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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2016
Sprint Spectrum Lp, Overland Park, KS (US);
Shilpa X. Kowdley, Brambleton, VA (US);
Hemanth Pawar, Brambleton, VA (US);
Chunmei Liu, Great Falls, VA (US);
Krishna Sitaram, Chantilly, VA (US);
Sprint Spectrum LP, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are described for selecting User Equipment(s) (UEs) for pairing in a cellular network. A channel orthogonality of one or more UEs located within a radio range of a first Access Node (AN) may be determined. The one or more UEs may be prioritized for Uplink (UL) Multi-User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) pairing when a channel orthogonality meets a set channel orthogonality condition. A second AN located within the radio range of the first AN may be detected. At least one of the prioritized UEs located within a radio range of the second AN may be selected for de-prioritization. The prioritized UEs may be paired to share a same set of resource blocks.