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

Claim 0:
1. An initial beam access method for a mobile station in a mmWave cellular network having a base station and multiple mobile stations, the method comprising the steps of:
upon entering a coverage area of a base station transmitting a directional signal from a beamforming antenna array, probing the coverage area with a low power omnidirectional antenna for directional signal parameters for contacting the base station provided by at least one of the multiple mobile stations already in the coverage area;
receiving the directional signal parameters from at least one of the multiple mobile stations;
adjusting the directional signal parameters received from the at least one of the multiple mobile stations using a digital compass to obtain reference parameters relative to magnetic north; and
inputting the adjusted reference parameters to the mobile station's beamforming antenna to make contact with the base station.