Patent ID: 9698879
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of signaling a mobile terminal from a base station, the mobile terminal being operable in Single User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (SU-MIMO) mode and Multi User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) mode, the method comprising: identifying a subset of SU-MIMO signaling bits associated with SU-MIMO signaling that is not needed in the MU-MIMO mode; redefining the subset of SU-MIMO signaling bits to be associated with MU-MIMO signaling; informing the mobile terminal about the redefinition of the subset of SU-MIMO signaling bits; and signaling the mobile terminal in the MU-MIMO mode using MU-MIMO signaling bits, the MU-MIMO signaling bits comprising the redefined subset of SU-MIMO signaling bits.