High speed fixed wireless voice/data systems and methods
First Claim
1. A base station system adapted to provide simultaneous reuse of channels at said base station, said system comprising:
- a multiple narrow beam antenna system adapted to provide isolation of signals radiated therein, wherein sectors of said base station are associated with different ones of said antenna beams, wherein a sector control channel is associated with each sector of said base station;
base station radio circuitry adapted for providing a plurality of discrete simultaneous communications using a first communication channel in different ones of said sectors; and
circuitry providing controllable coupling of said base station radio circuitry to said multiple narrow beam antenna system.
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Abstract
Systems and methods adapted to optimize data throughput in wireless communications network are shown and described. In the preferred embodiment multiple antenna beam base stations are utilized to provide reuse of communications channels. Reuse of the communications channels by the base stations is preferably optimized by considering mutually exclusive antenna beam pairs and antenna beam pairs providing reduced signal quality. A preferred embodiment control channel is taught which provides for the initial and subsequent identification and use of a most preferred antenna beam for establishing communications. Alternative embodiments of the invention utilize multiple antenna beam remote stations.
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1. A base station system adapted to provide simultaneous reuse of channels at said base station, said system comprising:
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a multiple narrow beam antenna system adapted to provide isolation of signals radiated therein, wherein sectors of said base station are associated with different ones of said antenna beams, wherein a sector control channel is associated with each sector of said base station;
base station radio circuitry adapted for providing a plurality of discrete simultaneous communications using a first communication channel in different ones of said sectors; and
circuitry providing controllable coupling of said base station radio circuitry to said multiple narrow beam antenna system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A base station system adapted to provide simultaneous reuse of channels at said base station, said system comprising:
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a multiple narrow beam antenna system adapted to provide isolation of signals radiated therein, wherein sectors of said base station are associated with different ones of said antenna beams;
base station radio circuitry adapted for providing a plurality of discrete simultaneous communications using a first communication channel in different ones of said sectors; and
circuitry providing controllable coupling of said base station radio circuitry to said multiple narrow beam antenna system, wherein said controllable coupling circuitry is operable to redefine sectors of said base station by associating different ones of said antenna beams therewith. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A wireless communication system adapted to provide reuse of channels at a base station, said system comprising:
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at least one base station comprising;
a multiple narrow beam antenna system adapted to provide wireless communications to remote stations to the exclusion of other remote stations, wherein multiple ones of said antenna beams define sectors of said base station and said provision of wireless communications to the exclusion of other remote stations includes exclusion of other remote stations disposed in a same sector; and
base station radio circuitry adapted for wireless communication with a number of remote stations utilizing a first communication channel simultaneously in different ones of said sectors;
a plurality of remote stations, wherein said plurality of remote stations include said number of remote stations, ones of said plurality of remote stations comprising;
remote station radio circuitry adapted for wireless communication utilizing said first communication channel; and
circuitry providing controllable coupling of said base station radio circuitry to said multiple narrow beam antenna system, wherein said controllable coupling circuitry is adapted to provide independently controllable coupling of multiple discrete signals of said first channel to ones of said antenna beams, wherein said controllable coupling circuitry is adapted to couple ones of said antenna beams to different portions of said base station radio circuitry to thereby provide adjustable sector boundaries. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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