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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Howard Huang, New York, NY (US);
Harpreet Singh Dhillon, New York, NY (US);
Harish Viswanathan, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Reinaldo Valenzuela, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 74/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/0833 (2013.01); H04W 74/006 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of enabling a plurality of user equipments (UEs) to transmit on random access channel (RACH). The method including transmitting, by an access point (AP), beacons to activate sets of UEs of the plurality of UEs based on a protocol, each of the sets of UEs containing UEs that are spatially co-located and each beacon associated with a different one of the sets of UEs.