Broadband Wireless Mobile Communications System With Distributed Antenna System Using Interleaving Intra-Cell Handovers

Abstract

A broadband wireless mobile communication system for high a speed mobile transportation corridor comprises a base stations utilizing two or more sectors, a distributed antenna system connected to the base station and including remote antenna units distributed along the corridor and sectors of the respective base station, with sectors of the base station interleaved among the remote antenna units such that no two adjacent antennas use signals from the same sector. The system desirably employs a radio over fiber distributed antenna system which desirably includes an autonomous sensing remote antenna unit structured so as toggle between standby and active modes in response to locally sensed presence of a mobile transceiver along the corridor. A method of operating broadband wireless mobile communication system for high a speed mobile transportation corridor is also disclosed.

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