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- Patent Title: Antenna array operation control
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Application No.: US16980767Application Date: 2018-03-16
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Publication No.: US11115088B2Publication Date: 2021-09-07
- Inventor: Peter Jakobsson , Martin Isberg
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.
- International Application: PCT/EP2018/056753 WO 20180316
- International Announcement: WO2019/174753 WO 20190919
- Main IPC: H04B7/04
- IPC: H04B7/04 ; H04B7/0452 ; H04L5/00 ; H04W16/28 ; H04W72/04

Abstract:
A method is disclosed for controlling operations of an antenna array comprising two or more controllable sections and antenna ports connected to transceiver circuitry. The method includes determining a scenario of transmission or reception by the antenna array, and configuring the transceiver circuitry responsive to the determined scenario. The scenario is defined in terms of a requirement for a number of users intended as receivers or transmitters, respectively, of the transmission or reception and in terms of one or more of: a path loss requirement, a peak rate requirement, and a traffic capacity requirement. The configuration includes, for the transmission or reception, one or more of: allocating a number of sections of the two or more sections of the antenna array and determining a sub-division of the allocated sections, determining a number of information data layers for multiple-input multiple-output application, and allocating a bandwidth.
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