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Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 21, 2022
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Sandy Saab, Plano, TX (US);

Shadi Abu-Surra, Plano, TX (US);

Gang Xu, Allen, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 17/336 (2015.01); H04B 17/382 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0608 (2013.01); H04B 7/0619 (2013.01); H04B 17/336 (2015.01); H04B 17/382 (2015.01);
Abstract

A system and method for an efficient port switching technique for line-of-sight multiple-input multiple-output communications by a base station is provided. The base station includes an antenna array comprising a first number of antenna ports. The base station also includes a transceiver configured to communicate in a wireless communication medium. The base station further includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine, based on the wireless communication medium, one or more parameters of the base station or a receive base station. The processor also is configured to select, based on the one or more first parameters and one or more second parameters, a second number of antenna ports to perform a communication with the receive base station.


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