Apparatus, system and method of establishing a wireless beamformed link

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016007355-A1
Application number	US-201514850976-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 11, 2015
Priority date	Jan 23, 2013
Publication date	Jan 7, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of establishing a wireless beamformed link. For example, an apparatus may include a wireless communication controller to control a first wireless communication device to communicate millimeter-wave (mmWave) signals with a second wireless communication device over a mmWave frequency band, the mmWave signals including signals transmitted according to a plurality of different transmit (Tx) beamforming settings, the wireless communication controller is to control the first wireless communication device to communicate feedback information, which is based on the mmWave signals, over a non-mmWave frequency band, and to control the first wireless communication device to establish with the second wireless communication device a beamformed link over the mmWave frequency band, the beamformed link using a Tx beamforming setting, which is determined based on the feedback information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An apparatus of wireless communication, the apparatus comprising a wireless communication controller configured to:
trigger a first wireless communication device to communicate capability information over a non-millimeter-wave (non-mmWave) frequency band, said capability information including information indicating a capability of communicating between said first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device over a millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency band; and based on said capability information, trigger said first wireless communication device to establish a mmWave link between said first and second wireless communication devices over said mmWave frequency band.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said capability information comprises at least one type of information selected from a group consisting of information whether said first wireless communication device includes a mmWave communication module, information whether said second wireless communication device includes a mmWave communication module, information of one or more supported transmission power levels of said first wireless communication device, information of one or more supported transmission power levels of said second wireless communication device, information of one or more modulation orders of said first wireless communication device, information of one or more modulation orders of said second wireless communication device, information of a number of antennas of said first wireless communication device, information of a number of antennas of said second wireless communication device, information of a number of antenna elements per antenna of said first wireless communication device, information of a number of antenna elements per antenna of said second wireless communication device, information of a beamforming capability of said first wireless communication device, and information of a beamforming capability of said second wireless communication device.

3 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said capability information includes location information corresponding to a location of at least one device selected from a group consisting of said first and second wireless communication devices.

4 . The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein said communication controller is configured to trigger said first wireless communication device to establish said mmWave link based on said location information.

5 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said communication controller is configured to trigger said first wireless communication device to exchange management and control information corresponding to said mmWave link over said non-mmWave frequency band.

6 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said first wireless communication device comprises a base-station (BS), and wherein said second wireless communication device comprises a mobile device.

7 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said first wireless communication device comprises a mobile device, and wherein said second wireless communication device comprises a base-station (BS).

8 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said wireless communication controller is configured to cause a base-station (BS) to trigger the first wireless communication device to establish the mmWave link with the second wireless communication device, based on capability information received at the BS from the first wireless communication device over a first non-mmWave link, and capability information received at the BS from the second wireless communication device over a second non-mmWave link, said first wireless communication device comprises a first mobile device, and said second wireless communication device comprises a second mobile device.

9 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said non-mmWave frequency band comprises a broadband cellular frequency band.

10 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said non-mmWave frequency band comprises a Long-Term-Evolution (LTE) frequency band.

11 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said mmWave link over said mmWave frequency band comprises a Wireless-Gigabit (WiGig) link.

12 . The apparatus of claim 1 comprising:
one or more antennas;
a mm Wave transceiver to communicate over the mmWave frequency band; and
a non-mmWave transceiver to communicate over the non-mmWave frequency band.

13 . The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a memory, and a processor.

14 . A product including a non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a machine, result in:
triggering a first wireless communication device to communicate capability information over a non-millimeter-wave (non-mmWave) frequency band, said capability information including information indicating a capability of communicating between said first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device over a millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency band; and triggering said first wireless communication device to establish a mmWave link between said first and second wireless communication devices over said mmWave frequency band based on said capability information.

15 . The product of claim 14 , wherein said capability information comprises at least one type of information selected from a group consisting of information whether said first wireless communication device includes a mmWave communication module, information whether said second wireless communication device includes a mmWave communication module, information of one or more supported transmission power levels of said first wireless communication device, information of one or more supported transmission power levels of said second wireless communication device, information of one or more modulation orders of said first wireless communication device, information of one or more modulation orders of said second wireless communication device, information of a number of antennas of said first wireless communication device, information of a number of antennas of said second wireless communication device, information of a number of antenna elements per antenna of said first wireless communication device, information of a number of antenna elements per antenna of said second wireless communication device, information of a beamforming capability of said first wireless communication device, and information of a beamforming capability of said second wireless communication device.

16 . The product of claim 14 , wherein said capability information includes location information corresponding to a location of at least one device selected from a group consisting of said first and second wireless communication devices.

17 . The product of claim 16 , wherein said instructions result in triggering said first wireless communication device to establish said mmWave link based on said location information.

18 . The product of claim 14 , wherein said instructions result in triggering said first wireless communication device to exchange management and control information corresponding to said mmWave link over said non-mmWave frequency band.

19 . The product of claim 14 , wherein said first wireless communication device comprises a base-station (BS), and wherein said second wireless communication device comprises a mobile device.

20 . The product of claim 14 , wherein said first wireless communication device comprises a mobile device, and wherein said second wireless communication device comprises a base-station (BS).

21 . The product of claim 14 , wherein the instructions

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Cordeiro Carlos
• Sadeghi Bahareh
• Maltsev Alexander
• Sergeyev Vadim

Classifications

• H04W72/21

  in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network · CPC title

• H04W72/0453 Primary

  Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA · CPC title

• H04W88/08

  Access point devices · CPC title

• H04W88/06

  adapted for operation in multiple networks {or having at least two operational modes}, e.g. multi-mode terminals · CPC title

• H04B7/0619

  using feedback from receiving side (feedback signaling for adaptive modulation/coding H04L1/0001) · CPC title