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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2005
Amit Kalhan, La Jolla, CA (US);
Doug Dunn, Chula Vista, CA (US);
Henry Chang, San Diego, CA (US);
Ramon Khalona, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Amit Kalhan, La Jolla, CA (US);
Doug Dunn, Chula Vista, CA (US);
Henry Chang, San Diego, CA (US);
Ramon Khalona, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Kyocera Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
In a wireless communication system, data is encoded by packet indifferent (PI) coding and some packets are transmitted omnidirectionally while supplemental packets are transmitted directionally to a user with a poor air link. PI encoding is defined herein as encoding in which the source data can be recovered from any K of the encoded packets, regardless of which of the encoded packets are received, where K=N+A. N is equal to the number of packets in the source data and A is the number of additional packets required due to the PI encoding. A subset of M data packets can be sent to one or many users from an omnidirectional antenna, where M is greater than or equal to K. If less than K data packets are received by at least one user, then the data block is not successfully received by that user. A number R of supplemental packets can be sent to users that did not receive K data packets successfully. The supplemental packets can be sent by a directional antenna to the specific user or users that did not receive K data packets.