Fiber aided wireless network architecture
First Claim
1. A communications system, comprising:
- multiple interfaces configured to receive wireless communications signals and transmit non-decoded signals on at least one communications path, each interface including a conversion unit with a quantizer to convert the wireless communications signals to non-decoded signals by quantizing the wireless communications signals in an encoded state; and
a central processor coupled to the at least one communications path to jointly process the non-decoded signals to produce decoded information, a data rate between the central processor and a given interface being allocated to allow the guantizer to quantize the wireless communications signals with quantization distortion less than noise at a front end of the given interface.
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Abstract
A FAWNA that allows high-speed mobile connectivity by leveraging the speed of optical networks. Specifically, SIMO FAWNA, which comprises a SIMO wireless channel interfaced with a fiber channel through wireless-to-optical interfaces. Received wireless signal at each interface are sampled and quantized prior to transmission. The capacity of the FAWNA approaches the capacity of the architecture exponentially with fiber capacity. It is also shown that for a given fiber capacity, there is an optimal method of operating wireless bandwidth and number of interfaces. An optimal method to divide the fiber capacity among the interfaces is shown, which ensures that each interface is allocated a rate so that noise is dominated by front end noise rather than by quantization distortion. A method is also presented in which, rather than dynamically changing rate allocation based on channel state, a less complex, fixed rate allocation may be adopted with very small loss in performance.
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25 Claims
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1. A communications system, comprising:
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multiple interfaces configured to receive wireless communications signals and transmit non-decoded signals on at least one communications path, each interface including a conversion unit with a quantizer to convert the wireless communications signals to non-decoded signals by quantizing the wireless communications signals in an encoded state; and a central processor coupled to the at least one communications path to jointly process the non-decoded signals to produce decoded information, a data rate between the central processor and a given interface being allocated to allow the guantizer to quantize the wireless communications signals with quantization distortion less than noise at a front end of the given interface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of providing a fiber aided wireless network, comprising:
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converting a wireless communications signal to a non-decoded communications signal on at least one communications path by; allocating a data rate to allow quantizing to occur with a quantization distortion less than noise at a front end of a respective interface; and quantizing the wireless communications signal in an encoded state; and jointly processing the non-decoded signals on the at least one communications path to produce decoded information. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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