Patent ID: 8543076
Filing Date: 2013-09-24
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A method of adaptively operating a wireless communication device in a wireless communication network, the wireless communication device including a receiver subsystem having a total number of available receive chains R T , the method comprising: determining current signal conditions at the wireless communication device for signals transmitted by a given base station over the wireless communication network; determining a priori system information regarding the wireless communication device and regarding the wireless communication network, wherein the a priori system information includes one or more selected from the group consisting of modulation type, channel coding type, channel coding rate, repetition coding, power boosting information, space-time coding information and hybrid automatic repeat request information; determining, based on the current signal conditions and the a priori system information, a minimum number of receive chains needed to receive and successfully decode data transmitted by the base station over the wireless communication network; and selecting specific ones of the total number of available receive chains R