Active Antenna System And Method With Full Antenna Ports Dimension

摘要

An Active Antenna System (AAS) is used to generate a logical port by performing beam forming operations to process a reference signal applied to its input. The beam forming operations are based on AAS configuration information received by the AAS. The beam forming operations map different operations to different components of the AAS where said operations are performed during the processing of the reference signal resulting in a beam that may be directed at a particular location with a certain amount of power. The AAS configuration information is received by a processor coupled to all of the components of the AAS and said processor converts the received AAS configuration information to control signals causing said components to perform the beam forming operations.

主权项

1. An AAS device comprising:
a Transceiver Bank; a Radio Distribution Network (RDN) coupled to the Transceiver Bank; and an Antenna Array coupled to the RDN where dynamic beam forming operations are performed by the Transceiver Bank, the RDN and the Antenna Array to process an input reference signal, said processed reference signal being a logical port of the Antenna Array and said beam forming operations are based on AAS configuration information received by the AAS.