WIRELESS SYSTEM WITH CONFIGURABLE RADIO AND ANTENNA RESOURCES

• US 20170086184A1
• Filed: 10/24/2016
• Published: 03/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Everest Networks, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Everest Networks, Inc.
• Inventors: Pabla, Arbinder Singh
• Granted Patent: US 10,129,887 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2291 used in bluetooth or WI-FI devices of Wireless Local Area Networks [WLAN] H01Q1/241 takes precedence; WLAN in general H04W
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/246 specially adapted for base stations
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/38 formed by a conductive layer on an insulating support patch antennas H01Q9/0407; microstrip dipole antennas H01Q9/065; microstrip slot antennas H01Q13/106; transmission line microstrip antennas H01Q13/206; manufacturing reflecting surfaces using insulating material for supporting the reflecting surface H01Q15/142
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/48 Earthing means; Earth screens; Counterpoises
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/068 using parallel coplanar travelling wave or leaky wave aerial units H01Q21/065 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0413 MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0691 using subgroups of transmit antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0697 using spatial multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/046 the resource being in the space domain, e.g. beams
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/541 using the level of interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/085 Access point devices with remote components

Abstract

A wireless access device, system and method are disclosed for provisioning multiple concurrent radio services and adaptive management of multi-radio access points or multi-radio small cell base stations.

Claims

1. A wireless access device comprising:

a radio bank configured to assign multiple radios to one or more spatial sectors, each of the multiple radios providing a radio frequency communication signal; and

an antenna bank coupled to the radio bank, the antenna bank including a plurality of planar antennas individually configured to radiate at least one radio frequency communication signal into at least one spatial sector.

2. The wireless access device of claim 1, where at least two of the radios are configured to provide different services to a common one or more than one spatial sectors.

3. The wireless access device of claim 1, where at least two of the radios are configured to provide radio frequency communication signals using different radio frequency communication technologies.

4. The wireless access device of claim 1, further comprising:

a processor bank including one or more processors, the one or more processors for configuring the radio bank and antenna bank.

5. The wireless access device of claim 4, further comprising:

a communication interface coupled to the processor bank and configured to receive and transmit information from a network for dedicating and rededicating assignment of specific radios to specific antennas and configuring the assigned antennas.

6. The wireless access device of claim 1, further comprising:

a communication interface coupled to one or more of the radios and configured to receive and transmit information from a network for dedicating and rededicating assignment of specific radios to specific antennas and configuring the assigned antennas.

7. The wireless access device of claim 4, where more than one radio can interface with a single processor.

8. The wireless access device of claim 1, where multiple radios are assigned to one spatial sector and configured to provide services concurrently to the one spatial sector.

9. The wireless access device of claim 1, where one or more of the planar antennas are traveling wave antennas.

10. The wireless access device of claim 1, where one or more of the planar antennas are leaky-wave antennas.

11. The wireless access device of claim 10, where one or more of the leaky-wave antennas are metamaterial leaky-wave antennas.

12. The wireless access device of claim 4, where the processor bank and the radio bank are enclosed in a physical unit and the antenna bank is external to the physical unit.

13. The wireless access device of claim 1, where the antenna bank includes one or more antenna arrays where each array comprises a multiplicity of configurable antennas.

14. The wireless access device of claim 13, where at least one antenna array is fabricated on a common printed circuited board.

15. The wireless access device of claim 1 comprising configurable antennas operating at different frequencies.

16. The wireless access device of claim 1 comprising a multiplicity of radios implementing more than one wireless technology.

17. The wireless access device of claim 1, where at least two of the spatial sectors overlap.