Location-based beamforming management in a network

A system comprising:

• a communication management resource operative to:
• receive first location information indicating that a wireless base station resides at a first location in a network environment;
• receive second location information associated with user equipment, the second location information indicating a second location in the network environment;
• derive beamforming settings based on the first location and the second location, the beamforming settings derived via calculated pathlosses along different paths in the network environment, the pathlosses along the different paths calculated from a pathloss model of the network environment including the wireless base station and the user equipment;
• and
• distribute the beamforming settings to the wireless base station and the user equipment.

Computer-readable storage hardware having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when carried out by computer processor hardware, cause the computer processor hardware to:

• receive first location information indicating that a wireless base station resides at a first location in a network environment;
• receive second location information associated with user equipment, the second location information indicating a second location in the network environment;
• derive beamforming settings based on the first location and the second location, the beamforming settings derived via calculation of pathlosses along different paths in the wireless network environment the pathlosses along the different paths calculated from a pathloss model of the network environment including the wireless base station and the user equipment;
• and
• distribute the beamforming settings to the wireless base station and the user equipment.

A method comprising:

• receiving first location information indicating that a wireless base station resides at a first location in a network environment;
• receiving second location information associated with user equipment, the second location information indicating a second location in the network environment;
• deriving beamforming settings based on the first location and the second location, the beamforming settings derived via calculated pathlosses along different paths in the network environment;
• and
• distributing the beamforming settings to the wireless base station and the user equipment;
• and
• wherein deriving the beamforming settings includes calculating the pathlosses along the different paths between the first location at which the wireless base station resides and an anticipated location at which the user equipment will reside.

A method comprising:

• receiving first location information indicating that a wireless base station resides at a first location in a network environment;
• receiving second location information associated with user equipment, the second location information indicating a second location in the network environment;
• deriving beamforming settings based on the first location and the second location, the beamforming settings derived via calculated pathlosses along different paths in the network environment;
• distributing the beamforming settings to the wireless base station and the user equipment;
• and
• wherein the pathlosses along the different paths in the network environment are determined via trial and error.