Adaptive use of receiver diversity

摘要

A method for adaptively disabling receiver diversity is provided. The method can include a wireless communication device determining an active data traffic pattern; defining a threshold channel quality metric based at least in part on a threshold channel quality needed to support a threshold quality of service for the active data traffic pattern; comparing a measured channel quality to the threshold channel quality metric; and disabling receiver diversity in an instance in which the measured channel quality metric satisfies the threshold channel quality metric.

主权项

1. A method for adaptively disabling receiver diversity, the method comprising a wireless communication device:
determining an active data traffic pattern defined based on one or more of: a data rate, a frequency of data communication, a packet size, or a packet inter-arrival time; defining a physical layer metric threshold based at least in part on a physical layer channel quality needed to support the active data traffic pattern; defining an application layer metric threshold based at least in part on an application layer quality of service (QoS) needed to support an active application that generates at least in part the active data traffic pattern; comparing a measured physical layer channel quality to the physical layer metric threshold; comparing an application layer measurement to the application layer metric threshold; and disabling receiver diversity in an instance in which the measured physical layer channel quality satisfies the physical layer metric threshold and the application layer measurement satisfies the application layer metric threshold.