Patent ID: 9312935
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. In a user terminal for use in a wireless communication system supporting multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications, a method comprising: receiving a first pilot of a first type including information to facilitate system timing and frequency acquisition from an access point including a plurality of antennas; receiving a second pilot of a second type different from the first type including information to facilitate channel estimation between said user terminal and the access point; and generating a channel estimate from information in said second pilot, wherein the first pilot is neither beamformed nor spatially multiplexed and the second pilot is one of beamformed using signal processing or spatially multiplexed, and wherein the second pilot includes a steered pilot transmitted on specific eigenmodes of a MIMO channel for a specific user terminal.