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Time-synchronous communication system

  • US 5,875,402 A
  • Filed: 06/26/1997
  • Issued: 02/23/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/18/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A time-synchronous communication system comprising a plurality of mobile stations, a plurality of relay stations, and a plurality of fixed stations, for performing spectrum spreading and inverse spectrum spreading to communication radio waves to perform bidirectional communication between said mobile stations and said fixed stations through said relay stations,each fixed station comprising:

  • time reference synchronization and maintaining means for accurately maintaining a time reference which can be synchronized with time considered as a common time reference in said communication system,receiving/processing means for inversely spreading only a spectrum-spread radio wave which is synchronized with a start epoch of a receiving/processing operation determined on the basis of the common time reference that is a fixed station reception timing to perform the receiving/processing operation, andtransmitting/processing means for transmitting a spectrum-spread radio wave obtained by superposing fixed station circuit control data including a fixed station position, a fixed station transmission timing, or the fixed station reception timing which is required to determine a mobile station transmission timing on the mobile station side and general information provided from said fixed stations to said mobile stations to said mobile stations through said relay stations;

    each mobile station comprising;

    time reference synchronization and maintaining means for maintaining a local time reference synchronized with the common time reference,receiving/processing means for receiving and processing only a spectrum-spread radio wave which is synchronized with a mobile station reception timing determined on the basis of a radio wave propagation time between said mobile station and the fixed station calculated on the basis of a fixed station-relay station distance and a relay station-mobile station distance related to a relay station selected as relay means and the fixed station transmission timing in the fixed station circuit control data of a fixed station selected as a destination receiver, and transmitting/processing means for transmitting a spectrum-spread radio wave which is synchronized with a mobile station transmission timing determined on the basis of a radio wave propagation time between said mobile station and said fixed station and the fixed station reception timing in the fixed station circuit control data of a fixed station selected as a specific transmitter;

    each relay station comprising;

    relay means for receiving a spectrum-spread radio wave from an unspecific mobile or fixed station to transmit the spectrum-spread radio wave to said unspecific fixed or mobile station, andtransmitting/processing means for notifying relay station orbit data required to calculate local positions at respective times;

    wherein said each mobile station is designed to select a specific fixed station communication radio wave from communication radio waves transmitted from said plurality of fixed stations by determining the mobile station reception timings to receive and process the specific fixed station communication radio wave, and select a specific relay station and a specific fixed station from said plurality of relay stations and said plurality of fixed stations by controlling the mobile station transmission timings to be synchronized with a reception timing determined by said specific fixed station to transmit and process a mobile station communication radio wave.

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