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Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 17, 2010
Applicants:

Gregory Alan Breit, San Diego, CA (US);

Sameer Vermani, San Diego, CA (US);

Santosh Paul Abraham, San Diego, CA (US);

Hemanth Sampath, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Gregory Alan Breit, San Diego, CA (US);

Sameer Vermani, San Diego, CA (US);

Santosh Paul Abraham, San Diego, CA (US);

Hemanth Sampath, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Certain aspects of the present disclosure present physical layer metrics for supporting adaptive station-dependent channel state information feedback rate in multi-user communication systems. For certain aspects, the physical layer metrics may be calculated at the stations and communicated to the AP. For certain aspects, the metrics may be calculated at an access point utilizing information about channel characteristics of stations available at the access point.


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