Airborne RF-head system
AssigneeCohere Technologies, Inc.
InventorShlomo Selim Rakib
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Abstract
An airborne device carrying an RF-head platform is disclosed. The device includes one or more antennas configured to transmit (Tx) wireless signals to and receive (Rx) wireless signals from a baseband unit of a ground station by at least one laser communications link and one or more RF heads coupled to the one or more antennas. A respective RF head may be configured to convert Rx RF signals received from at least one user equipment (UE) into Rx digitized-waveform data, to transmit the Rx digitized-waveform data to the baseband unit of the ground station over the at least one laser communications link, to convert Tx digitized-waveform data received from the baseband unit of the ground station over the at least one laser communications link into Tx RF signals, and to transmit the Tx RF signals to the at least one UE.
Claims26
An airborne system carrying a radio-frequency (RF)-head platform comprising:
- one or more antennas configured to transmit (Tx) wireless signals to and receive (Rx) wireless signals from a baseband unit of a ground station by at least one laser communications link;
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- one or more RF heads coupled to the one or more antennas, a respective RF head configured to:
- convert Rx RF signals received from at least one user equipment (UE) into Rx digitized-waveform data;
- transmit the Rx digitized-waveform data to the baseband unit of the ground station over the at least one laser communications link;
- convert Tx digitized-waveform data received from the baseband unit of the ground station over the at least one laser communications link into Tx RF signals;
- and
- transmit the Tx RF signals to the at least one UE.
A method performed by an airborne system carrying a radio-frequency (RF)-head platform including one or more antennas configured to transmit (Tx) wireless signals to and receive (Rx) wireless signals from a baseband unit of a ground station, the method comprising:
- converting Rx RF signals received from at least one user equipment (UE) into Rx digitized-waveform data;
- transmitting the Rx digitized-waveform data to the baseband unit of the ground station over at least one laser communications link;
- converting Tx digitized-waveform data received from the baseband unit of the ground station over the at least one laser communications link into Tx RF signals;
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- transmitting the Tx RF signals to the at least one UE.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.