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• the present invention relates to asymmetrical beamforming in wireless networks such that the transmit power across all antennae is the same.
• Beamforming using singular-value-decomposition (SVD) of the channel matrix is a well-known method for improving performance when multiple antennae are available.
• the beamforming matrix is such that the transmitted power from each antenna is the same.
• N 7 the number of transmit antenna
• N R the number of receive antennae
• the present invention provides a number of embodiments of techniques for implementing beamforming such that in an asymmetric system the transmit power across all antennae is the same.
• Beamforming from multiple transmit antennae to multiple receive antennae is a well- known way of extracting channel diversity.
• N T the number of transmit antennae
• N R the number of receive antennae
• using the eigenvectors of the channel matrix for beamforming is known to be the optimal strategy.
• N ⁇ > N R the commonly used method is to pick the eigenvectors corresponding to the largest eigenvalues as the beamforming vectors. The problem with this approach is that this gives rise to unequal transmit power from each antenna. This is a problem since in most cases the RF chains are peak-power limited.
• the present invention provides several embodiments for asymmetrical beamforming that ensure the transmit power on each antenna is the same, without appreciable loss in performance. Additionally, a technique is provided for choosing fewer beamforming vectors than frequency bins in an OFDM system. This latter technique is useful in an embodiment where the vectors are feedback instead of assuming that the transmitter has channel knowledge and can compute the vectors.
• Technique 3 Optimization based on outage probability
• Technique 4 Hybrid Optimization
• the present invention applies to both open and closed loop systems, i.e., the former having a transmitter that has knowledge of the channel, estimates Q and uses one of the foregoing techniques to adjust Q and the latter having the receiver perform these actions.
• FIG. 1 illustrates an asymmetric communication system with a feedback channel
• FIG. 2 illustrates a method of determining a beamforming matrix for a closed loop asymmetric communication system, according to the present invention
• FIG. 3 illustrates a closed loop apparatus for determining and feeding back a beamforming matrix having equal power in an asymmetric communication system
• FIG. 4 illustrates an asymmetric closed loop communication system modified according to the present invention.
• FIG. 5 illustrates performance of the various techniques for quantizing.
• FIG. 5 illustrates performance of the various techniques for quantizing.
• FIG. 5 illustrates performance of the various techniques for quantizing.
• FIG. 5 illustrates performance of the various techniques for quantizing.
• FIG. 5 illustrates performance of the various techniques for quantizing.
• FIG. 5 illustrates performance of the various techniques for quantizing.
• FIG. 5 illustrates performance of the various techniques for quantizing.
• FIG. 5 illustrates performance of the various techniques for quantizing.
• FIG. 1 illustrates a closed loop comprising two wireless stations 101 105 which can be part of a wireless local area network (WLAN) including a mobile stations (laptop, personal digital assistant (PDA)) and can be access points for such WLANs.
• the wireless stations 101 105 can be part of wide area wireless network and wireless personal are networks. These stations 101 105 can comply with a wireless standard such as IEEE 802.11 or any other such standard, such compliance being partial or complete. However, wireless stations 101 105 each have a plurality of antennae and in the present invention the number is assumed to be asymmetric.
• n a noise vector
• the received vector r is a Ng X 1 vector
• the channel matrix H 103 is an Ng X N ⁇ matrix
• the beamforming matrix Q is an N ⁇ x N R matrix
• x is a Ng X 1 vector.
• the channel H is assumed to be known perfectly.
• the above signal model is repeated for each frequency bin.
• H and Q are different for each frequency bin.
• a closed loop system 100 is assumed and current channel state information is transmitted between stations (STAs) 101 and 105 in order to reduce decoding complexity.
• STAs 101 and 105 each include multiple antennae, respectively iVr K ⁇ and N R 104 j , and together form system 100.
• the communications bandwidth used for this purpose is termed "feedback bandwidth" and is fed back from the receiver 105 to the transmitter 101 over a feedback channel 107 after being estimated by a channel estimator 106 that represents the current channel state information by a beamforming matrix Q which, in some preferred embodiments, is determined using singular value decomposition (SVD).
• the transmitter 101 uses the beamforming matrix Q to transmit each outgoing signal into multiple spatial channels.
• the matrix f L O 1 1 IIJ has only the single eigenvector (IJ O)), then P cannot have a matrix inverse, and hence A does not have an eigen decomposition.
• FIG. 2 illustrates a method 200 according to the present invention.
• the channel H is estimated.
• a modified channel estimator/power equalizer/[feedback] apparatus 300 is provided.
• a memory 301 is included in the apparatus and H 301.1 is stored therein at step 201.
• a beamforming matrix Q 301.2 is determined (as described above) and store in the memory 301.
• the beamforming matrix Q 301.2 is adjusted using one of the following techniques, each comprising a separate preferred embodiment of the present invention, to ensure that the transmitted vector has equal power components.
• the adjusted beamforming matrix 301.3 is stored in the memory 301 of the apparatus 300.
• Ql sign[Re(Q)) + jsign(lm(Q)] is a beamforming matrix that will not only have equal power components, but since each component can be only 1 of 4 values, result in fewer bits being used for feedback.
• Technique 3 Optimization based on outage probability.
• Technique 3 still requires optimization over a large number of possibilities.
• a further simplification is to use Technique 2 for the first vector, i.e., quantize the first vector of the SVD matrix and then use Technique 3 to determine the other vectors. For a 4 X 2 case, this requires performing the SVD, followed by an optimization over 9 possible choices.
• Technique 5 Optimization across frequency domain. If a single beamforming matrix is chosen for p channel frequency bins, the p optimization criterion are to choose that Q that maximizes V det(/f ; ⁇ ) . The search space is
• a method is illustrated for determining a beamforming matrix Q at in a closed loop that includes a receiver 105 and feeding Q back to a transmitter 101.
• the receiver estimates the channel state in a matrix H.
• a beamforming matrix Q is estimated from H (as described above).
• any of the techniques 1 -5 of the present invention is used to adjust the matrix Q such that components have equal power and at step 204 the adjust beamforming matrix is fed back to the transmitter.
• FIG. 3 illustrates a apparatus for channel estimation and feedback 300 in a closed loop, according to the present invention, including a memory 301 for storing channel state matrix H and related data 301.1, and the original beamforming matrix and related data 301.2 and the adjust beamforming matrix and related data according to the present invention 301.2.
• the apparatus 300 further includes a power equalizer component 302 that accepts received signals 303 for the channel H and includes a channel estimator module 302.1 to produce therefrom the channel matrix H and store it in the memory 301 as channel state matrix/data 301.1.
• the power equalizer component 302 further includes a beamforming matrix adjustment module 302.2 that forms an initial beamforming matrix, then adjusts 203 the initial beamforming matrix according to a pre-selected one of the techniques 1-5 of the present invention and stores the adjusted matrix Q and related data in the memory 301 as Adjusted beamforming matrix/data 301.3.
• the power equalizer component includes a feedback module 302.3 that feeds back the adjusted beamforming matrix Q as feedback signals 304 via the feedback channel 107 to the transmitter 101.
• FIG. 4 illustrates a closed loop asymmetric communication system 400 that includes at least one transmitter 101 and a receiver 105 modified to interface to a channel estimator/feedback apparatus 300 configured according to the present invention and provide received signals 303 from the transmitter 101 concerning channel state H 103 thereto.
• the channel estimator/feedback apparatus 300 estimates the channel, creates and stores the channel matrix H and related data in the memory 301.1, creates and stores and initial beamforming matrix from the channel matrix H in the memory 301.2, and adjusts 203 the initial beamforming matrix according to a pre-selected one of the techniques 1-5 of the present invention and stores the adjusted beamforming matrix Q in the memory 301.3. Finally, the channel estimator/feedback apparatus 300 feeds back 204 the adjusted beamforming matrix Q 304 to the transmitter 101 using the feedback channel 107.
• the communication system 400 can adhere, either completely or in part, to any communication standard, such as IEEE 802.11 and can be part of any type of wireless communications network. The present invention is intended to apply to all asymmetric wireless communications networks/ systems.

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