Multiple access communication system

• US 4,868,811 A
• Filed: 02/29/1988
• Issued: 09/19/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Hideo
• Primary Examiner(s): Orsino, Joseph A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Scutch, III, Frank M.
• Application Number:
  US07/161,761
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• Field of Search: 370/69.1, 370/76, 370/110.1, 370/104, 370/120, 370/121, 370/71, 370/50, 370/60, 370/94
• US Class Current: 370/436
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/212 Time-division multiple access [TDMA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/044 based on the type of the allocated resource
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/30 Connection release

Abstract

A multiple access communication system performs the communication between plural communicating units using plural communicating channels and a common signalling channel for establishing and releasing the communicating channels. The communication system comprises the steps of allocating at least one carrier frequency to the common signalling channel; allocating the carrier frequencies, which are different from the carrier frequency alloted to the common signalling channel, to the communicating channels; forming a time frame composed of first and second time slots by the common signalling channel and communicating channel, respectively; and allocating the first time slot to at least the common signalling channel and the second time slot to the communicating channel.

A multiple access communication system performs the communication between plural communicating units by selectively allocating plural carrier frequencies, which are different from the common signalling channel carrier frequency, to the plural communicating channels, and using a common signalling channel for establishing and releasing the communicating channels. The commnication system comprises the steps of constituting a time frame of communicating channel by at least one packet; selecting transmission parameters of the communicating channel including at least transmission speed, packet length and packet position from plural transmission parameters prepared in advance; and setting the selected transmission parameters through the common signalling channel.

Claims

1. A multiple access communication system for communicating between plural communicating units using plural communicating channels and a common signalling channel for establishing and releasing the communicating channels, said system comprising the steps of:

allocating at least one carrier frequency to the common signalling channel;

allocating the carrier frequencies, different from the carrier frequency allotted to the common signalling channel, to the communicating channels;

forming a time frame composed of first and second time slots by the common signalling channel and communicating channel respectively; and

allocating the first time slot to at least the common signalling channel through which transmission parameters of the communicating channel including at least one of transmission speed, packet length and packet position are supplied, and the second time slot to the communicating channel.

2. A multiple access system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second time slot is divided into plural time slots in order to communicate between one communicating unit and the other plural communicating units.

3. A multiple access system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first time slot allocated to the common signalling channel is first used to establish a new communicating channel related to the communicating unit, in which a communicating channel is already established.

4. A multiple access system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second time slot is also allocated to the common signalling channel, and is first used to release the communicating channel.

5. A multiple access system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second time slot is also allocated to the common signalling channel, and is used to establish a communicating channel related to the communicating unit, in which no communicating channel is established.

6. A multiple access system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second time slots allocated to the common signalling channel is divided into plural time slots in order to receive plural common signalling channels.

7. A multiple access system as claimed in claim 1, wherein plural carrier frequencies, which are allocated to common signalling channel, are prepared.

8. A multiple access communication system for communicating between plural communicating units by selectively allocating plural carrier frequencies, which are different from the common signalling channel carrier frequency, to the plural communicaitng channels, and using a common signalling channel for establishing and releasing the communicating channels, said system comprising the steps of:

constituting a time frame of a communicating channel by at least one packet;

selecting transmission parameters of the communicating channel including at least one of transmission speed, packet length and packet position from plural transmission parameters prepared in advance; and

setting the communicating channel in accordance with the selected transmission parameters which are supplied through the common signalling channel.

9. A multiple access system as claimed in claim 8 wherein the transmission parameters of the communicating channel are set by a line control unit based on the requirement from a user'"'"'s communicating unit through the common signalling channel.

10. A multiple access system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the transmission parameters of the communicating channel are set by the user'"'"'s communicating unit.

11. A multiple access system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the user'"'"'s communicating unit selects and sets the receiving bandwidth from the plural parameters prepared in advance in accordance with the transmission speed transmitted through the common signalling channel.

12. A multiple access system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the transmission parameters of the communicating channel are changed in accordance with the parameters in a header of the common signalling channel or the communicating channel under the communicating period.

13. A multiple access system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the transmission parameters of the communicating channel include a coding structure of the communicating channel,

14. A multiple access communication system for communicating between plural communicating units by selectively allocating plural carrier frequencies, which are different from the common signalling channel carrier frequency, to the plural communicating channels, and using a common signalling channel for establishing and releasing the communicating channels, said system comprising the steps of:

forming a time frame composed of first and second time slots by the common signalling channel and communicating channel;

allocating the first time slot to at least the common signalling channel and the second time slot to the communicating channel;

constituting a time frame of a communicating channel by at least one packet;

selecting transmission parameters of the communicating channel including at least one of transmission speed packet length and packet position from plural transmission parameters prepared in advance; and

setting the communicating channel in accordance with the selected transmission parameters which are supplied through the common signalling channel.

15. A multiple access system as claimed in claim 14, wherein the second time slot is divided into plural time slots in order to communicate between one communicating unit and the other plural communicating units.

16. A multiple access system as claimed in claim 14, wherein the transmission parameters of the communicating channel are set by a line control unit based on the requirement from a user'"'"'s communicating unit through the common signalling channel.