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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2013
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
The present invention provides a virtual multiple-input multiple-output communication method and device. The method includes: determining a user set to which a user equipment in a sector belongs, where the user set includes a first user set and a second user set, a user equipment in the first user set is in a beam coverage area of a first antenna group in the sector but is not in a beam coverage area of a second antenna group of the sector, and a user equipment in the second user set is in the beam coverage area of the second antenna group but is not in the beam coverage area of the first antenna group (); and selecting, when a scheduled user equipment belongs to the first user set, an unscheduled user equipment in the second user set for pairing.