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Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2021
Applicant:

Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Sreekar Marupaduga, Overland Park, KS (US);

Rajveen Narendran, Olathe, KS (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Spectrum LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/36 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04B 7/0452 (2017.01); H04W 92/10 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/367 (2013.01); H04B 7/0452 (2013.01); H04W 72/0473 (2013.01); H04W 72/12 (2013.01); H04W 92/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for controlling application of MU-MIMO. The disclosure provides for considering a device's power class as a basis to decide whether to provide the device with MU-MIMO service. For instance, a base station could determine which of the base station's served devices that are threshold distant from the base station are each a high power device rather than a lower power device. And on at least that basis, the base station could select each such device to receive MU-MIMO service. Or faced with a choice between devices to receive MU-MIMO service, the base station could compare the devices' power classes and could select the devices that have higher power class to receive MU-MIMO service.


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