Claims
- 1. A method for the simultaneous conveyance of information between one or more subscriber equipment and a multiple of antennas over downlink channels of a wireless communication system, the method comprises the steps of:
scheduling a set of subscriber equipment to the downlink channels based on sets of channel conditions and calculated power allocations associated with the subscribers to satisfy one or more system requirements.
- 2. The method of claim 1 where the set of subscribers are subscribers requesting access to the communication system and/or subscribers being provided access to the communication system.
- 3. The method of claim 1 where the channel conditions are obtained from measurements made by the set of subscriber equipment of pilot signals transmitted by the multiple antennas.
- 4. The method of claim 1 where the power allocations are calculated based on the sets of channel conditions determined from signaling information received from the set of subscribers.
- 5. The method of claim 1 where the subscriber equipment comprise cell phones, personal computers and PDAs.
- 6. The method of claim 1 where the multiple antennas perform beamforming operations so as to transmit simultaneously information to one or more subscribers.
- 7. The method of claim 1 where the step of scheduling a set of subscribers comprises:
providing N antennas for simultaneously transmitting information to multiple subscribers where N is an integer equal to 2 or greater; retrieving channel conditions from signaling information received with the N antennas from the multiple subscribers; determining sets of channel conditions associated with the multiple subscribers; calculating power allocations based on the determined sets of channel conditions; and applying the calculated power allocations and the sets of channel conditions to a scheduler.
- 8. The method of claim 7 further comprising the step of:
selecting a set of subscribers to be given access to the downlink channels at a particular time based on the applied set of channel conditions and associated power allocation calculations.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] Related subject matter is disclosed in the following applications concurrently filed herewith: U.S. Patent Applications entitled “Method For The Simultaneous Uplink and Downlink Conveyance Of Information Between Multiple Mobiles And a Base Station Equipped With Multiple Antennas”, Ser. No. ______ and “Method For Multi-Antenna Scheduling Of HDR Wireless Communication Systems”, Ser. No. ______.