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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2013
Thomson Licensing, Issy de Moulineaux, FR;
Theodoros Salonidis, Cambridge, MA (US);
Tae Hyun Kim, Seoul, KR;
Henrik Lundgren, Le Plessis Robinson, FR;
Thomson Licensing, , FR;
Abstract
A method of selecting antenna segments for transmission and/or reception in a MIMO wireless transmission system using sectorized directional antennas, includes the steps of selecting, from an initial set of ranked link antenna patterns, a link antenna pattern having the best average rank, at predetermined time intervals, successively selecting a subset of link antenna patterns having average ranks within a predetermined distance to the best average rank, determining an average link performance of the link antenna patterns selected in the preceding step, determining an average rank of the link antenna patterns, for which the average link performance has been determined in the preceding step, selecting the link antenna pattern having the best average rank, and repeating the process at the next predetermined time interval.