US 11,924,703 B2
One or more remote modems connected to antenna circuitry by analog cabling and connected to control circuitry that controls behaviour of the one or more remote modems by digital cabling
Marlon Peter Persaud, Beaconsfield (GB); Andrew Logothetis, High Wycombe (GB); Krzysztof Dudzinski, Langley (GB); Venkateswarlu Katepalli, Slough (GB); and Ashvtosh Goel, Slough (GB)
Assigned to AIRSPAN IP HOLDCO LLC, Boca Raton, FL (US)
Filed by AIRSPAN IP HOLDCO LLC, Boca Raton, FL (US)
Filed on Mar. 24, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/828,821.
Claims priority of application No. 1905222 (GB), filed on Apr. 12, 2019; and application No. 2003024 (GB), filed on Mar. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2020/0328939 A1, Oct. 15, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04B 17/10 (2015.01); H04B 17/12 (2015.01); H04B 17/18 (2015.01); H04L 41/0803 (2022.01); H04W 16/10 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/541 (2023.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 36/30 (2013.01) [H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04B 7/18504 (2013.01); H04B 17/101 (2015.01); H04B 17/12 (2015.01); H04B 17/18 (2015.01); H04L 41/0803 (2013.01); H04W 16/10 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/541 (2023.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network comprising:
antenna circuitry configured to receive incoming signals from a base station and transmit outgoing signals;
remote modem circuitry connected to the antenna circuitry by analog cabling, the remote modem circuitry being configured to demodulate a first incoming signal of the incoming signals, as received by the antenna circuitry, to produce first incoming data; and
control circuitry that is remote from the remote modem circuitry and is connected to the remote modem circuitry via digital cabling, the control circuitry being configured to determine whether to control the remote modem circuitry to receive data from a different base station and to receive the first incoming data from the remote modem circuitry,
wherein the network is configured to be split across a boundary of a vehicle such that the control circuitry is internal to the vehicle and the remote modem circuitry is external to the vehicle,. and
wherein the network further includes:
further modem circuitry configured to demodulate a second incoming signal of the incoming signals to produce second incoming data and to provide the second incoming data to the control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is adapted to determine whether to control the further modem circuitry to receive data from a different base station; and
beamforming circuitry configured to perform beamforming using the remote modem circuitry and the further modem circuitry.