Guided Wave Communication System for High Bandwidth Urban Coverage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wireless infrastructure faces challenges in providing sufficient bandwidth to meet increasing data demands, particularly in urban areas, as traditional macrocells struggle to keep pace with the rise of smartphones and data-intensive services, necessitating innovative solutions for efficient data transmission.
Innovation Solution
A guided wave communication system that utilizes electromagnetic waves to transmit data along transmission media such as wires and dielectric materials without requiring an electrical return path, leveraging couplers and transceivers to induce and propagate guided waves, enabling efficient data transfer over long distances with reduced loss.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional macrocell base stations are used to provide wireless coverage, then coverage area is large, but bandwidth capability is insufficient to meet increasing data demands
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the wireless coverage area by deploying small cells (microcells and picocells) within the macrocell coverage area. These small cells provide additional bandwidth capability for data-intensive services while the macrocell maintains broad geographic coverage. This segmentation allows the system to simultaneously achieve high bandwidth in specific areas and extensive coverage overall.
2Productivity
If small cell deployment is pursued to provide additional mobile bandwidth, then bandwidth capability increases, but coverage area for each cell becomes much smaller
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple small cells into a coordinated network that operates alongside macrocells. By combining the coverage areas of multiple small cells with the macrocell coverage, the system achieves both high bandwidth capability (through small cell density) and extensive overall coverage (through macrocell integration). The small cells are strategically deployed to complement rather than replace the macrocell infrastructure.
3Loss of energy
If guided waves are used to transmit data along transmission media, then propagation loss is reduced, but the system requires specialized couplers and transceivers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces guided waves as an intermediary transmission medium between traditional wireless air interface and physical wired connections. Guided waves propagate along existing transmission media (such as power lines or communication cables), reducing propagation loss compared to traditional wireless transmission. Couplers and transceivers serve as intermediary devices that enable integration between guided wave systems and conventional wireless infrastructure, managing the complexity through standardized interfaces.
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 approach allows for reliable and efficient data transmission with reduced propagation loss, supporting high-bandwidth communication over long distances without the need for electrical return paths, thus addressing the bandwidth demands in urban environments.
Implementation Method 1
a first plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic wave pulses that propagates along a surface of a transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path
Implementation Method 2
wherein the source waveguide system generates the first plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic wave pulses according to a first communication signal received by the source waveguide system
Implementation Method 3
obtaining, by the recipient waveguide system, the first communication signal from the first plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic wave pulses
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system that facilitates receiving a plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic waves that propagates along a surface of a transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path, wherein the plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic waves conveys a plurality of communication signals, obtaining, from the plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic waves, at least one communication signal from the plurality of communication signals, and distributing the at least one communication signal to at least one communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.