# US 10,484,073 B2 · Precoding information collection method and transmission device

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- Number: US 10,484,073 B2
- Document ID: US10484073B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/625,327
- Filed: 2017-06-16
- Published: 2017-10-05
- Granted: 2019-11-19
- Earliest claimed: 2014-12-17
- Assignees: Hauwei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Deli Qiao; Ye Wu; Dageng Chen; Jin Liu
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10484073B2

## CPC

- H04B 7/0665: {Feed forward of transmit weights to the receiver}
- H04B 7/0617: {for beam forming}
- H04B 7/063: {Parameters other than those covered in groups H04B7/0623 - H04B7/0634, e.g. channel matrix rank or transmit mode selection}
- H04B 7/0639: {Using selective indices, e.g. of a codebook, e.g. pre-distortion matrix index [PMI] or for beam selection}
- H04L 5/0048: {Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091)}
- H04B: TRANSMISSION
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)

## Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a precoding information collection method and a transmission device and relate to the communications field. A specific solution is: precoding, by a transmit side, a first pilot signal according to a first precoding matrix, and sending a precoded first pilot signal to a receive side, where the first precoding matrix is the same as a precoding matrix used for current data transmission; precoding, by the transmit side, N second pilot signals according to N second precoding matrices, and sending N precoded second pilot signals to the receive side, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, the second precoding matrices used for precoding the second pilot signals are different from each other, and the N second precoding matrices are different from the first precoding matrix; and receiving, by the transmit side, precoding feedback information sent by the receive side.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of precoding information collection, applied to a receive apparatus, wherein there are M data streams used for data transmission between the receive apparatus and a transmit apparatus, and M is an integer greater than 1, the method comprising:
receiving, by the receive apparatus, a precoded first pilot signal group sent by the transmit apparatus, and receiving i precoded second pilot signal groups sent by the transmit apparatus, wherein i is an integer greater than or equal to 1;
demodulating, by the receive apparatus, the precoded first pilot signal group to obtain a first pilot signal group, and demodulating the i precoded second pilot signal groups to obtain i second pilot signal groups respectively; and
sending, by the receive apparatus, precoding feedback information to the transmit apparatus according to the first pilot signal group and the i second pilot signal groups, wherein the first pilot signal group comprises M first pilot signals, and the ith second pilot signal group comprises Ai second pilot signals; and
the sending, by the receive apparatus, precoding feedback information to the transmit apparatus according to the first pilot signal group and the i second pilot signal groups comprises:
obtaining, by the receive apparatus, signal quality of the M first pilot signals in the first pilot signal group, and obtaining signal quality of
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selecting, by the receive apparatus, B pilot signals according to signal quality of all of the first pilot signals and signal quality of all of the second pilot signals, and sending the precoding feedback information to the transmit apparatus according to the B pilot signals, wherein B is an integer that is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to
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### Claim 2

A receive apparatus, wherein there are M data streams used for data transmission between the receive apparatus and a transmit apparatus, and M is an integer greater than 1; and the receive apparatus comprising:
a receiver configured to receive a precoded first pilot signal group sent by the transmit apparatus, and receive i precoded second pilot signal groups sent by the transmit apparatus, wherein i is an integer greater than or equal to 1;
a processor configured to demodulate the precoded first pilot signal group received by the receiver to obtain a first pilot signal group, and demodulate the i precoded second pilot signal groups received by the receiver to obtain i second pilot signal groups respectively; and
a transmitter configured to send precoding feedback information to the transmit apparatus according to the first pilot signal group and the i second pilot signal groups that are obtained by the processor, wherein the first pilot signal group comprises M first pilot signals, and the ith second pilot signal group comprises Ai second pilot signals; and
the transmitter is configured to obtain signal quality of the M first pilot signals in the first pilot signal group, and obtain signal quality of
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second pilot signals in the i second pilot signal groups; and select B pilot signals according to signal quality of all of the first pilot signals and signal quality of all of the second pilot signals, and send the precoding feedback information to the transmit apparatus according to the B pilot signals, wherein B is an integer that is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to
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