Wireless network system and method
First Claim
1. A system of wireless communication comprising:
- a network fuser connected to a control data transport medium;
a first gateway/customer premises equipment (GPE/CPE) unit connected to the network fuser via the control data transport medium; and
wherein the network fuser is operable to;
receive data from a network;
generate radio frequency (“
RF”
) configuration information for the first GPE/CPE unit;
generate digital signal processing (“
DSP”
) configuration information for the first GPE/CPE unit;
provide the radio frequency (“
RF”
) configuration and the digital signal processing (“
DSP”
) configuration information to the first GPE/CPE unit.
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide a flexible system for providing wireless broadband access. The system can include a gateway that has a plurality of gateway premises equipment (“GPE”) units and a network fuser connected to the plurality of GPE units to coordinate the activities of the plurality of the GPE units. The network fuser can provide DSP configuration information and RF configuration information to the GPE units. The network fuser is also operable to connect to a high-speed network (e.g., a backhaul network) and to provision data from the high-speed network to each of the plurality of GPE units. The system can also include a plurality of customer premises equipment (“CPE”) units remote from the gateway.
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Citations
116 Claims
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1. A system of wireless communication comprising:
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a network fuser connected to a control data transport medium; a first gateway/customer premises equipment (GPE/CPE) unit connected to the network fuser via the control data transport medium; and wherein the network fuser is operable to; receive data from a network; generate radio frequency (“
RF”
) configuration information for the first GPE/CPE unit;generate digital signal processing (“
DSP”
) configuration information for the first GPE/CPE unit;provide the radio frequency (“
RF”
) configuration and the digital signal processing (“
DSP”
) configuration information to the first GPE/CPE unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system of wireless communication comprising:
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a network fuser connected to a control data transport medium; a first gateway/customer premises equipment (GPE/CPE) unit connected to the network fuser via the control data transport medium; and a second GPE/CPE unit remote from the first GPE/CPE unit, operable to establish a wireless communications link with the first GPE/CPE unit; wherein the network fuser is operable to;
receive data from a network;
provide radio frequency (“
RF”
) configuration information to the first GPE/CPE unit; and
provide digital signal processing (“
DSP”
) configuration information to the first GPE/CPE unit;wherein the network fuser is operable to configure the first GPE/CPE unit to establish the MIMO communications link; wherein the network fuser is operable to configure the first GPE/CPE unit based on instantaneous channel data received from the first GPE/CPE unit.
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19. A system of wireless communication comprising:
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a network fuser connected to a control data transport medium; a first gateway/customer premises equipment (GPE/CPE) unit connected to the network fuser via the control data transport medium; and a second GPE/CPE unit remote from the first GPE/CPE unit, operable to establish a wireless communications link with the first GPE/CPE unit; wherein the network fuser is operable to;
receive data from a network;
provide radio frequency (“
RF”
) configuration information to the first GPE/CPE unit; and
provide digital signal processing (“
DSP”
) configuration information to the first GPE/CPE unit;wherein the network fuser is operable to configure the first GPE/CPE unit to establish the MIMO communications link; wherein the network fuser is operable to configure the first GPE/CPE unit based on instantaneous channel data derived by the second GPE/CPE unit.
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20. A system for provisioning broad-band fixed wireless access comprising:
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a gateway, further comprising; a plurality of gateway premises equipment (“
GPE”
) units;a network fuser connected to the plurality of GPE units and is operable to coordinate and schedule the activities of the plurality of the GPE units to act as a base station, wherein the network fuser is operable to connect to a high-speed network and to provision data from the high-speed network to each of the plurality of GPE units; a plurality of customer premises equipment (“
CPE”
) units remote from the gateway;wherein each GPE unit is operable to establish a wireless MIMO communications link with at least one corresponding CPE unit to wirelessly transfer data received from the network fuser. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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48. A system for provisioning broad-band fixed wireless access comprising:
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a gateway, further comprising; a plurality of gateway premises equipment (“
GPE”
) units;a network fuser connected to the plurality of GPE units to coordinate the activities of the plurality of the GPE units to act as a base station, wherein the network fuser is operable to connect to a high-speed network and to provision data from the high-speed network to each of the plurality of GPE units; and a plurality of customer premises equipment (“
CPE”
) units remote from the gateway;wherein each GPE unit is operable to establish a wireless MIMO communications link with at least one corresponding CPE unit to wirelessly transfer data received from the network fuser; wherein the network fuser is operable to provision bandwidth to a particular GPE unit based on a forward link state or a reverse link state of the wireless communication link between the particular GPE unit and the corresponding CPE unit.
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49. A system for provisioning broad-band fixed wireless access comprising:
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a gateway, further comprising; a plurality of gateway premises equipment (“
GPE”
) units;a network fuser connected to the plurality of GPE units to coordinate the activities of the plurality of the GPE units to act as a base station, wherein the network fuser is operable to connect to a high-speed network and to provision data from the high-speed network to each of the plurality of GPE units; a plurality of customer premises equipment (“
CPE”
) units remote from the gateway;wherein each GPE unit is operable to establish a wireless MIMO communications link with at least one corresponding CPE unit to wirelessly transfer data received from the network fuser; wherein the network fuser is operable to provision bandwidth to a particular GPE unit based on user information for a user associated with the corresponding CPE for the particular GPE. - View Dependent Claims (50, 51)
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52. A system for provisioning broad-band fixed wireless access comprising:
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a gateway, further comprising; a plurality of gateway premises equipment (“
GPE”
) units;a network fuser connected to the plurality of GPE units to coordinate the activities of the plurality of the GPE units to act as a base station, wherein the network fuser is operable to connect to a high-speed network and to provision data from the high-speed network to each of the plurality of GPE units; and a plurality of customer premises equipment (“
CPE”
) units remote from the gateway;wherein each GPE unit is operable to establish a wireless MIMO communications link with at least one corresponding CPE unit to wirelessly transfer data received from the network fuser; wherein the network fuser is further operable to provision bandwidth to the plurality of GPE units based on a state of a backhaul network.
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53. A system for provisioning broad-band fixed wireless access comprising:
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a gateway, further comprising; a plurality of gateway premises equipment (“
GPE”
) units;a network fuser connected to the plurality of GPE units to coordinate the activities of the plurality of the GPE units to act as a base station, wherein the network fuser is operable to connect to a high-speed network and to provision data from the high-speed network to each of the plurality of GPE units; and a plurality of customer premises equipment (“
CPE”
) units remote from the gateway;wherein each GPE unit is operable to establish a wireless MIMO communications link with at least one corresponding CPE unit to wirelessly transfer data received from the network fuser; wherein the network fuser is further operable to provision bandwidth based on channel statistics. - View Dependent Claims (54)
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55. A system for provisioning broad-band fixed wireless access comprising:
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a gateway, further comprising; a plurality of gateway premises equipment (“
GPE”
) units;a network fuser connected to the plurality of GPE units to coordinate the activities of the plurality of the GPE units to act as a base station, wherein the network fuser is operable to connect to a high-speed network and to provision data from the high-speed network to each of the plurality of GPE units; and a plurality of customer premises equipment (“
CPE”
) units remote from the gateway;wherein each GPE unit is operable to establish a wireless MIMO communications link with at least one corresponding CPE unit to wirelessly transfer data received from the network fuser; wherein the network fuser is operable to instruct the plurality of GPE units and CPE units to perform channel probes; wherein the network fuser instructs plurality of GPE units and CPE units to perform channel probes to determine interference caused by simultaneous transmissions.
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56. A system for provisioning broad-band fixed wireless access comprising:
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a gateway, further comprising; a plurality of gateway premises equipment (“
GPE”
) units;a network fuser connected to the plurality of GPE units to coordinate the activities of the plurality of the GPE units to act as a base station, wherein the network fuser is operable to connect to a high-speed network and to provision data from the high-speed network to each of the plurality of GPE units; and a plurality of customer premises equipment (“
CPE”
) units remote from the gateway;wherein each GPE unit is operable to establish a wireless MIMO communications link with at least one corresponding CPE unit to wirelessly transfer data received from the network fuser; wherein the network fuser is operable to instruct the plurality of GPE units and CPE units to perform channel probes; wherein the network fuser is further operable to derive instantaneous channel statistics based on the channel probes. - View Dependent Claims (57)
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58. A system for provisioning broad-band fixed wireless access comprising:
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a gateway, further comprising; a plurality of gateway premises equipment (“
GPE”
) units;a network fuser connected to the plurality of GPE units to coordinate the activities of the plurality of the GPE units to act as a base station, wherein the network fuser is operable to connect to a high-speed network and to provision data from the high-speed network to each of the plurality of GPE units; and a plurality of customer premises equipment (“
CPE”
) units remote from the gateway;wherein each GPE unit is operable to establish a wireless MIMO communications link with at least one corresponding CPE unit to wirelessly transfer data received from the network fuser; wherein the network fuser is operable to;
determine a CPE unit from the plurality of CPE units that has a largest queue of data to be sent to the CPE unit;
determine a maximum data rate that can be used to send data to the CPE with the largest queue; and
if a total capacity exceeds the maximum data rate, provisioning bandwidth to send data to the CPE unit with the largest queue and using excess capacity to service other CPE units.- View Dependent Claims (59)
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60. A system for provisioning broad-band fixed wireless access comprising:
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a gateway, further comprising; a plurality of gateway premises equipment (“
GPE”
) units;a network fuser connected to the plurality of GPE units to coordinate the activities of the plurality of the GPE units to act as a base station, wherein the network fuser is operable to connect to a high-speed network and to provision data from the high-speed network to each of the plurality of GPE units; and a plurality of customer premises equipment (“
CPE”
) units remote from the gateway;wherein each GPE unit is operable to establish a wireless MIMO communications link with at least one corresponding CPE unit to wirelessly transfer data received from the network fuser; wherein the network fuser is further operable to adjust adaptive antennas in each of the plurality of GPE units; wherein the network fuser is operable to adjust the adaptive antennas based on user information comprising an access history, a user priority, an account balance grade-of-service, or quality-of-service requirements.
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61. A system for provisioning broad-band fixed wireless access comprising:
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a gateway, further comprising; a plurality of gateway premises equipment (“
GPE”
) units;a network fuser connected to the plurality of GPE units to coordinate the activities of the plurality of the GPE units to act as a base station, wherein the network fuser is operable to connect to a high-speed network and to provision data from the high-speed network to each of the plurality of GPE units; and a plurality of customer premises equipment (“
CPE”
) units remote from the gateway;wherein each GPE unit is operable to establish a wireless MIMO communications link with at least one corresponding CPE unit to wirelessly transfer data received from the network fuser; wherein the network fuser is further operable to adjust adaptive antennas in each of the plurality of GPE units; wherein the network fuser is further operable to adjust the adaptive antennas based on channel statistics comprising a delay spread, average capacity, path loss, fading rate, a mean, a variance, a power-delay profile, Doppler, a special covariance, a correlation, or a space-time correlation.
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62. A network fuser comprising:
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a first interface to connect to a high-speed network; a second interface to connect to a control data transport medium for connecting to one or more gateway/customer premises (GPE/CPE) units; a processor; a computer readable medium accessible by the processor, containing a set of computer instructions, wherein the network fuser is operable to;
coordinate and schedule the activities of the plurality of the GPE/CPE units to establish wireless MIMO communications links; and
provision bandwidth to the plurality of GPE/CPE units. - View Dependent Claims (63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88)
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73. The network fuser of 71, wherein the GPE/CPE unit can probe the channel using pilot tones.
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89. A method of wireless communication comprising:
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receiving data from a network at a control device; providing radio frequency (“
RF”
) configuration information from the control device to a first gateway/customer premises equipment (GPE/CPE) unit via a control data transport link between the control device and the first GPE/CPE unit;providing digital signal processing (“
DSP”
) configuration information from the control device to the first GPE/CPE unit via the control data transport link; andcoordinating the activity of the first gateway/customer premises equipment (GPE/CPE) unit and a second GPE/CPE to establish wireless communications links. - View Dependent Claims (90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100)
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101. A method of wireless communication comprising:
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receiving data from a network at a control device; providing radio frequency (“
RF”
) configuration information from the control device to a first gateway/customer premises equipment (GPE/CPE) unit via a control data transport link between the control device and the first GPE/CPE unit;providing digital signal processing (“
DSP”
) configuration information from the control device to the first GPE/CPE unit via the control data transport link; andconfiguring the first GPE/CPE unit based on instantaneous channel data received from the first GPE/CPE unit.
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102. A method of wireless communication comprising:
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receiving data from a network at a control device; providing radio frequency (“
RF”
) configuration information from the control device to a first gateway/customer premises equipment (GPE/CPE) unit via a control data transport link between the control device and the first GPE/CPE unit;providing digital signal processing (“
DSP”
) configuration information from the control device to the first GPE/CPE unit via the control data transport link; andconfiguring the first GPE/CPE unit based on instantaneous channel data derived by the second GPE/CPE unit.
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103. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions that, upon execution by a processor, result in the execution of operations comprising:
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receiving data from a network; providing radio frequency (“
RF”
) configuration information to a first gateway/customer premises equipment (GPE/CPE) unit via a control data transport link to the first GPE/CPE unit;providing digital signal processing (“
DSP”
) configuration information to the first GPE/CPE unit via the control data transport link; andcoordinating the activity of the first gateway/customer premises equipment (GPE/CPE) unit and a second GPE/CPE to establish wireless communications links. - View Dependent Claims (104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116)
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