Patent ID: 8750264

Claim:
A communication method, comprising: sharing at least one WWAN-access parameter in a group of mobile wireless terminals for enabling the group to access a channel in a wireless wide area network (WWAN); employing a wireless local area network (WLAN) for configuring the group to communicate cooperatively in the channel; selecting a plurality of the mobile wireless terminals to perform cooperative subspace processing, wherein each of the plurality of the mobile wireless terminals provides an insufficient number of linearly independent combinations of WWAN signals to enable demultiplexing the WWAN signals, wherein the plurality of the mobile wireless terminals provides a vector comprising a plurality of linearly independent combinations of WWAN signals expressed by y=Hx+υ, where H is a matrix of coefficients, x is a vector comprising the WWAN signals andυ denotes noise, wherein the plurality of the mobile wireless terminals is selected to provide H with a sufficient rank to enable demultiplexing the WWAN signals; and generating subspace array processing weights and combining the linearly independent combinations of WWAN signals for demultiplexing the WWAN signals.