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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
May. 16, 2017
Applicant:
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Inventors:
Gabor Fodor, Hasselby, SE;
Osama Al-Saadeh, Kista, SE;
Chrysostomos Koutsimanis, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04B 7/0452 (2017.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/0808 (2013.01); H04B 7/0452 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are proposed for managing carrier sensing in a communications system. In order to enable carrier sensing of a beamforming transmission to a served wireless device, a network node transmits a first transmission and a second transmission. The second transmission is the beamforming transmission to the served wireless device and the first transmission is an unhiding signal, which indicates the presence of the second transmission.