Mobile base station

摘要

Various embodiments of electronic communication systems and methods in which an infrastructure in-motion adapts from a first set of communication parameters to a second set of communication parameters while moving from one geographical region to a second geographical region, and associated transmission pattern of the infrastructure in-motion may be modified to either avoid a problem of multiple-region-coverage or to resolve such a problem once it has arisen. The infrastructure in-motion may be a base station or other infrastructure, and any or all of multiple techniques such as beam switching, beam selection, phased array, and null-steering, may be used to modify a transmission pattern. In various alternative embodiments, infrastructure in-motion in one geographical region establishes a first backhaul link with a first core network, moves to a second geographical region, and then establishes a second backhaul ink with a second core network.

主权项

1. A method for adapting a base-station in-motion to a new geographical region, wherein said base-station comprises
an RF power combiner, a plurality of backhaul antennas, a plurality of radio transceiver chains selectively coupled to said RF power combiner and said plurality of backhaul antennas, and a path interconnect to couple said plurality of radio transceiver chains to said plurality of backhaul antennas, said path interconnect configurable to connect any of said plurality of radio transceivers chains to any of said plurality of backhaul antennas; said method comprising: servicing wirelessly, by said base-station located in a first geographical region, a first group of wireless client devices, accessing a data base to obtain a first set of communication parameters associated with said first geographical region, said first set of communication parameters used to configure said path interconnect to connect a first set of radio transceiver chains to a first set of backhaul antennas; moving, by said base-station, from said first geographical region to a second geographical region; adapting, by said base-station, from said first set of communication parameters, to a second set of communication parameters, accessed from the data base, associated with said second geographical region, said second set of communication parameters used to configure said path interconnect to connect a second set of radio transceiver chains to a second set of backhaul antennas; and servicing wirelessly, by said base-station located in said second geographical region, a second group of wireless client devices, using said second set of communication parameters, after concluding that said servicing will not adversely affect said first geographical region, wherein said servicing wirelessly comprises utilizing the aggregate RF power of at least two of said plurality of radio transceiver chains to communicate with one of said first group of wireless client devices; wherein said base-station varies said second set of communication parameters and updating said second set of communication parameters in said data base to create a third set of communications parameters, said third set of communications parameters utilizing less resources than said second set of communication parameters while maintaining a service level, said third set of set of communications parameters replacing said second set of communication parameters in said data base.