Secondary access node control in a wireless communication network

    公开(公告)号:US11115860B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-07

    申请号:US16824360

    申请日:2020-03-19

    IPC分类号: H04W4/00 H04W28/04 H04W24/10

    摘要: In a wireless communication network, a primary access node controls the amount of secondary access nodes that serve User Equipment (UE). The primary access node exchanges data with the UE, corrects errors, and determines an error rate. The primary access node exchanges the data over backhaul links and determines backhaul throughput. The primary access node determines a target number of the secondary access nodes based on the error rate and the backhaul throughput. The primary access node identifies a qualifying set of the secondary access nodes that have adequate received signal strength. The primary access node selects a serving set having the target number of secondary access nodes from the qualifying set. The primary access node indicates the UE to the serving set and indicates the serving set to the UE. The serving set of the secondary access nodes exchange data with the UE.

    Dynamic variation of power per antenna to facilitate beamforming of antenna array

    公开(公告)号:US10756429B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-25

    申请号:US15933109

    申请日:2018-03-22

    IPC分类号: H01Q3/28 H01Q3/26 H04W16/28

    摘要: Methods and systems are provided for dynamically adjusting the beamform of an antenna array. A first beamform produced by an emission from a first antenna and an emission from a second antenna are determined, each of the first antenna and the second antenna having separate power supplies. Positions of user devices served by the cell of the antenna array are determined and compared to the first beamform. If it is determined that a second beamform would provide better coverage to any one or more of the user devices served by the cell, any one or more of the power supplies to individual antennas may be modified. Any one or more power supplies may utilize changes in the phase and/or amplitude of the power supplied to an antenna to change the emission of at least one antenna, producing a second beamform. The second beamform, in particular, may permit dynamic targeting of various vertical distributions of user devices within the cell.

    Dynamic antenna calibration scheduling

    公开(公告)号:US10659115B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-19

    申请号:US16218888

    申请日:2018-12-13

    摘要: Methods and systems are provided for dynamically delaying a calibration of an antenna. It is determined that there is a quantity of user devices above a predetermined threshold on a particular sector of an antenna associated with the base station, or that there is a quantity of user devices above a predetermined threshold in an MU-MIMO group on the particular sector of the antenna. Further, it is determined that there is an upcoming scheduled calibration event of the antenna, and based on the upcoming scheduled calibration event and the occurrence, the upcoming scheduled calibration event of the antenna is delayed or postponed.

    Dynamically adjusting vertical beamforming weights

    公开(公告)号:US10411781B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-10

    申请号:US16153391

    申请日:2018-10-05

    摘要: Methods and systems are provided for dynamically adjusting vertical beamforming weights to influence a width of a vertical beam emitted from an antenna. A quantity of users present in a particular geographic area is determined, where the user devices have a line of sight with the antenna and are vertically distributed from other user devices. CQIs are received from the user devices. It is determined that the quantity of user devices is above a maximum threshold of user devices, and the CQIs indicated that channel quality is below a minimum threshold. The amplitude and phase components of the vertical beamforming weight are adjusted to modify the width of the vertical beam emitted from the antenna.

    Wireless communication system control of carrier aggregation for a wireless relay

    公开(公告)号:US10225821B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-05

    申请号:US15278491

    申请日:2016-09-28

    摘要: A wireless communication system controls Carrier Aggregation (CA) at a wireless relay. A wireless access point wirelessly receives user data and transfers a first portion of the user data to a wireless User Equipment (UE) using a UE CA configuration and a second portion of the user data to the wireless relay using a relay CA configuration, wherein the wireless relay wirelessly serves additional UEs. The wireless access point determines an amount of the transferred user data and translates the amount of the transferred user data into a new UE CA configuration and a new relay CA configuration. The wireless access point wirelessly receives additional user data and transfers a first portion of the additional user data to the wireless UE using the new UE CA configuration and a second portion of the additional user data to the wireless relay using the new relay CA configuration.

    Optimization of full-power broadcast beamforming

    公开(公告)号:US10135509B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-20

    申请号:US15244842

    申请日:2016-08-23

    摘要: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for dynamically optimizing the use of full-power broadcast beamforming within a wireless communication network are provided herein. Though full-power broadcast beamforming may result in increased interference and decrease throughput, the increased coverage area provided by full-power broadcast beamforming is favored under certain conditions, including the locations of user devices within a network cell. Accordingly, location data may be received from user devices within a network cell utilizing a plurality of beams, and the locations of each of the user devices may be used to determine whether to enable full-power broadcast beamforming where each beam within plurality of beams is at a maximum signal strength. Upon determining to enable full-power broadcast beamforming, a signal weight for one or more of the beams may be adjusted to full power.