Pre-coder selection based on resource block grouping

A receiver, comprising:

• a receive portion employing transmission signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas and capable of providing channel estimates;
• and
• a feedback generator portion configured to provide a pre-coder selection for data transmission to the transmitter that is based on the channel estimates, wherein the pre-coder selection provides a set of pre-coders corresponding to a subgroup of resource blocks contained in each group of contiguous resource blocks and corresponds to a grouping of frequency-domain resource blocks.

A receiver, comprising:

• a receive portion employing transmission signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas and capable of providing channel estimates;
• and
• a feedback generator portion configured to provide a pre-coder selection for data transmission to the transmitter that is based on the channel estimates, wherein the pre-coder selection provides a set of pre-coders corresponding to a combination of groups of contiguous resource blocks and corresponds to a grouping of frequency-domain resource blocks.

A receiver, comprising:

• a receive portion employing transmission signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas and capable of providing channel estimates;
• and
• a feedback generator portion configured to provide a pre-coder selection for data transmission to the transmitter that is based on the channel estimates, wherein the pre-coder selection is jointly encoded to achieve feedback transmission compression and corresponds to a grouping of frequency-domain resource blocks.

A receiver, comprising:

• a receive portion employing transmission signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas and capable of providing channel estimates;
• and
• a feedback generator portion configured to provide a pre-coder selection for data transmission to the transmitter that is based on the channel estimates, wherein the pre-coder selection is jointly encoded with a channel quality indicator and corresponds to a grouping of frequency-domain resource blocks.

A method of operating a receiver, comprising:

• providing channel estimates employing transmission signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas;
• and
• feeding back a pre-coder selection for data transmission to the transmitter that is based on the channel estimates, wherein the pre-coder selection corresponds to a grouping of frequency-domain resource blocks and provides a single pre-coder for each group of contiguous resource blocks.

A method of operating a receiver, comprising:

• providing channel estimates employing transmission signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas;
• and
• feeding back a pre-coder selection for data transmission to the transmitter that is based on the channel estimates, wherein the pre-coder selection provides a set of pre-coders corresponding to a subgroup of resource blocks contained in each group of contiguous resource blocks and corresponds to a grouping of frequency-domain resource blocks.

A method of operating a receiver, comprising:

• providing channel estimates employing transmission signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas;
• and
• feeding back a pre-coder selection for data transmission to the transmitter that is based on the channel estimates, wherein the pre-coder selection provides a set of pre-coders corresponding to a combination of groups of contiguous resource blocks and corresponds to a grouping of frequency-domain resource blocks.

A method of operating a receiver, comprising:

• providing channel estimates employing transmission signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas;
• and
• feeding back a pre-coder selection for data transmission to the transmitter that is based on the channel estimates, wherein the pre-coder selection is jointly encoded to achieve feedback transmission compression and corresponds to a grouping of frequency-domain resource blocks.

A method of operating a receiver, comprising:

• providing channel estimates employing transmission signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas;
• and
• feeding back a pre-coder selection for data transmission to the transmitter that is based on the channel estimates, wherein the pre-coder selection is jointly encoded with a channel quality indicator and corresponds to a grouping of frequency-domain resource blocks.

A receiver, comprising:

• a receive portion employing transmission signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas and capable of providing channel estimates;
• and a feedback generator portion configured to provide a pre-coder selection for data transmission to the transmitter that is based on the channel estimates, wherein the pre-coder selection corresponds to a grouping of frequency-domain resource blocks, wherein each of the resource blocks represents 180kHz bandwidth.

A receiver, comprising:

• a receive portion employing transmission signals from a transmitter having multiple antennas and capable of providing channel estimates;
• and
• a feedback generator portion configured to provide a pre-coder selection for data transmission to the transmitter that is based on the channel estimates, wherein the pre-coder selection corresponds to a grouping of frequency-domain resource blocks, wherein each of the resource blocks represents 180kHz bandwidth.