Antenna Router Managing Concurrent Transmit-Receive Modes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current antenna systems provide spatial diversity but lack time and frequency diversity, making them inefficient and cumbersome.
Innovation Solution
An antenna system comprising two antennas connected to processing units via a router that selectively routes concurrent communication control inputs to establish settings for transmitting and receiving communications, allowing for efficient management of antenna functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If one channel or thread is allocated to a dedicated antenna element, then spatial diversity is provided, but the system becomes inefficient and cumbersome without time or frequency diversity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a shared antenna architecture where a single antenna system serves multiple communication channels through dynamic routing. The router selectively connects different antenna elements to different processing units based on communication requirements, enabling one antenna to perform multiple functions across different time slots and frequency bands, thereby achieving time and frequency diversity while maintaining spatial diversity
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs dynamic routing control where the router continuously adjusts antenna-to-channel assignments based on real-time communication demands. This dynamic reconfiguration allows the antenna system to adapt between transmit and receive modes, switch between different frequency bands, and allocate antenna resources flexibly across multiple channels, transforming a static dedicated-antenna system into a dynamic multi-functional system
2Reliability
If multiple dedicated antennas are used for different channels, then each channel has dedicated resources, but the system becomes cumbersome and requires more antennas
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes antenna elements universal by enabling each antenna to serve multiple channels sequentially through the router. Instead of requiring separate dedicated antennas for each channel, the system allows a single antenna to be dynamically assigned to different channels based on routing rules, reducing the total antenna count while maintaining channel isolation through time-division and frequency-division multiplexing
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple antenna functions into a shared antenna pool that is collectively managed by the router. By combining the resources of multiple antenna elements and dynamically allocating them to different channels, the system achieves the functional equivalence of dedicated antennas without requiring physically separate antenna installations for each channel
3Productivity
If a router selectively routes concurrent communication control inputs to processing units, then simultaneous communication handling is enabled, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The router acts as an intermediary device that simplifies the complexity of managing multiple concurrent communications. By introducing this central routing layer, the system decouples the complexity of antenna-to-channel assignment from the processing units, allowing the router to handle all routing decisions based on predefined rules while processing units focus on their core communication functions, thus managing complexity centrally rather than distributed across multiple components
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AI summary
The present invention is directed to an antenna system. The antenna system may include a first antenna and a second antenna. The antenna system may further include a first LRU connected to the first antenna, and a second LRU connected to the second antenna. The antenna system may further include a router, said router being connected to the first LRU, the second LRU and a communication system, the communication system being remotely located from the antenna system. The router may be configured for receiving a plurality of concurrent (ex.—simultaneous) communication control inputs from the communication system and may selectively route the received communication control inputs to the LRUs. The LRUs may, based upon the received communication control inputs establish LRU settings for causing the antennas to transmit and/or receive communications in accordance with said communication control inputs.