Remotely reconfigurable distributed antenna system and methods
CAFCFirst Claim
1. A method of communicating in a distributed antenna system (DAS), the method comprising:
- receiving downlink optical signals at a remote radio unit, the downlink optical signals received from a digital access unit, the downlink optical signals comprising a plurality of carriers;
converting a portion of the downlink optical signals received at the remote radio unit to downlink signals, the portion of the downlink optical signals corresponding to a subset of the plurality of carriers, wherein a number of carriers in the subset of the plurality of carriers is less than a number of carriers in the plurality of carriers, and a number of carriers in the subset of the plurality of carriers is configurable;
transmitting the downlink signals from the remote radio unit as radio frequency signals;
receiving uplink signals at the remote radio unit;
converting the uplink signals received at the remote radio unit to uplink optical signals, wherein the uplink optical signals correspond to the subset of the plurality of carriers; and
sending the uplink optical signals from the remote radio unit to the digital access unit.
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Abstract
The present disclosure is a novel utility of a software defined radio (SDR) based Distributed Antenna System (DAS) that is field reconfigurable and support multi-modulation schemes (modulation-independent), multi-carriers, multi-frequency bands and multi-channels. The present disclosure enables a high degree of flexibility to manage, control, enhance, facilitate the usage and performance of a distributed wireless network such as flexible simulcast, automatic traffic load-balancing, network and radio resource optimization, network calibration, autonomous/assisted commissioning, carrier pooling, automatic frequency selection, frequency carrier placement, traffic monitoring, traffic tagging, pilot beacon, etc.
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21 Claims
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1. A method of communicating in a distributed antenna system (DAS), the method comprising:
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receiving downlink optical signals at a remote radio unit, the downlink optical signals received from a digital access unit, the downlink optical signals comprising a plurality of carriers; converting a portion of the downlink optical signals received at the remote radio unit to downlink signals, the portion of the downlink optical signals corresponding to a subset of the plurality of carriers, wherein a number of carriers in the subset of the plurality of carriers is less than a number of carriers in the plurality of carriers, and a number of carriers in the subset of the plurality of carriers is configurable; transmitting the downlink signals from the remote radio unit as radio frequency signals; receiving uplink signals at the remote radio unit; converting the uplink signals received at the remote radio unit to uplink optical signals, wherein the uplink optical signals correspond to the subset of the plurality of carriers; and sending the uplink optical signals from the remote radio unit to the digital access unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A host unit for use in the transport of wireless communications, comprising:
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at least one interface to communicatively couple the host unit to at least one signal source; wherein the host unit is capable of receiving a plurality of downlink signals from the at least one signal source; at least one interface to communicatively couple the host unit to a plurality of remote units, including at least a first remote unit and a second remote unit; wherein the host unit is capable of sending a digital representation of any downlink signal it receives to any of the plurality of remote units; wherein the host unit is configurable to transmit a digital representation of a first subset of the plurality of downlink signals to the first remote unit and a digital representation of a second subset of the plurality of downlink signals to the second remote unit, the second subset being different than the first subset; and wherein the host unit is capable of receiving a digital representation of at least one uplink signal from each of the plurality of remote units. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for transporting wireless communications, comprising:
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a host unit; a plurality of remote units, including at least a first remote unit and a second remote unit; wherein the host unit comprises at least one interface to communicatively couple the host unit to at least one signal source; wherein the host unit is capable of receiving a plurality of downlink signals from the at least one signal source; wherein the host unit further comprises at least one interface to communicatively couple the host unit to the plurality of remote units; wherein the host unit is capable of sending a digital representation of any downlink signal it receives to any of the plurality of remote units; wherein the host unit is configurable to transmit a digital representation of a first subset of the plurality of downlink signals to the first remote unit and a digital representation of a second subset of the plurality of downlink signals to the second remote unit, the second subset being different than the first subset; wherein the host unit is capable of receiving a digital representation of at least one uplink signal from the each of the plurality of remote units. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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