Method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines

• US 7,672,271 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2006
• Issued: 03/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hyun Lee
• Original Assignee: Hyun Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Hyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Pérez-Gutiérrez; Rafael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chakour; Issam
• Application Number:
  US11/644,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20070147361A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,167 Days
• Field of Search: 370/328, 370/536
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/28 using beam steering
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/10 Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/22 with access to wired networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a high-speed wireless backbone connection, Backbone Connection Facilitator (BCF), to create a wireless home network, which may consist of many short-range wired/wireless networks. BCF dynamically creates concurrent data pipelines to meet the data bandwidth demand to transfer packets from one short-range wired/wireless network to another. BCF employs the newly developed antenna technologies (ex. MIMO, SDMA) to minimize the transmit power, to reduce the interferences, and to support the real time communication.

BCF contains the BCF-PHY layer, the BCF-Data-Link-Layer, and the BCF-Network-Layer. The BCF-PHY layer consists of antenna array, a PHY Base Band controller, and a digital beam former. The BCF-Data-Link-Layer provides the MAC functionality. The BCF-Network-Layer assembles the packet, provides the source and destination address, and provides the BCF-PHY beam forming information. The BCF-Network-Layer is also responsible for parsing and assembling the packet payloads for the high-speed backbone connection.

Claims

1. A method of constructing a wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing a smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines for providing a high-speed data link based on the smart/adaptive antenna and concurrent data pipeline that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters, comprising:

means for parsing an original packet with a bit slicing technique to create multiple lower data rate packets, which can be transferred via concurrent lower data rate backbone connection facilitator (bcf) data pipelines;

means for constructing a high-speed payload by merging a number of lower data rate packets with a bit/byte/word-wise multiplexing technique for the purpose of concurrently transferring multiple packets via a signal bcf channel;

means for parsing and merging a number of low data rate and high data rate original packets to create an evenly distributed high speed payload for the backbone pipelines with the purpose of optimizing the power dissipation and increasing the channel occupancy rate;

means for providing a single channel wireless backbone connection between two ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

clusters within a home or small office by means of a beam forming technique;

means for providing a multi-channel wireless backbone connection from a ‘

-short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster to two or more other ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

clusters for the purpose of simulcasting, broad casting, and/or multicasting the same or different data within a home or a small office using a number of independent bcf pipelines;

means for providing a multi-channel wireless backbone connections from one ‘

short-range range wired/wireless network’

cluster to another ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster for the purpose of increasing the data transfer rate between any two ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

clusters within a home or small office by increasing the number of concurrent bcf pipelines;

means for the local backbone connection facilitator (bcf) recognizing a new wired/wireless device within a home or small office, and registering into the local bcf that serves as the ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster that contains the new device;

means for a local bcf notifying other bcfs within the home about the new device, and other bcfs registering the new device;

means for deciding that the packet to be transferred is in a bcf format;

means for converting the received bcf packets to short range packets to identify a destination address of the packet;

means for comparing the packet protocol of a source and destination devices to see if protocol conversion is needed before delivering the packet to the destination device;

means for converting short-range packets to bcf packets for inter ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster transfer; and

means for a local bcf converting the received bcf packet protocol to the destination packet protocol for inter ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster communication, or converting the source device protocol to the destination device protocol for intra ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster.

2. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for parsing the original packet with the bit slicing technique to create a multiple lower data rate packets that can be transferred via concurrent lower data rate (bcf) data pipelines comprises a packet splitter functional element.

3. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for constructing a high-speed payload by merging a number of lower data rate packets with a bit/byte/word-wise multiplexing technique for the purpose of transferring multiple packets via a signal bcf channel comprises a packet merger functional element.

4. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for parsing and merging a number of low data rate and high data rate original packets to create an evenly distributed high speed payload for the backbone pipelines with the purpose of optimizing the power dissipation and increasing the channel occupancy rate comprises a packet mixer functional element.

5. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for providing a single channel wireless backbone connection between two ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

clusters within a home or small office by means of beam forming technique comprises a single channel backbone connector functional element.

6. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for providing multi-channel wireless backbone connection from a ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster to two or more other ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

clusters for the purpose of simulcasting, broadcasting, and/or multicasting the same or different data within a home or small office using a number of independent bcf pipelines employing the antenna beam forming technique comprises a functional element, multi-channel/multi-cast backbone connector.

7. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for providing multi-channel wireless backbone connections from one ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster to another ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster for the purpose of increasing the data transfer rate between any two ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

clusters within a home or small office by increasing the number of concurrent bcf pipelines comprises a multi-channel/uni-cast backbone connector functional element.

8. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters oy means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for the local backbone connection facilitator (bcf) recognizing a new wired/wireless device within a home or small office, and registering into the local bcf that serves as the ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster that contains the new device comprises a registration functional element.

9. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for the local bcf notifying other bcfs within the home about the new device, and other bcfs registering the new device comprises a notify functional element.

10. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for deciding the packet to be transferred is in a bcf format comprises a check for bcf packet functional element.

11. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for converting the received bcf packets to short range packets to identify the destination address of the packet comprises a short range packet extraction functional element.

12. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for comparing the packet protocol of the source and the destination devices to see if protocol conversion is needed before delivering the packet to the destination device comprises a check destination protocol functional element.

13. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for converting short-range packets to bcf packets for inter ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster transfer comprises a bcf packet construction functional element.

14. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for the local bcf converting the received bcf packet protocol to the destination packet protocol for inter ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster communication, or converting the source device protocol to the destination device protocol for intra ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster comprises a convert protocol functional element.

15. A method of constructing a wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing a smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines for providing a high-speed data link based on the smart/adaptive antenna and concurrent data pipeline that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters, comprising:

a packet splitter functional element for parsing an original packet with a bit slicing technique to create multiple lower data rate packets, which can be transferred via concurrent lower data rate backbone connection facilitator (bcf) data pipelines;

a packet merger functional element for constructing a high-speed payload by merging a number of lower data rate packets with a bit/byte/word-wise multiplexing technique for the purpose of concurrently transferring multiple packets via a signal bcf channel;

a packet mixer functional element for parsing and merging a number of low data rate and high data rate original packets to create an evenly distributed high speed payload for the backbone pipelines with the purpose of optimizing the power dissipation and increasing the channel occupancy rate;

a single channel backbone connector functional element for providing a single channel wireless backbone connection between two ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

clusters within a home or small office by means of a beam forming technique;

a multi-channel/multi-cast backbone connector functional element for providing a multi-channel wireless backbone connection from a ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster to two or more other ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

clusters for the purpose of simulcasting, broad casting, and/or multicasting the same or different data within a home or a small office using a number of independent bcf pipelines;

a multi-channel/uni-cast backbone connector for providing multi-channel wireless backbone connections from one ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster to another ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster for the purpose of increasing the data transfer rate between any two ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

clusters within a home or small office by increasing the number of concurrent bcf pipelines;

a registration functional element for the local backbone connection facilitator (bcf) recognizing a new wired/wireless device within a home or small office, and registering into the local bcf that serves as the ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster that contains the new device;

a notify functional element for a local bcf notifying other bcfs within the home about the new device, and other bcfs registering the new device;

a check for bcf packet functional element for deciding that the packet to be transferred is in a bcf format;

a short range packet extraction functional element for converting the received bcf packets to short range packets to identify a destination address of the packet;

a check destination protocol functional element for comparing the packet protocol of a source and destination devices to see if protocol conversion is needed before delivering the packet to the destination device;

a bcf packet constructor functional element for converting short-range packets to bcf packets for inter ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster transfer; and

a convert protocol functional element for a local bcf converting the received bcf packet protocol to the destination packet protocol for inter ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster communication, or converting the source device protocol to the destination device protocol for intra ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster.

16. The method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines as recited in claim 15, further comprising:

a functional element, long range packet check, for deciding whether the destination device is within its ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster or it belongs to other ‘

short-range wired/wireless network’

cluster.