US 12,445,883 B2
Considering data stream separation capability in wireless communication networks
Paul Simon Holt Leather, Berlin-Schlachtensee (DE); Thomas Haustein, Berlin (DE); Ramez Askar, Berlin (DE); Wilhelm Keusgen, Berlin (DE); Leszek Raschkowski, Berlin (DE); and Mathis Schmieder, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Munich (DE)
Filed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Munich (DE)
Filed on Feb. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/670,676.
Application 17/670,676 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2020/072177, filed on Aug. 6, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19191830 (EP), filed on Aug. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0217566 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 24/10 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising a memory having stored therein impairment information indicating an impairment caused from operating a first communication chain or a communication link of the apparatus; and/or
wherein the apparatus is configured for controlling a wireless communication to a further apparatus based on impairment information indicating an impairment caused from operating a first chain of the further apparatus on a second chain of the further apparatus;
wherein the apparatus, is configured to report its effective channel and a corresponding rank, it faces in the wireless communication;
wherein a change in the rank, is based on at least one of:
a change in the effective channel;
an operation mode of the apparatus;
regulatory requirements;
user interaction; or
a property of the device.