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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2014
Applicant:
Magnolia Broadband Inc., Englewood, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Magnolia Broadband Inc., Englewood, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/10 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04B 7/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/086 (2013.01); H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04B 7/0874 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and a method for applying a blind tuning process to M antennas coupled via N beamformers to a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) receiving system having N channels, wherein M>N, are provided herein. The method includes the following steps: Periodically measuring channel fading rate at a baseband level to determine the number of antennas L out of K antennas connected to each one of the beamformers, to be combined at each one of the N beamformers; assigning the antennas to the subset L according to some criteria such as best quality indicator; repeatedly applying a tuning process to L antennas in each one of the N beamformers.