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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2007
Pramod Viswanath, Bedminster, NJ (US);
Rajiv Laroia, Bedminster, NJ (US);
David N. C. Tse, Berkeley, CA (US);
Pramod Viswanath, Bedminster, NJ (US);
Rajiv Laroia, Bedminster, NJ (US);
David N. C. Tse, Berkeley, CA (US);
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for scheduling mobile stations (MSs) to download data to and/or to control the rate of downloading to an MS from a base station (BS) as a function of downlink channel condition information are described. Artificial channel variations, which can be measured at the MS, and feedback to a BS for scheduling purposes, are introduced through the use of two or more transmitter antennas at a BS. Each of the antennas transmits a signal at the same frequency having the same information content, e.g., modulated data. However the signals are made to differ with time in their phase and/or amplitude. Multiple signals having the same transmission frequency and information content are received and interpreted as a single composite signal by a receiving MS.