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Abstract

A wireless communication device includes: a housing configured to retain components of the wireless communication device; an antenna unit configured to receive first free-space millimeter-wave signals and convert these signals to first electronic millimeter-wave signals; a processor disposed in the housing; and front-end circuitry communicatively coupled to the antenna unit, the front-end circuitry coupled to the processor by at least one transmission line; where the front-end circuitry is configured to: receive the first electronic millimeter-wave signals from the antenna unit; convert the first electronic millimeter-wave signals to first reduced-frequency signals each having a lower frequency than the first electronic millimeter-wave signals; and convey the first reduced-frequency signals over a same transmission line of the at least one transmission line in a multiplexed manner with different ones of the first reduced-frequency signals having different conveyance characteristics such that the different ones of the first reduced-frequency signals can be separately processed.

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