Wideband wireless basestation making use of time division multiple-access bus having selectable number of time slots and frame synchronization to support different modulation standards
First Claim
1. A basestation for processing signals in a multiple mobile subscriber unit wireless communication system comprising:
- an antenna for receiving signals from a plurality of the mobile units as a composite radio frequency, RF, signal;
wideband digital tuner means, connected to the antenna, for down-converting a selected bandwidth of the RF signal to an intermediate frequency, IF, signal and for performing an analog to digital conversion on the IF signal, to provide a wideband digital tuner output signal;
digital channelization means, being connected to receive the wideband tuner output signal, and providing multiple digital channel signal outputs, each digital channel signal output having a predetermined channel bandwidth, and each digital channel signal corresponding to one of the signals received from one of the mobile units;
a plurality of digital signal processing means, for providing digitally processed channel signal outputs;
time division multiplex switching means, disposed between the multiple digital channel signal outputs and the plurality of digital signal processing means, the switching means for interconnecting any one of the multiple digital channel signal outputs to any one of the plurality of digital signal processing means; and
synchronization timing means, connected to control the time division multiplex means, to provide, at a frame rate which depends upon the predetermined bandwidth of the channel signals, a plurality of time slots, the number of time slots depending upon the number of digital channel signals.
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Abstract
A wireless communication system basestation making use of a wideband, multichannel digital transceiver having incorporated therein a time division multiple-access (TDM) bus for providing digital samples of a plurality of wireless communication channels, wherein the time slot duration and frame rate of the TDM bus may be reconfigured. The invention allows various air interface standards, even those having different channel bandwidths, to be serviced by the same basestation, without having to install additional or different equipment, and by automatically redistributing signal processing resources, eliminating the need to reconfigure the basestation when different types of wireless signaling must be accommodated.
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16 Claims
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1. A basestation for processing signals in a multiple mobile subscriber unit wireless communication system comprising:
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an antenna for receiving signals from a plurality of the mobile units as a composite radio frequency, RF, signal; wideband digital tuner means, connected to the antenna, for down-converting a selected bandwidth of the RF signal to an intermediate frequency, IF, signal and for performing an analog to digital conversion on the IF signal, to provide a wideband digital tuner output signal; digital channelization means, being connected to receive the wideband tuner output signal, and providing multiple digital channel signal outputs, each digital channel signal output having a predetermined channel bandwidth, and each digital channel signal corresponding to one of the signals received from one of the mobile units; a plurality of digital signal processing means, for providing digitally processed channel signal outputs; time division multiplex switching means, disposed between the multiple digital channel signal outputs and the plurality of digital signal processing means, the switching means for interconnecting any one of the multiple digital channel signal outputs to any one of the plurality of digital signal processing means; and synchronization timing means, connected to control the time division multiplex means, to provide, at a frame rate which depends upon the predetermined bandwidth of the channel signals, a plurality of time slots, the number of time slots depending upon the number of digital channel signals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A wideband basestation transceiver including:
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a wideband digital tuner that provides a wideband digital signal at an output; a digital channelizer, connected to the wideband tuner, to produce a plurality of sampled channel signals, with each channel signal representing signal energy in one of a plurality of radio frequency channels serviced by the basestation; a time division multiple-access, TDM, data bus; means for selectively connecting the digital samples of each channel signal, in turn, to the TDM bus; basestation controller means, for controlling the means for selectively connecting the digital samples of each channel signal to the TDM bus, by so connecting each channel signal in a predetermined timeslot, in a predetermined order; means, coupled to the TDM bus, for selecting the digital samples in a particular timeslot, and for generating a reconstructed channel signal thereby; means for allocating a demodulator to be coupled to the reconstructed channel signal when the associated radio frequency channel is active, the demodulator providing a demodulated channel signal; means for allocating a T1 line encoder to the demodulated channel signal, to format the demodulated channel signal for transmission over a T1 span line; and synchronization and clock generation means, connected to the base station controller means, for selecting a number of time slots, as well as a bus frame rate to be used on the TDM bus, such that the number of time slots and the bus frame rate depend upon, respectively, the number of the channel signals and the bandwidth of each of the channel signals provided by the digital channelizer.
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