Method and apparatus for increasing the effective range of a communication link in a wireless communication system
AssigneeArrayComm, Inc.
InventorsLars Johan Persson, Athanasios A. Kasapi
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A method is presented comprising identifying a weak component in a wireless communication link, instructing a transmitter of the weak component to invoke repetition coding, and selectively combining signals received via multiple antennae on multiple channels to recover information contained in the transmitted signal.
Claims40
A method comprising:
- detecting a weak link component in the wireless communication link;
- introducing multidimensional diversity into at least the weak link component to generate a plurality of decorrelated signals associated with the weak link component;
- and
- selectively combining received ones of the plurality of decorrelated signals which, when demodulated, provides a representation of content originally transmitted in the received signal(s).
A wireless communication system element comprising:
- a transceiver with which to establish a wireless communication link with a different element to facilitate a wireless communication session;
- and
- a multidimensional diversity agent, coupled to the transceiver, to selectively introduce multidimensional diversity into at least an identified weak link component to generate a plurality of decorrelated signals associated with the weak link component, and to selectively combine received ones of the plurality of decorrelated signals which, when demodulated, provide a representation of content originally transmitted in the received signals.
A machine accessible storage device comprising a plurality of executable instructions which, when executed by an accessing machine, implement a multidimensional diversity agent to selectively introduce multidimensional diversity into at least an identified weak link component of a wireless communication link to generate a plurality of decorrelated signals in at least the weak link component, and to selectively combine received ones of the plurality of decorrelated signals which, when demodulated, provide a representation of content originally transmitted in the received signals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.