5g over coaxial enabled small cell systems and methods

Abstract

Apparatus and methods are disclosed. The small cell apparatus includes a port to interface with a coaxial cable, the coaxial cable configured to transmit a signal from a radio unit (RU); an impedance matching component configured to sufficiently match the signal; a diplexer configured to separate the signal into a separated signal; a signal converter configured to increase and/or decrease the separated signal to an emission signal at an emission frequency; a transceiver node configured to map the emission signal to two or more multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers; and an antenna configured to transmit the two or more MIMO layers.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.