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Patent US8059727 - Physical layer repeater configuration for increasing MIMO performance - Google Patents
A wireless network includes at least one Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless network station and two or more physical layer repeaters. Each of the physical layer repeaters is for receiving a wireless signal to or from the at least one MIMO wireless network station and re-transmitting the wireless...http://www.google.com/patents/US8059727?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8059727 - Physical layer repeater configuration for increasing MIMO performance
Publication number US8059727 B2
Application number US 11/340,838
Also published as US20060193271, WO2006081405A2, WO2006081405A3
Publication number 11340838, 340838, US 8059727 B2, US 8059727B2, US-B2-8059727, US8059727 B2, US8059727B2
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Cooperative Classification H04B7/022, H04L25/24, H04L2027/0044, H04B7/2606
European Classification H04L25/24, H04B7/02M, H04B7/26B2
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