Guided Wave Repeater for Broadband Distribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing demand for bandwidth due to widespread use of smartphones and data-intensive services poses challenges for traditional wireless infrastructure, which requires higher bandwidth capabilities, and existing solutions for broadband distribution are inadequate in managing wireless resources efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A guided wave communication system that utilizes electromagnetic waves bound to a transmission medium, such as wires, to propagate data without the need for an electrical circuit, allowing for efficient data transmission with reduced loss over long distances using couplers and repeaters to extract, amplify, and retransmit signals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If traditional wireless infrastructure is used to provide broadband access, then existing wireless networks can serve current data needs, but bandwidth capability is insufficient for increasing data demand from smartphones and data-intensive services
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces guided electromagnetic waves as an intermediary transmission medium between base stations and user devices. These guided waves propagate along transmission media (wires, cables, or other conductive structures) rather than through free space, enabling higher bandwidth capability and more efficient data transmission to meet increasing data demands from smartphones and data-intensive services
2Quantity of substance
If small cell deployment is pursued to provide additional mobile bandwidth, then coverage for smaller areas is improved, but infrastructure complexity and deployment cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables transmission media to serve multiple functions: they simultaneously carry both traditional electrical signals and guided electromagnetic waves for data transmission. This multi-functionality allows existing infrastructure (wires, cables, conduits) to provide both power/communication signals and high-bandwidth guided wave transmission, reducing the need for separate small cell infrastructure deployments
3Quantity of substance
If broadband access networks are expanded to meet growing data usage, then data access capability is improved, but wireless resource management becomes less efficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional wireless radio frequency transmission with guided electromagnetic wave transmission along physical media. This substitution provides more efficient resource management because guided waves are confined to specific transmission paths, reducing interference, enabling better signal control, and allowing simultaneous transmissions without occupying the same spatial spectrum resources
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 enables efficient data transmission with reduced propagation loss, allowing for longer distances and increased bandwidth, addressing the demand for higher data capacity in wireless networks.
Implementation Method 1
A guided wave communication system that utilizes electromagnetic waves bound to a transmission medium, such as wires, to propagate data without the need for an electrical circuit
Implementation Method 2
A repeater device includes a first launcher configured to extract first channel signals from first guided electromagnetic waves bound to an outer surface of a transmission medium of a guided wave communication system
Implementation Method 3
An amplifier is configured to amplify the first channel signals to generate amplified first channel signals in accordance with a phase correction
Implementation Method 4
A wireless transceiver is configured to wirelessly transmit one or more of the amplified first channel signals to at least one device
Implementation Method 5
A second launcher is configured to guide the amplified first channel signals to the transmission medium of the guided wave communication system to propagate as second outgoing guided electromagnetic waves
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AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes extracting first channel signals from first guided electromagnetic waves bound to an outer surface of a transmission medium of a guided wave communication system; amplifying the first channel signals to generate amplified first channel signals in accordance with a phase correction; selecting one or more of the amplified first channel signals to wirelessly transmit to at least one client device via an antenna; and guiding the amplified first channel signals to the transmission medium of the guided wave communication system to propagate as second guided electromagnetic waves, wherein the phase correction aligns a phase of the second guided electromagnetic waves to add in-phase with a residual portion of the first guided electromagnetic waves that continues propagation along the transmission medium.