Wireless communication system, relay station, and relay method
AssigneeKYOCERA Corporation
InventorTakeo Miyata
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Abstract
A wireless communication system includes: a plurality of base stations wirelessly connected to a relay station; and the relay station comprising: a multi-element antenna including a plurality of antenna elements, wherein, among the plurality of antenna elements, a first antenna element is wirelessly connected to a first base station of the plurality of base stations, and a second antenna element is wirelessly connected to a second base station of the plurality of base stations; and a controller that switches at least one of the first antenna element and the second antenna element so as to be wirelessly connected to another base station of the plurality of base stations in response to an occurrence of an event.
Claims12
A wireless communication system comprising:
- a plurality of base stations wirelessly connected to a relay station;
- and
- the relay station comprising:
- a multi-element antenna including a plurality of antenna elements;
- and
- a controller, the controller configured to:
- wirelessly connect a first antenna element, among the plurality of antenna elements, to a first base station of the plurality of base stations,
- wirelessly connect a second antenna element, being different from the first antenna element among the plurality of antenna elements, to a second base station being different from the first base station of the plurality of base stations, and
- wirelessly connect, at least one of the first antenna element wirelessly connected to the first base station and the second antenna element wirelessly connected to the second base station, to another base station of the plurality of base stations in response to an occurrence of an event.
A relay station comprising:
- a multi-element antenna including a plurality of antenna elements;
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- a controller of the relay station, the controller configured to:
- wirelessly connect a first antenna element, among the plurality of antenna elements, to a first base station of the plurality of base stations,
- wirelessly connect a second antenna element, being different from the first antenna element among the plurality of antenna elements, to a second base station being different from the first base station of the plurality of base stations, and
- wirelessly connect, at least one of the first antenna element wirelessly connected to the first base station and the second antenna element wirelessly connected to the second base station, to another base station of the plurality of base stations in response to an occurrence of an event.
A relay method of a relay station that includes:
- a multi-element antenna including a plurality of antenna elements, comprising:
- wirelessly connecting a first antenna element of the plurality of antenna elements to a first base station of a plurality of base stations;
- wirelessly connecting a second antenna element, being different from the first antenna element among the plurality of antenna elements, to a second base station being different from the first base station of the plurality of base stations;
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- wirelessly connecting, via the relay station, at least one of the first antenna element wirelessly connected to the first base station and the second antenna element wirelessly connected to the second base station, to another base station of the plurality of base stations in response to an occurrence of an event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.