Massive cooperative multipoint network operation
AssigneeCohere Technologies, Inc.
InventorShlomo Selim RAKIB
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Abstract
Methods, systems and devices for massive cooperative multipoint network operation are described. One example method for wireless communication includes transmitting, by a network node serving a plurality of mobile devices in a surrounding area, channel condition information and scheduling information for one or more of the plurality of mobile devices to a network-side server, receiving, by the network node from the network-side server, control information for scheduling transmissions to or from each of the one or more of the plurality of mobile devices, and controlling, by the network node and based on the control information, a communication to or from the one or more of the plurality of mobile devices at a future time or a different frequency band or a different spatial direction.
Claims21
A wireless communication method, comprising:
- providing, using a network-side server, seamless wireless connectivity in an area using in which a plurality of network nodes is organized as clusters in which each network node is configured to provide wireless connectivity via N angular sectors covering a surrounding area, where N is an integer and wherein angular sectors of the plurality of network nodes collectively cover the area;
- controlling, by the network-side server, network nodes in a cluster to collect channel condition information for the N angular sectors and communication the channel condition information to the network-side server;
- and
- operating the network-side server to use the channel condition information collected from the network nodes in the cluster to control communication for the network nodes in the cluster at a different time or a different frequency or a different spatial direction.
A wireless communication system;
- comprising:
- an arrangement of a plurality of network nodes in which each network node is configured to provide wireless connectivity via N angular sectors covering a surrounding area, where N is an integer and wherein angular sectors of the plurality of network nodes collectively provide seamless wireless service in an area;
- a network-side server communicatively coupled to each network node in a cluster and configured to collect channel condition information for the N angular sectors and receive the channel condition information from each network node in the cluster;
- and
- the network-side server further configured to use the channel condition information collected from the network nodes in a cluster to control communication for the network nodes in the cluster at a different time or a different frequency or a different spatial direction.
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