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Radio communication apparatus and packet scheduling method

US7359735B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 4, 2005
Grant dateApr 15, 2008
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Expiry dateMay 27, 2025

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W72/046
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A radio communication apparatus enhances cell throughput by adaptive selection of spatially multiplexed channels in consideration of interferences in a local cell and reducing load for calculation of array weights by storing them in advance as fixed values and outputting fixed beams. To reduce the calculation load for the adaptive selection of spatially multiplexed channels that takes interferences within the local cell into consideration, the radio communication apparatus adopts a packet scheduling method that selects a combination of fixed beams and determines the number of spatially multiplexed channels, based on the fixed beams for mobile apparatuses with packets waiting to be transmitted and pre-calculated correlative quantities of inter-beam interferences between these fixed beams.

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