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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2016
Applicant:

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Espoo, FI;

Inventors:

Xiaoyong Yu, Grayslake, IL (US);

Ke-Kang Chin, Bartlett, IL (US);

Alan Rottinghaus, Barrington, IL (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 28/06 (2009.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04B 7/0695 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 28/06 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 88/085 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01);
Abstract

Described are techniques for limiting bandwidth requirements for user equipment UE data sent on a front haul link between a remote radio head RRH and a baseband unit BBU. For a given UE a subset of a plurality of beams is selected based on received energies of the plurality of beams, and for the given UE only data from the selected subset of beams transmitting on a front haul link. Multiple techniques are detailed for how the subset is selected, including (when UE allocation information is available) averaged received beam energy, total received beam energy, maximum received beam energy and also (when UE allocation information is not available). For further bandwidth reduction a special data compression technique uses the received energies of each beam to select a minimum gain offset value after dividing the data into I and Q components.


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