Samsung patents method to adjust wireless beam width based on user load
This patent describes a method for wireless networks to dynamically adjust the width of signal beams. The system checks if a beam is serving fewer users than its capacity and widens the beam by combining it with neighboring beams if so.
In the filing’s own words
A method for beamwidth management in a wireless communication system, includes: determining a first set of User Equipments (UEs) served by a beam in a transmission time interval (TTI); comparing a number of UEs in the first set of UEs with a threshold number of UEs that can be served by the beam in the TTI; adjusting a beamwidth of the beam, based on a result of the comparing, to create a second set of UEs served by the beam with the adjusted beamwidth in a subsequent TTI; and forming the beam with the adjusted beamwidth.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method for beamwidth management in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining a first set of user equipments (UEs) served by a beam of a network node in a transmission time interval (TTI); comparing a first number of UEs in the first set of UEs with a threshold number of UEs that can be served by the beam of the network node in the TTI, wherein the threshold number of UEs is determined at the network node and corresponds to a number of schedulable UEs per TTI; adjusting a beamwidth of the beam, based on a result of the comparing, to create a second set of UEs served by the beam with the adjusted beamwidth in a subsequent TTI; and forming the beam with the adjusted beamwidth, wherein the adjusting of the beamwidth of the beam based on the result of the comparing comprises increasing the beamwidth of the beam by combining the beam with at least one neighboring beam based on determining that the first number of UEs in the first set of UEs is less than the threshold number of UEs.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- Method and system for dynamic beamwidth management in the wireless communication systems
- Patent number
- US12738997B2
- Application number
- 18415286
- Filed
- Jan 17, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 14
Classified under
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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