CPC H04B 7/15514 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/15 (2013.01); H04B 7/1555 (2013.01); H04B 7/165 (2013.01); H04B 7/2041 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 52/245 (2013.01); H04W 52/46 (2013.01); H04L 5/0023 (2013.01); H04L 5/14 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. An active repeater device, comprising:
a primary sector that includes a baseband signal processor and a first radio head (RH) unit, wherein
a first antenna array of the first RH unit is configured to receive a first beam of input RF signals from a first base station operated by a first service provider and a second beam of input RF signals from a second base station operated by a second service provider or transmit the first beam of input RF signals to the first base station and the second beam of input RF signals to the second base station;
a controller of the baseband signal processor is configured to assign a first beam setting from a plurality of beam settings to a first group of customer premises equipment (CPEs) of a plurality of groups of CPEs and a second beam setting from the plurality of beam settings to a second group of CPEs of the plurality of groups of CPEs,
wherein the first beam setting is different than the second beam setting; and
at least a secondary sector that is communicatively coupled to the primary sector and includes a second RH unit, wherein
a second antenna array of the second RH unit is configured to concurrently transmit a first beam of output RF signals to the first group of CPEs associated with the first service provider and a second beam of output RF signals to the second group of CPEs associated with the second service provider or receive the first beam of output RF signals from the first group of CPEs and the second beam of output RF signals from the second group of CPEs,
wherein the first beam of output RF signals and the second beam of output RF signals are transmitted or received based on the first beam setting during a first timeslot or the second beam setting during a second timeslot, and
wherein the first timeslot is different from the second timeslot.
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