Method and apparatus for massive MU-MIMO

    公开(公告)号:US11632151B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-18

    申请号:US17253472

    申请日:2018-06-20

    摘要: Disclosed is a method of a first wireless communication device configured for massive multi-user multiple-input multiple output (MU-MEMO) communication with two or more second wireless communication devices. The first wireless communication device comprises a plurality of antenna ports, each antenna port associated with at least one of a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The method comprises acquiring an estimation of a communication channel between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication devices and acquiring an estimation of a quantization distortion caused by either DACs or ADCs. The method also comprises jointly determining (for the two or more second wireless communication devices) a transmission power and a transmission resource for each of the second wireless communication devices, wherein the joint determination is based on the estimation of the communication channel and on the estimation of the quantization distortion. Corresponding apparatus, network node and computer program product are also disclosed.

    Method for restoring a microwave link

    公开(公告)号:US11569559B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-31

    申请号:US16608458

    申请日:2017-04-28

    IPC分类号: H01Q1/02 H04W24/02

    摘要: A method (10) for restoring a microwave link is provided. The method (10) is performed by a network entity (7) and comprises receiving (11) information from a node (3) controlling a microwave antenna (5), the information indicating that an obstacle is at least partly obscuring the microwave antenna (5), and instructing (12), based on the received information, an unmanned aerial vehicle (6) adapted for maintenance work to fly to a given location for removing the obstacle on the microwave antenna (5). A method (40) in a network node (3), a method (70) in an unmanned aerial vehicle (6) and devices are also provided.

    Antenna alignment in a non-line of sight condition

    公开(公告)号:US11050466B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-29

    申请号:US16765954

    申请日:2017-12-15

    摘要: A method for alignment of an antenna in a microwave radio link system in Non-Line-Of Sight (NLOS) conditions. The method includes having a pointer indicating a first position on a surface to define a first candidate reflection/diffraction point on the surface, aligning a first antenna at a first node and a second antenna at a second node towards the first candidate reflection/diffraction point, and recording a relevant property concerning the channel quality between the first node and the second node via the first candidate reflection/diffraction point. The pointer may be a drone. Related devices and systems are disclosed.

    Channel condition estimation
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10720976B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-21

    申请号:US15325846

    申请日:2016-12-27

    摘要: There is provided mechanisms for obtaining channel conditions per antenna element, A method is performed by a wireless radio transceiver device comprising N antenna elements in an antenna array with analog beamforming and being configured to communicate using beams. The method comprises obtaining, for a stationary radio propagation channel, channel conditions for signals received by the wireless radio transceiver device in M beams, where M>1. The method comprises transforming the channel conditions for the M beams to channel conditions for the N antenna elements by using a relation based on beamforming weights that map the N antenna elements to the M beams.

    Relaying in a wireless communication network

    公开(公告)号:US11831440B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-28

    申请号:US17623149

    申请日:2019-07-01

    摘要: A first type node (AP0, AP1, AP2) in a wireless communication system (1), wherein the first type node (AP0, AP1, AP2) is adapted to: —communicate with at least one other first type node (AP0, AP1, AP2) in the wireless communication system (1) over a corresponding channel (hA01, hA12), and —transmit a first plurality of signals (x11, x1i, X1N, X21, X2i, X2N−1) to the other first type node (AP0, AP1, AP2). In the case of the other first type node (AP0, AP1, AP2) requesting re-transmission of a failed signal (x11) in the first plurality of signals (x11, x′1i, X1N, X21, X2i, X2N−1), the first type node (APo, AP1, AP2) is further adapted to: —receive a limit of tolerable interference from the other first type node (APo, APi, AP2), and —re-send the failed signal (xn) in a second plurality of signals (x11, x′2i x′1i, X′1N, X′21, X′2N−1, X′2N, X2N; X11, x′2i, x′1i, X′1N, x′21, x′2N−1, X2N) to the other first type node (AP0, AP1, AP2) while sharing the spectrum for the failed signal (x11) with an additional signal (x′2i) without exceeding the limit of tolerable interference.

    Relaying in a wireless communication network

    公开(公告)号:US11799539B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-24

    申请号:US17436433

    申请日:2019-03-08

    IPC分类号: H04B7/155 H04L1/00

    CPC分类号: H04B7/155 H04L1/0045

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to a first type node in a wireless communication system, wherein the first type node is adapted to: communicate with at least one other first type node in the wireless communication system over a corresponding channel receive a plurality of signals, each signal being associated with a corresponding decoding error probability, from the other first type node estimate the decoding error probability for each signal sort the signals in a decoding order according to the estimated decoding error probability, decode the signals one at the time from the lowest estimated decoding error probability to the highest estimated decoding error probability until decoding for a certain signal is determined to have failed, request re-transmission of the signal for which decoding has been determined to have failed, and to request re-transmission of all signals having higher decoding error probability than the signal for which decoding has been determined to have failed.