Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wireless device, a network node and methods therein for determining the quality of uplink beamforming directions in a wireless communications network
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Application No.: US15023426Application Date: 2016-02-12
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Publication No.: US10298309B2Publication Date: 2019-05-21
- Inventor: Martin Hessler , Erik Eriksson , Jonas Fröberg Olsson , Sven Petersson
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Murphy, Bilak & Homiller, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/SE2016/050111 WO 20160212
- International Announcement: WO2017/138852 WO 20170817
- Main IPC: H04W72/04
- IPC: H04W72/04 ; H04B7/06 ; H04B7/024 ; H04B7/0404

Abstract:
A method performed by a wireless device (121) for determining the quality of uplink beamforming directions in a wireless communications network (100) is provided. The wireless device (121) receives configuration information indicating uplink channel state information, CSI, processes for uplink beamforming directions. Then, the wireless device (121) transmits reference signals for one or more uplink beamforming directions on uplink transmission resources of corresponding one or more uplink CSI processes. The wireless device (121) also receives one or more uplink CSI process reports for the one or more uplink CSI processes. Then, the wireless device (121) determines the quality of at least one uplink beamforming direction using the one or more uplink CSI process reports. A wireless device (121) for determining the quality of uplink beamforming directions in a wireless communications network (100) is also provided.Furthermore, a network node and a method therein for enabling a wireless device (121) to determine a quality of uplink beamforming directions in a wireless communications network (100) are also provided.
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