Patent ID: 10009091

Abstract:
A wireless communications system comprises a transmitting terminal, transponding repeaters located on moving airborne platforms, and receiving terminals located in a first coverage area and a second coverage area. The transmitting terminal comprises a preprocessing unit to receive information data streams, perform a wavefront multiplexing transformation on the information data streams, generate at least a first and a second wavefront multiplexed information data streams, and transmit the first and second wavefront multiplexed information data streams to the receiving terminals via the transponding repeaters. The transponding repeaters include first and second transponding repeaters, each of the transponding repeaters having an antenna array, the first transponding repeater having a first antenna array, receiving and relaying the first wavefront multiplexed information data stream to a first coverage area, the second transponding repeater having a second antenna array, receiving and relaying the second wavefront multiplexed information data stream to a second coverage area.