System and method for transmission parameter control for an antenna apparatus with selectable elements
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- an antenna apparatus having a plurality of antenna configurations, each antenna configuration corresponding to a radiation pattern;
a communication device configured to a plurality of physical data rates, the communication device coupled to the antenna apparatus; and
a processor configured to execute a program to perform a method comprising;
selecting a current antenna configuration of the antenna apparatus, selecting a current physical data rate of the communication device, transmitting a packet with the current antenna configuration to a remote receiving node at the current physical data rate, determining whether the remote receiving node received the packet, and changing the current antenna configuration based on the determination.
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Abstract
A system and method for improved data transmission on a wireless link to a remote receiving node includes a communication device for converting packets to RF at a physical data rate, an antenna apparatus having a plurality of antenna configurations for transmitting the RF, and a processor for selecting the antenna configuration and the physical data rate based on whether the remote receiving node indicated reception of the data transmission. The processor may determine a table of success ratios for each antenna configuration and may rank each antenna configuration by the success ratio. The processor may transmit with an unused antenna configuration to probe the unused antenna configuration and update the table of success ratios. Similarly, the processor may maintain a table of effective user data rates, rank each physical data rate by the effective user data rate and probe unused physical data rates to update the table.
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25 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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an antenna apparatus having a plurality of antenna configurations, each antenna configuration corresponding to a radiation pattern;
a communication device configured to a plurality of physical data rates, the communication device coupled to the antenna apparatus; and
a processor configured to execute a program to perform a method comprising;
selecting a current antenna configuration of the antenna apparatus, selecting a current physical data rate of the communication device, transmitting a packet with the current antenna configuration to a remote receiving node at the current physical data rate, determining whether the remote receiving node received the packet, and changing the current antenna configuration based on the determination. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method comprising:
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selecting a current antenna configuration of an antenna apparatus having a plurality of antenna configurations;
selecting a current physical data rate from a plurality of physical data rates;
transmitting a packet with the current antenna configuration to a remote receiving node at the current physical data rate;
determining whether the remote receiving node received the packet; and
changing the current antenna configuration based on the determination. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method comprising:
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mapping each of a plurality of antenna configurations of an antenna apparatus to a logical antenna;
mapping each of a plurality of physical data rates to a logical data rate;
selecting a first logical antenna;
selecting a first logical data rate;
transmitting a packet to a remote receiving node with the first logical antenna at the first logical data rate;
determining whether the remote receiving node received the packet; and
changing the first logical antenna based on the determination. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A system comprising:
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an antenna apparatus having a plurality of antenna configurations;
a communication device configured to a plurality of physical data rates; and
means for transmitting a packet to a remote receiving node by a transmission combination comprising one the plurality of antenna configurations and one of the plurality of physical data rates; and
means for changing the transmission combination based on a determination whether the packet was indicated as received by remote receiving node.
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