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US 2017/0317742 A1Published application
System and Method for Distributed Wireless Communications
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsYing J. Feria, David A. Whelan, Greg Busche
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Abstract
A communications system includes radio frequency equipment to generate a forward link configured for wireless transmissions of a base-to-user data stream from a plurality of airborne communications relay platforms to at least one user terminal, wherein the forward link includes a plurality of relay-to-user links, each one of the plurality of relay-to-user links includes a relay-to-user radio frequency signal encoded with a different base-to-user data sub-stream.
Claims20
A communications system (100) comprising:
- radio frequency equipment (162) to generate a forward link (102) configured for wireless transmissions of a base-to-user data stream (154) from a plurality of airborne communications relay platforms (110) to at least one user terminal (108),
- wherein said forward link comprises a plurality of relay-to-user links (114), each one of said plurality of relay-to-user links comprising a relay-to-user radio frequency signal (158) encoded with a different base-to-user data sub-stream (156).
A communications system (100) comprising:
- a plurality of airborne communications relay platforms (110) for wireless communication of a base-to-user data stream (154);
- and
- a user terminal (108) in wireless communication with said plurality of communications relay platforms over a plurality of relay-to-user links (114), each one of said plurality of relay-to-user links comprising a relay-to-user radio frequency signal (158) encoded with a different base-to-user data sub-stream (156).
A method (500) comprising:
- generating (502) a forward link (102) configured for wireless transmission of a base-to-user data stream (154) from a plurality of airborne communications relay platforms (110) to at least one user terminal (108), wherein said forward link comprises a plurality of relay-to-user links (114), each one of said plurality of relay-to-user links comprising a relay-to-user radio frequency signal (158) encoded with a different base-to-user data sub-stream (156);
- transmitting (514), from said plurality of communications relay platforms, a plurality of relay-to-user radio frequency signals (158);
- and
- receiving (516), by said user terminal, said plurality of relay-to-user radio frequency signals.
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