Local ISDN radio transmission system

• US 5,774,460 A
• Filed: 07/03/1996
• Issued: 06/30/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: IQ Wireless GmbH
• Original Assignee: Krones AG (Krones)
• Inventors: Schiffel, Reinhard, Jackel, Klaus, Vogel, Holger, Stadler, Bruno
• Primary Examiner(s): Kizou, Hassan
• Application Number:
  US08/592,426
• Time in Patent Office: 727 Days
• Field of Search: 370/315, 370/328, 370/329, 370/338, 370/313, 370/314, 370/465, 370/468, 370/524, 379/58, 379/59, 379/60, 379/63, 455/33.1, 455/53.1, 455/54.1, 455/54.2, 455/507, 455/569, 455/517, 455/403, 455/422, 455/426, 455/450
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/0457 Connection protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/098 Mobile subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/099 Loop multiplexer (not ISDN BRI/PRI; not 381), e.g. loop splitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1302 Relay switches
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1304 Coordinate switches, crossbar, 4/2 with relays, coupling field
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13082 Power supply via phantom line
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13094 Range extender
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13098 Mobile subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13106 Microprocessor, CPU
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13202 Network termination [NT]
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13204 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13209 ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13213 Counting, timing circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13298 Local loop systems, access network
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13299 Bus
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13322 Integrated circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/383 Main and subexchange, e.g. satellite exchanges
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/14 WLL [Wireless Local Loop]; RLL [Radio Local Loop]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A local ISDN transmission system has a central base station and a number of subscriber radio terminals greater than the number of communication channels. The system is connectable to subscriber ports through an S₀ wireless transmission interface and is responsive to an activation request from a subscriber radio terminal for opening any available and free communication channel for a communication. An intermediate generator in the base station and in each subscriber terminal divides an ISDN two-wire subscriber connection line between a line termination section and a network termination section communicating by radio transmission. The intermediate generator, upon the occurrence of an activation request by a subscriber terminal, allocates a communication channel within waiting and monitoring periods for the activation of the ISDN two-wire subscriber connecting line. A delay system delays the activation request by a delay period sufficient to switch the allocated communication channel and activate a radio system of the subscriber terminal.

Claims

1. A local ISDN transmission system comprising a central base station and a plurality of subscriber radio terminals, wherein the base station has a plurality of communication channels and is connectable to subscriber ports of one of a local switching center, a store-and-forward center and a private branch exchange to provide subscribers with access to a public ISDN telephone system through an S₀ wireless transmission interface and is responsive to an activation request from a subscriber radio terminal for opening any available and free communication channel for a communication, wherein the plurality of subscriber terminals is greater than the plurality of communication channels and the S₀ interface is an unrestricted interface and transmits a net bit rate of the subscriber terminal unrestricted through the communication channel, wherein an intermediate generator in the base station and in each subscriber terminal dividing an ISDN two-wire subscriber connection line between a line termination section and a network termination section communicating by radio transmission and wherein the intermediate generator upon the occurrence of an activation request by a subscriber terminal allocates a communication channel within waiting and monitoring periods for the activation of the ISDN two-wire subscriber connecting line and wherein a delay system delays the activation request by a delay period sufficient to switch the allocated communication channel and activate a radio system of the subscriber terminal.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system delaying the activation request comprises a delay circuit in at least one of the line termination and network termination sections.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the delay system is inserted into an interface between an input circuit and an output circuit of the intermediate generator in the subscriber terminal to delay the transfer of the activation request to the output circuit.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the delay system is present in the subscriber radio terminal at a S₀ connection of the network termination to delay the activation request of a connected terminal.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the delay system is inserted into an interface between an input circuit in the subscriber terminal and an output circuit of the network termination which delays the transfer of the activation request of a connected terminal.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein after a delayed transmission of the activation request, a transparent connection is made.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein distributed switching is performed in all free channels and inactive subscriber terminals are automatically positioned in one of the free information channels and a uniform distribution of the subscriber terminals to the free information channels is assured by the fact that, prior to any channel change, a random whole number n is determined which indicates the ordinal number of the free channel that is to be used in cyclical scanning, and that channel changes are allocated automatically at time intervals upon instruction from the base station.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the base station, upon an incoming call for a subscriber terminal, issues an addressed query to all free channels and allocates to the subscriber terminal, on the basis of an acknowledgement, the information channel in which it is currently located.

9. The system according to claim 7, wherein the base station sends free call commands into the free channels if no other switching and signaling procedures are to be performed, and when a subscriber terminal issues an activation request, the base station allocates to the subscriber terminal, at its request, the information channel in which it is currently located, for active use.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein the subscriber terminal, after a call request which is not acknowledged, determines a random integer n which indicates an ordinal number of a following free call that is to be used for a repeated transmission of an activation request.

11. The system according to claim 9, wherein in case of the simultaneous occurrence of incoming and outgoing activation requests for two subscriber terminals in the same information channel, or the simultaneous occurrence of outgoing activation request from two subscriber terminals in the same information channel, another free information channel is allocated to one of the subscriber terminals for active use.

12. The system according to claim 7, for data transmission, wherein a synchronizing word in transmissions for radio switching is inserted into the transmission in reverse.

13. The system according to claim 7, for data transmission, wherein for the purpose of radio switching in a data part of a data frame, updated information is transmitted through free channels.