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AN APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR A SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR MULTIPLE ANTENNA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS USING ROUND ROBIN CHANNEL ESTIMATION AND TRANSMIT BEAM FORMING ALGORITHMS
AN APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR A SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR MULTIPLE ANTENNA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS USING ROUND ROBIN CHANNEL ESTIMATION AND TRANSMIT BEAM FORMING ALGORITHMS
A multiple antenna wireless system including a transmitter and a receiver comprises a reconfigurable large antenna array (12) having a plurality of antennas (14). A plurality of RF chains in the transmitter (10) is coupled to the reconfigurable large antenna array (12). A pilot assisted round robin channel estimation means tracks the fading channel; and an adaptive round robin transmit beamforming means beam forms the reconfigurable large antenna array (12). A method for multiple antenna wireless communication comprising the steps of tracking a plurality of fading channels in a reconfigurable large antenna array (12) having a plurality of antennas using pilot assisted round robin channel estimation to selectively couple a plurality of RF chains (10) in the transmitter to the reconfigurable large antenna array and adaptively, round-robin transmit beamforming the reconfigurable large antenna array (12).
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