INTELLIGENT INTEGRATION OF mmWAVE TECHNOLOGY IN A HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A system and method are provided for intelligently incorporating a mmWave communication link in a heterogeneous cellular/Wi-Fi networking environment. The combination improves overall data transmission capacity of the heterogeneous networking environment, and also provides superior user Quality of Experience. The combination of the mmWave communication link with the cellular/Wi-Fi communication system is integrated in a synergistic manner that allows each of the individual communication technologies to complement the other. Using highly-directional beamforming antennas the mmWave communication link provides wide area network coverage by deploying a plurality of directional beams in sectors to complement the coverage area of the wide area network systems operating in other frequency bands.

主权项

1. A method for integrating different communication techniques in a wireless network environment, comprising:
obtaining communicating capabilities from a client device operating in the wireless network environment; obtaining a data transmission request from the client device; determining, with a processor, which one of a low data rate wireless communication link and a high data rate wireless communication link is used to transmit data requested by the data transmission request based on the obtained communicating capabilities of the client device and a content of the data requested by the data transmission request; and transmitting the data requested by data transmission request to the client device via the determined one of the low data rate wireless communication link and the high data rate wireless communication link.