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- Patent Title: Closed loop carrier sense multiple access with multiuser request to send and clear to send handshaking in an advanced wireless network
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Application No.: US16138132Application Date: 2018-09-21
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Publication No.: US10834781B2Publication Date: 2020-11-10
- Inventor: Ralf Bendlin , Thomas Novlan , Arunabha Ghosh , Abdulrauf Hafeez
- Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Amin, Turocy & Watson, LLP
- Main IPC: H04W88/06
- IPC: H04W88/06 ; H04W74/08 ; H04W72/04 ; H04W16/14 ; H04B7/0452

Abstract:
A closed loop carrier sense multiple access multiuser request to send and clear to send handshaking system is provided to efficiently allocate licensed and unlicensed spectrum for a plurality of mobile devices and across different base stations and mobile network operators. A user equipment device can be connected to a base station device via a first frequency in licensed spectrum, and a second frequency in unlicensed spectrum. The air interface on the first frequency can then be used to coordinate physical and virtual carrier sensing on a second frequency among a plurality of user equipment devices. Moreover, carrier sensing results from a plurality of UEs can be reported a base station device via the first frequency in licensed spectrum. The base station device can then schedule multiple user multiple input, multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmissions to a plurality of UEs on the second frequency in unlicensed spectrum.
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