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- Patent Title: On-demand reconfigurable control plane architecture (ORCA) integrating millimeter-wave small cell and microwave macro cell
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Application No.: US15697620Application Date: 2017-09-07
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Publication No.: US10555355B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Aimin Justin Sang , Yuanyuan Zhang , Yu-Syuan Jheng
- Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
- Current Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Agency: Imperium Patent Works
- Agent Zheng Jin
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04W76/15 ; H04W76/27 ; H04W8/18

Abstract:
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) band communication is a very promising technology for 5G small cells. In practice, such a new system will coexist with legacy or evolved microwave band systems, such as E-UTRAN LTE macro-cell cellular systems, for a long time to come. Considering the typical scenarios where a macro cell offers umbrella coverage for clusters of small cells, several control plane (C-plane) architectural choices of macro-assisted 5G mmWave systems from both UE and network's perspectives are evaluated. Termed macro-assisted mmWave, an effective end-to-end integration of the futuristic mmWave small cells and microwave macro cells shall promise the benefits of both yet avoid individual limitations. The proposed On-demand Reconfiguration C-Place Architecture (ORCA) for Macro-assisted Millimeter Wave (mmWave) small cells is designed to meet 5G expectations of dense deployment of small cells and UEs and beamformed intermittent Gbps links.
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