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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2022
Mavenir Networks, Inc., Richardson, TX (US);
Manoharan Ramalingam, Bengaluru, IN;
Mavenir Networks, Inc., Richardson, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for synchronized selection of user equipments (UEs) for both downlink (DL) Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) operation and uplink (UL) MU-MIMO operation includes: applying a common set of selection criteria for selecting a common pool of UE candidates for both DL and UL MU-MIMO operations, wherein the common set of selection criteria are applied in Stage-1 selection process to select Stage-1 candidates for a UE candidates list; and if the Stage-1 selection process applying the common set of selection criteria is not able to find UE candidates to fill available slots in the UE candidates list, initiating Stage-2 selection process involving 1) applying a first set of Stage-2 selection criteria to select DL-only traffic UEs as Stage-2 candidates for the UE candidates list, and 2) applying a second set of Stage-2 selection criteria to select UL-only traffic UEs as Stage-2 candidates for the UE candidates list.