Patent ID: 9060287
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. Measuring device for performing measurements of a measurement signal emitted by a communication network using a plurality or resource blocks, comprising digital processing means, the device comprising: power detection means for determining a received signal strength indicator indicative of a received power of user data within a number of resource blocks in the measurement signal and a reference signal received power indicator indicative of a received power of reference signals within a number of resource blocks in the measurement signal; resource determining means for determining occupied and unoccupied resource blocks based on the determined reference signal received power and received signal strength indicator; channel quality information detection means for determining channel quality information based on at least one received reference signal; precoder entry estimation means for estimating an optimal precoder entry based on the channel quality information; modulation estimation means for estimating a modulation scheme used by the communication network based on the determined channel quality information and the estimated precoder entry, and Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) usefulness determination means for determining a MIMO throughput gain based on the estimated precoder entry and the estimated modulation scheme.