Patent ID: 9231681
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: H04B,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: an antenna array including a plurality of antenna elements; a Multi-Input-Multi-Output (MIMO) and beamforming processor to control the plurality of antenna elements to form a plurality of directional beams and to process communications via beamformed links over the plurality of directional beams according to a Multi User (MU) MIMO processing scheme, said beamformed links including links over a millimeter-wave (mmWave) band or a directional multi-gigabit (DMG) band, the beamformed links including one or more access links and one or more backhaul links, said one or more access links to communicate between a wireless communication node and one or more mobile devices, and said one or more backhaul links to communicate between said wireless communication node and one or more other wireless communication nodes, the MIMO and beamforming processor to control one or more first sub-arrays of said antenna array to form one or more first beams to communicate communications of said one or more backhaul links, and to control one or more second sub-arrays of said antenna array to form one or more second beams to communicate communications of said one or more access links; a backhaul processor to process the communications of said one or more backhaul links; a first plurality of baseband processors to perform baseband processing between said backhaul processor and said MIMO and beamforming processor; an access processor to process the communications of said one or more access links; and a second plurality of baseband processors to perform baseband processing between said access processor and said MIMO and beamforming processor.