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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2023
T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sanghoon Sung, Ashburn, VA (US);
T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
In order to reduce power consumption, an access node may turn off transmissions from one or more rows or columns of antennas in a mMIMO array. To help prevent the beam from overshooting (i.e., going beyond) an intended area of coverage when the access node turns off transmission by one or more rows, the access node also increases the electrical down tilt of the beam (i.e., angle of depression) to help contain the beam within its intended area of coverage. To help prevent problems with SSB beam selection and/or beam switching, when the access node turns off transmission by one or more columns, the access node reduces the number of SSB beams that are transmitted while sweeping SSBs over the sector thereby reducing the overlap of the (now) wider SSB beams.