Patent Grant
9258052
1. Field of the Disclosure
The technology of the disclosure relates to distribution of data (e.g., digital data services and radio-frequency communications services) in a distributed antenna system.
2. Technical Background
Wireless customers are demanding digital data services, such as streaming video signals. Concurrently, some wireless customers use their wireless devices in areas that are poorly served by conventional cellular networks, such as inside certain buildings or areas where there is little cellular coverage. One response to the intersection of these two concerns has been the use of distributed antenna systems. Distributed antenna systems can be particularly useful to be deployed inside buildings or other indoor environments where client devices may not otherwise be able to effectively receive radio-frequency (RF) signals from a source. Distributed antenna systems include remote units (also referred to as “remote antenna units”) configured to receive and wirelessly transmit wireless communications signals to client devices in antenna range of the remote units. Such distributed antenna systems may use Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) or wireless local area networks (WLANs), as examples, to provide digital data services.
Distributed antenna systems may employ optical fiber to support distribution of high bandwidth data (e.g., video data) with low loss. Even so, WiFi and WLAN-based technology may not be able to provide sufficient bandwidth for expected demand, especially as high definition (HD) video becomes more prevalent. WiFi was initially limited in data rate transfer to 12.24 Mb/s and is provided at data transfer rates of up to 54 Mb/s using WLAN frequencies of 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz. While interesting for many applications, WiFi bandwidth may be too small to support real time downloading of uncompressed high definition (HD) television signals to wireless client devices.
Multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) technology can be employed in distributed antenna systems to increase the bandwidth up to twice the nominal bandwidth, as a non-limiting example. MIMO is the use of multiple antennas at both a transmitter and receiver to increase data throughput and link range without additional bandwidth or increased transmit power. However, even doubling bandwidth alone may not be enough to support high bandwidth data to wireless client devices, such as the example of real time downloading of uncompressed high definition (HD) television signals.
The frequency of wireless communications signals could also be increased in a MIMO distributed antenna system to provide larger channel bandwidth as a non-limiting example. For example, an extremely high frequency (EHF) in the range of approximately 30 GHz to approximately 300 GHz could be employed. For example, the sixty GHz (60 GHz) spectrum is an EHF that is an unlicensed spectrum by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). EHFs could be employed to provide for larger channel bandwidths. However, higher frequency wireless signals are more easily attenuated and/or blocked from traveling through walls, building structures, or other obstacles where distributed antenna systems are commonly installed. Higher frequency wireless signals also provide narrow radiation patterns. Thus, remote units in distributed antenna systems may be arranged for line-of-sight (LOS) communications to allow for higher frequencies for higher bandwidth. However, if remote units are provided in a LOS configuration, and the remote units are also configured to support MIMO, multiple data streams in the same frequency channel will be received by multiple receiver antennas in the remote units. This can lead to multiple data streams received in the same frequency channel leading to performance degradation and limited wireless coverage where the MIMO algorithm can fail to solve the channel matrix.
Components, systems, and methods for reducing location-based interference in distributed antenna systems operating in multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) configuration are disclosed. The distributed antenna systems include remote units employing MIMO transmitters configured to transmit multiple data streams in MIMO configuration to MIMO receivers in wireless client devices. Interference is defined as issues with received MIMO communications signals that can cause a MIMO algorithm to not be able to solve a channel matrix for MIMO communications signals received by MIMO receivers in client devices. These issues can occur due to lack of spatial (i.e., phase) separation in the received MIMO communications signals, especially with closely located MIMO transmitters configured for line-of-sight (LOS) communications. Thus, to provide phase separation of MIMO communication signals received by MIMO receivers in client devices, multiple MIMO transmitters in a remote unit are each configured to employ multiple transmitter antennas, which are each configured to transmit in different polarization states. In certain embodiments, one of the MIMO communications signals is phase shifted in one of the polarization states to provide phase separation between MIMO communication signals received by the MIMO receivers. In other embodiments, multiple transmitter antennas in a MIMO transmitter can be offset to provide phase separation.
The components, systems, and methods for location-based interference in a distributed antenna systems operating in MIMO configuration may significantly improve high-data rate wireless coverage without significant dependence on transmitter and/or receive placement. This may allow for LOS communications to be more easily achieved, especially for higher frequency communications where LOS communications may be employed to reduce the effect of obstacles. High antenna isolation is not required in the MIMO receivers. The increased coverage area can also allow for higher efficiency at higher frequencies typically inefficient for radio frequency (RF) amplifiers.
In this regard, in one embodiment, a MIMO remote unit configured to wirelessly distribute MIMO communications signals to wireless client devices in a distributed antenna system is provided. The MIMO remote unit comprises a first MIMO transmitter comprising a first MIMO transmitter antenna configured to transmit MIMO communications signals in a first polarization and a second MIMO transmitter antenna configured to transmit MIMO communications signals in a second polarization different from the first polarization. The MIMO remote unit also comprises a second MIMO transmitter comprising a third MIMO transmitter antenna configured to transmit MIMO communications signals in the first polarization and a fourth MIMO transmitter antenna configured to transmit MIMO communications signals in the second polarization. The first MIMO transmitter is configured to receive a first downlink MIMO communications signal in a first phase over a first downlink communications medium, and transmit the first downlink MIMO communications signal wirelessly as a first electrical downlink MIMO communications signal over the first MIMO transmitter antenna in the first polarization. The first MIMO transmitter is also configured to receive a second downlink MIMO communications signal in the first phase over a second downlink communications medium, and transmit the second downlink MIMO communications signal wirelessly as a second electrical downlink MIMO communications signal over the second MIMO transmitter antenna in the second polarization. The second MIMO transmitter is configured to receive a third downlink MIMO communications signal in the first phase over a third downlink communications medium, and transmit the third downlink MIMO communications signal wirelessly as a third electrical downlink MIMO communications signal over the third MIMO transmitter antenna in the first polarization. The second MIMO transmitter is also configured to receive a fourth downlink MIMO communications signal over a fourth downlink communications medium, and transmit the fourth downlink MIMO communications signal in a second phase shifted from the first phase, wirelessly as a fourth electrical downlink MIMO communications signal over the fourth MIMO transmitter antenna in the second polarization.
In another embodiment, a method of transmitting MIMO communications signals to wireless client devices in a distributed antenna system is provided. The method includes receiving a first downlink MIMO communications signal in a first phase over a first downlink communications medium. The method also includes transmitting the first downlink MIMO communications signal wirelessly as a first electrical downlink MIMO communications signal over a first MIMO transmitter antenna in a first polarization. The method also includes receiving a second downlink MIMO communications signal in the first phase over a second downlink communications medium. The method also includes transmitting the second downlink MIMO communications signal wirelessly as a second electrical downlink MIMO communications signal over a second MIMO transmitter antenna in a second polarization. The method also includes receiving a third downlink MIMO communications signal in the first phase over a third downlink communications medium. The method also includes transmitting the third downlink MIMO communications signal wirelessly as a third electrical downlink MIMO communications signal over the third MIMO transmitter antenna in the first polarization. The method also includes receiving a fourth downlink MIMO communications signal over a fourth downlink communications medium. The method also includes transmitting the fourth downlink MIMO communications signal in a second phase shifted from the first phase, wirelessly as a fourth electrical downlink MIMO communications signal over the fourth MIMO transmitter antenna in the second polarization.
In another embodiment, a distributed antenna system for distributing MIMO communications signals to wireless client devices is provided. The distributed antenna system comprises a central unit. The central unit comprises a central unit transmitter configured to receive a downlink communications signal. The central unit transmitter is also configured to transmit the received downlink communications signal as a first MIMO downlink communications signal over a first downlink communications medium, a second MIMO downlink communications signal over a second downlink communications medium, a third MIMO downlink communications signal over a third downlink communications medium, and a fourth MIMO downlink communications signal over a fourth downlink communications medium.
This distributed antenna system also comprises a remote unit. The remote unit comprises a first MIMO transmitter comprising a first MIMO transmitter antenna configured to transmit MIMO communications signals in a first polarization and a second MIMO transmitter antenna configured to transmit MIMO communications signals in a second polarization different from the first polarization. The remote unit also comprises a second MIMO transmitter comprising a third MIMO transmitter antenna configured to transmit MIMO communications signals in the first polarization and a fourth MIMO transmitter antenna configured to transmit MIMO communications signals in the second polarization. The first MIMO transmitter is configured to receive a first downlink MIMO communications signal in a first phase over a first downlink communications medium, and transmit the first downlink MIMO communications signal wirelessly as a first electrical downlink MIMO communications signal over the first MIMO transmitter antenna in the first polarization. The first MIMO transmitter is also configured to receive a second downlink MIMO communications signal in the first phase over a second downlink communications medium, and transmit the second downlink MIMO communications signal wirelessly as a second electrical downlink MIMO communications signal over the second MIMO transmitter antenna in the second polarization. The second MIMO transmitter is configured to receive a third downlink MIMO communications signal in the first phase over a third downlink communications medium, and transmit the third downlink MIMO communications signal wirelessly as a third electrical downlink MIMO communications signal over the third MIMO transmitter antenna in the first polarization. The second MIMO transmitter is also configured to receive a fourth downlink MIMO communications signal over a fourth downlink communications medium, and transmit the fourth downlink MIMO communications signal in a second phase shifted from the first phase, wirelessly as a fourth electrical downlink MIMO communications signal over the fourth MIMO transmitter antenna in the second polarization. The remote unit also comprises at least one phase shifter configured to phase shift the fourth downlink MIMO communications signal to the second phase.
The distributed antenna systems disclosed herein can be configured to support one or more radio-frequency (RF)-based services and/or distribution of one or more digital data services. The remote units in the distributed antenna systems may be configured to transmit and receive wireless communication signal at one or more frequencies, including but not limited to extremely high frequencies (EHF) (i.e., approximately 30 GHz-approximately 300 GHz). The distributed antenna systems may include, without limitation, wireless local area networks (WLANs). Further, as a non-limiting example, the distributed antenna systems may be an optical fiber-based distributed antenna system, but such is not required. An optical fiber-based distributed antenna system may employ Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) communications. The embodiments disclosed herein are also applicable to other remote antenna clusters and distributed antenna systems, including those that include other forms of communications media for distribution of communications signals, including electrical conductors and wireless transmission. For example, the distributed antenna systems may include electrical and/or wireless communications mediums between a central unit and remote units in addition or in lieu of optical fiber communications medium. The embodiments disclosed herein may also be applicable to remote antenna clusters and distributed antenna systems and may also include more than one communications media for distribution of communications signals (e.g., digital data services, RF communications services). The communications signals in the distributed antenna system may or may not be frequency shifted.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description present embodiments, and are intended to provide an overview or framework for understanding the nature and character of the disclosure. The drawings illustrate various embodiments, and together with the description serve to explain the principles and operation of the concepts disclosed.
Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which some, but not all embodiments are shown. Indeed, the concepts may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limiting herein; rather these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will satisfy applicable legal requirements. Whenever possible, like reference numbers will be used to refer to like components or parts.
Components, systems, and methods for reducing location-based interference in distributed antenna systems operating in multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) configuration are disclosed. The distributed antenna systems include remote units employing MIMO transmitters configured to transmit multiple data streams in MIMO configuration to MIMO receivers in wireless client devices. Interference is defined as issues with received MIMO communications signals that can cause a MIMO algorithm to not be able to solve a channel matrix for MIMO communications signals received by MIMO receivers in client devices. These issues can occur due to lack of spatial (i.e., phase) separation in the received MIMO communications signals, especially with closely located MIMO transmitters configured for line-of-sight (LOS) communications. Thus, to provide phase separation of MIMO communication signals received by MIMO receivers in client devices, multiple MIMO transmitters in a remote unit are each configured to employ multiple transmitter antennas, that are each configured to transmit in different polarization states. In certain embodiments, one of the MIMO communications signals is phase shifted in one of the polarization states to provide phase separation between MIMO communication signals received by the MIMO receivers. In other embodiments, multiple transmitter antennas in a MIMO transmitter can be offset to provide phase separation.
Before discussing examples of components, systems, and methods for reducing location-based interference in distributed antenna systems operating in MIMO configuration starting at
One downlink optical fiber 16D and one uplink optical fiber 16U could be provided to support multiple full-duplex channels each using wave-division multiplexing (WDM), as discussed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/892,424, entitled “Providing Digital Data Services in Optical Fiber-based Distributed Radio Frequency (RF) Communications Systems, And Related Components and Methods,” incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. Other options for WDM and frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) are also disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/892,424, any of which can be employed in any of the embodiments disclosed herein. Further, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/892,424 also discloses distributed digital data communications signals in a distributed antenna system which may also be distributed in the distributed antenna system 10 either in conjunction with the RF communications signals or not.
The distributed antenna system 10 has an antenna coverage area 20 that can be disposed about the remote unit 14. The antenna coverage area 20 of the remote unit 14 forms an RF coverage area 21. The central unit 12 is adapted to perform or to facilitate any one of a number of Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) applications, such as RF identification (RFID), wireless local-area network (WLAN) communication, or cellular phone service. Shown within the antenna coverage area 20 is a client device 24 in the form of a mobile device, which may be a cellular telephone as an example. The client device 24 can be any device that is capable of receiving RF communications signals. The client device 24 includes an antenna 26 (e.g., a wireless card) adapted to receive and/or send electromagnetic RF signals.
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Similarly, the antenna 32 is also configured to receive wireless RF communications from the client device 24 in the antenna coverage area 20. In this regard, the antenna 32 receives wireless RF communications from the client device 24 and communicates electrical RF signals representing the wireless RF communications to an E/O converter 34 in the remote unit 14. The E/O converter 34 converts the electrical RF signals into uplink optical RF signals 22U to be communicated over the uplink optical fiber 16U. An O/E converter 36 provided in the central unit 12 converts the uplink optical RF signals 22U into uplink electrical RF signals, which can then be communicated as uplink electrical RF signals 18U back to a network or other source.
As noted, one or more of the network or other sources can be a cellular system, which may include a base station or base transceiver station (BTS). The BTS may be provided by a second party such as a cellular service provider, and can be co-located or located remotely from the central unit 12.
In a typical cellular system, for example, a plurality of BTSs is deployed at a plurality of remote locations to provide wireless telephone coverage. Each BTS serves a corresponding cell and when a mobile client device enters the cell, the BTS communicates with the mobile client device. Each BTS can include at least one radio transceiver for enabling communication with one or more subscriber units operating within the associated cell. As another example, wireless repeaters or bi-directional amplifiers could also be used to serve a corresponding cell in lieu of a BTS. Alternatively, radio input could be provided by a repeater, picocell, or femtocell, as other examples. In a particular exemplary embodiment, cellular signal distribution in the frequency range from 400 MHz to 2.7 GHz is supported by the distributed antenna system 10.
Although the distributed antenna system 10 in
A distributed antenna system, including the distributed antenna system 10 in
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A MIMO algorithm not being able to solve a channel matrix for the received electrical downlink MIMO communication signals 82D(1), 82D(2) can negatively affect communications performance. These issues with electrical downlink MIMO communication signals 82D(1), 82D(2) received by the MIMO receiver antennas 86(1), 86(2) can occur due to lack of spatial (i.e., phase) separation in the received electrical downlink MIMO communication signals 82D(1), 82D(2), especially in line-of-sight (LOS) communications. To illustrate the effect of these issues,
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As previously discussed above, the delay element 122 is provided in the central unit 42(1) to phase shift the electrical downlink MIMO communications signal 50D(4). This phase shift in turn causes the second and fourth electrical downlink MIMO communications signals 82D(2), 82D(4) to be received by the second MIMO receiver antennas 130(2) out of phase with the receipt of the first and third electrical downlink MIMO communications signals 82D(1), 82D(3) by the first MIMO receiver 132(1) which are in the first polarization 128(1). This reduces or eliminate the first and third electrical downlink MIMO communications signals 82D(1), 82D(3) being received by the first MIMO receiver 132(1) and the second and fourth electrical downlink MIMO communications signals 82D(2), 82D(4) being received by the second MIMO receiver 132(2).
The phase shift can be provided in other areas of a MIMO distributed antenna system other than in the central unit, as provided in the MIMO distributed antenna system 40(1) in
As previously discussed above with regard to
To illustrate the performance in the MIMO distributed antenna systems 40(1)-40(3) in
Other configurations and techniques may also be possible to provide phase separation of MIMO communication signals received by MIMO receivers in client devices, multiple MIMO transmitters in a remote unit are each configured to employ multiple transmitter antennas. In this regard,
It may also be desired to provide high-speed wireless digital data service connectivity with remote units in the MIMO distributed antenna systems disclosed herein. One example would be WiFi. WiFi was initially limited in data rate transfer to 12.24 Mb/s and is now provided at data transfer rates of up to 54 Mb/s using WLAN frequencies of 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz. While interesting for many applications, WiFi has proven to have too small a bandwidth to support real time downloading of uncompressed high definition (HD) television signals to wireless client devices. To increase data transfer rates, the frequency of wireless signals could be increased to provide larger channel bandwidth. For example, an extremely high frequency in the range of 30 GHz to 300 GHz could be employed. For example, the sixty (60) GHz spectrum is an EHF that is an unlicensed spectrum by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and that could be employed to provide for larger channel bandwidths. However, high frequency wireless signals are more easily attenuated or blocked from traveling through walls or other building structures where distributed antenna systems are installed.
Thus, the embodiments disclosed herein can include distribution of extremely high frequency (EHF) (i.e., approximately 30-approximately 300 GHz), as a non-limiting example. The MIMO distributed antenna systems disclosed herein can also support provision of digital data services to wireless clients. The use of the EHF band allows for the use of channels having a higher bandwidth, which in turn allows more data intensive signals, such as uncompressed HD video to be communicated without substantial degradation to the quality of the video. As a non-limiting example, the distributed antenna systems disclosed herein may operate at approximately sixty (60) GHz with approximately seven (7) GHz bandwidth channels to provide greater bandwidth to digital data services. The distributed antenna systems disclosed herein may be well suited to be deployed in an indoor building or other facility for delivering of digital data services.
It may be desirable to provide MIMO distributed antenna systems, according to the embodiments disclosed herein, that provide digital data services for client devices. For example, it may be desirable to provide digital data services to client devices located within a distributed antenna system. Wired and wireless devices may be located in the building infrastructures that are configured to access digital data services. Examples of digital data services include, but are not limited to, Ethernet, WLAN, WiMax, WiFi, DSL, and LTE, etc. Ethernet standards could be supported, including but not limited to, 100 Mb/s (i.e., fast Ethernet) or Gigabit (Gb) Ethernet, or ten Gigabit (10G) Ethernet. Examples of digital data services include, but are not limited to, wired and wireless servers, wireless access points (WAPs), gateways, desktop computers, hubs, switches, remote radio heads (RRHs), baseband units (BBUs), and femtocells. A separate digital data services network can be provided to provide digital data services to digital data devices.
The exemplary computer system 220 in this embodiment includes a processing device or processor 222, a main memory 224 (e.g., read-only memory (ROM), flash memory, dynamic random access memory (DRAM), such as synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), etc.), and a static memory 226 (e.g., flash memory, static random access memory (SRAM), etc.), which may communicate with each other via a data bus 228. Alternatively, the processing device 222 may be connected to the main memory 224 and/or static memory 226 directly or via some other connectivity means. The processing device 222 may be a controller, and the main memory 224 or static memory 226 may be any type of memory.
The processing device 222 represents one or more general-purpose processing devices, such as a microprocessor, central processing unit, or the like. More particularly, the processing device 222 may be a complex instruction set computing (CISC) microprocessor, a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) microprocessor, a very long instruction word (VLIW) microprocessor, a processor implementing other instruction sets, or other processors implementing a combination of instruction sets. The processing device 222 is configured to execute processing logic in instructions 230 for performing the operations and steps discussed herein.
The computer system 220 may further include a network interface device 232. The computer system 220 also may or may not include an input 234, configured to receive input and selections to be communicated to the computer system 220 when executing instructions. The computer system 220 also may or may not include an output 236, including but not limited to a display, a video display unit (e.g., a liquid crystal display (LCD) or a cathode ray tube (CRT)), an alphanumeric input device (e.g., a keyboard), and/or a cursor control device (e.g., a mouse).
The computer system 220 may or may not include a data storage device that includes instructions 238 stored in a computer-readable medium 240. The instructions 238 may also reside, completely or at least partially, within the main memory 224 and/or within the processing device 222 during execution thereof by the computer system 220, the main memory 224 and the processing device 222 also constituting computer-readable medium. The instructions 238 may further be transmitted or received over a network 242 via the network interface device 232.
While the computer-readable medium 240 is shown in an exemplary embodiment to be a single medium, the term “computer-readable medium” should be taken to include a single medium or multiple media (e.g., a centralized or distributed database, and/or associated caches and servers) that store the one or more sets of instructions. The term “computer-readable medium” shall also be taken to include any medium that is capable of storing, encoding, or carrying a set of instructions for execution by the processing device and that cause the processing device to perform any one or more of the methodologies of the embodiments disclosed herein.
The embodiments disclosed herein include various steps. The steps of the embodiments disclosed herein may be formed by hardware components, software components, and combinations thereof.
The embodiments disclosed herein may be provided as a computer program product, or software, that may include a machine-readable medium (or computer-readable medium) having stored thereon instructions, which may be used to program a computer system (or other electronic devices) to perform a process according to the embodiments disclosed herein.
Unless specifically stated otherwise and as apparent from the previous discussion, it is appreciated that throughout the description, discussions utilizing terms such as “processing,” “computing,” “determining,” “displaying,” or the like, refer to the action and processes of a computer system, or similar electronic computing device, that manipulates and transforms data and memories represented as physical (electronic) quantities within the computer system's registers into other data similarly represented as physical quantities within the computer system memories or registers or other such information storage, transmission, or display devices.
The algorithms and displays presented herein are not inherently related to any particular computer or other apparatus. In addition, the embodiments described herein are not described with reference to any particular programming language.
Those of skill in the art will further appreciate that the various illustrative logical blocks, modules, circuits, and algorithms described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, instructions stored in memory or in another computer-readable medium and executed by a processor or other processing device, or combinations of both. The components of the distributed antenna systems described herein may be employed in any circuit, hardware component, integrated circuit (IC), or IC chip, as examples. Memory disclosed herein may be any type and size of memory and may be configured to store any type of information desired. To clearly illustrate this interchangeability, various illustrative components, blocks, modules, circuits, and steps have been described above generally in terms of their functionality. How such functionality is implemented depends on the particular application, design choices, and/or design constraints imposed on the overall system.
The various illustrative logical blocks, modules, and circuits described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented or performed with a processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), or other programmable logic device, a discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any combination thereof designed to perform the functions described herein. Furthermore, a controller may be a processor.
The embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied in hardware and in instructions that are stored in hardware, and may reside, for example, in RAM, flash memory, ROM, Electrically Programmable ROM (EPROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM (EEPROM), registers, a hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of computer-readable medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor such that the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. In the alternative, the storage medium may be integral to the processor.
It is also noted that the operational steps described in any of the exemplary embodiments herein are described to provide examples and discussion. The operations described may be performed in numerous different sequences other than the illustrated sequences. Furthermore, operations described in a single operational step may actually be performed in a number of different steps.
Further and as used herein, it is intended that terms “fiber optic cables” and/or “optical fibers” include all types of single mode and multi-mode light waveguides, including one or more optical fibers that may be upcoated, colored, buffered, ribbonized, and/or have other organizing or protective structure in a cable such as one or more tubes, strength members, jackets, or the like.
It is to be understood that the description and claims are not to be limited to the specific embodiments disclosed, and that modifications and other embodiments are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims. Although specific terms are employed herein, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation.
This application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/US13/034,328 filed on Mar. 28, 2013, which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/618,396 filed on Mar. 30, 2012, both of which are relied upon and incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. This application is related to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/541,566 entitled “AUTOMATIC ANTENNA SELECTION BASED ON ORIENTATION, AND RELATED APPARATUSES, ANTENNA UNITS, METHODS, AND DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS,” filed on Sep. 30, 2011, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
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