Antenna control system and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9544900-B2
Application number	US-201314086981-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2013
Priority date	Mar 6, 2013
Publication date	Jan 10, 2017
Grant date	Jan 10, 2017

Abstract

A wireless router applying an antenna control method includes a number of antennas and communicates with a number of terminal devices via the antennas. The antenna control method includes detecting a current bandwidth B cur of each terminal device communicating with the wireless router and determining a maximum bandwidth B max of each of the terminal devices, computing a weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths of the terminal devices according to the detected current bandwidth B cur and the maximum bandwidth B max of each terminal device, comparing the weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths with a first preset value, and turning on or turning off at least one of the antennas according to the compared result. A wireless router is also provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wireless router communicating with a plurality of terminal devices, the wireless router comprising first antennas, second antennas, a memory, a processor, and an antenna control system, wherein the first antennas are currently in an off state, wherein the second antennas are currently in an on state, wherein the antenna control system comprises computerized codes in the form of one or more programs stored in the memory and executed by the processor, wherein the one or more programs comprises:
a bandwidth detecting module having detecting program codes causing the processor to detect a current bandwidth B cur of each of the plurality of the terminal devices communicating with the wireless router, and determine a maximum bandwidth B max of each of the plurality of the terminal devices;
a computing module having computing program codes causing the processor to compute a weighted sum SUMB of bandwidths of all of the plurality of the terminal devices according to the detected current bandwidth B cur and the maximum bandwidth B max of each of the plurality of the terminal devices, and obtain a compared result by comparing the weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths with a first preset value; and
a control module having controlling program codes causing the processor to turn on at least one of the first antennas or turn off at least one of the second antennas according to the compared result.

2. The wireless router as described in claim 1 , wherein the computing module computes the weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths by:
determining a maximum bandwidth value B among the maximum bandwidths B max of all of the plurality of the terminal devices;
computing a weight W j of each of the plurality of the terminal devices according to a formula W j =B max(j) /B (1≦j≦n); and
computing the weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths according to a formula: SUMB=W 1 ×B cur(1) + . . . +W i ×B cur(i) + . . . +W n ×B cur(n) .

3. The wireless router as described in claim 2 , wherein the first preset value is B×y %, wherein B is the maximum bandwidth value, and y % is a preset rate.

4. The wireless router as described in claim 3 , wherein if the computing module determines that the weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths is greater than the first preset value, the control module determines whether one or more of the second antennas of the wireless router are turned off, and if the one or more of the second antennas are turned off, the control module controls the wireless router to turn on at least one of the first antennas that is currently in an off state.

5. The wireless router as described in claim 3 , wherein if the computing module determines that the weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths is equal to or less than the first preset value, the computing module further computes a surplus bandwidth, and compares the surplus bandwidth with a total bandwidth of p second antennas of the wireless router; the surplus bandwidth is calculated by subtracting the weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths from the maximum bandwidth value B; and the total bandwidth of the p second antennas is calculated according to the following formula: B×(p+z %)/m, wherein m is a total number of the second antennas, p is a maximum integer which is less than (1−SUMB/B)×m−z %; z % is a preset rate, and B is the maximum bandwidth value of all of the plurality of the terminal devices.

6. An antenna control method applied in a wireless router, the wireless router communicating with a plurality of terminal devices via first antennas and second antennas, wherein the first antennas are currently in an off state, wherein the second antennas are currently in an on state, the method comprising:
detecting a current bandwidth B cur of each of the plurality of the terminal devices communicating with the wireless router, and determining a maximum bandwidth B max of each of the plurality of the terminal devices;
computing a weighted sum SUMB of bandwidths of all of the plurality of the terminal devices according to the detected current bandwidth B cur and the maximum bandwidth B max of each of the plurality of the terminal devices, and obtaining a compared result by comparing the weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths with a first preset value; and
turning on one or more of the first antennas or turning off one or more of the second antennas according to the compared result.

7. The antenna control method as described in claim 6 , wherein the computing the weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths comprises the following steps:
determining a maximum bandwidth value B among the maximum bandwidths B max of all of the plurality of the terminal devices;
computing a weight W j of each of the plurality of the terminal devices according to a formula W j =B max(j) /B (1≦j≦n); and
computing the weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths according to a formula: SUMB=W 1 ×B cur(1) + . . . +W i ×B cur(i) + . . . +W n ×B cur(n) .

8. The antenna control method as described in claim 7 , wherein the first preset value is B×y %, wherein B is the maximum bandwidth value, and y % is a preset rate.

9. The antenna control method as described in claim 8 , further comprising:
determining whether one or more of the second antennas of the wireless router are turned off if determining that the weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths is greater than the first preset value, and if determining that the one or more of the second antennas are turned off, controlling the wireless router to turn on at least one of the first antennas that is currently in an off state.

10. The antenna control method as described in claim 8 , further comprising:
computing a surplus bandwidth if determining that the weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths is equal to or less than the first preset value, and comparing the surplus bandwidth with a total bandwidth of p second antennas of the wireless router; the surplus bandwidth being calculated by subtracting the weighted sum SUMB of the bandwidths from the maximum bandwidth value B; and the total bandwidth of the p second antennas being calculated according to a following formula: B×(p+z %)/m, wherein m is a total number of the second antennas of the wireless router, p is a maximum integer which is less than (1−SUMB/B)×m−z %; z % is a preset rate, and B is the maximum bandwidth value of all of the plurality of the terminal devices.

Assignees

• Ambit Microsystems (Shanghai) Ltd
• Hon Hai Prec Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Huang xiao-gang
• Ding Jun

Classifications

• H01Q1/246

  specially adapted for base stations · CPC title

• H04W72/046 Primary

  the resource being in the space domain, e.g. beams · CPC title