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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2008
G. J. Foschini, South Amboy, NJ (US);
Howard C. Huang, New York, NY (US);
Angel Lozano, Barcelona, ES;
Reinaldo Valenzuela, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Sivarama Venkatesan, Milltown, NJ (US);
G. J. Foschini, South Amboy, NJ (US);
Howard C. Huang, New York, NY (US);
Angel Lozano, Barcelona, ES;
Reinaldo Valenzuela, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Sivarama Venkatesan, Milltown, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method of forming clusters of cells in a wireless communication system. The method includes accessing information generated by measuring channel conditions for at least one mobile unit and a plurality of cells in the wireless communication system. The method also includes adding more than one of the plurality of cells to at least one cell cluster based on the accessed information and coordinating communication between the cells in each cell cluster and the mobile unit(s).