Patent ID: 11902969
Assignee: WISIG NETWORKS PRIVATE LIMITED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A base station comprising:
a channel estimator operable to obtain a plurality of channel estimates, wherein each channel estimate is associated with one of a plurality of user equipment devices (UEs);
a metric calculation unit operable to calculate a first metric and a second metric for each of the plurality of UEs according to the obtained channel estimates;
a best beam determining unit operable to determine one or more best beams from a plurality of beams associated with the base station;
a segregating unit operable to segregate the plurality of UEs into a plurality of groups according to the determined one or more best beams and the second metric, each of the plurality of groups comprises one or more UEs;
a beamforming unit operable to form a control channel according to the one or more best beams; and
an allocation unit operable to allocate at least one modulation and coding scheme for the control channel according to the segregated plurality of groups.