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Communication load balancing using distributed antenna beam steering techniques

  • US 10,491,282 B2
  • Filed: 02/04/2016
  • Issued: 11/26/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of load balancing in a communications network comprising a wireless client device including a modal antenna comprising a parasitic element, the modal antenna configurable in a plurality of radiation modes for uplink and downlink communication, with each of the plurality of radiation modes possessing a different radiation pattern or polarization characteristic;

  • a plurality of base terminals, each base terminal associated with a cell in a plurality of cells in the network and configured to provide uplink and downlink communication capability to the wireless client device when the wireless client device is within the cell; and

    a system controller coupled to the communication network, the system controller including an algorithm for selecting a radiation mode of the plurality of radiation modes for the wireless client device;

    the method comprising;

    surveying communication link performance of the wireless client device in each of the plurality of radiation modes of the modal antenna with each of the plurality of the base terminals of the communications network that are within a range of the wireless client device; and

    selecting the radiation mode for the modal antenna of the wireless client device for uplink and downlink communication based at least in part on balancing of a load across the communications network and based at least in part on the communication link performance between the wireless client device in each of the plurality of radiation modes and each of the plurality of base terminals that are within range of the wireless client device.

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