US Patent Application 17722564. MANAGED MU-MIMO ENABLEMENT FOR REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS simplified abstract
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MANAGED MU-MIMO ENABLEMENT FOR REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Ahmed Ragab Elsherif of San Jose CA (US)
Nicholas Kucharewski of San Jose CA (US)
Simon Jan Brand of Pleasanton CA (US)
Srinivas Katar of Fremont CA (US)
Xiaolong Huang of San Jose CA (US)
Sandip Homchaudhuri of San Jose CA (US)
Nathaniel David Houghton of El Cerrito CA (US)
Aravind Seetharaman of San Jose CA (US)
MANAGED MU-MIMO ENABLEMENT FOR REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS - A simplified explanation of the abstract
- This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 17722564 Titled 'MANAGED MU-MIMO ENABLEMENT FOR REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS'
Simplified Explanation
This abstract describes a system and method for enabling multi-user communications. An access point (AP) collects packets and information about the traffic flow, such as service-level agreement parameters, traffic flow attributes, and network parameters. Based on this information, the AP determines whether the traffic flow is suitable for single-user multiple-input multiple-output (SU-MIMO) communication, multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) communication, orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication, or partial bandwidth MU-MIMO communication. The AP then initiates the transmission of the packets accordingly.
Original Abstract Submitted
Systems and methods for selectively enabling multi-user (MU) communications are disclosed. In some implementations, an access point (AP) obtains packets associated with a traffic flow, and obtains at least one of service-level agreement (SLA) parameters associated with the traffic flow, attributes of the traffic flow, or network parameters associated with a basic service set (BSS) that includes the AP. The AP provides an indication of whether the traffic flow is suitable for transmission as a single-user (SU) multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) (SU-MIMO) communication, as an MU-MIMO communication, as an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication, or as a partial bandwidth (BW) MU-MIMO communication to a WLAN subsystem of the AP, the indication being based on one or more of the SLA parameters, the traffic flow attributes, or the network parameters. The AP initiates transmission of the one or more packets based on the indication.
