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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2011
Severine Catreux-erceg, Cardiff, CA (US);
Vinko Erceg, Cardiff, CA (US);
Pieter Roux, San Diego, CA (US);
Pieter Van Rooyen, San Diego, CA (US);
Jack Winters, Middletown, NJ (US);
Severine Catreux-Erceg, Cardiff, CA (US);
Vinko Erceg, Cardiff, CA (US);
Pieter Roux, San Diego, CA (US);
Pieter Van Rooyen, San Diego, CA (US);
Jack Winters, Middletown, NJ (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods that provide channel-adaptive antenna selection in multi-antenna-element communication systems are provided. In one embodiment, a method that selects a subset of receive antennas of a receiver to receive a transmitted RF signal may include, for example, one or more of the following: establishing possible subsets of the receive antennas; determining sets of channel parameter statistics corresponding to the possible subsets of the receive antennas; computing output bit error rates of the receiver, each output bit error rate being computed based on at least one set of channel parameter statistics; selecting a particular possible subset of the receive antennas based upon a criterion predicated on the computed output bit error rates; and connecting one or more RF chains of the receiver to the receive antennas of the selected particular possible subset.