Dynamic radio architecture beam pattern control
Methods and systems are provided for dynamically adjusting broadcast beam patterns of a wavefront emitted by an antenna array based on the types of devices communicatively coupled to the base station associated with the antenna array. The broadcast beam patterns can be adjusted by modifying the broadcast mode or at least one phase, amplitude, or power of the at least one antenna associated with the base station. Adjusting the beam pattern, for example between multiple beams and a single unified beam, based on device types can improve the quality of service for the devices and reduce the processing burden of the base station.
1. A method of dynamic beam pattern switching based on device type, the method comprising:
receiving, from each device of a plurality of devices, a device type indication corresponding to the device, each of the plurality of devices having a wireless connection with a wireless access point via an antenna array, wherein a set of signals transmitted by the antenna array to each of the plurality of devices has a first broadcast beam pattern;
determining that a number of the plurality of user devices having a first device type exceeds a predetermined threshold;
classifying the plurality of devices based on a predetermined set of rules defining at least two device types by a corresponding device type indication;
responsive to and based on the classifying of the plurality of devices generated using the predetermined set of rules, generating a second broadcast beam pattern; and
in response to said determination, modifying one or more transmission characteristics of the antenna array to transmit the set of signals to each of the plurality of devices using the second broadcast beam pattern, wherein one of the first or the second broadcast beam pattern comprises a sector beam and
wherein the first broadcast beam pattern is different than the second broadcast beam pattern.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the device type indication comprises a public land mobile network number or quality of service class identifier for the first device.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the second broadcast beam pattern comprises identifying how to modify at least one phase, amplitude, or power of at least one antenna associated with the at least one antenna array to change the first broadcast beam pattern to the second broadcast beam pattern.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first broadcast beam pattern comprises a multi-beam broadcast beam pattern, and wherein the second broadcast beam pattern comprises a single beam broadcast beam pattern.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first broadcast beam pattern comprises a single beam broadcast beam pattern, and wherein the second broadcast beam pattern comprises a multi-beam broadcast beam pattern.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first device type comprises an end-user mobile device configured to wirelessly communicate with a telecommunication network.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first device type comprises a relay.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the number of the plurality of user devices having a first device type exceeds a predetermined threshold further comprises determining that one or more of the plurality of user devices has a second device type, the second device type different than the first device type.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the number of the plurality of user devices having a first device type exceeds a predetermined threshold further comprises determining that a traffic utilization of the wireless access point exceeds a predetermined traffic threshold.
10. A system for dynamic beam pattern switching based on device type, the system comprising:
a communication tower comprising at least a first antenna array for communicating with a plurality of devices, wherein in the first antenna array is broadcasting a radio frequency wave front in a first broadcast beam pattern;
a beam pattern allocation component communicatively coupled with the communication tower, wherein the beam pattern allocation component includes computer readable media storing executable instructions that when executed by the beam pattern allocation component cause the beam pattern allocation component to perform operations including:
determining that a number of the plurality of user devices having a first device type exceeds a predetermined threshold;
classifying the plurality of user devices based on a predetermined set of rules defining at least two device types by a corresponding device type indication;
responsive to and based on the classifying of the plurality of devices generated using the predetermined set of rules, generating a second broadcast beam pattern for the first antenna array; and
in response to said determination, modifying one or more transmission characteristics of the antenna array to transmit a set of signals to each of the plurality of devices using the second broadcast beam pattern, wherein one of the first or the second broadcast beam pattern comprises a sector beam and wherein the first broadcast beam pattern is different than the second broadcast beam pattern.
11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the corresponding device type indication comprises a public land mobile network number or quality of service class identifier for the first device.
12. The system of claim 10 , wherein determining the second broadcast beam pattern comprises identifying a modification to at least one phase, amplitude, or power of at least one antenna associated with the first antenna array to change the first broadcast beam pattern to the second broadcast beam pattern.
13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the first broadcast beam pattern comprises a multi-beam broadcast beam pattern, and wherein the second broadcast beam pattern comprises a single beam broadcast beam pattern.
14. The system of claim 10 , wherein the first broadcast beam pattern comprises a single beam broadcast beam pattern, and wherein the second broadcast beam pattern comprises a multi-beam broadcast beam pattern.
15. One or more non-transitory computer readable storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method for dynamic beam pattern switching based on a device type, the method comprising:
establishing communication with a first device via an antenna array utilizing a first broadcast beam pattern;
receiving a device type indication corresponding to the first device;
determining that a number of a plurality of user devices served by the antenna array having the device type exceeds a predetermined threshold;
responsive to and based on a classification of the first device using a predetermined set of rules defining at least two device types by a corresponding device type indication, generating a second broadcast beam pattern for the antenna array; and
in response to said determination, modifying one or more transmission characteristics of the antenna array to transmit a set of signals to the first device using the second broadcast beam pattern, wherein one of the first or the second broadcast beam pattern comprises a sector beam and wherein the first broadcast beam pattern is different than the second broadcast beam pattern.
16. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15 , wherein the device type indication comprises a public land mobile network number or quality of service class identifier for the first device.
17. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15 , wherein the computer-executable instructions further comprise:
receiving a plurality of device type identifiers from a set of devices, each device type identifier of the plurality of device type identifiers corresponding to a device of the set of devices;
classifying the set of devices based on the predetermined set of rules;
wherein generating the second broadcast beam pattern is further based on the classification of the set of devices.
18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 17 , wherein generating the second broadcast beam pattern comprises identifying how to modify at least one phase, amplitude, or power of at least one antenna associated the antenna array to change the first broadcast beam pattern to the second broadcast beam pattern.
19. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15 , wherein the first broadcast beam pattern comprises a multi-beam broadcast beam pattern or single beam broadcast beam pattern.