6G • RAN
Radio Stripes (Cell-Free MIMO)
Continuous Flexible Cable Woven with Micro-Antenna Elements
Flexible, tape-like continuous strip embedded with hundreds of micro-antennas and processing chips glued into baseboards and ceiling joints.
Technical Explanation
Installing hundreds of individual discrete radio antennas inside buildings requires complex wiring and mounting brackets. Radio Stripes consist of flexible, rollable adhesive tape embedded with micro-antennas, power amplifiers, and serialized processing chips. Electricians unroll the stripe and adhere it along room baseboards, ceiling tiles, or railway tunnels. Connected by a single shared power/data bus, the stripe acts as a massive distributed Cell-Free MIMO antenna array.
Key Functions
- Deploys hundreds of antenna elements via rollable, adhesive flexible strips
- Installs quickly into building baseboards, ceilings, and highway tunnels
- Provides uniform, non-fading multi-gigabit coverage across entire rooms
- Distributes power and serial baseband data over a single flexible ribbon cable
Specifications
IEEE Communications Magazine Radio Stripes, 3GPP Rel-19 Distributed Arrays
Interfaces
Serial Front-Haul RibbonDistributed Baseband Shard
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