CPC H04B 7/0617 (2013.01) [H04B 7/10 (2013.01); H04W 36/22 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 36/06 (2013.01); H04W 36/32 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01)] | 10 Claims |
1. A method of load balancing in a communications network comprising a system controller, a plurality of base terminals, and a plurality of wireless client devices, at least one wireless client device of the plurality of wireless client devices comprising a modal antenna configurable in a plurality of radiation modes, the method comprising:
surveying, by the system controller, communication link performance between the at least one wireless client device and one or more base terminals of the plurality of base terminals when the modal antenna of the at least one wireless client device is configured in each of the plurality of radiation modes, wherein each of the plurality of radiation modes has a different radiation pattern; and
selecting, by the system controller, one of the plurality of radiation modes as a selected mode for the modal antenna of the at least one wireless client device to load balance the communications network based, at least in part, on the communication link performance between the at least one wireless client device and the one or more base terminals when the modal antenna of the at least one wireless client device is configured in each of the plurality of radiation modes,
wherein in the selected mode:
downlink communication performance is improved relative to uplink communication performance for one or more of the plurality of base terminals; or
uplink communication performance for one or more base terminals of the plurality of base terminals is improved relative to downlink communication performance for the one or more base terminals.
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