Patent ID: 9537551
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L

Claim:
1. A method performed by a transmitter to provide a precoder subset to a receiver in a multi-antenna wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining the precoder subset comprising one or more precoder elements, each precoder element being a precoder element of a codebook, and the precoder subset including less than all precoder elements of the codebook; and generating a precoder subset bitmap based on the precoder subset, wherein each bit of the precoder subset bitmap corresponds to a precoder element of the codebook, each bit being one of a first value and a second value, the first value indicating that channel state information (CSI) reporting is allowed for the corresponding precoder element, and the second value indicating that CSI reporting is not allowed for the corresponding precoder element; providing the precoder subset bitmap to the receiver to allow the receiver to reduce complexity in providing feedback to the transmitter, wherein the codebook is defined for a plurality of ranks, wherein for each rank, the codebook comprises a plurality of precoder elements corresponding to that rank, wherein at least one rank is an equivalence capacity rank, the precoder elements of each equivalence capacity rank being grouped into one or more capacity groups in which