Antenna device, FWA communication system with antenna device, and method for FWA communication

Abstract

A system that comprises an antenna device that includes a plurality of passive patch antennas on a planar substrate and a movable frame that supports the planar substrate. The plurality of passive patch antennas is detachably coupled to a plurality of external antenna ports of a customer premise equipment (CPE). The system includes a processor that controls the CPE to switch connection of a modem of the CPE from one or more inbuilt antennas of the CPE to the plurality of passive patch antennas. The processor controls, based on an instruction from the CPE over an out-of-band control link, the movement of the movable frame to different three-dimensional (3D) position coordinates.