Patent ID: 11889295
Assignee: KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A method for providing initial beam access in a mmWave cellular network, the network comprising:
a base station configured for transmitting a directional signal beam through a beamformer array;
a plurality of mobile stations, each of the mobile stations being configured for communicating with the base station through a beamformer antenna, configured for communicating with neighboring mobile stations by low power omnidirectional transmission and configured with a digital compass for locating the base station's beamformer array relative to magnetic north,
the method for providing initial beam access to the base station comprising: the step of a multiple ones of the plurality of mobile stations already in contact with the base station transmitting parameters for communicating with the base station's beamformer array to multiple neighboring mobile stations by low power omnidirectional signal.