Lucent Technologies Inc.

Manuel J Carloni

Michael J Gans

Jack Winters

Peter Wasily Wolniansky

Reinaldo A Valenzuela

Leonard Joseph Cimini, Jr

Babak Daneshrad

A wireless communication system and method includes antenna arrays at both the transmitter and receiver having a plurality of elements for very high data rate communication. Phased array antennas or directive fixed beam antennas are used with a beamwidth in azimuth and elevation less than 30&#xb0; to increase the power margin and to decrease the delay spread of signals at the receiver to permit wireless data communications at high data rates in closed environments, for example, bursty transmissions and isochronous communications. The wireless communication system is capable of data transmission rates which exceed 1 Gbps with propagation losses of up to at least 60 dB relative to one meter.

Wireless indoor communications using antenna arrays

Noise is input to a frequency generation circuit which includes a demodulator stage with a multiplier circuit in which the noise is multiplied by means of a feedback signal. The result of the multiplication in the demodulator stage is passed through a low pass filter. In a modulation wipe-off stage of the frequency generation circuit, the sign of the filtered multiplier output is extracted using a comparator circuit. The comparator circuit output is passed to a correlator circuit. In the correlator circuit, the comparator circuit output multiplies a delayed version of the input noise which is provided by a delay circuit element. The correlator circuit generates quadrature signals. Summation of the quadrature signals followed by bandpass filtering and amplitude limiting yields a discrete synthesized frequency signal.

Frequency synthesis using a remodulator

A wireless transmitter and receiver are used in a wireless telecommunication system and method including antennas having at least one antenna element with a relatively narrow beamwidth at both the transmitter and receiver for high data rate communication. The antenna element provides beam coverage in both azimuthal and elevational directions, and a processor is operatively connected to the antenna and is capable of determining a suitable communication path with respect to the at least one antenna element and predetermined communications conditions.

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