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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2009
Applicants:

Neelesh B. Mehta, Secunderabad, IN;

Koon Hoo Teo, Lexington, MA (US);

Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Neelesh B. Mehta, Secunderabad, IN;

Koon Hoo Teo, Lexington, MA (US);

Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/713 (2011.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 1/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/713 (2013.01); H04B 7/061 (2013.01); H04B 1/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

The embodiments of the invention describe a method for antenna selection in a wireless communication network. The network includes a transceiver having a set of antennas. The transceiver is configured to transmit a frequency-hopped sounding reference signal (SRS) over a subband from a subset of antennas at a time. The transceiver transmits the frequency-hopped SRS from subsets of antennas in the set of antennas alternately. In response to the transmitting, the transceiver receives information indicative of an optimal subset of antennas and transmits data from the optimal subset of antennas.


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