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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
May. 05, 2017
Ntt Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Kakishima, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Le Liu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Haralabos Papadopoulos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ozgun Bursalioglu-Yilmaz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chenwei Wang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for base station selection based on uplink pilot and distributed user-proximity detection. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing uplink pilot configuration for a plurality of user terminals over a set of common resource elements, including generating a plurality of pilot patterns for the plurality of user terminals, where each of the plurality of pilot patterns comprises at least one zero-power resource element and at least one non-zero-power resource element and at least one zero-power resource element allocated to each different one of the plurality of user terminals has a different position in the pilot pattern.