Selecting transmission technology for communications in wide area mobile networks

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8472335
APP PUB NO 20110085614A1
SERIAL NO

12836114

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Method and RNC for selecting transmission technology when a UE enters the network, which checks whether the UE is MIMO and, if so and only one carrier is available, allocates its traffic to said carrier and uses a S-CPICH to provide all MIMO traffic with a diversity pilot and Virtual Antenna Mapping for balance. If more than one carrier is available, the number of UEs, their radio conditions and load of carriers are checked periodically. If the carrier is busy only with MIMO and its load is higher than the load of the remaining carriers, diversity CPICH of STTD is selected; otherwise and only if the UEs vulnerable to STTD with good radio conditions exceed a certain number, the S-CPICH is selected. The RNC can reconfigure the network from transmitting MIMO traffic with STTD to using MIMO with S-CPICH or vice versa dynamically by periodical check of the load and UEs criteria for configuration change.

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VODAFONE GROUP PLCBURKE COUNTY ENGLAND BERKSHIRE

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Alcazar, Viguera Esperanza Madrid, ES 8 89
De, Pasquale Andrea Madrid, ES 42 281
Diaz, Mateos Maria Madrid, ES 12 108
Dominguez, Romero Francisco Javier Madrid, ES 49 294
Exadaktylos, Kyriakos Madrid, ES 11 94
García, Viñas Aitor Madrid, ES 8 70
Garriga, Muñiz Beatriz Madrid, ES 12 103
López, Roman Javier Madrid, ES 9 91
Le, Pezennec Yannick Madrid, ES 27 271
McWilliams, Brendan Madrid, ES 16 195
Serrano, Solsona Clara Madrid, ES 16 117
Tenorio, Sanz Santiago Madrid, ES 15 182
Urbano, Ruiz Julio Madrid, ES 11 153

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