Repeater system and method for indoor distribution of cellular mmWave signals.

Abstract

A repeater device having a donor radio antenna captures publicly broadcast synchronization signals from an outdoor 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) node. The repeater device further includes a controller that decodes the captured publicly broadcast synchronization signals from the outdoor 5G RAN node, where the decode of the captured publicly broadcast synchronization signals is independent of additional signaling and explicit coordination from the outdoor 5G RAN node. The controller further synchronizes with the decoded publicly broadcast synchronization signals to align a frame structure of the donor radio antenna to a frame structure of the outdoor 5G RAN node, where the synchronization with the decoded publicly broadcast synchronization signals is independent of the additional signaling and the explicit coordination from the outdoor 5G RAN node.