| CPC H04Q 11/0071 (2013.01) [H04Q 2011/0086 (2013.01); H04Q 2213/02 (2013.01)] | 12 Claims |
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1. A repeater type radio relay system, comprising:
a master repeater that is capable of performing a radio communication with a base station of a mobile-communication network side;
a slave repeater that is capable of performing a radio communication with a terminal apparatus and located in an upper airspace; and
one or plural optical fibers for relaying optical communication between the master repeater and the slave repeater;
a single optical fiber for propagating a downstream optical signal with a first wavelength, the downstream optical signal being directed from the master repeater to the slave repeater, and an upstream optical signal with a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, the upstream optical signal being directed from the slave repeater to the master repeater,
wherein the master repeater is mounted in a moving object capable of moving on a ground, sea or river,
wherein the master repeater includes:
a network-side communication section for performing a radio communication with the base station of the mobile-communication network side via an antenna; and
an electro-optical signal conversion section of the master repeater for performing a conversion between an electric signal of the radio communication with the base station of the mobile-communication network side received via the network-side communication section and an optical signal propagating through the optical fiber,
wherein the slave repeater is mounted in a floating object or a flying object moored to the moving object by a cable so as to stay or move in a predetermined airspace,
wherein the slave repeater includes:
a terminal-side communication section for wirelessly communicating with a terminal apparatus via an antenna; and
an electro-optical signal conversion section of the slave repeater for performing a conversion between an electric signal of the radio communication with the terminal apparatus via the terminal-side communication section and an optical signal propagating through the one or plural optical fibers,
wherein the electro-optical signal conversion section of the master repeater includes:
a downlink conversion section for converting a downstream electrical signal to the downstream optical signal with the first wavelength;
an uplink conversion section for converting the upstream optical signal with the second wavelength to an upstream electrical signal; and
a wavelength-division multiplex connection section that is connected to the downlink conversion section and the uplink conversion section and connected to the optical fiber,
wherein the electro-optical signal conversion section of the slave repeater includes:
a downstream-signal conversion section for converting the downstream optical signal with the first wavelength to a downstream electrical signal;
an upstream-signal conversion section for converting an upstream electrical signal to the upstream optical signal with the second wavelength; and
a wavelength-division multiplex connection section that is connected to the downlink conversion section and the uplink conversion section and connected to the optical fiber,
wherein the downlink transmission from the master repeater to the slave repeater is a MIMO transmission in which plural (N) signals are transmitted simultaneously using same frequencies,
wherein the master repeater includes plural downstream-signal conversion sections for converting plural (N) downstream electrical signals of the same frequencies received from the network-side communication section to plural (N) downstream optical signals with first wavelengths different from each other and inputting the converted signals into the optical fiber, and
wherein the slave repeater converts the plural (N) downstream optical signals with the first wavelengths outputted from the optical fiber to plural (N) electrical signals of the same frequencies and transfers the converted signals to the terminal-side communication section.
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