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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2015
Applicant:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Daejeon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04B 7/04 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0456 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/0619 (2013.01); H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04B 7/0634 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are a method of beamforming and a 3D antenna array. The method includes: transmitting a first control channel; receiving first feedback information on a first antenna set and a first precoding scheme of a plurality of antenna sets included in the 3D antenna array, which are determined based on the first control channel, from a first communication node different from the communication node; and beamforming a traffic channel to be transmitted to the first communication node using the first antenna set and the first precoding scheme.