The present invention relates generally to wireless communications and more specifically to a repeater for increasing the coverage of wireless networks.
Several standard protocols for wireless local area networks, commonly referred to as WLANs, are becoming popular. These include protocols such as 802.11 (as set forth in the 802.11 wireless standards), home RF, and Bluetooth. The standard wireless protocol with the most commercial success to date is the 802.11b protocol.
While the specifications of products utilizing the above standard wireless protocols commonly indicate data rates on the order of, for example, 11 MBPS and ranges on the order of, for example, 100 meters, these performance levels are rarely, if ever, realized. This lack of performance is due to attenuation of the radiation paths of RF signals, which are typically in the range of 2.4 GHz, in an indoor environment Base to receiver ranges are generally less than the coverage range required in a typical home, and may be as little as 10 to 15 meters. Further, in structures that have split floor plans, such as ranch style or two story homes, or that are constructed of materials that attenuate RF signals, areas in which wireless coverage is needed may be physically separated by distances outside of the range of, for example, an 802.11 protocol based system. Finally, the data rates of the above standard wireless protocols are dependent on the signal strength. As distances in the area of coverage increase, wireless system performance typically decreases.
One way to increase the range of wireless systems is by the use of repeaters. This is a common practice in the mobile wireless industry. One significant complication is that the system receivers and transmitters operate at the same frequency for a WLAN utilizing 802.11 or 802.16 WMAN wireless protocol. Such operation is commonly referred to as time division duplexing. This operation is significantly different than the operation of many cellular repeater systems, such as those systems based on IS-136, IS-95 or IS-2000 standards, where the receive and transmit bands are separated by a duplexing frequency offset. Frequency division duplexing makes the repeater operation easier than in the case where the receiver and transmitter channels are on the same frequency.
There are, however, cellular mobile systems that separate the receive and transmit channels by time rather than by frequency. These systems utilize scheduled times for specific uplink/downlink transmissions. Repeaters for these systems are easily built, as the transmission and reception times are well known and are broadcast by a base station. Receivers and transmitters for these systems may be isolated by any number of means including physical separation, antenna patterns, or polarization isolation.
The random packet nature of the WLAN protocols provides no defined receive and transmit periods. The packets from each wireless network node are spontaneously generated and transmitted and are not temporally predictable. A protocol referred to as a collision avoidance and random back-off protocol is used to avoid two units transmitting their packets at the same time. For 802.11 standard protocol, this is referred to as the distributed coordination function (DCF).
WLAN repeaters have unique constraints due to the above spontaneous transmission capabilities and therefore require a unique solution. Another unique requirement is that, since these repeaters use the same frequency for receive and transmit, some form of isolation must exist between the receiver and transmitter of the receivers. While existing CDMA systems employ directional antennas and physical separation of the receive and transmit antennas to achieve this isolation, such techniques are not practical for WLAN repeaters in many operating environments such as in the home where lengthy cabling is not desirable or may be too costly.
The wireless repeater of the present invention solves the above-discussed issues regarding spontaneous transmission and transceiver isolation through the use of a unique frequency detection and translation method. The wireless repeater enables two WLAN units to communicate by translating the packets from a first frequency channel used by one device to a second frequency channel used by a second device. The direction of the conversion from the first frequency channel to the second frequency channel versus conversion from the second frequency channel to the first frequency channel is dependent upon real time configuration. The repeater monitors both channels for transmissions and, when a transmission on a channel is detected, translates the received signal to the other channel, where it is transmitted.
The wireless repeater of the present invention therefore enables high-speed communication among transmitters and receivers that might otherwise be isolated from one another in a conventional WLAN environment. Further, the repeater is small and relatively inexpensive, and avoids spontaneous transmission by monitoring and responding in reaction to the transmissions.
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While the signal carried over RF path 102 is of sufficient strength to maintain high-speed data packet communications between the client device 104 and the wireless gateway 100, the signals carried over the RF path 103 and intended for the client device 105 would be attenuated when passing through a structural barrier such as a wall 106 to a point where few, if any, data packets are received in either direction if not for a wireless repeater 200, the structure and operation of which will now be described.
To enhance the coverage and/or communication data rate to the client device 105, the wireless repeater 200 receives packets transmitted on a first frequency channel 201 from the wireless gateway 100. The wireless repeater 200, which may have dimensions of, for example, 2.5″×3.5″×0.5″, and which preferably is capable of being plugged into a standard electrical outlet and operating on 110 V AC power, detects the presence of a packet on the first frequency channel 201, receives the packet and re-transmits the packet with more power on a second frequency channel 202. Unlike conventional WLAN operating protocols, the client device 105 operates on the second frequency channel, even though the wireless gateway 100 operates on the first frequency channel. To perform the return packet operation, the wireless repeater 200 detects the presence of a transmitted packet on the second frequency channel 202 from the client device 105, receives the packet on the second frequency channel 202, and re-transmits the packet on the first frequency channel 201. The wireless gateway 100 then receives the packet on the first frequency channel 201. In this way, the wireless repeater 200 is capable of simultaneously receiving and transmitting signals as well as extending the coverage and performance of the wireless gateway 100 to the client device 105.
It should also be appreciated that the wireless repeater 200 may be utilized in a similar manner to enhance communications in a peer-to-peer network from one client device to another client device. When there are many units that are isolated form one another, the wireless repeater 200 acts as a wireless hub allowing two different groups of units to communicate where standard RF propagation and coverage would otherwise not enable the units to communicate.
Radio waves propagate from various wireless devices such as the client devices 104, 105 in
The antenna 300 shown in
At this point, one skilled in the art will readily recognize that the antenna 300, the LNA 310 and the RF splitter 315 are the primary components forming a receiver in the repeater 200. Further, one skilled in the art will readily recognize that the antenna 300, the power amplifier 325, the amplifier 330, the filter 335, the switch 345 and the mixer 350 are the primary components forming a transmitter in the repeater 200.
Mixers 320, 321 are frequency conversion devices that mix signals passed from the splitter 315 with signals output from the local oscillators 340, 341 at respective frequencies designated as LO1, LO2 to produce intermediate frequency (IF) or typically lower frequency signals. The local oscillators 340, 341 are tuned to the different frequencies LO1, LO2 such that two different signals at two different frequencies fed from the splitter 315 can be converted to a common IF frequency. For example, if signals at two different frequencies F1=2.412 GHz and F2=2.462 are output from the splitter 315 to the mixers 320, 321, respectively, and assuming the mixer 320 is performing a low side mixing function and the mixer 321 is performing a high side mixing function, then with the local oscillator 340 tuned to LO1=2.342 GHz and the local oscillator 341 tuned to LO2=2.532 GHz and providing inputs to the mixers 320, 321, respectively, the signals output from mixers 320, 321 would each have their frequencies transformed to an IF of 70 MHz.
The splitters 323, 324, which operate the same as the splitter 315 described above, separate the IF signals output from the respective mixers 320, 321 into two different paths. One path from each of the splitters 323, 324 goes to filters 360, 361, respectively, while the other path from each of the splitters 323, 324 goes to filters 365, 366, respectively.
The filters 360, 361, which are preferably band pass filters with delays, remove all outputs from the mixing operation except the desired frequency components. Preferably, the filters 360, 361 have a sufficient time delay such that the detection and control unit 362 can detect which of the two RF frequencies is present and perform control functions described below prior to the signals being available at the output of the filters 360, 361, as detectors 370, 371 are in parallel with the delay filters 360, 361. Methods of delaying electrical signals are well known to those of ordinary skill in the art, and include but are not limited to Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices and the like. However, if it is acceptable, to truncate a portion of the first part of the RF signal, then the filters 360, 361 would not need specified delays.
One skilled in the art will readily recognize that the mixers 320, 321, the splitters 323, 324 and the filters 360, 361 are the primary components forming a frequency converter in the repeater 200.
The filters 365, 366 in the detection and control unit 362 also perform the same type of band pass filtering as the filters 360, 361. The main difference is that the filters 365, 366 are preferably fast filters without specified long time delays. Additionally, the filters 365, 366 preferably do not require the same level of filtering performance as the filters 360, 361, although one skilled in the art would recognize that varying filter performance within the confines of performing the filtering objective is a design choice. One skilled in the art would also recognize that filters or devices other than band pass filters might be used to perform the above discussed band pass functions.
Power detectors 370, 371 are simple power detection devices that detect if a signal is present on either of the respective frequencies F1, F2 and provide a proportional voltage output if the signal is present. Many types of analog detectors that perform this function may be used. For example, such detectors could include, but are not limited to, diode detectors. Such diode detection could be performed at RF, IF or base band. Detectors providing higher performance than simple power detectors may be used as well. These detectors may be implemented as matched filtering at RF or IF using SAW devices, and matched filtering or correlation at base band after analog to digital conversion. The power detectors 370, 371 are utilized to determine the presence of a wireless transmission on one of the two IF channels by comparing signals on the two IF channels with a threshold. Such a threshold could be predetermined or calculated based on monitoring the channels over time to establish a noise floor.
Further, the power detectors 370, 371 may be used to determine start and stop times of a detected transmission. The proportional voltage output by one of the power detectors 370, 371 in response to signal detection will be used by the microprocessor 385 to control the retransmission of the signal as is described below. One of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that the power detection can be placed earlier or later in the signal processing path, as it is possible to detect signals so that the retransmission process may be switched on or off. Further, one of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that techniques for determining or limiting transmission time can be employed, including but not limited to placing a time limit on retransmission using a timer.
The filters 375, 376 are low pass filters and preferably have narrower bandwidths than the filters 365, 366. The filters 375, 376 are required to remove the high frequency components that remain after signal detection in the power detectors 370, 371 and to provide an increase in signal to noise ratio by providing processing gain by reducing the detection signal bandwidth. The signals output from low pass filters 375, 376 are input to conventional analog to digital converters 380, 381.
After the analog to digital converters 380, 381 convert the analog signal representing the detected power of the RF signals to digital signals in a manner well known to those skilled in the art, the resulting digital signals are sent to the microprocessor 385. The microprocessor 385, which can also be described as a logic state machine, digital signal processor, or other digital processing and control device, can be programmed to implement all necessary control algorithms to, with a high probability of certainty, detect the presence of either F1 or F2 and initiate appropriate control functions.
Alternatively, it should be noted that comparator detectors (not shown) with adjustable threshold controls may be used in place of the analog to digital converters 380, 381 and the microprocessor 385. Further, the control outputs of the microprocessor 385 could be alternatively connected directly to digital gates to control the switching where input to these gates is taken directly from comparator detector outputs. Further input to the digital logic may come from the microprocessor 385 to allow for override control to the settings provided from the comparator detector's output In this case the microprocessor (385) would continue to control the display functions; however, it is likely the control of the variable gain amplifier 330 would be controlled directly from the power detectors 370, 371 using analog signals.
Feedback to a user can be controlled by the microprocessor 385 via an indicator 390 which could be, but is not limited to, a series of light emitting diodes. Feedback to the user could be an indication that the wireless repeater 200 is in an acceptable location such that either or both frequencies from the wireless access point 100 and the client device 105 can be detected, or that power is supplied to the wireless repeater 200.
Once either of the frequencies F1, F2 is detected, the microprocessor 385 controls switches 345, 355. The switch 355 is switched to allow the detected signal, either on F1 or F2, which is at an IF frequency, to be routed to the input of a frequency converter 350, which is another frequency translation device similar to the mixers 320, 321. Additionally, the microprocessor 385 will set the switch 345 to allow a signal from the appropriate one of the local oscillators 340, 341 to be routed to the mixer 350 so that the IF frequency at the input to the frequency converter 350 is translated to the proper frequency at the output thereof.
An example of operation of the wireless repeater 200 will now be described using the frequency in the previous examples: F1=2.412 GHz; F2=2.462 GHzIF=70 MHz; LO1=2.342 GHz; and LO2=2.532 GHz. Assume F1 is detected and is output from the filter 361. The switch 355 is set to receive its input from the filter 361, which is F1 translated to 70 MHz. Since it is desired to retransmit F1 at F2=2.462 GHz, then the switch 345 is connected to the signal from the local oscillator 341. The output of the frequency translator 350 includes two components (LO2−IF) and (LO2+IF). The desired component is LO2−IF or 2.532 GHz−70 MHz=2.462 GHz. Since the frequency translator 350 produces the sum and difference of switch 345 output and switch 355 output, then a filter 335 is required to remove the undesirable term. In the example above, the undesirable term would be LO2+IF or 2.602 GHZ.
The filter 335 performs the required filtering operations. The same is true if F2 was detected. A sum and difference product will occur, and the filter 335 must filter out the undesirable component. The translated and filtered version of the received signal is applied to the amplifier 330, which is preferably a variable gain amplifier. The amplifier 330 applies a variable amount of gain under control of the microprocessor 385 to make sure that the signal being feed to the amplifier 325 is in the target transmit power range. The amplifier 325 is preferably the final power amplification stage for the transmit signal. It feeds its output to the isolator 305, which then sends the signal to the antenna 300. The signal is then converted back to an electromagnetic field or radio wave by the antenna 300 in a manner well known to those of ordinary skill in the art. This radio wave is a frequency translated and power amplified version of what was received by the antenna 300.
The above descriptions and example assumes frequencies F1 and F2. It is also possible to operate with any frequencies F1 and F2 by moving the frequencies LO1, LO2 of the local oscillators 340, 341 to different defined channels and checking for power detection at those channels. Once the channels are determined, the microprocessor 385 will use those frequencies, and all operations will be performed as described above. Control of the frequencies of the local oscillators 340, 341 can be accomplished by the microprocessor 385 or by user tuning. In the case of user tuning for the control of the selected frequencies, the repeater would have a set of switches (rotary or other) that a technician would set at the time of installation to specify the frequencies of operation.
Those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that the point at which the input signal is down converted from RF to a digital signal may be altered such that more or fewer functions are performed in the RF domain or the digital domain. Further, multiple devices such as the wireless gateway (base unit) 100 or client devices 104, 105 may be utilized in the present invention. The repeater 200 will detect and retransmit signals from any of these devices. The devices 100, 104 or 105 communicate with each other within the protocol of a system (such as 802.11) that provides that the desired recipient of the retransmitted signal is identified. Thus, the repeater 200 may serve many master devices.
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In this configuration, the switches 500, 501 are nominally set to receive more by control lines 503, 505 respectively, such that LNAs 310b, 310c are connected to the directional antennas 300d, 300e, respectively. The LNAs 310b, 310c are connected to the mixers 320, 321 respectively. The operation of the detection and IF delay process is identical to that discussed in connection with
The invention is described herein in detail with particular reference to presently preferred embodiments. However, it will be understood that variations and modifications can be effected within the scope and spirit of the invention.
This application is related to, and claims priority from, a provisional application filed on Jun. 21, 2002, entitled REPEATER FOR WLAN and identified by Ser. No. 60/390,093.
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