Patent ID: 10218421

Abstract:
A transmitter for radio transmission to one or more receivers over a channel described at least in part by a channel matrix H, the transmitter comprising a pre-coder connected to an antenna array via a transmit unit, the antenna array comprising a number M of antenna elements am, m=1, 2, . . . , M, each antenna element am being configured to receive a respective transmit signal component xm from the pre-coder via the transmit unit, the pre-coder being configured to receive a number K<M of data streams sk, k=1, 2, . . . , K, and to generate the M transmit signal components, wherein the generating comprises adding M shaping components em, m=1, 2, . . . , M, to respective transmit signal components xm, the shaping components em being generated based on a null-space of the channel matrix H and on one or more properties of the transmit unit.