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Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2014
Applicant:

Magnolia Broadband Inc., Englewood, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Phil F. Chen, Denville, NJ (US);

Stuart S. Jeffery, Los Altos, CA (US);

Kenneth Kludt, San Jose, CA (US);

Haim Harel, New York, NY (US);

Assignee:

Magnolia Broadband Inc., Englewood, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 40/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 40/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for backhaul based explicit sounding feedback of 802.11 AP to AP channel state information (CSI) so that inter AP interference can be reduced and multiple APs transmissions that can occur simultaneously on the same radio channel. A modification may be made to APs such that they can accurately measure the CSI between them that in turn enables their respective beamformer to create pattern nulls toward each other while simultaneously developing pattern enhancements toward their intended station. An AP may send a sounding packet to its associated STAs, poll explicit feedbacks from STAs and receive backhaul CSI feedbacks from neighboring APs. There is no additional Wi-Fi overhead in physical layer. Backhaul feedback link is established through direct peer-to-peer (P2P) link which bypassed the sounding controller to reduce CSI feedback delay.


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