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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2010
Applicants:
Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Howell, NJ (US);
Kishore Ramachandran, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Sampath Rangarajan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Howell, NJ (US);
Kishore Ramachandran, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Sampath Rangarajan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Assignee:
NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 20/71 (2008.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed to partition a multicast group into a plurality of partitions where each partition has a mutually exclusive subset of users or clients; scheduling beam transmission with switched beamforming antennas; and performing the multicast transmission in accordance with the beam scheduling.