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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2012
Ntt Docomo, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hooman Shirani-Mehr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Haralabos C. Papadopoulos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sean A. Ramprashad, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Giuseppe Caire, Palo Alto, CA (US);
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for performing wireless communication. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a processing unit to run a scheduling selection algorithm to update user terminal scheduling weights in response to scheduling feedback transmitted by a plurality of user terminals by an end of an immediately preceding scheduling event; a scheduler and precoder, responsive to the updated user terminal scheduling weights generated by the scheduling algorithm and channel estimates of user terminals, to choose a set of user terminals for scheduling and to choose precoder beams and their power for such user terminal in the set of user terminals; a plurality of precoding blocks to receive one coded ARQ block for at least one packet for each user terminal in the set and, responsive to the precoder beams, to generate precoded data, where the one coded ARQ block is one of a plurality of ARQ blocks generated for a single packet and being generated using a single ARQ scheme for such each user terminal; and a transmitter to transmit the precoded data using MIMO transmission.