SU-MIMO, MU-MIMO AND BEAMFORMING OPERATIONS USING SYNCHRONIZED WLAN DEVICES

摘要

An apparatus (20) for wireless communication includes a plurality of antennas (32A, 32B), a master baseband integrated circuit (BBIC) (24A) and a slave BBIC (24B). The antennas are configured to communicate a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) signal. The master BBIC is configured to process a first component of the MIMO signal that is communicated via a first subset (32A) of the antennas. The slave BBIC is configured to process a second component of the MIMO signal that is communicated via a second subset (32B) of the antennas. The master BBIC is further configured to control the slave BBIC so as to jointly communicate the MIMO signal, based on the first and second components, via the entire plurality of the antennas.