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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2015
Applicant:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Navid Yazdani, Sudbury, MA (US);
David W. Browne, Somerville, MA (US);
Keith William Forsythe, Lexington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/18502 (2013.01);
Abstract
A distributed beamforming communication system including independent aerial nodes forming an antenna array is described. Described herein is a distributed beamforming array which utilizes independent aerial relay nodes or platforms (i.e. no strict control of relay node position, no communication between the relay nodes, and no coordinated transmission among the relay nodes) to form a distributed beamforming antenna.