METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION

摘要

A decentralized communication device is provided that facilitates optimal positioning and orientation of one or more antennas for wireless communication with external devices. The decentralized communication device includes one or more master components and one or more slave components. The master and the slave components are physically separate and communicate wirelessly. In some embodiments the slave acts as a carrier frequency translator between the master and an external wireless device, where it communicates with the external device using a first frequency and communicates with the master using a second frequency which is different from the first frequency. In another embodiment the slave has most or all the physical layer to do the digital coding, digital modulation, data framing, data formatting and data packetization for communicating with an external device, in which case digital coding and digital modulation is distributed between the master and the slave.

主权项

1. A communication device, comprising:
a master component comprising:
modem module; andan antenna communicatively coupled to the modem module; a slave components comprising:
a first antenna for wirelessly communicating with an external device using a first carrier frequency;a second antenna for wirelessly communicating with the antenna of the master component using a second carrier frequency; anda frequency converter for (i) converting signals received through the second antenna from the second frequency into the first frequency and (ii) signals received through the first antenna from the first frequency into the second frequency, wherein the first carrier frequency is lower than the second carrier frequency, wherein the first antenna is larger than the second antenna, wherein the modem module is for (i) receiving digitally modulated signals and generating analog signals in the second carrier frequency for transmission by the antenna of the master component and (ii) receiving signals in the second carrier frequency from the antenna of the master component and performing analog to digital conversion on the received signals.