Beamforming in a MU-MIMO wireless communication system
US9954591B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 16, 2016 |
| Grant date | Apr 24, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 16, 2036 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04B7/0452
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
This invention provides methods for Distributed Massive MIMO (DM-MIMO) that use one or more central Baseband Units (BBUs), one or more Multi-User Beamformers for each BBU performing multi-user MIMO computations, and a number of RRHs distributed over a geographic area.
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