Spread spectrum CDMA communications system microwave overlay
First Claim
1. A spread spectrum CDMA communications system for communicating data and/or digitized voice between a plurality of personal-communications network (PCN) units, said spread spectrum communications system located within a same geographical region as occupied by a plurality of narrowband microwave users, each of said narrowband microwave users transmitting with a narrowband bandwidth, said spread-spectrum communications systems using spectrum overlaying the narrowband microwave users, said spread spectrum CDMA communications system comprising:
- a plurality of PCN-base stations located within the geographical region for communicating data to the plurality of PCN units, each of said PCN-base stations having a cell and including,base means for converting the format of the data into a form suitable for communicating over radio waves;
base-product means for spread spectrum processing the data with a spread-spectrum bandwidth, the spread-spectrum bandwidth having at least four times any of the narrowband bandwidths of said narrowband microwave users;
base means for transmitting across the spectrum, the spread spectrum processed converted data from the PCN-base station to a PCN unit; and
wherein each of said PCN-base stations is geographically spaced such that power radiated by said base-transmitting means from within its cell to a contiguous cell varies inversely with distance by approximately an exponent of two, and power radiated by said base-transmitting means outside its cell varies inversely with distance by an exponent greater than two;
a plurality of PCN units, each of said PCN units including,a PCN antenna; and
PCN detection means coupled to said PCN antenna and including PCN-spread-spectrum-processing means, for recovering data communicated from said PCN-base station.
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Abstract
A spread spectrum CDMA communications system for communicating data and/or digitized voice between a plurality of users to a plurality of PCN units. The spread spectrum communications system is located within a same geographical region as occupied by a plurality of microwave users. The spread spectrum system can operate without causing undue interference to the microwave system and the microwave system can operate without causing significant interference (less than 1% total users affected) to PCN system. The spread spectrum CDMA communications system includes a plurality of PCN-base stations and a plurality of PCN units. A PCN-base station has a device for converting the format of the data into a form suitable for communicating over radio waves, a spread spectrum modulator for spread spectrum processing the data, and a transmitter for transmitting the spread spectrum processed converted data from the PCN-base station to a PCN unit. The PCN-base station also has an antenna, and spread spectrum detectors for recovering data communicated from the PCN units. A PCN unit has an antenna, and a detector coupled to the antenna for recovering data communicated from the PCN-base station. The detector includes a spread spectrum demodulator. Also, the PCN unit has a device for converting the format of the data into a form suitable for communicating over radio waves, a spread spectrum modulator and a transmitter.
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1. A spread spectrum CDMA communications system for communicating data and/or digitized voice between a plurality of personal-communications network (PCN) units, said spread spectrum communications system located within a same geographical region as occupied by a plurality of narrowband microwave users, each of said narrowband microwave users transmitting with a narrowband bandwidth, said spread-spectrum communications systems using spectrum overlaying the narrowband microwave users, said spread spectrum CDMA communications system comprising:
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a plurality of PCN-base stations located within the geographical region for communicating data to the plurality of PCN units, each of said PCN-base stations having a cell and including, base means for converting the format of the data into a form suitable for communicating over radio waves; base-product means for spread spectrum processing the data with a spread-spectrum bandwidth, the spread-spectrum bandwidth having at least four times any of the narrowband bandwidths of said narrowband microwave users; base means for transmitting across the spectrum, the spread spectrum processed converted data from the PCN-base station to a PCN unit; and wherein each of said PCN-base stations is geographically spaced such that power radiated by said base-transmitting means from within its cell to a contiguous cell varies inversely with distance by approximately an exponent of two, and power radiated by said base-transmitting means outside its cell varies inversely with distance by an exponent greater than two; a plurality of PCN units, each of said PCN units including, a PCN antenna; and PCN detection means coupled to said PCN antenna and including PCN-spread-spectrum-processing means, for recovering data communicated from said PCN-base station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 12)
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6. A spread spectrum CDMA communications system for communicating data and/or digitized voice between a plurality of personal-communications-network (PCN) units, said spread-spectrum communications system located within a same geographical region as occupied by a plurality of narrowband microwave users, each of said narrowband microwave users transmitting with a narrowband bandwidth, said spread-spectrum communications system using spectrum overlaying the narrowband bandwidths of said plurality of microwave users, said spread spectrum CDMA communications system comprising:
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a plurality of PCN units, located within the geographical region as occupied by the plurality of narrowband microwave users for communicating data to a plurality of users, each of said PCN units including, PCN-product means for spread spectrum processing the data with a spread-spectrum bandwidth, the spread-spectrum bandwidth having at least four times any of the narrowband bandwidths of said narrowband microwave users; and PCN means for transmitting across the spectrum, the spread spectrum processed converted data from said PCN unit to a PCN-base station; a PCN-base station located within the cell and including, a base antenna; base detection means coupled to said antenna, means, said base-detection means including base-spread-spectrum-processing means, for recovering data communicated from said PCN unit; and wherein each of said PCN-base stations is geographically spaced such that power radiated by said PCN-transmitting means from within the cell varies inversely with distance by an exponent of approximately two when received at said PCN-base station located within the cell, and that power radiated by a second PCN-transmitting means from outside the cell varies with distance by an exponent greater than two when received at said PCN-base station located within the cell. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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13. A method for communicating data, including digitized voice signals, between a plurality of PCN units, using a spread spectrum CDMA communications system located within a same geographical region as occupied by a plurality of narrowband microwave users, each of said narrowband microwave users transmitting with a narrowband bandwidth, said spread spectrum CDMA communications system using spectrum overlaying the narrowband bandwidths of said plurality of microwave users, the method comprising the steps of:
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geographically spacing a plurality of PCN-base stations such that power radiated by each PCN-base station located within a cell varies inversely with distance by an exponent of approximately two, and such that power radiated by each PCN-base station outside its cell varies inversely with distance by an exponent greater than two; spread spectrum processing the data with a spread-spectrum bandwidth, the spread-spectrum bandwidth having at least four times any of the narrowband bandwidths of said narrowband microwave users; transmitting the spread spectrum processed converted data across the spectrum as a spread spectrum signal; receiving the spread spectrum signal; and recovering the data from the spread spectrum signal. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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