Patent ID: 11902903
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A network node equipped with an advance antenna system, AAS, wherein the AAS comprises a plurality of antenna elements and one or more radio frequency integrated circuits, RFICs, and wherein each of the one or more RFICs is associated with one or more of the plurality of antenna elements,
wherein the network node comprises processing circuitry configured to:
capture a plurality of signal samples of one or more signal chains of each of the one or more RFICs, wherein each of the one or more signal chains corresponds to one or more of the plurality of antenna elements and a signal sample is associated with an envelope power level at an output of the respective signal chain; and
sum at least a subset of the plurality of signal samples to obtain a short term average power value at the AAS.