Apparatus and method for reference symbol transmission in an ofdm system
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd
InventorsKaushik Josiam, Shadi Abu-Surra, Ying Li, Sridhar Rajagopal, Zhouyue Pi
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AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd
InventorsKaushik Josiam, Shadi Abu-Surra, Ying Li, Sridhar Rajagopal, Zhouyue Pi
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A base station is capable of communicating with a plurality of subscriber stations using a beamforming scheme that varies beams over different time instances. The base station includes a plurality of antenna arrays configured to transmit N spatial beams and carry a reference symbols corresponding to specific spatial beams. The base station also includes NRF number of radio frequency (RF) processing chains coupled to respective ones of the plurality of antenna arrays, wherein N>>NRF. The subscriber station includes MRF processing receive paths configured to receive M number of beams from the base station.
For use in a wireless communications network, a base station capable of communicating with a plurality of subscriber station using a beamforming scheme, the base station comprising:
For use in a wireless communications network, a method for beamforming, the method comprising:
For use in a wireless communications network, a subscriber station capable of communicating with at least one base station using a beamforming scheme, the subscriber station comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.