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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2014
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Murat Mese, Ranchos Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Yan Wang, Plano, TX (US);
Nihar Jindal, Mountain View, CA (US);
Louay Jalloul, San Jose, CA (US);
Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford, CA (US);
Amin Mobasher, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sirikiat Ariyavisitakul, Alpharetta, GA (US);
James Bennett, Hroznetin, CZ;
Sam Alex, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Systems and methods for enabling a wireless backhaul network between access points (APs) in a wireless network are provided. In an embodiment, the wireless backhaul network is enabled using a Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) radio access technology (RAT). In another embodiment, the wireless backhaul network is established using the same RAT as used by the APs to serve user devices, and can utilize the same time and frequency resources used for user communication.