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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2011
Mohammad Janani, Plano, TX (US);
Ahmadreza Hedayat, Allen, TX (US);
Matthew A. Silverman, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Mohammad Janani, Plano, TX (US);
Ahmadreza Hedayat, Allen, TX (US);
Matthew A. Silverman, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided to compute downlink beamforming weights for beamforming multiple spatial streams to a wireless device when that wireless device does not transmit with a maximum number of spatial streams, and thus when the full dimensional knowledge of the wireless channel to that wireless device needs to be implicitly derived. Uplink signals are received at a plurality of antennas of a first wireless device that are transmitted via a plurality of antennas of a second wireless device. The first wireless device derives values at a plurality of subcarriers of the received signals across the plurality of antennas of the first wireless device. Downlink beamforming weights are computed from values of consecutive subcarriers across the plurality of antennas of the first wireless device. The first wireless device applies the downlink beamforming weights at respective subcarriers to a number of spatial streams to be transmitted to the second wireless device.