Patent ID: 6487194
Filing Date: 2002-11-26
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A communications network, having plurality of nodes each arranged to extract signals received on orthogonal input paths when there is a predetermined correlation between them, and to retransmit the signals on orthogonal output paths when the predetermined correlation does not exist, each node being further arranged to launch signals intended for a particular other node, on orthogonal paths and with phase difference such that the signals arrive at the node for which they are intended with the predetermined correlation, wherein each node is arranged to analyse data to be transmitted over the network into a plurality of signals (LAPAFs) which signals are logically analogous to probability amplitude functions, to be launched on said orthogonal output paths, and wherein each node is arranged to combine probability functions received on orthogonal input paths such that, at the intended node for the reception of that data, the received signals are reconstructed, and at other nodes no signal is reconstructed.