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AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsSeverine Catreux-Erceg, Vinko Erceg, Pieter Roux, Pieter Rooyen, Jack Winters
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Systems and methods that provide channel-adaptive antenna selection in multi-antenna-element communication systems are provided. In one embodiment, a method that selects a subset of receive antennas of a receiver to receive a transmitted RF signal may include, for example, one or more of the following: establishing possible subsets of the receive antennas; determining sets of channel parameter statistics corresponding to the possible subsets of the receive antennas; computing output bit error rates of the receiver, each output bit error rate being computed based on at least one set of channel parameter statistics; selecting a particular possible subset of the receive antennas based upon a criterion predicated on the computed output bit error rates; and connecting one or more RF chains of the receiver to the receive antennas of the selected particular possible subset.
A method for selecting a subset of receive antennas of a receiver to receive a transmitted RF signal, comprising:
A method for selecting a subset of transmit antennas of a transmitter to transmit an RF input signal as a plurality of RF output signals that are subsequently received by a receiver, comprising:
In a communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver, the transmitter comprising transmit antennas adapted to transmit a set of spatially-multiplexed RF output signals through a channel using two or more transmit RF chains, the receiver comprising receive antennas adapted to receive the set of spatially-multiplexed RF output signals and adapted to responsively generate a set of spatially-multiplexed received RF signals that is processed by two or more receive RF chains, an antenna selection method comprising:
In a communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver, the transmitter comprising transmit antennas adapted to transmit a set of RF output signals through a channel using one or more transmit RF chains, the receiver comprising receive antennas adapted to receive the set of RF output signals and adapted to responsively generate a set of received RF signals that is processed by one or more receive RF chains, an antenna selection method comprising:
A system for selecting N antenna elements in an M-antenna-element transmitter or an M-antenna-element receiver, in which N is less than M, comprising:
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