Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for transmitting common signal in hybrid beamforming
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Application No.: US14974003Application Date: 2015-12-18
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Publication No.: US09667334B2Publication Date: 2017-05-30
- Inventor: Wei Xi , Xiaolin Hou , Huiling Jiang
- Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: CN201410799868 20141219
- Main IPC: H04B7/06
- IPC: H04B7/06 ; H04B7/0456

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for transmitting a common signal in hybrid beamforming. The method includes: acquiring an analog common signal to be transmitted; selecting a different codeword for each RF chain from a codebook for analog beamforming and obtaining an analog beamformer; beamforming the analog common signal to be transmitted in each RF chain according to the analog beamformer; and transmitting the beamformed analog common signal in each RF chain.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160182138A1 Method and Apparatus For Transmitting Common Signal In Hybrid Beamforming Public/Granted day:2016-06-23
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