Hadamard Transform Based Codebook Design for Uniform Circular Arrays in Mobile Radio Communications

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has been adopted by long term evolution (LTE) and its updated version LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) to increase spectrum efficiency. However, the benefits of multi-user (MU) MIMO highly rely on the accurate channel knowledge at transmitter. So proper codebook design is a key problem for frequency division multiplexing (FDD) downlink systems. In this paper, an efficient codebook design based on Hadamard transform is proposed for uniform circular arrays. Then a two-stage feedback scheme is further proposed to reduce the feedback overhead. The average cell spectrum efficiency and cell-edge user spectrum efficiency of the proposed scheme are evaluated through system level simulation and compared with LTE Rel-10 feedback. The results show that the proposed codebook significantly improves feedback efficiency and system performance.