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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2017
Applicant:
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/0426 (2017.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/0426 (2013.01); H04W 52/028 (2013.01); H04W 52/0245 (2013.01);
Abstract
The solution presented herein improves the power consumption of an antenna array, such as used in beamforming systems, based on the antenna weights of the one or more antenna elements of the subarrays of the antenna array. To that end, a transmitter node comprising the antenna array determines whether the antenna weights of each subarray satisfy a threshold condition. If the weights satisfy the threshold condition, the transmitter node disables the corresponding power amplifier.