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Method for distributed mobile communications, corresponding system and computer program product

  • US 10,014,910 B2
  • Filed: 12/30/2008
  • Issued: 07/03/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of arranging exchange of signals between user terminals in a cellular communication system and at least one base station comprising a central unit and a plurality of remote units, comprising:

  • performing a first baseband processing at said central unit, the first baseband processing including mapping signals for different user terminals in the time and frequency domains according to a mapping function resident in said central unit, the result of said mapping being organized in Ns resource grids filled with modulation symbols of different data and control channels according to said mapping function, where Ns is the number of resource grids at an output of the central unit;

    exchanging the mapping function and the result of said mapping between said central unit and said remote units as an aggregated signal for plural user terminals in the frequency domain; and

    performing a second baseband processing at said remote units based on the result of said mapping received from the central unit, the second baseband processing including performing a weight calculation while still in the frequency domain, applying said calculated weights to distinct signals each associated with a respective one of said plural user terminals based on said mapping function to perform adaptive beamforming on a per-user basis, and mapping the modulation symbols to inputs of an inverse Fast Fourier transform block within said remote units, said calculated weights being complex weights that are varied with respect to time and frequency and different for each user terminal.

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