Abstract:
A method for allocating network equipment of a cellular communication system to different users assigned to a particular cell thereby enhancing the capacity of the communication system without degrading the quality of communications provided to users of such a system. A user's signal is received and the strength of the signal is determined. The user is assigned to a first type or second type of network equipment based on a comparison the user's signal strength to upper and lower thresholds. The thresholds are defined by the network provider. When the signal strength is below the second threshold, the user is handed off to other network equipment of a neighboring cell. In this manner, the communication system is able to enhance its capacity while maintaining an acceptable quality of communications for its users.
Abstract:
A method for interleaving information to be conveyed over a TDMA wireless communication system. A certain portion of information associated with a user is transmitted during one time slot and the remaining information for that user is intermingled with other information for that user and transmitted in a subsequent time slot.
Abstract:
A method for allocating network equipment of a cellular communication syst em to different users assigned to a particular cell thereby enhancing the capacity of the communication system without degrading the quality of communications provide d to users of such a system. A user's signal is received and the strength of the signal is determined. The user is assigned to a first type or second type of network equipment based on a comparison the user's signal strength to upper and lower thresholds. The thresholds are defined by the network provider. When the signal strength is below the second threshold, the user is handed off to other network equipment of a neighboring cell. In this manner, the communication system is able to enhance its capacity whi le maintaining an acceptable quality of communications for its users.
Abstract:
A measurement radio system (610) uses a measurement radio (614A)to scan active channels of a base station and produce operating information for the traffic radios (612A-N) servicing the active channels. The measurement radio can produce operating information, such as signal strength, bit error rate (BER), frame error rate (FER) and signal to interference ratio (C/I), which is used to determine whether to change the manner in which the traffic radio is servicing the active channel. For example, if the measurement radio can switch between different sets of antennas (620A-i), the measurement radio can scan an active voice/data channel using a different set of antennas than the traffic radio is using to service the active channel and determine operating information related to the signal received over the active channel using the different set of antennas. The traffic radio can use the operating information to determine whether to hand off the active channel to the different set of antennas. The measurement radio can determine operating information, such as operating coefficients, parameters or settings, to change how the traffic radio services the active channel.
Abstract:
A method for conveying information in a new format structure for a wireless communication system in which users convey information on a time slot basis. The new format structure is made compatible with the system's existing format by partitioning system time slots into subslots (FIG. 5).
Abstract:
A method is provided for operating a multi-bandwidth OFDMA system that can achieve an enhanced bandwidth efficiency due to windowing without significantly impacting the underlying physical design of the receive filters. The method comprises establishing a bandwidth over which the radio resources transmit signals, the bandwidth being comprised of an edge-band (505) and a center-band (510). Narrow band radio resources (700) are assigned to a portion of the bandwidth that is at least partially within the edge-band (505).