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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2022
Rakuten Symphony, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Hari Swaroop Kanzal Venkatesha, Bangalore, IN;
Ronak Bharatkumar Lalwala, Bangalore, IN;
Siddhant Gupta, Bangalore, IN;
Rajesh Teli, Bangalore, IN;
RAKUTEN SYMPHONY, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Techniques for reducing power consumption in a radio unit are disclosed. The techniques include determining a number of Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna elements of a MIMO antenna panel required to serve one or more User Equipment (UEs), identifying a number of MIMO antenna elements of the MIMO antenna panel not needed to serve the UEs. The techniques include sending, from an Open Radio Network (O-RAN) Distributed Unit (O-DU) to a O-RAN Radio Unit (O-RU), a beamforming weight of zero assigned to the MIMO antenna elements identified as not needed to serve the one or more UEs, the beamforming weight being sent in a digital domain via a Control plane (C-plane). The MIMO antenna elements assigned the beamforming weight of zero may be disabled thereby reducing the power consumption of the O-RU. Artificial Intelligence algorithms may be implemented to dynamically determine areas where the O-RAN should have more coverage or less coverage.