Patent ID: 8442443
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A method for analyzing a channel delay profile of at least one signal link within a communication system between one or more transmitters and one or more receivers, wherein each transmitter and each receiver comprise a plurality of predetermined transmitter and receiver beams, respectively, and wherein each signal link corresponds to a specific combination of transmitter and receiver beams, said method comprising: an evaluation step for evaluating the at least one signal link based on characteristics of the channel delay profile, wherein the characteristics of the channel delay profile are the signal power, the signal to noise ratio, the carrier to interference ratio, the line of sight ratio, the channel window size and the estimated channel delay spread of the channel delay profile; evaluating the at least one signal link by calculating soft values, which represent the expected performance of signal links, from different combinations of the above characteristics; and selecting the signal link with the highest soft value.