Method and arrangement for processing a signal
US12388563B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 23, 2022 |
| Grant date | Aug 12, 2025 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 12, 2043 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W88/04
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A wireless communication unit to facilitate determining a plurality of communication link cost metrics at a receiving wireless communication unit using a multiple modulation and coding scheme, MCS, in a wireless mesh network, is described. A transmitter transmits sounding transmissions to at least two neighboring wireless communication units. A processor generates a sounding burst comprising: a plurality of multicast sounding transmissions that employ a different MCS; and a plurality of parameters contained at an application layer protocol level. The plurality of parameters comprises: an intra-burst sequence number for each MCS transmitted within each multicast sounding transmission; an indication of a number of sounding transmissions in the sounding burst; and an index value that references a particular table within a set of tables which is then used to determine a transmission bit rate, B, at the receiving unit for each multicast sounding transmission within the sounding burst.
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