Abstract—Recently, exploiting the temporal correlation of slowly varied multiple input multiple output (MIMO) channels to further improve the system performance or the feedback efficient in MIMO wireless communication systems with limited feedback has been investigated in many papers. Among them, T. Kim et al. proposed a rotation matrix based differential feedback scheme which is shown to have good performance with regard to the system throughput for spatial multiplexing MIMO systems. Although the rotation matrix codebook and the precoding codebook in their scheme are optimally constructed, they are not fit for a practical system due to the structure constraints. In this paper, we propose to replace the optimal codebook in the rotation matrix based differential feedback scheme with discrete Fourier transform (DFT) structured codebook, and propose a search-based method to decrease the performance degradation induced by the un-optimality of the DFT codebook. In addition, the modified algorithm is also applied to a per-cell codebook based coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission system to verify its applicability to different MIMO scenarios. Simulation results show the effectiveness of our modified scheme.

Index Terms—Temporal correlation, differential feedback, DFT codebook, spatial multiplexing

Cite: Yin Zhu, Yusheng Ji, Ping Wang, and Fuqiang Liu, "Improvement of Rotation Matrix Based Differential Limited Feedback with DFT Codebook and Its Application in CoMP Environment," Journal of Communications, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 498-505, 2014. Doi: 10.12720/jcm.9.6.498-505