Bin L Liu

US Patent:

20210051488, Feb 18, 2021

Filed:

Jul 31, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/944888

Inventors:

- Plano TX, US
Nathan Edward Tenny - Portland OR, US
Bin Liu - San Diego CA, US
Lili Zhang - Beijing, CN

International Classification:

H04W 16/28
H04B 7/024
H04W 56/00

Abstract:

A method includes measuring beam-formed reference signals transmitted by a plurality of mmWave transmission points (TPs), sending a cloud cell formation request including indicators associated with best mmWave TPs determined in accordance with the measured beam-formed reference signals, receiving a cloud cell formation request response including indicators associated with a subset of the best mmWave TPs selected by a central controller in accordance with selection information, where the subset of the best mmWave TPs includes a first mmWave transmission point (TP) serving as a master TP and a second mmWave TP serving as a slave TP, and establishing a cloud cell with mmWave TPs of the subset of the best mmWave TPs selected by the central controller, where a data connection is established with the slave TP and at least a control connection is established with the master TP.