Coordinated beamforming
AssigneeCable Television Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsDORIN VIOREL, JENNIFER ANDREOLI-FANG
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Abstract
Wireless communication facilitated with beamforming between devices and base stations, including when one or more devices are located within overlapping areas or ranges of two or more base stations, is contemplated. The beamforming may be implemented according to a non-joint beamforming methodology and/or a joint beamforming methodology, optionally as determined according to uplink/downlink demands and/or communications between multiple base stations.
Claims20
A method for coordinating beamforming for radio units comprising:
- covering the radio units in a beam tracking operation whereby wireless services from at least one of the radio units is covered with signaling from at least two base stations in a sequential timing pattern;
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- dynamically adjusting the sequential timing pattern as a function of data requirements of the at least one of the radio units according to instructions provided from a main base station of the at least two base stations to each of the remaining of the at least two base stations.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a plurality of instructions executable with a processor to facilitate coordinating beamforming for a first base station wirelessly providing a first beam to a first cell and a second base station wirelessly providing a second beam to a second cell, the plurality of instructions being sufficient for:
- determining a first device located within the first cell and the second cell in an overlapping position, the overlapping position characterized by the first device being reachable with the first beam and the second beam;
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- coordinating the first beam and the second beam in a sequence whereby the first device is allocated traffic over the first beam at one or more first intervals and the first device is allocated traffic over the second beam at one or more second intervals, the second intervals being temporally different than the first intervals.
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