METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COVERAGE AND THROUGHPUT ENHANCEMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• Main Authors: BENSON, MARK WILLIAM, SKAFIDAS, EFSTRATIOS, FESAS, NESTOR, BROE, KEVIN SEAN, EKAMBARAM, NATARAJAN, DO, DUY KHUONG, MORTON, JOHN, CHENG, LEI, KELLY, NEIL PATRICK, GIBSON, MIKE, RUSNAK, RICHARD JOHN, GLICK, JAMES, MAMMOSER, DOUGLAS A, JONES, BEN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 30.11.2010
• Subjects: ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

A multiple access wireless communications architecture provides selective, simultaneous communications with wireless devices located in different sections of a spatial area around a communications apparatus referred to as "sectors". In one embodiment, channel allocation techniques for increasing one or more of throughput and coverage in a wireless communications environment. In one embodiment, a mode of operation is selected from a plurality of modes of operation, enabling a wireless communications transmitter to be dynamically configured to reach a wireless communications devices at a greater distance from the transmitter without increased interference between communications channels ("range mode") or to provide wireless communications to a greater number of wireless communications devices within a relatively closer distance to the wireless transmitter ("capacity mode") or to provide wireless communications using a single channel to provide wireless communications at a relatively greatest distance from the transmitter ("super range mode").