Transmission technique selector for radio communication systems with multiple transmit and multiple receive antennas

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7477699
APP PUB NO 20080151804A1
SERIAL NO

11613349

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A radio communications device (102) that has multiple receive antennas processes received data communications signals to select between space time coding and spatial multiplexing as a selected transmission technique from a base device (104) that has multiple transmit antennas. A channel throughput (402-412, 450-454) for each transmission technique is estimated based on signal to interference and noise ratios (502-512, 550-554) of signals being transmitted through a MIMO channel (140) as measured by a receiver (708). The transmission technique with the higher estimated throughput is determined. If spatial multiplexing is determined to have the higher estimated throughput and the throughput of each layer of the spatially multiplexed signal is greater than a threshold, spatial multiplexing is selected. Otherwise, space time coding is selected.

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  • GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Downing, Lawrence A Hoffman Estates , US 4 99
Ghosh, Amitava Buffalo Grove , US 87 4639
Sankaran, Chandrasekar Arlington Heights , US 11 139
Tan, Jun Lake Zurich , US 141 788
Wang, Fan Chicago , US 396 2370

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