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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2016
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04B 7/0417 (2017.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/0452 (2017.01); H04B 7/0456 (2017.01); H04B 15/00 (2006.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/0421 (2013.01); H04B 7/0452 (2013.01); H04B 7/0486 (2013.01); H04B 7/063 (2013.01); H04B 7/0632 (2013.01); H04B 7/0673 (2013.01); H04B 7/0695 (2013.01); H04B 15/005 (2013.01); H04L 1/0026 (2013.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hybrid combination of analog RF beamforming and digital pre-coding is used to improve signal-to-noise ratio and mitigate interference as between an RF base station and a plurality of wireless receivers within a cell area of the base station. Feedback overhead for beamforming training may be reduced by using indices for identifying the preferred beams of each wireless receiver. Scheduling for channel training may be based on identifying non-colliding ones of the RF beams and assigning these to corresponding wireless receivers which can best use the assigned beams in shared transmission slots.