Patent ID: 8675510
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. An access point, comprising: a plurality of receive antennas; a receiver to receive a channel measurement signal and a pseudo-noise (PN) code having an offset from at least one of a first station and a second station, to identify a station transmitting the channel measurement signal, and to identify a transmitting antenna of at least one of the first station and the second station transmitting the channel measurement signal; a channel estimation unit to generate a channel state matrix with respect to one or more wireless channels formed from at least one of the first station and the second station to the plurality of receive antennas using the received channel measurement signal; and a scheduler to select the first station as a first transmitting station according to the channel state matrix and a number of the receive antennas, wherein the receiver receives a first data stream transmitted from the first transmitting station.