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CARRIER SENSE ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION (CSAT) MEASUREMENTS IN SHARED SPECTRUM

  • US 20150236782A1
  • Filed: 02/12/2015
  • Published: 08/20/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for managing operation on a communication medium shared between Radio Access Technologies (RATs), comprising:

  • a first transceiver configured to operate in accordance with a first RAT and to monitor the medium for first RAT signaling;

    a medium utilization analyzer configured to determine a utilization metric associated with utilization of the medium by the first RAT signaling;

    a second transceiver configured to operate in accordance with a second RAT and to cycle between activated periods and deactivated periods of communication over the medium in accordance with a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) communication pattern based on the utilization metric; and

    an Always-On-State (AOS) controller configured to periodically disable the cycling to provide an AOS period of activated communication over the medium for the second transceiver, wherein the AOS period is longer than an individual activated period of the TDM communication pattern.

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