Router Cellular Antenna Segmentation for Signal Security
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wireless communication systems face challenges in providing robust cellular service to routers, as the placement of cellular antennas for optimal coverage often results in undesirable locations, compromising security and user experience, especially in commercial settings like coffee shops where routers need to be placed for better signal reception.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a router and a wireless broadband access device that establishes a bi-directional wireless communication channel, allowing the router to access a wireless broadband network through the access device, even when the router is placed in a less desirable location, by using a wireless local area network to connect to a cellular broadband network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the cellular antenna is placed within the router for optimal cellular coverage, then cellular signal reception is improved, but the router must be placed in a non-secure location compromising user security
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the router functionality into two separate devices: a wireless router that provides local wireless networking and remains in secure locations, and a separate cellular broadband access device that contains the cellular antenna and modem. This segmentation allows the router to stay in secure, controlled locations while the broadband access device can be placed in locations with optimal cellular signal reception, thus resolving the contradiction between security and cellular signal quality.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the router is placed in a secure location away from customer areas, then user security is improved, but cellular signal reception deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The wireless local area network acts as an intermediary between the secure location router and the cellular broadband access device. The router communicates with the broadband access device over the wireless LAN, which relays cellular traffic between the router (in secure locations) and the cellular network (accessed from locations with good signal). This intermediary approach allows the router to remain secure while still accessing cellular broadband through a separate device optimally positioned for signal reception.
3Reliability
If the router is placed in a location with optimal cellular coverage, then broadband access reliability is improved, but the router placement flexibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the router into two separate devices - a wireless router for local networking and a cellular broadband access device for wide area connectivity - the system allows the wireless router to be placed flexibly in secure, convenient locations while the broadband access device can be positioned where cellular signal is strongest. This segmentation provides both reliable broadband access and router placement flexibility simultaneously.
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AI summary
A system for broadband communication over a local wireless communication channel includes a router configured to wirelessly access a wireless communication network, and a wireless broadband access device having wireless access to a wireless broadband communication network, the wireless broadband access device configured to wirelessly access the wireless communication network and configured to provide a bi-directional wireless communication channel to the router using the wireless communication network.