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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2000
Manish Airy, San Jose, CA (US);
Baraa Al-Dabagh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jose Tellado, Stanford, CA (US);
Partho Mishra, Cupertino, CA (US);
John Fan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peroor K. Sebastian, Mountain View, CA (US);
Arogyaswami J. Paulraj, Stanford, CA (US);
Iospan Wireless, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention includes an apparatus and method for scheduling wireless transmission of data blocks between at least one antenna of a base transceiver station and multiple subscriber units. The scheduling can be based on the quality of a transmission link between the base station antennas and the subscriber units, the amount of data requested by the subscriber units, and/or the type of data requested by the subscriber units. The scheduling generally includes assigning frequency blocks and time slots to each of the subscriber units for receiving or transmitting data blocks. The invention includes a method for transmitting data streams between a base transceiver station and a plurality of subscribers. The method includes receiving protocol data units from a network, creating sub-protocol data units from the protocol data units, and once per a frame of time, generating a schedule that designates time slots and pre-defined frequency blocks in which each one of the plurality of subscribers is to receive each of the sub-protocol data units from a plurality of base station transceiver antennas. The invention can further include transmitting the schedule to each of the subscribers, and the plurality of base station transceiver antennas transmitting the sub-protocol data units according to the schedule. The invention can further include selecting at least one transmission mode for each subscriber. The transmission mode dictating the type of modulation and/or coding used during transmission of the sub-protocol data units.