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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
May. 21, 2008
Sudarshan A. Rao, Highland Park, NJ (US);
Kam Hung Wu, Randolph, NJ (US);
Yifei Yuan, Livingston, NJ (US);
Sudarshan A. Rao, Highland Park, NJ (US);
Kam Hung Wu, Randolph, NJ (US);
Yifei Yuan, Livingston, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method of calibrating base station comprising a plurality of antennas and operating in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode. One embodiment of the method includes a method of calibrating a base station comprising a plurality of antennas for beamsteering forward link traffic data to a target mobile in a TDD wireless communication system. Each antenna is connected to a corresponding radio via a transmit/receive switch that is configured to switch between a receive path and a transmit path. The method includes transmitting a first signal from a first radio via a first cross-over cable coupled to the first radio and a second radio such that the first signal is received by the second radio. The method also includes transmitting a second signal from the second radio via a second cross-over cable coupled between the first and second radios such that the second signal is received by the first radio. The method further includes determining, based on at least one of the first or second signals, a relative weight that can be applied to traffic signals transmitted from the second radio.