METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MIMO COMMUNICATION

A method and system for data communication is provided. The wireless communication system including a base station comprising a plurality of antennas arranged in an array of at least two dimensions. The method includes receiving, at a user equipment (UE) and from a set of the plurality of antennas, a plurality of reference signals, wherein the set of antennas includes antennas arranged in two spatial dimensions; deriving channel estimates based on at least one received reference signal of plurality of reference signals; selecting at the UE based on the channel estimates, a precoding matrix from at least one configurable precoding codebook by applying an associated configurable precoder function to matrices in the configurable precoding codebook; and transmitting, from the UE to the base station, the channel information wherein the channel information includes an identifier of the selected precoding matrix.