Systems and methods for wireless communications
First Claim
1. A system for implementing a communications process for communicating via a plurality of wireless communication protocols, comprising a cluster having two or more processing elements with a processor having a memory management unit capable of supporting an operating system that separates application-level and system-level address spaces, an ethernet network for data communication among the processing elements, and programs executing within respective application-level spaces of the two or more processing elements for collectively processing digitized IF signals as required to implement the physical layer of the wireless communication protocols wherein such programs process such IF signals within a latency period corresponding to an associated wireless communication protocol.
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Abstract
Systems and methods including a wireless communications device that consists of a collection of one or more processing elements, optionally forming a computer cluster, that together carry out the functions necessary to exchange information over a plurality of wireless communications links, wherein the communication links may employ different communication protocols, respectively. The systems and methods combine two techniques: the use of multiple flexible processing elements, and a design in which each of the elements can carry out any part of the processing performed by the device, including without limitation the physical, MAC, link, network, transport, and presentation layer processing.
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1. A system for implementing a communications process for communicating via a plurality of wireless communication protocols, comprising
a cluster having two or more processing elements with a processor having a memory management unit capable of supporting an operating system that separates application-level and system-level address spaces, an ethernet network for data communication among the processing elements, and programs executing within respective application-level spaces of the two or more processing elements for collectively processing digitized IF signals as required to implement the physical layer of the wireless communication protocols wherein such programs process such IF signals within a latency period corresponding to an associated wireless communication protocol.
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10. A system for implementing a communications process for communicating via a plurality of wireless communication protocols, comprising
a cluster having two or more processing elements, each having a plurality of processors each containing a memory management unit capable of supporting an operating system that separates application-level and system-level address spaces, and a network for data communication among the processing elements, the interface for which is attached to an I/O bus of each element, and programs executing in the respective application-level space of the two or more processing elements to collectively perform the processing of digitized IF signals as required to implement the physical layer of the wireless communication protocols wherein such programs process such IF signals within a latency period corresponding to an associated wireless communication protocol.
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