Method and apparatus for generating a channel state information report adapted to support a partial omission

A user equipment for generating a channel state information feedback report, the user equipment comprising:

• a transceiver that receives a set of reference signals transmitted from a network entity;
• and
• a controller that computes a plurality of entries that are included in the channel state information feedback report based on the received set of reference signals, where the entries of the channel state information feedback report include at least a set of coefficients, and each coefficient is associated with at least one or more of a spatial domain basis index, a frequency domain basis index, and a layer index;
• wherein the plurality of entries of the channel state information feedback report are arranged by the controller in an order known to both the user equipment and the network entity, where higher prioritized entries are positioned toward a beginning of the order of the arranged entries, and lower prioritized entries are positioned toward an end of the order of the arranged entries;
• wherein at least a portion of the channel state information feedback report includes one or more concatenated groups;
• wherein the plurality of entries of the channel state information feedback report are prioritized using predefined permutations of the indices for one or more of the frequency domain basis indices, the spatial domain basis indices, and the layer indices of the plurality of entries;
• and
• wherein the predefined permutation maps the frequency domain basis indices from 0, M−1, 1, M−2, 2, . . . , ┌(M−1)/2┐ to 0, 1, 2, . . . , M−1, respectively, where M represents a total number of frequency domain basis indices, and an output of the ceiling operator ┌q┐ is a smallest integer value greater than or equal to a real value q.