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US 11,115,111 B1Granted
System architecture and method for high mobility networking including air based nodes and computing devices
AssigneeTarana Wireless, Inc.
InventorsOmar Bakr, Dale Branlund
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Abstract
A wireless communication network and wireless communication method are disclosed. The network has a plurality of transceivers forming a wireless communication network in which the plurality of transceivers include one or more central nodes and each end node capable of connecting to the one or more central nodes and forming a link. At least some of the transceivers of the network having a plurality of antennas and an array processing element coupled to the plurality of antennas and at least some of the transceivers are housed in an aerial communication node that may be a mini-satellite, a balloon or a drone.
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A high mobility network, comprising:
- a plurality of air based communication nodes, wherein each air based communication node is configured to perform techniques for optimizing weight and power consumption, the techniques comprising power/energy consumption techniques, weight/area reduction techniques, or combinations thereof:
- a plurality of computing devices configured to communicate using the plurality of air based communication nodes, wherein the communicating comprises creating a wireless link between the plurality of air based communication nodes and the plurality of computing devices;
- wherein at least one of the plurality of air based communication nodes is configured to communicate with at least one of the plurality of computing devices using low carrier frequencies;
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- wherein a signal path from the at least one of the plurality of air based communication nodes to the at least one of the plurality of computing devices is orthogonal to a motion of the at least one of the plurality of computing devices.
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A high mobility network, comprising:
- a plurality of air based communication nodes, wherein each air based communication node of the plurality of air based communication nodes comprises a radio architecture having an antenna sub-array configured to perform a selected channel duplexing technique of a plurality of channel duplexing techniques, wherein the plurality of channel duplexing techniques comprises, time duplexing, full duplexing, dual-time duplexing, any division duplexing, zero division duplexing, or combinations thereof;
- a plurality of computing devices configured to communicate using the plurality of air based communication nodes, wherein the communicating comprises creating a wireless link between the plurality of air based communication nodes and the plurality of computing devices;
- wherein at least one of the plurality of air based communication nodes is configured to communicate with at least one of the plurality of computing devices using low carrier frequencies;
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- wherein a signal path from the at least one of the plurality of air based communication nodes to the at least one of the plurality of computing devices is orthogonal to a motion of the at least one of the plurality of computing devices.
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A method comprising:
- communicating, by a plurality of air based communication nodes, and to a plurality of computing devices, wherein the communicating comprises creating a wireless link between the plurality of air based communication nodes and the plurality of computing devices, and wherein each air based communication node of the plurality of air based communication nodes performs techniques for optimizing weight and power consumption, the weight and power consumption optimization techniques comprising power/energy consumption techniques, weight/area reduction techniques, or combination thereof;
- wherein the communicating further comprises using, by at least one of the plurality of air based communication nodes, low carrier frequencies, to communicate to at least one of the plurality of computing devices;
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- wherein the communicating further comprises using, by the at least of the plurality of air based communication nodes, a signal path from the at least one of the plurality of air based communication nodes to the at least one of the plurality of computing devices, wherein the signal path is orthogonal to a motion of the at least one of the plurality of computing devices.
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A method comprising:
- communicating, by a plurality of air based communication nodes, to a plurality of computing devices, wherein the communicating comprises creating a wireless link between the plurality of air based communication nodes and the plurality of computing devices,
- wherein the communicating further comprises using, by at least one of the plurality of air based communication nodes, low carrier frequencies, to communicate to at least one of the plurality of computing devices,
- wherein the communicating further comprises using, by the at least of the plurality of air based communication nodes, a signal path from the at least one of the plurality of air based communication nodes to the at least one of the plurality of computing devices, wherein the signal path is orthogonal to a motion of the at least one of the plurality of computing devices;
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- performing, by an air based communication node, of the plurality of air based communication nodes, the air based communication node having a radio architecture comprising an antenna sub-array, a selected channel duplexing technique of a plurality of channel duplexing techniques, wherein the plurality of channel duplexing techniques comprises, time duplexing, full duplexing, dual-time duplexing, any division duplexing, zero division duplexing, or combinations thereof.
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