Patent ID: 7065384

Claim:
A networked and field addressable distributed antenna system comprising a large field megacell coverage area, at least a portion of which is partitioned into a plurality of short range picocells, wherein each of the picocells is serviced by a secondary base repeater node operative to receive an information signal from a neighboring secondary base repeater node or from an originating information signal source, and to receive a command signal including a direction command from an originating base station having a command signal transmitter, and to transmit the information signal in at least one of three directions for receipt by local users or by a neighboring secondary base repeater node positioned along the direction to which the information signal was transmitted, the direction in which the information signal is transmitted being determined by the direction command of the command signal, wherein the secondary base repeater nodes are positioned such that they re-broadcast the information signal to neighboring secondary base repeater nodes in a tree structure.