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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2012
Applicant:
Vodafone Ip Licensing Limited, Newbury, Berkshire, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Vodafone IP Licensing Limited, Newbury, Berkshire, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 3/36 (2006.01); H04B 7/04 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 17/12 (2015.01); H04B 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 3/36 (2013.01); H04B 7/0465 (2013.01); H04B 7/0473 (2013.01); H04B 7/0632 (2013.01); H04B 7/0689 (2013.01); H04B 17/12 (2015.01); H04B 7/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A transmission system and method for use in a mobile communication network comprising an active antenna arrangement of multiple antennas. The active antenna arrangement comprising several pairs of radiofrequency sub-modules each radiofrequency sub-module including a first phase shifter module, a TRX module and a radiating antenna element and where an dynamic phase offset is applied to one of the sub-modules of each pair, and where the phase offset vector is selected according to the signal quality received by users of the mobile communication network using an algorithm which minimizes the duration of the selection process.