Base station signal matching device and relay device including the same
AssigneeSOLiD, INC.
InventorKyung Eun Han
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Abstract
A base station signal matching device configured to receive a base station signal from a base transceiver station (BTS), the base station signal matching device is embedded in a relay device, and the base station signal matching device includes a signal attenuation unit configured to receive the base station signal and attenuate the input power level of the base station signal; and a signal matching unit configured to receive the base station signal passing through the signal attenuation unit to match the base station signal suitable for signal processing of the relay device.
Claims14
A base station signal matching device included in a distributed antenna system, the base station signal matching device comprising:
- a signal attenuation unit configured to receive a base station signal from a base station and generate a first attenuated base station signal by attenuating a power level of the base station signal according to a fixed attenuation ratio;
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- a signal matching unit configured to generate a second attenuated base station signal by attenuating a power level of the first attenuated base station signal according to a first variable attenuation ratio,
- wherein the signal matching unit is further configured to receive a terminal signal from a terminal via the distributed antenna system, and generate a first attenuated terminal signal by attenuating a power level of the received terminal signal according to a second variable attenuation ratio,
- and wherein the signal attenuation unit is further configured to receive the first attenuated terminal signal from the signal matching unit, and generate a second attenuated terminal signal by attenuating a power level of the first attenuated terminal signal according to the fixed attenuation ratio.
A distributed antenna system, comprising:
- a base station signal matching device configured to receive a plurality of base station signals and a plurality of terminal signals, and attenuate a power level of at least one of the plurality of base station signals and the plurality of terminal signals;
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- a signal combining/distributing device configured to combine the plurality of base station signals output from the base station signal matching device and distribute a plurality of terminal signals, which are received from a plurality of terminals via the distributed antenna system, to the base station signal matching device,
- wherein the base station signal matching device includes:
- at least one signal attenuation unit configured to generate a first attenuated base station signal by attenuating a power level of a corresponding base station signal among the plurality of base station signals according to a fixed attenuation ratio;
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- at least one signal matching unit configured to generate a second attenuated base station signal by attenuating a power level of the first attenuated base station signal according to a first variable attenuation ratio,
- wherein the at least one signal matching unit is further configured to receive a corresponding terminal signal among the plurality of terminal signals from the signal combining/distributing device, and generate a first attenuated terminal signal by attenuating a power level of the corresponding terminal signal according to a second variable attenuation ratio, and
- wherein the at least one signal attenuation unit is further configured to generate a second attenuated terminal signal by attenuating a power level of the first attenuated terminal signal according to the fixed attenuation ratio.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.