US 2018/0123893 A1Published application

Hybrid Node Control

AssigneeFacebook, Inc.

InventorsNabeel Ahmed, Djordje Tujkovic, Sanjai Kohli

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Abstract

Apparatuses, methods, and systems for controlling a hybrid node are disclosed. A network includes a plurality of first nodes, wherein sectors of the plurality of first nodes are configured to simultaneously transmit wireless signals or receive wireless signals, a plurality of second nodes, wherein sectors of the plurality of second nodes are configured to simultaneously transmit wireless signals when all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of first nodes are receiving wireless signals, or receive wireless signals when all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of first nodes are transmitting wireless signals, and a plurality of hybrid nodes, wherein at least a subset of sectors of the plurality of hybrid nodes are controllably selected to operate as one of the plurality of first nodes or to operate as one of the plurality of second nodes.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A wireless network, comprising:

a plurality of first nodes, wherein each of the plurality of first nodes includes one or more sectors, and wherein all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of first nodes are configured to simultaneously transmit wireless signals or receive wireless signals;
a plurality of second nodes, wherein each of the plurality of second nodes includes one or more sectors, and wherein all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of second nodes are configured to simultaneously transmit wireless signals when all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of first nodes are receiving wireless signals, or receive wireless signals when all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of first nodes are transmitting wireless signals;
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a plurality of hybrid nodes, wherein each of the plurality of hybrid nodes includes one or more sectors, wherein at least a subset of sectors of the plurality of hybrid nodes are controllably selected to operate as one of all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of first nodes or to operate as one of all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of second nodes.

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A method, comprising:

operating a plurality of first nodes of a wireless network, wherein each of the plurality of first nodes includes one or more sectors, and wherein all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of first nodes are configured to simultaneously transmit wireless signals or receive wireless signals;
operating a plurality of second nodes, wherein each of the plurality of second nodes includes one or more sectors, and wherein all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of second nodes are configured to simultaneously transmit wireless signals when all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of first nodes are receiving wireless signals, or receive wireless signals when all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of first nodes are transmitting wireless signals;
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controllably operating a plurality of hybrid nodes, wherein each of the plurality of hybrid nodes includes one or more sectors, wherein at least a subset of sectors of the plurality of hybrid nodes are controllably selected to operate as one of all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of first nodes or to operate as one of all of the one or more sectors of the plurality of second nodes.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/338,338Filed 29 Oct 2016
Published: 3 May 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04W 40/16
Based on transmission quality or channel quality: based on interference
H04L 41/0893
Configuration management of networks or network elements: assignment of logical groups to network elements
H04W 16/10
Resource partitioning among network components, e.g. reuse partitioning: dynamic resource partitioning
H04W 72/0446
Based on the type of the allocated resource: resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames