Space-time-power scheduling for wireless networks
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1. An access point to wirelessly communicate with a station, said access point comprising:
- an array of antennas, wherein each of the antennas comprises a port;
a beam forming network to form multiple beams from the array of antennas;
a switch connected to the beam forming network;
a test receiver to scan the ports of the array of antennas through the switch to determine at least one of (1) responses from the station and (2) signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of the station;
an analog transceiver coupled to the switch;
wherein the access point is to communicate the at least one of (1) responses from the station and (2) SNRs of the station to a central controller for use by the central controller to schedule downlink frame transmissions for the access point, andwherein the access point is to communicate with the central controller using the analog transceiver.
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Abstract
A technique is disclosed to schedule frame transmissions in a wireless local area network. The network includes a plurality of stations configured to communicate on the same frequency channel with a plurality of access points. A central controller examines the transmission characteristics between the various stations and access points and identifies frames that may be simultaneously transmitted by a subset of the access points to their intended stations.
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1. An access point to wirelessly communicate with a station, said access point comprising:
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an array of antennas, wherein each of the antennas comprises a port; a beam forming network to form multiple beams from the array of antennas; a switch connected to the beam forming network; a test receiver to scan the ports of the array of antennas through the switch to determine at least one of (1) responses from the station and (2) signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of the station; an analog transceiver coupled to the switch; wherein the access point is to communicate the at least one of (1) responses from the station and (2) SNRs of the station to a central controller for use by the central controller to schedule downlink frame transmissions for the access point, and wherein the access point is to communicate with the central controller using the analog transceiver. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of implementing an access point to wirelessly communicate with a station, said method comprising:
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determining, in the access point, at least one of;
(1) responses from the station and (2) signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of the station;communicating, to a central controller via an analog transceiver of the access point, the at least one of;
(1) responses from the station and (2) SNRs of the station for the central controller to schedule downlink frame transmissions for the access point;receiving the scheduled downlink frame transmissions from the central controller; and communicating the frame transmissions to the station. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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