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Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 04, 2013
Applicant:

Sprint Communication Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Sungki Park, Ashburn, VA (US);

Brent Scott, Gardner, KS (US);

Saied Kazeminejad, Ashburn, VA (US);

Brett Christian, Independence, MO (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 52/24 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 36/0083 (2013.01); H04W 36/0061 (2013.01); H04W 52/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system, and medium are provided for increasing carrier-to-interference-and-noise ratio (CINR) gain in a long-term-evolution network deploying beam forming (BF) technologies. Adjacent eNodeBs, each serving a respective user equipment (UE) located at the boundary between the two eNodeBs, communicate BF parameters to each other. Each eNodeB uses the received BF parameters to adjust its DL transmission beam in order to decrease the interference at each of the respective UEs. By adjusting the DL transmission beam to decrease interference, CINR gain at the UEs is correspondingly increased.


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