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

Claim 8:
9. 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 single one 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 a multiple neighboring mobile stations by low power omnidirectional signal.