Reconfigurable fully-connected bidirectional hybrid beamforming transceiver

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a new type of fully-connected, hybrid beamforming transceiver architecture. The transceiver described herein is bi-directional and can be configured as a transmit beamformer or a receive beamformer. A method and apparatus are described that allows the beamformer to operate in “carrier aggregated” mode, where communication channels in multiple disparate frequency bands can be simultaneously accessed.

We claim: 
     
         1 . A bi-directional beamforming transceiver comprising:
 a transmitter portion; and   a receiver portion;   wherein the transceiver is operated in carrier aggregation mode allowing independent data streams to be received or transmitted at multiple frequencies using a common antenna array.