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Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 22, 2018
Applicant:

Sprint Spectrum Lp, Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Chunmei Liu, Great Falls, VA (US);

Krishna Sitaram, Chantilly, VA (US);

Hemanth Pawar, Brambleton, VA (US);

Pratik Kothari, Herndon, VA (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04B 7/0452 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04B 7/0452 (2013.01); H04W 72/042 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01);
Abstract

Allocating resources in a wireless network includes monitoring usage of each of a control channel and a data channel, determining that at least the usage of the data channel exceeds a capacity of the data channel, determining a usage of each of the control channel and the data channel operating in MU-MIMO mode, determining that the usage of the control channel in the MU-MIMO mode exceeds a first capacity of the control channel, determining a usage of each of the control channel and the data channel operating in both the MU-MIMO mode and an enhanced control mode, and adjusting a size of the portion of resources of the data channel allocated for control information upon determining that the second usage of one of the control channel or the data channel exceeds a second capacity of one of the control channel or the data channel.


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