US 2026/0197771 A1 · ENHANCED MM WAVE COVERAGE USING ADAPTIVE POWER ADJUSTMENTS

Abstract

The technology disclosed herein relates to enhancing millimeter (mm) wave coverage within a wireless telecommunications network. It is commonly known that mm waves have difficulty propagating through materials. Urban areas pose significant hurdles for mm waves since a line of sight (LOS) to a user device is often times blocked by a physical object (e.g., building, tree, car, etc.). However, mm waves are desirable because of the wide bandwidths available for carrying communications at that frequency range. Embodiments herein provide methods, systems, and computer-storage media for adjusting a transmission power of a mm wave such that it can propagate through a physical object when a permittivity of an external material of the physical object is within a specified range where power adjustment would successfully propagate the mm wave through the physical object.

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Dependent claims

A system for enhancing millimeter (mm) wave coverage within a wireless telecommunications network, the system comprising:

one or more processors communicatively coupled with a plurality of antenna elements that provide a coverage area;
and
computer memory storing computer-usable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
identifying a location of a user device within a sector of the coverage area;
identifying a first physical object location for a first physical object that is between the location of the user device and the plurality of antenna elements;
receiving physical object data for one or more physical objects within the sector of the coverage area provided by the plurality of antenna elements, wherein the physical object data comprises, for each of the one or more physical objects, one or more object attributes;
determining, using an algorithm, a required mm wave transmission power based on the one or more object attributes of the first physical object;
adjusting a current mm wave transmission power to the required mm wave transmission power;
and
transmitting a mm wave signal having the required mm wave transmission power to be received by the user device.

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Enhanced mm wave coverage using adaptive power adjustments

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Abstract

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