A wireless communication system including receiving and base stations. The
receiving station includes a detector that measures a downlink channel
correlation matrix for multiple antennas of a base station. The detector
computes an antenna weight increment vector normal to an antenna weight
vector for multiple beams from the multiple antennas of the base station.
The detector quantizes the antenna weight increment vectors to produce a
respective quantized antenna weight increment vector. The receiving
station includes a transmitter that sends the quantized antenna weight
increment vectors to the base station. The base station includes a
beamformer selector that receives from the receiving station and
re-orthogonalizes the quantized antenna weight increment vector for each
of the multiple beams. The base station includes a weight vector modifier
that modifies the antenna weight vector for the multiple beams by adding
an increment proportional to the respective re-orthogonalized quantized
antenna weight increment vector.