Wireless communication system

摘要

Methods and systems for hybrid point to multipoint communication systems having multiple downlink channels and a single uplink channel, including the steps of centrally allocating bandwidth to, and synchronizing communications with, a first and a second wireless clients; transmitting, over a shared signal wired distribution line, a first downlink signal transported over a first frequency, a second downlink signal transported over a second frequency, and an uplink signal transported over a fifth frequency; converting the frequency of the first downlink signal to a third frequency, and bi-directionally wirelessly communicating with a first wireless client over the third frequency; converting the frequency of the second downlink signal to a fourth frequency, and bi-directionally wirelessly communicating with a second wireless client over the fourth frequency; and converting and superpositioning a first received wireless uplink signal having the third frequency and a second received wireless uplink signal having the fourth frequency to the uplink signal that is transmitted over the shared signal wired distribution line using the fifth frequency.

主权项

1. A communication system comprising:
first and second hybrid converters having an overlapping coverage area and configured to:
(a) receive an incoming signal;(b) frequency shift the incoming signal; and(c) non-regeneratively transmit the incoming signal, wherein non-regeneratively transmitting is defined as transmitting a received signal without demodulating or remodulating the received signal; a centralized synchronizing communication controller communicatively coupled to said first and second hybrid converters and configured to maintain a communication session with a wireless client located in the overlapping coverage area via both said first and said second hybrid converters substantially concurrently by concurrently transmitting downlink signals for the wireless client to both said first and said second hybrid converters and concurrently receiving uplink signals from the wireless client from both said first and said second hybrid converters; wherein said first and second hybrid converters receive the downlink signals from the centralized synchronizing communication controller, frequency shift the downlink signals and non-regeneratively transmit the downlink signals to the wireless client and receive the uplink signals from the wireless client, frequency shift the uplink signals and non-regeneratively transmit the uplink signals to the centralized synchronizing communication controller.