- Patent Title: Specular component estimation in a wireless communication network
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Application No.: US16665284Application Date: 2019-10-28
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Publication No.: US11190265B2Publication Date: 2021-11-30
- Inventor: Thomas Haustein , Lars Thiele , Wilhelm Keusgen , Marcus Grossmann , Markus Landmann
- Applicant: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
- Applicant Address: DE Munich
- Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
- Current Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
- Current Assignee Address: DE Munich
- Agency: Perry + Currier Inc.
- Priority: EP17168791 20170428
- Main IPC: H04B7/08
- IPC: H04B7/08 ; H04B7/06 ; H04L27/26

Abstract:
An apparatus includes an antenna array having a plurality of antennas. The antenna array is configured to receive a multi-carrier signal from a multi-antenna transmitter over a radio channel. The multi-carrier signal has at least two subcarriers, and each subcarrier is mapped at the transmitter to a respective subcarrier-beamformer. The respective subcarrier-beamformers has non-identical null and beam cone directions. A processor is configured to identify a communication direction for a radio signal communication between the apparatus and the transmitter. The communication direction is identified based on one or more specular path components of the radio channel which are related to a null or to a maximum of a subcarrier-beamformer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200059289A1 SPECULAR COMPONENT ESTIMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK Public/Granted day:2020-02-20
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