Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optimizations for zero-forcing precoding
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Application No.: US15792604Application Date: 2017-10-24
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Publication No.: US10230510B2Publication Date: 2019-03-12
- Inventor: Karthik Yogeeswaran , Ali Yazdan Panah
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: FisherBroyles, LLP
- Main IPC: H04Q7/00
- IPC: H04Q7/00 ; H04L5/00 ; H04B7/0452 ; H04B7/0417 ; H04B7/06

Abstract:
Massive MIMO systems provide impressive spectral efficiencies through beam forming techniques such as Zero-Forcing Precoding (ZFP). Unfortunately, ZFP imposes a considerable computational burden for each additional user. Relationships between the antennas, the users, and the environment must be rapidly, and accurately, reassessed during ZFP on an ongoing basis. Brute force approaches to these reassessments may be unfeasible for certain hardware and design conditions. Accordingly, various of the proposed embodiments implement representational optimizations which reduce the computational burden for each reassessment. Some embodiments employ “dynamic sectorization”, whereby the serviced environment is divided into regions and the corresponding representation is modified to reduce the computations of each reassessment. A backplane, antenna separation/directivity and thresholds for environment noise may each be adjusted to reduce the computational burden.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180062812A1 OPTIMIZATIONS FOR ZERO-FORCING PRECODING Public/Granted day:2018-03-01
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