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Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 23, 2010
Applicant:

Ari Hottinen, Espoo, FI;

Inventor:

Ari Hottinen, Espoo, FI;

Assignee:

Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 15/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 28/04 (2009.01); H04W 28/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 15/00 (2013.01); H04W 72/1231 (2013.01); H04W 24/00 (2013.01); H04W 28/04 (2013.01); H04W 28/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, apparatus, and computer program for cognitive radio communications are provided. A reference signal is received from a transmitter of a primary system, and the received reference signal is received with an arbitrarily selected beamforming setting. Then, a signal quality metric is calculated from the received and beamformed reference signal. If the signal quality metric indicates that a reception power of the received signal is low, transmission of a data signal to a wireless communication device of a secondary system is scheduled. In the scheduled transmission in the secondary system, the same beamforming setting as was used in the reception of the reference signal is employed.


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