Patent ID: 7848654
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A centralized optical-fiber-based wireless picocellular system for wirelessly communicating with at least one client device, comprising: a central head-end station adapted to provide radio-frequency (RF) signals; two or more transponders optically coupled to the central head-end station via one or more optical fiber RF communication links, with the two or more transponders adapted to convert electrical signals to optical signals and vice versa and having an antenna system that forms a corresponding picocell based on said RF signals, wherein adjacent picocells formed from RF signals having different frequencies do not substantially overlap; and wherein the central head-end station is adapted to provide one or more groups of two or more transponders with said RF signals having a common frequency within the transponder group so as to form corresponding one or more combined picocells.