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Cellular channel allocation scheme with multi-user detection

  • US 20050037764A1
  • Filed: 12/14/2001
  • Published: 02/17/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of channel allocation in a cellular communications system, including the steps of:

  • a. allocating a common channel to a plurality of user terminals within a cluster of mutually adjacent cells, without allocating said common channel to user terminals in other cells adjacent said cluster;

    b. receiving a respective plurality of temporally overlapping transmissions within said common channel from said plurality of user terminals in the same cell or adjacent cells within the cluster; and

    c. separately decoding each of said plurality of overlapping transmissions by means of a multi-user detection technique.

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