Channel Feedback Quantization for High Data Rate MIMO Systems

  • Authors:
  • Mehdi Ansari Sadrabadi;Amir K. Khandani;Farshad Lahouti

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont.;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this work, we study a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless system where the channel state information is partially available at the transmitter through a feedback link. Based on singular value decomposition, the MIMO channel is split into independent sub-channels. Effective feedback of the required spatial channel information entails efficient quantization/encoding of a unitary matrix. We propose two schemes for quantizing unitary matrices via Givens rotations and examine the performance for a scenario where the rates allocated to the sub-channels are selected according to their corresponding gains. Numerical results show that the proposed schemes offer a significant performance improvement as compared to that of MIMO systems without feedback, with a negligible increase in the complexity