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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2022
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Krishna Sitaram, Chantilly, VA (US);
Hemanth B. Pawar, Brambleton, VA (US);
Shilpa K. Srinivas, Brambleton, VA (US);
Sprint Spectrum LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A base station or an associated control entity determines when base station's air interface is threshold highly loaded or is predicted to be threshold highly loaded, and the base station responsively reduces the number of transmit antennas that the base station uses. Further, the base station or associated control entity could determine when the base station's air interface is no longer actually or predicted to be threshold highly loaded, and the base station could responsively increase the number of transmit antennas that the base station uses, such as by reverting to use a default number of antennas. Reducing the number of transmit antennas that the base station uses when its air interface is threshold highly loaded may help to increase air-interface capacity by reducing resource consumption from transmission of reference signals associated with the transmit antennas.