Directional antenna sectoring system and methodology
First Claim
1. A wireless system for transmitting and receiving a plurality of data packets, the system comprising:
- a plurality of directional antenna sectors self contained at a first location, each of the plurality of directional antenna sectors having a respective associated three-dimensional region of space for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals;
at least one receiving controller self contained at the first location;
at least one transmitting controller self contained at the first location;
wherein said at least one receiving controller is selectively coupled, one at a time, to each one of the plurality of directional antenna sectors, one at a time, to measure received electromagnetic signal characteristics to determine a best-received electromagnetic signal;
wherein said at least one of said receiving controllers is responsive to the measure of the received electromagnetic signal characteristics from each of the plurality of directional antenna sectors to select one of the directional antenna sectors as a selected directional antenna sector, prior to the transmission of at least one data packet; and
wherein at least one of said transmitting controllers is selectively coupled to the selected directional antenna sector for transmitting said at least one data packet via the selected directional antenna sector.
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Abstract
Methods and systems for packet-by-packet directional mobile wireless transmission utilizing plurality of directional antenna sectors, such that, the transmission of each packet is performed by at least one selected antenna sector. The direction of transmission is selected responsive to the direction in which the best electromagnetic signal reception was received. For each plurality of data packets, the transmission direction is selected again. Switching logic is coupling the out going transmission signal to selected ones from the plurality of the antennas responsive to the motion of the mobile user. The antenna design in this invention is aimed at increasing the gain and minimizing the interfering signals with respect large number of mobile users who are concurrently and continuously tracking and communicating with their access points, and consequently, increasing the bit rate of each transmission and the aggregate capacity of the wireless system.
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57 Claims
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1. A wireless system for transmitting and receiving a plurality of data packets, the system comprising:
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a plurality of directional antenna sectors self contained at a first location, each of the plurality of directional antenna sectors having a respective associated three-dimensional region of space for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals; at least one receiving controller self contained at the first location; at least one transmitting controller self contained at the first location; wherein said at least one receiving controller is selectively coupled, one at a time, to each one of the plurality of directional antenna sectors, one at a time, to measure received electromagnetic signal characteristics to determine a best-received electromagnetic signal; wherein said at least one of said receiving controllers is responsive to the measure of the received electromagnetic signal characteristics from each of the plurality of directional antenna sectors to select one of the directional antenna sectors as a selected directional antenna sector, prior to the transmission of at least one data packet; and wherein at least one of said transmitting controllers is selectively coupled to the selected directional antenna sector for transmitting said at least one data packet via the selected directional antenna sector. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 40, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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31. A wireless method for transmitting and receiving a plurality of data packets, the method comprising:
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providing a plurality of directional antenna sectors in three-dimensional space self contained at a first location; selecting as selected directional antenna sectors, at least one of said plurality of directional antenna sectors, for receiving of an electromagnetic signal; coupling each one of said selected directional antenna sectors, one at a time, for measuring electromagnetic signal characteristics of the electromagnetic signal at the first location; and selecting at least one of said plurality of directional antenna sectors as a selected directional antenna sector, to transmit at the first location an electromagnetic signal comprising at least one data packet responsive to the measuring the received electromagnetic signal characteristics to determine a best-received electromagnetic signal. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41)
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42. A method for transmitting and receiving a plurality of data packets, the method comprising:
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receiving and measuring, self contained at a first location, electromagnetic signals via a plurality of directional antenna sectors self contained at the first location, each of said directional antenna sectors having a respective associated three-dimensional region of space; determining, at the first location, of received electromagnetic signal characteristics responsive to the measuring at each one of the directional antenna sectors to determine a best-received electromagnetic signal; selecting at least one of the directional antenna sectors as a selected directional antenna sector, responsive to the determining of the best-received electromagnetic signal; and transmitting, at the first location, at least one data packet via the selected directional antenna sector. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45)
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