IP Library Patent Application 18840050
Patent Application
App. No. 18/840,050

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS

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18/840,050
Abstract

A wireless communication method in a distributed antenna system including a base station and a plurality of antennas that communicates with one or more terminal stations by spatial multiplexing according to control of the base station, in which each of the plurality of antennas includes a plurality of sub-arrays, the base station allocates a plurality of sub-arrays of different antennas to each of one or more candidate terminal stations to be subjected to communication by spatial multiplexing using two or more sub-arrays among the plurality of sub-arrays, and the plurality of sub-arrays allocated to the candidate terminal station performs spatial multiplexing transmission to the allocated candidate terminal station.

Claims (16)

1 . A wireless communication method in a distributed antenna system including a base station and a plurality of antennas that communicates with one or more terminal stations by spatial multiplexing according to control of the base station, wherein

each of the plurality of antennas includes a plurality of sub-arrays,

the base station allocates a plurality of sub-arrays of different antennas to each of one or more candidate terminal stations to be subjected to communication by spatial multiplexing using two or more sub-arrays among the plurality of sub-arrays, and

the plurality of sub-arrays allocated to the candidate terminal station performs spatial multiplexing transmission to the allocated candidate terminal station.

2 . The wireless communication method according to claim 1 , wherein

the base station

extracts a plurality of candidate sub-arrays to be allocated among the plurality of sub-arrays for each of the one or more candidate terminal stations, and

allocates a candidate sub-array belonging to an antenna different from an already allocated sub-array among the plurality of extracted candidate sub-arrays to each of the one or more candidate terminal stations for the number of streams to be subjected to the spatial multiplexing.

3 . A distributed antenna system comprising: a base station; and a plurality of antennas that communicates with one or more terminal stations by spatial multiplexing according to control of the base station, wherein

each of the plurality of antennas includes a plurality of sub-arrays,

the base station includes an allocator configured to allocate a plurality of sub-arrays of different antennas to each of one or more candidate terminal stations to be subjected to communication by spatial multiplexing using two or more sub-arrays among the plurality of sub-arrays, and

the plurality of sub-arrays allocated to the candidate terminal station performs spatial multiplexing transmission to the allocated candidate terminal station.

4 . A wireless communication device comprising: a base station; and a plurality of antennas that communicates with one or more terminal stations by spatial multiplexing according to control of the base station, wherein

each of the plurality of antennas includes a plurality of sub-arrays,

the base station includes an allocator configured to allocate a plurality of sub-arrays of different antennas to each of one or more candidate terminal stations to be subjected to communication by spatial multiplexing using two or more sub-arrays among the plurality of sub-arrays, and

the plurality of sub-arrays allocated to the candidate terminal station performs spatial multiplexing transmission to the allocated candidate terminal station.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 3, 2025
From: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
To: NTT, INC.
Reel/Frame 073007/0214 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 20, 2024
From: ARAI, TAKUTO; UCHIDA, DAISEI; IWAKUNI, TATSUHIKO; WAI, SHUKI; KITA, NAOKI
To: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 068346/0910 →