurement (step 206 ). STA A then calculates a correction vector for the channel based on the MIMO channel measurement and applies it for calibration at STA A (step 208 ). STA A may send a correction vector to STA B for calibration at STA B.
- STA A may send a sounding packet along with the calibration request at step 202 .
- STA B performs MIMO channel measurement with the sounding packet transmitted from STA A and sends a channel measurement report along with the sounding packet to STA A at step 204 .
- STA A then calculates the correction vector based on the two MIMO channel measurements calculated by STA A and STA B at step 206 .
- STA B may calculate a correction vector on its own using the sounding packet transmitted by STA A.
- FIG. 3 is a signaling diagram of a process 300 for computing calibration matrices in accordance with the present invention.
- a calibration matrix is inserted at each end of the link to alter the overall gain and phase properties. This may be done on a per-subcarrier basis.
- the calibration may be performed by both STAs to ensure that the effective channel, including the RF chains as modified by the calibration, is reciprocal.
- H AB , H BA intrinsic MIMO channel (RF-to-RF) from STA A to STA B and from STA B to STA A;
- ⁇ tilde over (H) ⁇ AB , ⁇ tilde over (H) ⁇ BA effective channel before calibration from STA A to STA B and from STA B to STA A;
- ⁇ AB , ⁇ BA calibrated channel from STA A to STA B and from STA B to STA A;
- K A,Tx , K B,Tx calibration matrices as applied on STA A and STA B;
- C A,Tx , C A,Rx transmit and receive gain matrices at STA A;
- C B,Tx , C B,Rx transmit and receive gain matrices at STA B.
- STA A sends a sounding packet to STA B which includes a training sequence, (e.g., a high throughput long training field (HT-LTF)), that allows STA B to calculate a channel estimate ⁇ tilde over (H) ⁇ AB (step 302 ).
- STA B also transmits a sounding packet to STA A which includes a training sequence that allows STA A to calculate a channel estimate ⁇ tilde over (H) ⁇ BA (step 304 ).
- Steps 302 and 304 must occur over a sufficiently short period of time that the channel does not change over the interval.
- STA A then performs MIMO channel measurement based on the sounding packet from STA B to calculate the channel estimate ⁇ tilde over (H) ⁇ BA (step 306 ).
- STA B also performs MIMO channel measurement based on the sounding packet from STA A to calculate the channel estimate ⁇ tilde over (H) ⁇ AB (step 308 ).
- STA B then sends the channel estimate ⁇ tilde over (H) ⁇ AB to STA A (step 310 ).
- STA A uses the channel estimates ⁇ tilde over (H) ⁇ BA and ⁇ tilde over (H) ⁇ AB to compute the calibration matrices K A,Tx and K B,Tx for STA A and STA B, respectively (step 312 ).
- STA A sends the calibration matrix K B,Tx to STA B (step 314 ).
- STA A and STA B apply the calibration matrices K A,Tx and K B,Tx , respectively (steps 316 , 318 ).
- FIGS. 4A and 4B show channel models for transmit side calibration for a channel from STA A to STA B and from STA B to STA A, respectively.
- the effective channel from STA A to STA B is as follows:
- the effective channels are not reciprocal such that ⁇ tilde over (H) ⁇ AB ⁇ ( ⁇ tilde over (H) ⁇ BA ) T .
- K A,Tx ( C A,Tx ) ⁇ 1 C A,Rx ; Equation (9)
- K B,Tx C B,Rx ( C B,Tx ) ⁇ 1 ; Equation (10)
- the calibration matrices K A,Tx , K B,Tx are independent of the MIMO channel H AB . Thus, the calibration process only has to be performed infrequently assuming the gain matrices drift slowly.
- Equation (8) has the form of:
- Equation (11) the i th diagonal element, d ii 1 of D 1 has the effect of multiplying the i th column of H AB by d ii 1
- the j th diagonal element, d jj 2 of D 2 has the effect of multiplying the j th row of H AB by d jj 2 . If the right and left hand sides of Equation (11) are to be equal, it is not difficult to see that D 1 and D 2 must have the form:
- Equation (11) equating the “1,2” element of both sides yields
- Equations (14) and (15) Using Equations (14) and (15) in Equations (12) and (13):
- K A,Tx ⁇ ( C A,Tx ) ⁇ 1 C A,Rx ; Equation (16)
- a convenient constraint is to require the sum of squares of the diagonal elements of K A,Tx together with those of K B,Tx to be unity.
- a first embodiment one-shot scheme.
- Equation (19) Minimizing the sum of squares in the matrix of Equation (19) is equivalent to minimizing the sum of squares in the vector in Equation (20). This is because the vec operation simply re-arranges the elements of a matrix into a vector.
- Equation (20) can be rewritten as follows:
- the vector x should be the eigenvector of (W*W) corresponding to the smallest eigenvector.
- the resulting vector x contains the diagonal elements of the desired matrices K A,Tx and K B,Tx , defined up to within an arbitrary common constant multiplier.
- a second embodiment two-shot scheme.
- P R A ⁇ is a projector, which projects to a subspace orthogonal to the subspace spanned by the columns of R A .
- ⁇ circumflex over (d) ⁇ B is the eigenvector corresponding to the smallest eigenvalue of Q H Q.
- ⁇ circumflex over (d) ⁇ A and ⁇ circumflex over (d) ⁇ B minimize ⁇ R A d A ⁇ R B d B ⁇ and equivalently ⁇ tilde over (H) ⁇ AB K A,Tx ⁇ K B,Tx ( ⁇ tilde over (H) ⁇ BA ) T ⁇ F .
- a third embodiment is anerative scheme.
- the LS method may be applied iteratively.
- the solution obtained by using the iterative scheme also minimizes ⁇ R A d A ⁇ R B d B ⁇ .
- d B (n) is unit norm at each step of iteration.
- a fourth embodiment suboptimal scheme.
- Equation (2) Equation (2)
- Equation ⁇ ⁇ ( 34 ) [ d N Tx + 1 0 ⁇ 0 d N Tx + N Rx ] ⁇ [ b _ 1 T ⁇ b _ N Rx T ] . Equation ⁇ ⁇ ( 35 )
- Equations (34) and (35) are equal.
- Equation (34) ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1] ⁇ [0,1]
- the problem then may be solved by the well known LS method.
- FIGS. 5 and 6 show simulation results for comparing calibration matrix computation schemes in accordance with the present invention.
- the overall transmitter data path processing is also defined in the same reference, and includes convolutional coding, spatial parsing into several spatial streams, frequency interleaving over 64 subcarriers, QAM modulation and Unitary mapping of the spatial streams onto the transmit antennas.
- the receiver implemented here includes MMSE symbol demodulation followed by soft demapping to the bit level soft decisions, and Viterbi decoding.
- the channel is the TGn channel model B.
- FIG. 5 plots a measure of reciprocity, after calibration, for the different schemes.
- the reciprocity measure used is the norm of the difference between the forward channel and the transpose of the reverse channel, after calibration, and normalized to the norm of the forward channel:
- the transmit and receive gain matrices for this example are:
- a sounding packet exchange is first done to perform the calibration and obtain K A,Tx , K B,Tx .
- One hundred (100) random channels are then generated and the average value of this measure Equation (32) in dB is computed.
- This average measure is plotted vs. the sounding packet signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
- the one-shot and two-shot schemes perform equally well, as they both yield the optimum solution, while the suboptimum scheme tracks the optimum performance fairly well, with a slight loss in performance using this measure.
- the performance of the iterative scheme bottoms out as the sounding SNR increases, with the floor depending on the number of iterations.
- FIG. 6 shows the packet error rate for MCS number 41 of the TGn channel B, when the one-shot and suboptimal calibration procedures are incorporated.
- MCS 41 uses two spatial data streams, one with 256 QAM and one with 16-QAM. Rate 3 ⁇ 4 convolutional encoding is used to encode the data.
- STA A transmitter performs beamforming as follows. For each subcarrier, a singular value decomposition is performed on the calibrated channel matrix ⁇ BA which it has measured from the latest incoming packet from STA B:
- each new packet is treated as a new random trial in which the following steps are carried out.
- the matrices C A,Tx , C A,Rx , C B,Tx , C B,Rx are randomly generated. These matrices are generated independently, each diagonal element with random amplitude and phase distortions from 1.0. The amplitude distortions are modeled as zero mean Gaussian random variables such that the average deviation in the amplitude is 2 dB, and the diagonal elements have random phase as well.
- the channel is randomly generated and a sounding packet exchange takes place, followed by computation of the calibration matrices.
- the data packet is then transmitted using the transmit beamforming described above.
- Table 1 compares the computations involved in the three best performing schemes discussed above. The three schemes are listed in the order of decreasing computational cost.
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- DSP digital signal processor
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- a processor in association with software may be used to implement a radio frequency transceiver for use in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), user equipment (UE), terminal, base station, radio network controller (RNC), or any host computer.
- the WTRU may be used in conjunction with modules, implemented in hardware and/or software, such as a camera, a video camera module, a videophone, a speakerphone, a vibration device, a speaker, a microphone, a television transceiver, a hands free headset, a keyboard, a Bluetooth® module, a frequency modulated (FM) radio unit, a liquid crystal display (LCD) display unit, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display unit, a digital music player, a media player, a video game player module, an Internet browser, and/or any wireless local area network (WLAN) module.
- modules implemented in hardware and/or software, such as a camera, a video camera module, a videophone, a speakerphone, a vibration device, a speaker,
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for calibration and channel state feedback to support transmit beamforming in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system are disclosed. For radio frequency (RF) calibration, a first station (STA) sends a calibration request to a second STA, and the second STA sends a sounding packet to the first STA. The first STA receives the sounding packet, performs at least one channel measurement and performs calibration based on the channel measurement. For channel state feedback, the first STA sends a channel state feedback request to the second STA. The second STA sends a sounding packet to the first STA. The first STA receives the sounding packet and performs at least one channel measurement with the sounding packet. The first STA then calculates a steering matrix for transmit beamforming based on the channel measurement.
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- This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/680,694, filed Mar. 1, 2007, which claims the benefit of U.S. provisional application Nos. 60/777,835 filed Mar. 1, 2006, 60/780,623 filed Mar. 9, 2006, and 60/839,846 filed Aug. 24, 2006 which are incorporated by reference as if fully set forth.
- The present invention is related to wireless communication systems. More particularly, the present invention is related to a method and apparatus for calibration and channel state feedback to support transmit beamforming in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system.
- In order to support a high-data-rate, low-latency, packet-optimized wireless system with increased coverage and capacity, a long term evolution (LTE) of the third generation (3G) system, (i.e., evolved universal terrestrial radio access (E-UTRA)), is currently being developed. In LTE, orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) are proposed air interface technologies to be used in the downlink and uplink transmissions, respectively.
- Meanwhile, a wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA)-based evolution of the conventional universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS), (i.e., evolved high speed packet access (HSPA+)), is also proposed.
- Use of multiple antennas at a base station and/or a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) enhances system performance. In the downlink, specifically, these antennas can be used to provide transmit diversity and/or beamforming. The combination of multiple transmit and receive antennas may increase throughput without the need for additional power or bandwidth. There are two main multiple antenna technologies, namely beamforming and MIMO. Both are proposed to be used in LTE and HSPA+ systems as well as other wireless systems such as a wireless local access network (WLAN).
- A base station generates a steering matrix for transmit beamforming. In order for the base station to calculate an appropriate steering matrix to a particular WTRU, the base station needs to have an accurate estimate of the channel state information (CSI) to that WTRU. However, differences in the radio frequency (RF) drift and impairments between several transmission radios of a multiple-antenna transmitter may cause severe degradation in performance of transmit beamforming and MIMO. Therefore, calibration should be performed to ensure adequate performance.
- In a time division duplex (TDD) mode, differences in transmit and receive chains in a base station and a WTRU destroy the inherent reciprocity of the wireless channel. Thus, the main purpose of RF calibration in a TDD mode is to remove the differences in transmit and receive chains and enhance reciprocity in the observed baseband-to-baseband channels. These differences lead to differing calibration approaches.
- Currently, there is no control and signaling procedure to support channel state estimation and RF calibration in LTE or HSPA standards when transmit beamforming is used.
- The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for calibration and channel state feedback to support transmit beamforming in a MIMO system. For RF calibration, a first station (STA) sends a calibration request to a second STA, and the second STA sends a sounding packet to the first STA. The first STA receives the sounding packet, performs at least one channel measurement and performs calibration based on the channel measurement. Alternatively, the first STA and the second STA may exchange sounding packets and the second STA may send channel measurement to the first STA. The first STA then calculates calibration matrices for the first and second STAs and sends the calibration matrix for the second STA to the second STA. The first STA and the second STA then apply the calibration matrix, respectively.
- For channel state feedback, the first STA sends a channel state feedback request to the second STA. The second STA sends a sounding packet to the first STA. The first STA receives the sounding packet and performs at least one channel measurement with the sounding packet. The first STA then calculates a steering matrix for transmit beamforming based on the channel measurement.
- A more detailed understanding of the invention may be had from the following description of a preferred embodiment, given by way of example and to be understood in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein:
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FIG. 1 is a signaling diagram of a process for obtaining CSI in a TDD mode in accordance with the present invention; -
FIG. 2 is a signaling diagram of a process for calibration in a TDD mode in accordance with the present invention; -
FIG. 3 is a signaling diagram of a process for calibration in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention; -
FIGS. 4A and 4B show channel models for transmit side calibration for a channel from STA A to STA B and from STA B to STA A, respectively; and -
FIGS. 5 and 6 show simulation results for comparing calibration matrix computation schemes in accordance with the present invention. - When referred to hereafter, the terminology “station (STA)” includes but is not limited to a user equipment (UE), a WTRU, a fixed or mobile subscriber unit, a pager, a cellular telephone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a computer, a base station, a Node-B, a site controller, an access point (AP), or any other type of device capable of operating in a wireless environment.
- The present invention provides procedures for channel state feedback and RF calibration to support transmit beamforming in an LTE or HSPA+ system. The RF calibration is needed for TDD systems.
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FIG. 1 is a signaling diagram of aprocess 100 for obtaining CSI in a TDD mode in accordance with the present invention. STA A sends a channel state feedback request to STA B to obtain CSI (step 102). The channel state feedback request may be a higher layer message such as a radio resource control (RRC) message or a medium access control (MAC) message, (i.e., as an in-band signaling with a transport block), or may be a physical layer control message transmitted via a physical layer control channel. When the channel state feedback request is sent through a physical layer control channel, it may be put into either a shared control part or a dedicated control part. The channel state feedback request may be explicitly or implicitly signaled. The channel state feedback request may be at a certain fixed position of a packet header, (MAC or physical layer header), with at least one bit to indicate the request. - Upon receipt of the channel state feedback request, STA B sends a sounding packet to STA A (step 104). The sounding packet is transmitted not-steered to STA A. The sounding packet may be any type of packet. The sounding packet may be a data packet coming from a higher layer or it may be a physical layer packet. The sounding packet must be sent via properly modulated antennas to prevent undesirable beamforming effects, (e.g., cyclic delay diversity). In transmission of the sounding packet, each transmit antenna is assigned to an orthogonal sounding data, (e.g., pilot symbols, training sequences, preambles or the like), so that the sounding data is used for the MIMO channel estimation at STA A.
- STA B may send a channel state feedback response message along with the sounding packet. The channel state feedback response message may be combined with the sounding packet or separated from the sounding packet. The channel state feedback response message and the sounding packet may be transmitted using different mechanisms, (e.g., association with a codeword, data, or physical channel). When the channel state feedback response message is combined with the sounding packet, the channel state feedback response may be explicitly or implicitly signaled to STA A.
- STA A receives the sounding packet and performs MIMO channel estimation with the sounding packet (step 106). STA A then calculates a steering matrix for transmit beamforming based on the MIMO channel estimation and uses the steering matrix in transmission of a packet (or packets) to STA B (
steps 108, 110). The steps 102-108 may be repeated for ongoing transmissions. -
FIG. 2 is a signaling diagram of aprocess 200 for calibration in a TDD mode in accordance with the present invention. STA A sends a calibration request message to STA B to initiate a calibration procedure (step 202). STA B is informed of the number of transmit antennas of STA A either prior to the transmission of the calibration request message or simultaneously with the calibration request message. - The calibration request message may be sent as a higher layer message or a MAC layer message, (i.e., as an in-band signaling with a transport block). Alternatively, the calibration request message may be sent as a physical layer control message via a physical layer control channel. When the calibration request message is sent through the physical layer control channel, the calibration request message may be put into either a shared control part or a dedicated control part. The calibration request message may be at a certain fixed position of a MAC or physical layer header with at least one bit to indicate the request. The calibration request message may be sent via a broadcast channel to all STAs on a periodic basis. The period is a configurable parameter.
- After receiving the calibration request, STA B sends a sounding packet to STA A along with a calibration response message (step 204). The sounding packet may be any type of packet. The sounding packet may be a special packet dedicated for the sounding purpose or may be a data packet having the nature for the sounding purpose. The sounding packet may be a data packet coming from a higher layer, or the sounding packet may be a physical layer packet. The sounding packet must be sent via properly modulated antennas to prevent undesirable beamforming effects, (e.g., cyclic delay diversity). In transmission of the sounding packet, an orthogonal sounding data, (e.g., pilot symbols, training sequences, preambles or the like) is transmitted via each of the antennas so that the sounding data is used for the MIMO channel estimation at STA A.
- After receiving the sounding packet from STA B, STA A performs MIMO channel measurement (step 206). STA A then calculates a correction vector for the channel based on the MIMO channel measurement and applies it for calibration at STA A (step 208). STA A may send a correction vector to STA B for calibration at STA B.
- Alternatively, STA A may send a sounding packet along with the calibration request at
step 202. In this case, STA B performs MIMO channel measurement with the sounding packet transmitted from STA A and sends a channel measurement report along with the sounding packet to STA A atstep 204. STA A then calculates the correction vector based on the two MIMO channel measurements calculated by STA A and STA B at step 206. STA B may calculate a correction vector on its own using the sounding packet transmitted by STA A. - Methods for computing calibration matrices based upon measurements of the sounding packet are explained with reference to
FIG. 3 .FIG. 3 is a signaling diagram of aprocess 300 for computing calibration matrices in accordance with the present invention. In order to regain reciprocity, a calibration matrix is inserted at each end of the link to alter the overall gain and phase properties. This may be done on a per-subcarrier basis. The calibration may be performed by both STAs to ensure that the effective channel, including the RF chains as modified by the calibration, is reciprocal. - The following notations will be used hereinafter:
- HAB, HBA: intrinsic MIMO channel (RF-to-RF) from STA A to STA B and from STA B to STA A;
- {tilde over (H)}AB, {tilde over (H)}BA: effective channel before calibration from STA A to STA B and from STA B to STA A;
- ĤAB, ĤBA: calibrated channel from STA A to STA B and from STA B to STA A;
- KA,Tx, KB,Tx: calibration matrices as applied on STA A and STA B;
- CA,Tx, CA,Rx: transmit and receive gain matrices at STA A; and
- CB,Tx, CB,Rx: transmit and receive gain matrices at STA B.
- Referring to
FIG. 3 , after initiation of the calibration procedure, (either by STA A or STA B), STA A sends a sounding packet to STA B which includes a training sequence, (e.g., a high throughput long training field (HT-LTF)), that allows STA B to calculate a channel estimate {tilde over (H)}AB (step 302). STA B also transmits a sounding packet to STA A which includes a training sequence that allows STA A to calculate a channel estimate {tilde over (H)}BA (step 304).Steps 302 and 304 must occur over a sufficiently short period of time that the channel does not change over the interval. - STA A then performs MIMO channel measurement based on the sounding packet from STA B to calculate the channel estimate {tilde over (H)}BA (step 306). STA B also performs MIMO channel measurement based on the sounding packet from STA A to calculate the channel estimate {tilde over (H)}AB (step 308). STA B then sends the channel estimate {tilde over (H)}AB to STA A (step 310).
- STA A uses the channel estimates {tilde over (H)}BA and {tilde over (H)}AB to compute the calibration matrices KA,Tx and KB,Tx for STA A and STA B, respectively (step 312). STA A sends the calibration matrix KB,Tx to STA B (step 314). STA A and STA B apply the calibration matrices KA,Tx and KB,Tx, respectively (
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FIGS. 4A and 4B show channel models for transmit side calibration for a channel from STA A to STA B and from STA B to STA A, respectively. Before calibration, the effective channel from STA A to STA B is as follows: -
{tilde over (H)}AB=CB,RxHABCA,Tx; Equation (1) - and the effective channel before calibration from STA B to STA A is as follows:
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{tilde over (H)}BA=CA,RxHBACB,Tx. Equation (2) - In general, because of the diagonal gain matrices C, the effective channels are not reciprocal such that {tilde over (H)}AB≠({tilde over (H)}BA)T.
- The transmit-side calibration problem is to find diagonal calibration matrices KA,Tx, KB,Tx, to be applied on the transmit side of the respective STAs to restore the reciprocity of the effective channel such that ĤAB=(ĤBA)T. Once the calibration matrices are applied, it results:
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Ĥ AB ={tilde over (H)} AB K A,Tx =C B,Rx H Ab C A,Tx K A,Tx; Equation (3) -
Ĥ BA ={tilde over (H)} BA K B,Tx =C A,Rx H BA C B,Tx K B,Tx. Equation (4) - It is assumed that {tilde over (H)}AB and {tilde over (H)}BA are known perfectly at both STAs after the sounding packet exchange. The mathematical problem becomes that of finding KA,Tx, KB,Tx so that ĤABAB =(ĤBA)T, or:
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C B,Rx H AB C A,Tx K A,Tx=(C A,Rx H BA C B,Tx K B,Tx)T. Equation (5) - Since HAB=(HBA)T, this is equivalent to
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C B,Rx H AB C A,Tx K A,Tx=(K B,Tx)T(C B,Tx)T H AB(C A,Rx)T; Equation (6) - or, since the transpose of a diagonal matrix is the matrix itself:
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CB,RxHABCA,TxKA,Tx=KB,TxCB,TxHABCA,Rx. Equation (7) - This can be re-written as follows:
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H AB C A,TxKA,Tx(C A,Rx)−1=(C B,Rx)−1 K B,Tx C B,Tx H AB; Equation (8) - and it is clear that if the calibration matrices satisfy:
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K A,Tx=(C A,Tx)−1 C A,Rx; Equation (9) - and
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K B,Tx =C B,Rx(C B,Tx)−1; Equation (10) - Equation (8), and hence Equation (6), is satisfied and the calibrated channels are reciprocal, ĤAB=(ĤBA)T.
- The calibration matrices KA,Tx, KB,Tx are independent of the MIMO channel HAB. Thus, the calibration process only has to be performed infrequently assuming the gain matrices drift slowly.
- The calibration matrices, KA,Tx, KB,Tx are unique up to within identical constant multipliers. This can be seen from Equation (8). Indeed Equation (8) has the form of:
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HABD1=D2HAB; Equation (11) - where the diagonal matrices D1 and D2 are given by:
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D 2=(C B,Rx)−1 K B,Tx C B,Tx. Equation (13) - In Equation (11), the ith diagonal element, dii 1 of D1 has the effect of multiplying the ith column of HAB by dii 1, and the jth diagonal element, djj 2 of D2 has the effect of multiplying the jth row of HAB by djj 2. If the right and left hand sides of Equation (11) are to be equal, it is not difficult to see that D1 and D2 must have the form:
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D2=αIN2 ; Equation (15) - where α is some constant, and IN
1 and IN2 are identity matrices of size N1 and N2, with N1 and N2 being the sizes of D1 and D2. From Equation (11), for example, equating the “1,1” element of the left and right hand sides yields h11d11 1=d11 2h11 so that d11 1=d11 2. Next, equating the “1,2” element of both sides yields - h12d22 1=d11 2h12 so that d22 1=d11 2=d11 1. Continuing in this way, all the diagonal elements of D1 and D2 must be equal, and equal to each other, which result in Equations (14) and (15). Using Equations (14) and (15) in Equations (12) and (13):
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K A,Tx=α(C A,Tx)−1 C A,Rx; Equation (16) - and,
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K B,Tx =αC B,Rx(C B,Tx)−1; Equation (17) - and the calibration matrices, KA,Tx, KB,Tx are unique up to within identical constant multipliers.
- Using Equations (3) and (4), it can be written that ĤAB=(ĤBA)T which entails:
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{tilde over (H)} AB K A,Tx =K B,Tx({tilde over (H)} BA)T. Equation (18) - If the matrices {tilde over (H)}AB and {tilde over (H)}BA are measured exactly, finding KA,Tx and KB,Tx is a simple matter of equating various elements of the right and left hand sides of Equation (18). However, if there is a measurement error in {tilde over (H)}AB and {tilde over (H)}BA, a more robust approximate method must be found. A natural method would be to choose diagonal matrices KA,Tx and KB,Tx to minimize the sum of squares of all the elements of the matrix as follows:
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{tilde over (H)}ABKA,Tx−KB,Tx({tilde over (H)}BA)T; Equation (19) - subject to some constraint which ensures that the zero solution is excluded. A convenient constraint is to require the sum of squares of the diagonal elements of KA,Tx together with those of KB,Tx to be unity. Four embodiments for doing this are provided in the present invention.
- A first embodiment—one-shot scheme.
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- Minimizing the sum of squares in the matrix of Equation (19) is equivalent to minimizing the sum of squares in the vector in Equation (20). This is because the vec operation simply re-arranges the elements of a matrix into a vector.
- There is a representation of vec(KA,Tx) that is useful. For demonstration purposes, take a 2×2 case in which:
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- Then vec(KA,Tx)=[a 0 0 b]T can be written as follows:
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- Similarly, vec(KB,Tx)=SBdB. Suitable matrices SA and SB can be defined to perform this representation, no matter what the sizes of KA,Tx and KB,Tx are. Therefore, Equation (20) can be rewritten as follows:
- By defining a new vector x=[(dA)T(dB)T]T, this becomes:
- The goal is to choose x to minimize the following quantity:
- subject to ∥x∥=1. By defining Was follows:
- the goal is to find x to minimize:
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E=∥Wx∥, Equation (27) - subject to ∥x∥=1.
- The solution of this problem is well known. The vector x should be the eigenvector of (W*W) corresponding to the smallest eigenvector. The resulting vector x contains the diagonal elements of the desired matrices KA,Tx and KB,Tx, defined up to within an arbitrary common constant multiplier.
- A second embodiment—two-shot scheme.
- The ideal solution would result in:
- To simplify the notation, let
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RAdA=RBdB. Equation (29) - In this approach, it is assumed that dB is known. A least squares (LS) solution for dA is then as follows:
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d A (LS)=(R A H R A)−1 R A H R B d B; Equation (30) - and it minimizes:
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A ⊥ is a projector, which projects to a subspace orthogonal to the subspace spanned by the columns of RA. - Then, the optimum dB is the one that minimizes ε(dB). Again, {circumflex over (d)}B is the eigenvector corresponding to the smallest eigenvalue of QHQ. After {circumflex over (d)}B is obtained, {circumflex over (d)}A is computed by {circumflex over (d)}A=(RA HRA)−1RA HRB{circumflex over (d)}B.
- {circumflex over (d)}A and {circumflex over (d)}B minimize ∥RAdA−RBdB∥ and equivalently ∥{tilde over (H)}ABKA,Tx−KB,Tx({tilde over (H)}BA)T∥F.
- A third embodiment—iterative scheme.
- The LS method may be applied iteratively. The solution obtained by using the iterative scheme also minimizes ∥RAdA−RBdB∥. First, given an initial dB (0), solve the LS problem as follows:
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- Then, using the obtained solution dA (0) to update dB,
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- The iteration is repeated until a prescribed criterion is met. One way to avoid converging to a trivial solution is to constrain dB (n) to be unit norm at each step of iteration.
- A fourth embodiment—suboptimal scheme.
- This suboptimal scheme attempts to compromise performance with complexity. Equation (18), {tilde over (H)}ABKA,Tx=KB,Tx({tilde over (H)}BA)T, is the equation to be solved. If the channels are perfectly known, one way to solve it is to expand the equation, and equate the matrix element one by one. However, if there is a channel estimation error, because the equal sign may not hold, the aforementioned method fails. The reason is that equating some of the elements may lead to contradiction of others. Although, some of the elements may be equated and then the difference is minimized, this leads to a problem with smaller dimensions. Because of the smaller degrees of freedom than the original problem, this scheme is not optimal. In other words, the Frobenius norm of the error, ∥{tilde over (H)}ABKA,Tx−KB,Tx({tilde over (H)}BA)T∥F, will be bigger than the previous three embodiments.
- Suppose that {tilde over (H)}AB is of size NTx×NRx, the ith columns of {tilde over (H)}AB is α i=[α1i . . . αN
Rx i]T, similarly the jth row of ({tilde over (H)}BA)T is b j T=[bj1 . . . bjNTx ]. Both sides of Equation (2) becomes as follows: -
- Without loss of generality, let d1=1, then let the constraints be that the first columns of Equations (34) and (35) are equal.
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- where P=NTx+NRx−1 and αij=bi,j+1·dN
Tx +i. - The problem becomes to find d2 . . . dN
Rx to minimize ∥E∥2 F or equivalently ∥vec(E)∥2. Neglect the first column of E, call the resulting matrix V -
- The problem then may be solved by the well known LS method.
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- An example performance comparison of the foregoing embodiments is described for a 2×2 matrix channel hereinafter. The system simulated here is a MIMO orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system for an IEEE 802.11n TGn.
FIGS. 5 and 6 show simulation results for comparing calibration matrix computation schemes in accordance with the present invention. - The overall transmitter data path processing is also defined in the same reference, and includes convolutional coding, spatial parsing into several spatial streams, frequency interleaving over 64 subcarriers, QAM modulation and Unitary mapping of the spatial streams onto the transmit antennas. The receiver implemented here includes MMSE symbol demodulation followed by soft demapping to the bit level soft decisions, and Viterbi decoding. In these figures, the channel is the TGn channel model B.
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FIG. 5 plots a measure of reciprocity, after calibration, for the different schemes. The reciprocity measure used is the norm of the difference between the forward channel and the transpose of the reverse channel, after calibration, and normalized to the norm of the forward channel: -
- The transmit and receive gain matrices for this example are:
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FIG. 5 a sounding packet exchange is first done to perform the calibration and obtain KA,Tx, KB,Tx. One hundred (100) random channels are then generated and the average value of this measure Equation (32) in dB is computed. This average measure is plotted vs. the sounding packet signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). - It can be seen that the one-shot and two-shot schemes perform equally well, as they both yield the optimum solution, while the suboptimum scheme tracks the optimum performance fairly well, with a slight loss in performance using this measure. The performance of the iterative scheme bottoms out as the sounding SNR increases, with the floor depending on the number of iterations.
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FIG. 6 shows the packet error rate forMCS number 41 of the TGn channel B, when the one-shot and suboptimal calibration procedures are incorporated.MCS 41 uses two spatial data streams, one with 256 QAM and one with 16-QAM. Rate ¾ convolutional encoding is used to encode the data. In the simulation, STA A transmitter performs beamforming as follows. For each subcarrier, a singular value decomposition is performed on the calibrated channel matrix ĤBA which it has measured from the latest incoming packet from STA B: -
ĤBA=UDVH. Equation (39) - Next, assuming that ĤAB≈(ĤBA)T, or:
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Ĥ AB ≈V*D T U T. Equation (40) - STA A uses the unitary matrix U to map the spatial streams onto the two eigen-modes of the channel ĤAB, with the 256 QAM stream on eigen-mode with the largest eigenvalue. In generating
FIG. 6 , each new packet is treated as a new random trial in which the following steps are carried out. First, the matrices CA,Tx, CA,Rx, CB,Tx, CB,Rx are randomly generated. These matrices are generated independently, each diagonal element with random amplitude and phase distortions from 1.0. The amplitude distortions are modeled as zero mean Gaussian random variables such that the average deviation in the amplitude is 2 dB, and the diagonal elements have random phase as well. - Next the channel is randomly generated and a sounding packet exchange takes place, followed by computation of the calibration matrices. The data packet is then transmitted using the transmit beamforming described above.
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FIG. 6 that there is a loss in performance of roughly 4 dB if no calibration is performed. Whereas both the one-shot and the suboptimal calibration procedures correct almost completely for the loss in channel reciprocity. - Table 1 below compares the computations involved in the three best performing schemes discussed above. The three schemes are listed in the order of decreasing computational cost.
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TABLE 1 One Shot Two Shot Sub-optimal Scheme Scheme Scheme Eigenvector NTx + NRx Min{NTx, NRx} None. Computation Min{NTx, NRx} Divisions Inverse Matrix NTx + NRx Max{NTx, NRx} Min{NTx, NRx} Computation - Although the features and elements of the present invention are described in the preferred embodiments in particular combinations, each feature or element can be used alone without the other features and elements of the preferred embodiments or in various combinations with or without other features and elements of the present invention. The methods or flow charts provided in the present invention may be implemented in a computer program, software, or firmware tangibly embodied in a computer-readable storage medium for execution by a general purpose computer or a processor. Examples of computer-readable storage mediums include a read only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a register, cache memory, semiconductor memory devices, magnetic media such as internal hard disks and removable disks, magneto-optical media, and optical media such as CD-ROM disks, and digital versatile disks (DVDs).
- Suitable processors include, by way of example, a general purpose processor, a special purpose processor, a conventional processor, a digital signal processor (DSP), a plurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in association with a DSP core, a controller, a microcontroller, Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) circuits, any other type of integrated circuit (IC), and/or a state machine.
- A processor in association with software may be used to implement a radio frequency transceiver for use in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), user equipment (UE), terminal, base station, radio network controller (RNC), or any host computer. The WTRU may be used in conjunction with modules, implemented in hardware and/or software, such as a camera, a video camera module, a videophone, a speakerphone, a vibration device, a speaker, a microphone, a television transceiver, a hands free headset, a keyboard, a Bluetooth® module, a frequency modulated (FM) radio unit, a liquid crystal display (LCD) display unit, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display unit, a digital music player, a media player, a video game player module, an Internet browser, and/or any wireless local area network (WLAN) module.
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1. A method for calibration to support transmit beamforming in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications, the method comprising:
a first station (STA) sending a calibration request to a second STA;
the second STA sending a sounding packet to the first STA;
the first STA receiving the sounding packet and performing at least one channel measurement to generate a channel estimate;
the first STA generating a correction vector based on the channel estimate; and
the first STA applying the correction vector for calibration.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the calibration request is transmitted as one of a higher layer message and a medium access control (MAC) layer message.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the calibration request is transmitted as a physical layer control message.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein the calibration request is included in a shared control part.
5. The method of claim 3 wherein the calibration request is included in a dedicated control part.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the sounding packet is a packet dedicated for sounding purposes.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the sounding packet is a data packet.
8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
the first STA sending a second sounding packet along with a second calibration request to the second STA;
the second STA receiving the second sounding packet and performing at least one channel measurement to generate a second channel estimate; and
the second STA sending the second channel estimate to the first STA, wherein the first STA generates the first correction vector based on the first channel estimate and the second channel estimate.
9. A method for calibration to support transmit beamforming in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications for channel state feedback to support transmit beamforming, the method comprising:
a first STA sending a channel state feedback request to a second STA;
the second STA sending a sounding packet to the first STA;
the first STA receiving the sounding packet and performing a channel measurement with the sounding packet; and
the first STA calculating a steering matrix for transmit beamforming based on the channel measurement.
10. The method of claim 9 wherein the channel state feedback request is transmitted as one of a higher layer message and a medium access control (MAC) layer message.
11. The method of claim 9 wherein the channel state feedback request is transmitted as a physical layer control message.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein the channel state feedback request is included in a shared control part.
13. The method of claim 11 wherein the channel state feedback request is included in a dedicated control part.
14. The method of claim 9 wherein the sounding packet is a packet dedicated for sounding purposes.
15. The method of claim 9 wherein the sounding packet is a data packet.
16. The method of claim 9 wherein the channel state feedback request is signaled implicitly.
17. The method of claim 9 wherein the second STA sends a channel state feedback response message along with the sounding packet.
18. A station (STA) configured to obtain channel state feedback to support transmit beamforming in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system, the STA comprising:
a plurality of antennas;
a channel estimator for generating a channel estimate based on a sounding packet transmitted by a communication peer; and
a processor configured to send a channel state feedback request to a communication peer and calculate a steering matrix for transmit beamforming based on the channel estimate.
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