Decentralized base station for reducing bandwidth requirements for communications to and from radio transmitter-receivers in a telecommunications network
First Claim
1. An apparatus for reducing bandwidth requirements in a cellular TDMA telecommunications network comprising:
- at least one network control unit;
at least one base station connected to the at least one network control unit, the at least one base station comprising a multiplexing means and at least one transceiver means;
means for digitally encoding and compressing speech data to be transmitted to the at least one base station and outputting the digitally encoded and compressed speech data to the at least one network control unit;
a first communications link between the at least one network control unit and the multiplexing means comprising a high speed link adapted to transmit at a speed of at least 1 Mbps;
a second communications link between the multiplexing means and the at least one transceiver means comprising a low speed link adapted to transmit at a speed under 1 Mbps; and
the multiplexing means comprising;
buffering means for buffering the digitally encoded and compressed speech data being transmitted toward the at least one transceiver at a relatively higher transmission rate and retransmitting the buffered speech data at a relatively lower transmission rate; and
buffering means for buffering the digitally encoded and compressed speech data arriving from the at least one transceiver at a relatively lower transmission rate and retransmitting the buffered speech data at a relatively higher transmission rate.
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Abstract
A TDMA cellular mobile radio system has at least one network control unit, at least one radio transceiver, and at least one multiplexor for multiplexing and demultiplexing digitally encoded and compressed speech data transmitted between the network control unit and radio transceiver. The bandwidth of the speech data is reduced through compression. The bandwidth of the speech data required on a radio transceiver side of the multiplexor is further reduced by buffering the speech data arriving at the multiplexor at a relatively high modulation rate, retransmitting the buffered speech data at a relatively lower modulation rate, buffering the speech data arriving from the multiplexor at a relatively lower modulation rate, and retransmitting the buffered speech data at a relatively higher modulation rate.
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16 Claims
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1. An apparatus for reducing bandwidth requirements in a cellular TDMA telecommunications network comprising:
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at least one network control unit; at least one base station connected to the at least one network control unit, the at least one base station comprising a multiplexing means and at least one transceiver means; means for digitally encoding and compressing speech data to be transmitted to the at least one base station and outputting the digitally encoded and compressed speech data to the at least one network control unit; a first communications link between the at least one network control unit and the multiplexing means comprising a high speed link adapted to transmit at a speed of at least 1 Mbps; a second communications link between the multiplexing means and the at least one transceiver means comprising a low speed link adapted to transmit at a speed under 1 Mbps; and the multiplexing means comprising; buffering means for buffering the digitally encoded and compressed speech data being transmitted toward the at least one transceiver at a relatively higher transmission rate and retransmitting the buffered speech data at a relatively lower transmission rate; and buffering means for buffering the digitally encoded and compressed speech data arriving from the at least one transceiver at a relatively lower transmission rate and retransmitting the buffered speech data at a relatively higher transmission rate. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A cellular TDMA telecommunications network, comprising:
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a decentralized base station; at least one mobile services switching center; transcoder means provided remotely from the base station for digitally encoding and compressing speech data to be transmitted to the base station; at least one transceiver for communicating with mobile stations; a network control unit adapted to receive the digitally encoded and compressed speech data from said transcoder means; a transceiver interface for interfacing between the network control unit and the at least one transceiver; a first communications link connected between the network control unit and the transceiver interface, the first communications link being adapted to transmit the digitally encoded and compressed speech data at a relatively high transmission rate; at least one second communications link connected between the transceiver interface and each of the at least one transceivers, the at least one second communications link being adapted to transmit the digitally encoded and compressed speech data at a rate relatively lower than the transmission rate of the first communications link; means provided in the transceiver interface, for adapting the rate of the first communications link to the lower rate of the at least one second communications link. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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