DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM WITH UPLINK BANDWIDTH FOR SIGNAL ANALYSIS
First Claim
1. A distributed antenna system comprising:
- a host unit;
a plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the host unit;
a plurality of communication links to communicatively coupling the host unit to the plurality of remote units, wherein the plurality of remote units are configured to implement a common arrangement of resource blocks for uplink transport signals on associated ones of the plurality of communication links;
one or more simulcast modules configured to implement simulcasting of signals;
wherein the host unit is configured to instruct a subset of the plurality of remote units to send a digital sample stream over a monitor path of their respective uplink transport signals;
wherein the one or more simulcast modules are configured to sum the monitor paths from the respective uplink transport signals to generate a summed digital sample stream, the one or more simulcast modules configured to send the summed digital sample stream to the host unit; and
wherein the host unit is configured to provide a signal based on the summed digital sample stream to one or more signal analysis modules.
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Abstract
One embodiment is directed towards a distributed antenna system (DAS). The DAS includes a host unit a plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the host unit. The plurality of remote units are configured to implement a common arrangement of resource blocks for uplink transport signals. The host unit is configured to instruct a subset of the plurality of remote units to send a digital sample stream over a monitor path of their respective uplink transport signals. One or more simulcast modules are configured to sum the monitor paths from the respective uplink transport signals to generate a summed digital sample stream, the one or more simulcast modules configured to send the summed digital sample stream to the host unit. The host unit is configured to provide a signal based on the summed digital sample stream to one or more signal analysis modules.
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25 Claims
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1. A distributed antenna system comprising:
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a host unit; a plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the host unit; a plurality of communication links to communicatively coupling the host unit to the plurality of remote units, wherein the plurality of remote units are configured to implement a common arrangement of resource blocks for uplink transport signals on associated ones of the plurality of communication links; one or more simulcast modules configured to implement simulcasting of signals; wherein the host unit is configured to instruct a subset of the plurality of remote units to send a digital sample stream over a monitor path of their respective uplink transport signals; wherein the one or more simulcast modules are configured to sum the monitor paths from the respective uplink transport signals to generate a summed digital sample stream, the one or more simulcast modules configured to send the summed digital sample stream to the host unit; and wherein the host unit is configured to provide a signal based on the summed digital sample stream to one or more signal analysis modules. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A distributed antenna system comprising:
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a host unit operable to receive a first uplink digital transport frame and to send one or more signals based on a first one or more timeslots of a first digital transport frame to one or more base transceiver stations and to send a signal analysis signal based on a second one or more timeslots of the first digital transport frame to one or more signal analysis modules; a plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the host unit, each of the plurality of remote antenna units configured to convert received radio frequency (RF) spectrum into a plurality of respective intermediate frequency (IF) digital sample streams, each of the plurality of remote units including a first digital down converter to convert a first digital sample stream of its respective IF digital sample streams into a first baseband digital sample stream and send the first baseband digital sample stream to the host unit over a first one or more timeslots of their respective digital transport frames, each of the plurality of remote units including a second digital down converter configured to selectively convert a second digital sample stream of its respective IF digital sample streams into a second baseband digital sample stream and send the second baseband digital sample stream to the host unit over a second one or more timeslots of their respective digital transport frames; and one or more simulcast modules between the plurality of remote units and the host unit, the one or more simulcast modules configured to sum the first one or more timeslots of the respective digital transport frames to form the first one or more timeslots of the first digital transport frame and to sum the second one or more timeslots of the respective digital transport frames to form the second one or more timeslots of the first digital transport frame, and to send the first digital transport frame to the host unit. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method of providing digital transport of signals on a radio-frequency (RF) distributed antenna system, the method comprising:
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at a remote unit, converting a first spectral region into a first digital sample stream; at the remote unit, sending the first digital sample stream to the host unit over a first subset of resource blocks of an uplink transport signal; at the remote unit, receiving a command from the host unit to duplicate at least a portion of the first spectral region; at the remote unit, converting the at least a portion of the first spectral region into a second digital sample stream; and at the remote unit, sending the second digital sample stream over a monitor path of the uplink transport signal. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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