Fixed cellular communications system

• US 5,564,072 A
• Filed: 09/29/1994
• Issued: 10/08/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alcatel NV (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel NV (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Garcia Perez, Juan A., Rodriguez-Palanca Pliego, Miguel, Beneyto, Francisco C., Garcia Aguilera, Jose Maria
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TO, DORIS HA
• Application Number:
  US08/314,888
• Time in Patent Office: 740 Days
• Field of Search: 455/33.1, 455/33.4, 455/53.1, 455/54.1, 455/54.2, 455/56.1, 455/11.1, 455/7, 379/58, 379/59, 379/61, 379/57, 375/95.1, 375/95.3
• US Class Current: 370/337
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/26 Cell enhancers or enhancement, e.g. for tunnels, building shadow
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/14 WLL [Wireless Local Loop]; RLL [Radio Local Loop]

Abstract

A fixed cellular communications system consisting of a cellular mobile communications network (CS) that provides coverage of voice and/or data communications services to terminals located in a set of cells in any one of which there can be at least one fixed cellular terminal (4) that communicates, on one side, by radio, with one of the base stations (3) of the cellular mobile communications network (CS) and on the other side, by cable, with at least one base station (6) of a cordless communications system (WS) through control and interface means that perform the adaptation between the two systems to provide communications services to a number of cordless terminals (7). When the cellular communication system (CS) makes use of a time division multiple access technology, for example GSM, one single radio transceiver is connected to a transceiver control means to manage the radio channel allocations, so that it can simultaneously support as many communications channels as possible without there being temporal overlapping of channels.

Claims

1. A fixed cellular terminal for use in a cellular mobile communications network (CS) that employs time division multiple access (TDMA) technology, the fixed cellular terminal for providing voice and/or data communications to one or more subscribers through one or more conventional subscriber lines, characterized in that the fixed cellular terminal comprises at least one cellular transceiver (RTX) employing TDMA technology for wireless communication with the cellular mobile communications network (CS), a transceiver control means (19) connected to the cellular transceiver (RTX) to manage a plurality of communication channels so that a number of the subscriber lines can simultaneously utilize communication channels of the cellular mobile communications network, and a control and interface means (9) connected to the transceiver control means and to the subscriber lines, so as to concentrate the channels associated with the subscriber lines to the channels provided by the transceiver control means (19), and also to set up internal communications between the subscriber lines without making use of communication channels of the cellular mobile communications network.

2. A fixed cellular terminal according to claim 1, comprising a plurality of cellular transceivers connected, on the radio frequency side, to a single antenna system (ANT).

3. A fixed cellular terminal according to claim 2, characterized in that it also communicates with a second communications network with cellular access or with another type of communications network through point to point or point to multipoint radiolinks in order to provide alternative communication channels.