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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2017
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A base station is capable of wireless communication with a plurality of terminals, the base station includes a memory that holds information on P (P: an integer of 3 or more) terminals currently connected to the base station, a determination unit that determines L (L: an integer satisfying 2≤L<P) terminals that are to report channel state information indicating a state of a propagation path to the base station from among the P terminals based on the information on the P terminals, at every data transmission cycle, a selector that selects M (M: an integer satisfying 2≤M≤L) terminals capable of spatial multiplex communication in the data transmission cycle based on the reporting of the channel state information from the L terminals, and a communicator that transmits data to and from the M terminals via a plurality of antennas using the spatial multiplex communication.