Patent ID: 11956037
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method comprising:
receiving, at an apparatus that is part of a first wireless network, a control request frame from a second access node of a second wireless network, the control request frame comprising at least a number of nulls for the apparatus,
selecting, by the apparatus, a subset of antenna elements, wherein the subset comprises a number of antenna elements in accordance with the number of nulls for the apparatus, and the antenna elements are selected to the subset based on reception powers of antenna elements of at least a frame from at least one of a first access node of the first wireless network or the second access node of the second wireless network,
in response to receipt of the control request frame and selecting the subset of antenna elements, transmitting, by the apparatus, a control response frame with the selected antenna elements, and
transmitting, by the apparatus, a data frame to the first access node with the selected antenna elements.