MICROWAVE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND RELATED METHOD OF OPERATION AND NETWORK ARRANGEMENT
First Claim
1. A microwave radio communications device for communication with a selected one of at least first and second base stations of respective first and second cells, the first cell having a greater area of coverage than the second cell, the device comprising a unit adapted to retrieve data from a BSID sent from each base station and serving to discriminate between signals from the said first and second base stations indicating the relative cell coverage and thereby achieve selective registration to one of the base stations responsive to the said discrimination.
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Abstract
A microwave radio communications device is configured to communicate with a selected one of at least first and second base stations of respective first and second cells, the first cell having a greater area of coverage than the second cell. The device is configured to retrieve data from a BSID sent from each base station and serving to discriminate between signals from the said first and second base stations indicating the relative cell coverage. Thereby the device achieves selective registration to one of the base stations responsive to the said discrimination.
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- 1. A microwave radio communications device for communication with a selected one of at least first and second base stations of respective first and second cells, the first cell having a greater area of coverage than the second cell, the device comprising a unit adapted to retrieve data from a BSID sent from each base station and serving to discriminate between signals from the said first and second base stations indicating the relative cell coverage and thereby achieve selective registration to one of the base stations responsive to the said discrimination.
- 14. A microwave radio communication base station device of a first cell for communication with a microwave radio communication device, the base station device being arranged for transmitting signalling comprising a BSID serving to differentiate the said base station device from another base station device serving a second cell of lesser area of coverage and for facilitating base station device selection at the microwave radio communication device dependent upon the relative cell coverages.
- 23. A method of controlling selected connection in a microwave radio communications device with one of at least a first and second base station of respective first and second cells, the second cell having a lesser area of coverage than the first cell and comprising the step of retrieving data at the said device from base station originating BSIDs and for discriminating between signals from the said first and second base stations indicating the relative cell coverage for selected connection to one of the base stations and responsive to the discrimination step.
- 31. A base station identification microwave signal comprising an operator identification portion and a base station identification portion, said base station identification portion comprising data serving to identify a base station from which the signal originates so as to allow discrimination between base stations and thereby respective cells at a microwave radio communication device arranged to receive the signal and on the basis of the respective areas of coverage of the cells.
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