Wireless beamforming to facilitate ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC) service
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorRobert Keith Butler
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Abstract
A wireless base station serves a wireless network sector over a frequency channel. The wireless base station shares the frequency channel with an Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) service in a subsector of the wireless network sector. A Fifth Generation (5G) radio beamforms 5G signals over the frequency channel to User Equipment (UEs) that are located in the wireless network sector. The beamforming attenuates the 5G signals below a signal threshold before the 5G signals enter the subsector. A 5G baseband unit determines when UEs enter the subsector. The 5G baseband unit detaches UEs that enter the subsector from the frequency channel.
Claims18
A method of operating a wireless base station that serves a wireless network sector over a frequency channel to facilitate a wireless Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) service over the frequency channel in a subsector of the wireless network sector, the method comprising:
- the wireless base station beamforming and transmitting Fifth Generation (5G) signals over the frequency channel to User Equipment (UEs) that are located in the wireless network sector wherein the beamforming attenuates the 5G signals below a signal threshold before the 5G signals enter the subsector;
- the wireless base station determining when ones of the UEs enter the subsector;
- the wireless base station detaching the ones of the UEs that enter the subsector from the frequency channel, wherein wireless URLLC devices communicate over the frequency channel in the subsector;
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- the wireless base station wirelessly receiving a URLLC stop signal from a URLLC network in the subsector and responsively stopping the beamforming of the 5G signals to avoid the subsector and stopping the detaching of the UEs that enter the subsector.
A wireless base station to serve a wireless network sector over a frequency channel and facilitate a wireless Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) service over the frequency channel in a subsector of the wireless network sector, the wireless base station comprising:
- a Fifth Generation (5G) radio configured to beamform and transmit 5G signals over the frequency channel to User Equipment (UEs) that are located in the wireless network sector wherein the beamforming attenuates the 5G signals below a signal threshold before the 5G signals enter the subsector;
- a 5G baseband unit configured to determine when ones of the UEs enter the subsector and detach the ones of the UEs that enter the subsector from the frequency channel, wherein wireless URLLC devices are configured to communicate over the frequency channel in the subsector;
- the 5G radio configured to receive a URLLC stop signal from a URLLC network in the subsector, and in response, to stop the beamforming of the 5G signals to avoid the subsector;
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- and the 5G baseband unit configured to process the URLLC stop signal, and in response, to stop the detachment of the UEs that enter the subsector.
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