Guided Wave Communication System Field Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing demand for bandwidth in communication networks, driven by ubiquitous smartphones and data usage, poses challenges for traditional macrocell base stations, and existing wireless infrastructure requires enhanced capabilities, particularly with the integration of small cell deployments and reliance on broadband access networks.
Innovation Solution
A guided wave communication system that utilizes electromagnetic waves bound to or guided by transmission media such as wires or dielectric materials, allowing for efficient data transmission without the need for electrical return paths, and employs coupling devices to launch and extract these waves at millimeter-wave frequencies, enabling reduced propagation losses and increased bandwidth.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If traditional wireless signals are used for data transmission, then coverage area is maintained, but propagation losses increase and bandwidth is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces transmission media (wires, dielectric materials) as intermediaries to guide electromagnetic waves. These intermediaries bound the electromagnetic fields, enabling efficient data transmission with reduced propagation losses compared to traditional wireless signals that propagate freely through space.
2Productivity
If small cell deployment is implemented to provide coverage for smaller areas, then bandwidth capability increases, but infrastructure complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables transmission media to serve multiple functions: guiding electromagnetic waves for data transmission, providing structural support, and reducing propagation losses. This multi-functionality allows existing infrastructure to be leveraged for high-bandwidth applications without proportionally increasing complexity.
3Reliability
If electromagnetic waves are bound to transmission media for data transmission, then propagation losses are reduced and bandwidth is increased, but the system requires coupling devices to launch and extract waves
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical electrical return paths with electromagnetic field guidance along transmission media. This substitution eliminates the need for separate return conductors while maintaining reliable data transmission through the guided electromagnetic waves.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution provides a more efficient and reliable method for data transmission with reduced propagation losses compared to traditional wireless signals, allowing for longer distances and increased bandwidth without the need for separate electrical return paths, thus addressing the bandwidth demands in modern communication networks.
Implementation Method 1
A guided wave communication system that utilizes electromagnetic waves bound to or guided by transmission media such as wires or dielectric materials
Implementation Method 2
employs coupling devices to launch and extract these waves at millimeter-wave frequencies
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that performs operations including detecting a signal degradation of guided electromagnetic waves bound to a transmission medium without utilizing an electrical return path, the guided electromagnetic waves having a non-optical frequency range, and adjusting an alignment of at least a portion of fields of the guided electromagnetic waves to mitigate the signal degradation. Other embodiments are disclosed.