A mobile wireless communications system including a plurality of individual transponding
nodes all in communication with a central processing hub. A local user signal is
processed by the central processing hub and radiated through multiple paths to
a plurality of the plurality of individual transponding platforms simultaneously.
The signal is then re-radiated by each of the plurality of the plurality of individual
transponding platforms to a mobile terminal associated with a remote user that
receives the re-radiated signal from the plurality of the plurality of individual
transponding platforms coherently and in phase. The number of transponders and
codes used to transmit each user signal can be readily adapted to user requirements.
The central hub can determine the position of each of the remote users based on
stored information derived from the synchronization of the various signals, and
specifically relating to the timing, phase or frequency of the signals in both
the forward and return link.
