Abstract:
The invention relates to an antenna module (100) for a communications system, wherein said antenna module (100) comprises a primary submodule (110), wherein said primary submodule (110) comprises one or more antennas (112a, 112b) and at least one amplifier unit (114) coupled with one of said antennas (112a, 112b), and wherein said antenna module (100) comprises a secondary submodule (120), wherein said secondary submodule (120) comprises at least one signal processing device (122), wherein said secondary submodule (120) is located outside of said primary submodule (110).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for providing an amplified RF signal, with the steps of analysing the spectral components, namely the amplitudes and the phases at different frequencies (f 1 ...f N ), of an RF signal to be amplified or a baseband signal to be up-converted to RF and amplified subsequently, applying a supply voltage to a coupling array (11) comprising a plurality of nano-sized coupling elements (8),wherein the coupling elements (8) are grouped into a number N of sub-arrays (SA 1 ...SA N ), with each sub-array (SA 1 ...SA N ) exhibiting a specific resonance frequency (f 1 ...f N ), and a specific attenuation of a mechanical self oscillation of its coupling elements (8), stimulating mechanical self-oscillations of the coupling elements (8) of the sub-arrays (SA 1 ... SA N ) in dependence of the spectral components of the signal to be amplified, wherein during and/or prior to the amplification, the resonance frequencies (f 1 ,..., f N ) of the coupling elements (8) of the sub-arrays (SA 1 , ..., SA N ) are tuned to match the frequency components (f 1 ...f N ) of the signal to be amplified. The method enables an RF power amplifier to meet the required signal frequency distribution and to compensate for temperature drift and aging of the coupling elements.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a radio head device (100), for receiving an input signal from an external signal processing unit (12) and for providing a radio frequency, RF, output signal (RF_out) which depends on said input signal, wherein said radio head device (100) comprises: - an input interface (110) that is configured to receive a digitally modulated input signal (Di) from said external signal processing unit (12), - digital to analog, D/A, reconstruction means (120) configured to transform said digitally modulated input signal (Di, Di') into an analog input signal (Ai), and - amplifier means (130) configured to amplify said analog input signal (Ai), wherein said amplifier means (130) are configured to apply a variable gain and/or attenuation to the analog input signal (Ai) to be amplified.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a method for transmission of signals comprising envelope signal components from a transmitting device (BS) to a receiving device (RAH1), wherein electrical signal components are digitally modulated in the transmitting device (BS) resulting in electrical digital signal components, the electrical digital signal components are converted into optical digital signal components and transmitted over an optical connection (OF1, OF2) from the transmitting device (BS) to the receiving device (RAH1), the optical digital signal components are converted into electrical digital signal components in the receiving device (RAH1), the electrical digital signal components are converted into electrical analogue signal components in the receiving device (RAH1), and said signals are amplified in an analogue radio frequency power amplifier (PA), a transmitting device and a receiving device therefor.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of operating a base station (100) of a cellular communications network, wherein said method comprises the following steps: - determining (200) properties of at least one terminal (10a, 10b) that is capable of communicating with said base station (100), wherein said properties characterize at least one of: the communications capabilities of said terminal (10a, 10b), at least one physical parameter of said terminal (10a, 10b), - allocating (210) one or more communications resources to said terminal (10a, 10b) depending on said properties of said terminal (10a, 10b).
Abstract:
The invention concerns a method for transmission of data signals over an optical connection (OE1) from a transmitting device (BS) to a receiving device (RAH1), wherein electrical digital data signals are converted into optical digital data signals in an electro-optical converter (EO1, EO2) located in the transmitting device (BS), the optical digital data signals are converted from optical signals into electrical signals in an opto-electrical converter (OE1) located in the receiving device (RAH1), the electrical digital data signals are amplified in the switch mode output stage (SOS) located in the receiving device (RAH1), the amplified electrical digital data signals are converted into amplified electrical analogue data signals in an analogue reconstruction device (AR) located in the receiving device (RAH1), and said amplified electrical analogue data signals are upconverted on a radio frequency in a mixer (M1) located in the receiving device (RAH1), and a receiving device therefor.