公开(公告)号：BR9905186A

公开(公告)日：2000-09-26

申请号：BR9905186

申请日：1999-01-29

Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC

Inventor： FAIRFIELD ROBERT CHARLES ,  PAGNANO CARMINE JAMES ,  RUCKI JOHN STANLEY ,  SIMMONS MICHAEL RALPH ,  ZAPPALA CHISTOPHER F

IPC: H04B7/26 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04Q7/30

Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system architecture (400) is disclosed that is capable of supporting a centralized block radio architecture (403) and of distributing the information-bearing signals from the block radio to geographically-dispersed radio heads (401-1 ... 401-6) using relatively low-cost cable (402-1 ... 402-3) (e.g., twisted-pair, etc). In accordance with the illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a radio multiplexes, modulates, and channel codes one or more information-bearing signals and upconverts them, not to radio frequency, but to an intermediate frequency that can be transmitted over a low-cost cable. Co-located with each radio head is an upconverter that upconverts the intermediate frequency signal to radio frequency in preparation for radiation by an antenna.