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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2009
Koon Hoo Teo, Lexington, MA (US);
Neelesh B. Mehta, Secunderabad, IN;
Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Koon Hoo Teo, Lexington, MA (US);
Neelesh B. Mehta, Secunderabad, IN;
Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention describe a method for antenna selection (AS) in a wireless communication network, the network comprising user equipment (UE), wherein the UE comprises a plurality of subsets of antennas including a selected subset of antennas and an unselected subset of antennas, wherein only the selected subset of antennas is used for transmitting user data, and wherein the UE is configured to transmit only from a subset of antennas at a time. The method transmits the user data from the selected subset of antennas within a set of subframes, and transmits a sounding reference signal (SRS) from the unselected subset of antennas within at least one subframe in the set of subframes to enable antenna selection for user data transmission.