Mobile communication system with moving base station

摘要

A mobile communication system employs moving base stations moving in the direction of flow of traffic moving along a roadway. The moving base station communicates with fixed radio ports connected to a gateway office. A plurality of moving base stations are spaced apart on a closed loop and move with the flow of traffic along one roadway on one leg of the loop and with a flow of traffic on another roadway in another leg of the loop. The moving base stations communicate with a plurality of fixed radio ports connected by a signal transmission link to a gateway office which, in turn, is connected to the wire line network. The moving base stations are each provided with a pair of directional antennas with one antenna directed toward the flow of traffic and another antenna directed to the fixed radio ports.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a plurality of base station interface circuits positioned on Earth and geographically distributed in accordance with a path; a first plurality of spatially separated antennas; a first receiver connected to the first plurality of spatially separated antennas, the first receiver configured to receive, through the first plurality of spatially separated antennas, a plurality of cellular signals transmitted from the plurality of base station interface circuits, each cellular signal of the plurality of cellular signals including first data for a mobile device, a second plurality of spatially separated antennas; a first transmitter connected to the second plurality of spatially separated antennas, the first transmitter configured to transmit, through the second plurality of spatially separated antennas, the first data to the mobile device while the mobile device, the first receiver, and the first transmitter are moving in the same direction relative to the plurality of base station interface circuits and along the path; a second receiver connected to the second plurality of spatially separated antennas, the second receiver configured to receive, through the second plurality of spatially separated antennas, second data from the mobile device; and a second transmitter connected to at least one of the first plurality of spatially separated antennas, the second transmitter configured to transmit another cellular signal comprising the second data to at least one base station radio interface circuit of the plurality of base station interface circuits while the mobile device, the second receiver, and the second transmitter are moving in the same direction relative to the plurality of base station interface circuits and along the path.