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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2016
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Torbjörn Wigren, Uppsala, SE;
Ramon Alejandro Delgado Pulgar, Elermore Vale, AU;
Katrina Lau, Wallsend, AU;
Richard Middleton, North Lambton, AU;
Walter Müller, Upplands Väsby, SE;
Ying Sun, Sundbyberg, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
The solution presented herein manages the feedback from multiple transmission points by reducing the amount of feedback provided by one or more slave nodes to a controlling master node. To that end, methods and apparatus are provided that determine whether there is a need for the slave node to provide feedback to the master node. Responsive to this determination, the methods and/or apparatus operate the master and/or slave node in a reduced feedback mode that manages the feedback provided by the slave node to the master node such that an amount of feedback provided by the slave node when operating in the reduced feedback mode is less than an amount of feedback provided by the slave node when operating in a full feedback mode.