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- Patent Title: Millimeter wave coarse beamforming using outband sub-6GHz reconfigurable antennas
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Application No.: US17213930Application Date: 2021-03-26
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Publication No.: US11843434B2Publication Date: 2023-12-12
- Inventor: Oday Bshara , Vasil Pano , Md Abu Saleh Tajin , Kapil R. Dandekar
- Applicant: Drexel University
- Applicant Address: US PA Philadelphia
- Assignee: Drexel University
- Current Assignee: Drexel University
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Philadelphia
- Agency: Schott, PC.
- Main IPC: H04B7/0456
- IPC: H04B7/0456 ; H04B7/06 ; H04W16/28 ; H04B7/0491

Abstract:
Low latency beamforming using phased antenna arrays is the key for practical deployment of envisioned millimeter wave (mmWave) Gbps mobile networks. This work aims towards reducing the overhead of the exhaustive sector-level sweep phase of the analog beamforming adopted in the IEEE 802.11ad standard. This system uses a reconfigurable antenna single RF chain in the sub-6 GHz new radio (NR) band to aid codebook-based beam selection in the mmWave band of the NR. The system exploits the congruence between the spatial propagation signatures of signals at both mmWave and sub-6 GHz frequencies to reduce the beam search space.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210306042A1 MILLIMETER WAVE COARSE BEAMFORMING USING OUTBAND SUB-6GHZ RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS Public/Granted day:2021-09-30
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