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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2016
Interdigital Technology Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Sana Sfar, Redmond, WA (US);
Alexander Reznik, Pennington, NJ (US);
Prabhakar Chitrapu, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Zinan Lin, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Mohammed Sammour, Amman, JO;
Ana Lucia A. Pinheiro, Portland, OR (US);
Mihaela Beluri, Jericho, NY (US);
Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US);
Yogendra Shah, Exton, PA (US);
Gregg A. Charlton, Collegeville, PA (US);
Guodong Zhang, Syosset, NY (US);
Khushali N. Manseta, San Diego, CA (US);
Ruiyuan Hu, San Diego, CA (US);
InterDigital Technology Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for wireless communications is disclosed. Channel state information (CSI) for a plurality of network nodes is transmitted. Grant information is received from at least one network node of the plurality of network nodes. The grant information is based on the transmitted CSI and includes an indication of a cooperative scheme. A plurality of beam-formed signals, including data from each of the plurality of network nodes, is received in response to the received grant information. The same data is received from each of the plurality of network nodes.