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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2019
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
SaiRamesh Nammi, Austin, TX (US);
Saeed Ghassemzadeh, Austin, TX (US);
Arunabha Ghosh, Austin, TX (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for switching between non-orthogonal and orthogonal multiple access protocols dynamically. A base station device can determine whether a user equipment device on a communication link should use a non-orthogonal multiple access system or an orthogonal multiple access system based on one or more attributes of the communication link, and send an indication of the selection to the user equipment device. The base station device can indicate the selection using a spreading factor parameter that is either equal to one or greater than one. If the spreading factor parameter is equal to one, that can indicate to the user equipment device to use an orthogonal multiple access system, whereas if the spreading factor parameter is greater than one, that can indicate to the user equipment device to use a non-orthogonal multiple access system.