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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2011
Applicants:
Louay Jalloul, San Jose, CA (US);
Bertrand Hochwald, South Bend, IN (US);
Inventors:
Louay Jalloul, San Jose, CA (US);
Bertrand Hochwald, South Bend, IN (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/02 (2006.01); H04B 7/04 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0465 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of a method and apparatus for selecting one of several different power constraints under which sets of complex, beam weights are normalized are described herein. The embodiments of the method and apparatus specifically select the power constraint based on a code rate used to encode information carried by a transmit signal weighted by the sets of complex, beam weights. Appropriate selection of the power constraint can improve the bit error rate (BER) or block error rate (BLER) of the decoded transmit signal at a receiver.