Method and apparatus for coordinated MIMO signal transmission among multiple cells in wireless OFDM systems
US8744014B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 23, 2010 |
| Grant date | Jun 3, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 21, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L25/03866
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A FFR (fractional frequency reuse)-based network MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) transmission architecture in a cellular system that employs cell sectoring using directional antennas. Each cell is sectorized into three outer sectors using three directional antennas which transmit in three different directions using three different frequency subbands. The cell sectors are arranged based on a frequency partition scheme so that three sectors in three neighboring cells form a coordinated group for network MIMO transmission. A regular and a rearranged frequency partition are described. Further, a practical implementation of SON (self organizing network)-based three-cell FFR-based network MIMO for a wireless OFDM system is described. In this implementation, a server connected to multiple base stations (BSs) defines multiple coordinated groups for coordinated MIMO transmission, and the BSs within each coordinated group negotiate a common radio resource region (a composite time-frequency region), and selects a serving mobile station to participate in the coordinated MIMO transmission.
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