US8693442B2

4G

Title

Multi-site mimo cooperation in cellular network

Application Number:

US200913068837

Publication Date:

08-04-2014

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Application Date:

21-09-2009

Publication Country:

US

Priority Date:

22-09-2008

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Abstract  Abstract

In a cellular communications network comprising a plurality of transmitting sites wherein each transmitting site comprises at least one antenna a method of serving a given data stream to a target mobile terminal comprising: designating at least two of the plurality of transmitting sites as cooperating sites; assigning tones to each transmitting site from a sub-band associated with the cooperating sites; dividing the data stream into at least two sub-data streams each of the sub-data streams for transmission over selected tones; and interlacing tones of the cooperating sites in accordance with a selected one of a time switching and a frequency switching transmit diversity technique.

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