IP Library Granted Patent US 12,063,081
Granted Patent B2
US 12,063,081 · App. 17/669,575 · Granted Aug 13, 2024

TX MU-MIMO capability for MCS

Inventors: Jung Hoon Suh (Kanata, CA); Yan Xin (Kanata, CA); Osama Aboul-Magd (Kanata, CA); Kwok Shum Au (Ottawa, CA)
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
H04B7/0452H04B7/0417H04L5/0014H04L5/0048
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Patent No.
US 12,063,081
App. No.
17/669,575
Granted
Aug 13, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of communication between a first node and a second node operating in a communications network. The method includes sending, by the first node, to the second node, a first transmission to configure a communication channel between the first node and the second node. The first transmission includes a first frame including a first capability indicator. The first capability indicator indicates a first MU-MIMO capability of a transmitter of the first node. The first multi-user (MU)-MIMO capability includes a first Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) processable by the first node or a first number of spatial streams (NSS) processable by the first node.

Claims (25)

1. A method of communication between a first node and a second node operating in a communications network, the method comprising:

sending, by the first node, to the second node, a first transmission to configure a communication channel between the first node and the second node, the first transmission including a first frame including a first capability indicator, the first capability indicator indicating a first multi-user multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) capability of a transmitter of the first node, the first MU-MIMO capability including a first Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) processable by the first node or a first number of spatial streams (NSS) processable by the first node.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, by the first node, a second transmission from the second node, the second transmission including a second frame including a second capability indicator for indicating a second MU-MIMO capability of a transmitter of the second node, the second MU-MIMO capability including a second MCS processable by the second node or a second number of spatial streams NSS processable by the second node.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first frame comprises a Beacon frame, the first node is an access point (AP) and the second node is a station (STA).

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first frame comprises an Association Response frame, the first node is a station (STA) and the second node is an access point (AP).

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first frame comprises a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first frame comprises a channel state information (CSI) feedback (FB) action frame.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first frame comprises an Extremely High-Throughput (EHT) Compressed Beam Forming (BF) Action frame.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first frame comprises a compressed beamforming action (CBA) frame.

9. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first capacity indicator or the second capacity indicator includes one of a minimum mean square error (MMSE) detection algorithm, a maximum-likelihood detection (MLD) algorithm, or a sphere decoding (SD) algorithm.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first MU-MIMO capability includes a transmitter MCS for a spatial stream.

11. A network node configured to communicate with a second network node operating in a communications network, the network node comprising:

a processor coupled to a network interface and a computer readable storage medium, the storage medium storing instructions executable by the processor to:

send, to the second network node, a first transmission to configure a communication channel between the network node and the second network node, the first transmission including a first frame including a first capability indicator, the first capability indicator indicating a first multi-user multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) capability of a transmitter of the network node, the first MU-MIMO capability including a first Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) processable by the network node or a first number of spatial streams (NSS) processable by the network node.

12. The network node of claim 11 , wherein the storage medium store instructions executable by the processor to:

receive, a second transmission from the second node, the second transmission including a second frame including a second capability indicator for indicating a second MU-MIMO capability of a transmitter of the second node, the second MU-MIMO capability including a second MCS processable by the second node or a second NSS processable by the second node.

13. The network node of claim 11 , wherein the first frame comprises a Beacon frame, the first node is an access point (AP) and the second node is a station (STA).

14. The network node of claim 11 , wherein the first frame comprises an Association Response frame, the first node is a station (STA), and the second node is an access point (AP).

15. The network node of claim 11 , wherein the first frame comprises a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame.

16. The network node of claim 11 , wherein the first frame comprises a channel state information (CSI) feedback (FB) action frame.

17. The network node of claim 11 , wherein the first frame comprised an Extremely High-Throughput (EHT) Compressed Beam Forming (BF) Action frame.

18. The network node of claim 11 , wherein the first frame comprises compressed beamforming action (CBA) frame.

19. The network node of claim 11 , wherein the first MU-MIMO capability includes a transmitter MCS for a spatial stream.

20. The network node of claim 12 , wherein the first capacity indicator or the second capacity indicator includes one of a minimum mean square error (MMSE) detection algorithm, a maximum-likelihood detection (MLD) algorithm, or a sphere decoding (SD) algorithm.

Assignments (2)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Feb 5, 2026
From: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
To: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Reel/Frame 074707/0221 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 16, 2022
From: SUH, JUNG HOON; XIN, YAN; ABOUL-MAGD, OSAMA; AU, KWOK SHUM
To: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 059917/0789 →
Continuity (2)
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