Method and apparatus for operating an antenna co-existence controller
A mobile information handling system may comprise a plurality of transceiving antennas transmitting N×N WLAN signals and M×M WWAN signals according to a preset antenna configuration, mounted in a case for the mobile information handling system and a processor executing machine readable executable code instructions of the dynamic wireless antenna co-existence control system to receive an indication of co-location interference and an identification of the M×M WWAN signals as a victim signal negatively impacted by the co-location interference, instruct a first interference controller operably connected to the processor and a first tunable impedance matching circuit to route the victim signal from a first one of the plurality of transceiving antennas to a WWAN radio modem via the first tunable impedance matching circuit, and instruct the first tunable impedance matching circuit to apply an impedance adjustment that maximizes the port isolation of an antenna port for the first WWAN transceiving antenna.
1. A mobile information handling system executing a dynamic wireless antenna co-existence control system comprising:
a plurality of transceiving antennas transmitting plural wireless local area network (WLAN) signals and a wireless wide area network (WWAN) signals according to a preset antenna configuration, mounted in the mobile information handling system;
a processor or network interface device executing machine readable executable code instructions of the dynamic wireless antenna co-existence control system to:
receive an indication of co-location interference between the at least one WLAN signals and the WWAN signals, and an identification of the at least one WLAN signal as a victim signal negatively impacted by the co-location interference; and
instruct a first interference controller operably connected to the processor or network interface device and a first tunable impedance matching circuit to route the victim signal between a first WLAN transceiving antenna and a WLAN radio modem via the first tunable impedance matching circuit, where
the first tunable impedance matching circuit applies an impedance adjustment to alter impedance affecting the at least one WLAN signal at an antenna port of the first WLAN transceiving antenna.
2. The mobile information handling system of claim 1 , further comprising:
the processor or network interface device executing the code instructions to:
receive an identification of the WWAN signals as an aggressor signal causing the co-location interference;
instruct the first interference controller to route the aggressor signal to an antenna port for a first WWAN transceiving antenna via a second tunable impedance matching circuit applying a default impedance value; and
instruct the first interference controller operably connected to a third tunable impedance matching circuit to where the third tunable impedance matching circuit applies a connection between the antenna port for the first WWAN transceiving antenna with the antenna port for the first WLAN transceiving antenna to reduce the co-location interference.
3. The mobile information handling system of claim 2 , wherein the third tunable impedance matching circuit is a shunt type coupled resonator decoupling network.
4. The mobile information handling system of claim 1 further comprising:
the processor or network interface device executing the machine readable executable code instructions to:
instruct a second interference controller operably connected to the processor or network interface device and a fourth tunable impedance matching circuit to route the victim signal from a second WLAN transceiving antennas to the WLAN radio modem via the fourth tunable impedance matching circuit, where
the fourth tunable impedance matching circuit applies an impedance adjustment to alter impedance affecting a second WLAN signal at an antenna port for the second WLAN transceiving antenna.
5. The mobile information handling system of claim 4 further comprising:
the processor or network interface device executing code instructions to:
instruct the second interference controller to route the aggressor signal to an antenna port for a second WWAN transceiving antenna via a fifth tunable impedance matching circuit applying a default impedance value; and
instruct the second interference controller operably connected to a sixth tunable impedance matching circuit, where the sixth tunable impedance matching circuit applies a connection between the antenna port for the second WWAN transceiving antenna with an antenna port for the second WLAN transceiving antenna to reduce co-location interference.
6. The mobile information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the first interference controller sets an impedance of the first tunable impedance matching circuit by setting a capacitance of the first tunable impedance matching circuit.
7. The mobile information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the first interference controller sets an impedance of the first tunable impedance matching circuit by setting an inductance of the first tunable impedance matching circuit.
8. A method of dynamically decreasing collocation interference between wireless signals in a mobile information handling system comprising:
transmitting a wireless local area network (WLAN) signal and plural wireless wide area network (WWAN) signals via a plurality of transcieving antennas mounted in a small form factor case for the mobile information handling system according to a preset antenna configuration;
receiving an indication of co-location interference between the the WLAN signal and at least one WWAN signal of the plural WWAN signals, and an identification of the WLAN signals as a victim signal negatively impacted by the co-location interference;
instructing a first interference controller of a network interface device operably connected to a processor and a first tunable impedance matching circuit to route the victim signal from a first WLAN transceiving antenna to a WLAN radio modem via the first tunable impedance matching circuit, where;
the first tunable impedance matching circuit is to apply an impedance adjustment to alter impedance affecting the WLAN signal at an antenna port for the first WLAN transceiving antenna.
9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
receiving an identification of the one of the plural WWAN signals as an aggressor signal causing the co-location interference; and
instructing the first interference controller to route the aggressor signal to the antenna port for the first WWAN transceiving antenna via a second tunable impedance matching circuit applying a default impedance value; and
instructing the first interference controller operably connected to a third tunable impedance matching circuit, where the third tunable impedance matching circuit applies a connection between the antenna port for a first WWAN transceiving antenna with the antenna port for the first WLAN transceiving antenna to reduce the co-location interference.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the third tunable impedance matching circuit is a shunt type coupled resonator decoupling network.
11. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
instructing a second interference controller and a fourth tunable impedance matching circuit to route the victim signal from a second WLAN transceiving antenna to the WLAN radio modem via the fourth tunable impedance matching circuit, where
the fourth tunable impedance matching circuit applies an impedance adjustment to alter impedance affecting a second WLAN signal at an antenna port for the second WLAN transceiving antenna.
12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:
instructing the second interference controller to route the aggressor signal to the antenna port for the second WWAN transceiving antenna via a fifth tunable impedance matching circuit applying a default impedance value; and
instructing the second interference controller operably connected to a sixth tunable impedance matching circuit to set the sixth tunable impedance matching circuit to apply a connection between the antenna port for the second WWAN transceiving antenna with the antenna port for the second WLAN transceiving antenna to reduce the co-location interference.
13. The method of claim 8 , wherein the first interference controller sets an impedance of the first tunable impedance matching circuit by setting a capacitance of the first tunable impedance matching circuit.
14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the first interference controller sets an impedance of the first tunable impedance matching circuit by setting an inductance of the first tunable impedance matching circuit.
15. A mobile information handling system executing a dynamic wireless antenna co-existence control system comprising:
a plurality of transceiving antennas transmitting plural wireless local area network (WLAN) signals and a wireless wide area network (WWAN) signal according to a preset antenna configuration, mounted in a small form factor case for the mobile information handling system;
a processor or network interface device executing machine readable executable code instructions of the dynamic wireless antenna co-existence control system to:
receive an indication of co-location interference between the at least one WLAN signal of the plural WLAN signals and the WWAN signal, and an identification of the WWAN signal as a victim signal negatively impacted by the co-location interference; and
instruct a first interference controller of the network interface device operably connected to the processor and a first tunable impedance matching circuit to route the victim signal from a first WWAN transceiving antenna to a WWAN radio modem via the first tunable impedance matching circuit, where
the first tunable impedance matching circuit applies an impedance adjustment to alter impedance affecting the WWAN signal at an antenna port for the first WWAN transceiving antenna.
16. The mobile information handling system of claim 15 , further comprising:
the processor or network interface device executing code instructions to:
receive an identification of one of the plural WLAN signals as an aggressor signal causing the co-location interference;
instruct the first interference controller to route the aggressor signal to the antenna port for a first WLAN transceiving antenna via a second tunable impedance matching circuit applying a default impedance value; and
instruct the first interference controller operably connected to a first shunt-type coupled resonator decoupling network to instruct the first shunt-type coupled resonator decoupling network to apply a connection between the antenna port for the first WLAN transceiving antenna with the antenna port for the first WWAN transceiving antenna to reduce the co-location interference.
17. The mobile information handling system of claim 15 further comprising:
the processor or network interface device executing the machine readable executable code instructions to:
instruct a second interference controller of the network interface device operably connected to the processor or network interface device and a fourth tunable impedance matching circuit to route the victim signal from a second WWAN transceiving antenna to the WWAN radio modem via the fourth tunable impedance matching circuit, where
the fourth tunable impedance matching circuit applies an impedance adjustment to alter impedance affecting a second WWAN signal at an antenna port for the second WWAN transceiving antenna.
18. The mobile information handling system of claim 17 further comprising:
the processor or network interface device executing code instructions to:
instruct the second interference controller to route the aggressor signal to the antenna port for the second WLAN transceiving antenna via a fifth tunable impedance matching circuit applying a default impedance value; and
instruct the second interference controller operably connected to a second shunt-type coupled resonator decoupling network to instruct the second shunt-type coupled resonator decoupling network to apply a connection between the antenna port for the second WLAN transceiving antenna with the antenna port for the second WWAN transceiving antenna to reduce co-location interference.
19. The mobile information handling system of claim 15 , wherein the first interference controller sets an impedance of the first tunable impedance matching circuit by setting a capacitance of the first tunable impedance matching circuit.
20. The mobile information handling system of claim 15 , wherein the first interference controller sets an impedance of the first tunable impedance matching circuit by setting an inductance of the first tunable impedance matching circuit.