Network repeater system
AssigneeEthertronics, Inc.
InventorsLaurent Desclos, Jeffrey Shamblin
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Abstract
A system is described where antenna beam steering techniques are implemented to optimize time and frequency channel resources in wireless communication systems where repeaters are used. Beam steering modes of the antenna systems in the repeaters as well as the nodes are optimized to improve system capacity and load balancing. Client devices in a wireless LAN system can be configured to work as repeaters, with the repeaters containing a beam steering capability. The beam steering capability can be implemented in one or multiple nodes and repeaters in the communication system.
Claims9
A network repeater for a local area network, the network repeater comprising:
- one or more modal antennas, the modal antenna configurable in a plurality of different adiation modes, each radiation mode associated with a distinct radiation pattern;
- one or more processors, the processors configured to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- accessing a first communication link quality metric associated with a first communication link between a first node and the repeater;
- accessing a second communication link quality metric associated with a second communication link between the repeater and a second node;
- configuring at least one of the one or more modal antennas in one of the plurality of antenna modes based at least in part on the first communication link quality metric;
- wherein the operation of configuring at least one of the one or more modal antennas in one of the plurality of antenna modes based at least in part on the first communication link quality metric dynamically changes a peak gain of the modal antenna.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.