公开(公告)号：US10542488B1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-21

申请号：US16117473

申请日：2018-08-30

Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.

Inventor： Sreekar Marupaduga ,  Tom E. Patton

IPC: H04B7/185 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W52/52 ,  H04B7/0452

Abstract: A mechanism to control power consumption by a base station, such as a base station that implements an antenna array, such as a massive-MIMO antenna array. A computing system detects operation by the base station in a low-usage state and operation by a collated base station in a low-usage state. In response, the computing system then causes reconfiguration of a proper subset of antenna structures of the antenna array from an enabled state to a disabled state, while keeping a remainder of the antenna structures of the antenna array in the enabled state.