| CPC H04W 24/02 (2013.01) [H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 64/003 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A repeater device configured as a switch node in a wireless communication system, the repeater device comprising:
a donor antenna configured to obtain a first beam of radio frequency (RF) signals from a first direction from an upstream neighboring node in the wireless communication system;
a plurality of service phased antenna arrays disposed at a plurality of different positions in the repeater device; and
a switch circuit configured to:
detect a label in a preamble of each data frame of a plurality of data frames carried by the first beam of the RF signals independent of decoding other header information and user data in the each data frame of the plurality of data frames;
switch the plurality of data frames based on the detected label in the each data frame of the plurality of data frames such that each data frame is routed to a corresponding service phased antenna array of the plurality of service phased antenna arrays; and
communicate, via the plurality of service phased antenna arrays, a plurality of second beams of RF signals in a plurality of different directions different from the first direction towards a plurality of different downstream neighboring nodes, wherein each of the plurality of the second beams of the RF signals is configured to carry at least one data frame of the plurality of data frames in a plurality of different data propagation paths in the wireless communication system based on the switch of the plurality of data frames and the detected label in the each data frame of the plurality of data frames.
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