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Wireless communication system, base station and wireless terminal for performing a coordinated uplink transmission

US9781731B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 31, 2015
Grant dateOct 3, 2017
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Expiry dateApr 18, 2036

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W72/54
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A base station includes a controller to execute a process including grouping a plurality of wireless terminals into one or more groups using at least one of phases of signals and location information of each wireless terminal received from the plurality of wireless terminals, and allocating, to wireless terminals belonging to each group, resources to perform coordinated multi-point transmission by the wireless terminals in each group, a transmitter to transmit an identifier of each group and an allocation result of the resources to each wireless terminal, and a receiver to receive data transmitted from the wireless terminals of each group by the coordinated multi-point transmission.

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