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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2013
Nec Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Kishore Ramachandran, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Narayan Prasad, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Sampath Rangarajan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method implemented in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method includes determining a first candidate set of transmit beams for a wireless transmitter having a transmit antenna array and a second candidate set of receive beams for a wireless receiver having a receive antenna array, transmitting, from the wireless transmitter, each transmit beam in the first candidate set, and applying, at the wireless receiver, receive beams in the second candidate set to receive said each transmit beam in the first candidate set. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed.