Method for establishing a radio communication and telecommunication network

• US 6,625,462 B1
• Filed: 08/02/2000
• Issued: 09/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: IP2H AG
• Original Assignee: IP2H AG
• Inventors: Arnold, Jörg
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung, Nay
• Assistant Examiner(s): Orgad, Edan
• Application Number:
  US09/601,483
• Time in Patent Office: 1,147 Days
• Field of Search: 455/455, 455/458, 455/403, 455/435, 455/437, 455/436, 455/461, 455/500, 455/502, 455/519, 455/524, 455/525, 455/91, 455/11.1, 455/422, 455/432, 455/456, 455/9.95, 455/7, 455/526, 370/254, 370/238, 370/351
• US Class Current: 455/500
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2606 Arrangements for base station coverage control, e.g. by using relays in tunnels

Abstract

A method of establishing a radio link between subscribers of a telecommunications network, in particular in a decentralized mobile radio network with mobile radio sets serving both as terminals and as transmitters, wherein at least one virtual transmitter for switching the radio signals can be defined for each subscriber, and wherein one or more subscribers can assume the work of the virtual transmitter or transmitters, and a telecommunications network, in particular a decentralized mobile radio network with mobile radio sets serving both as terminals and as transmitters, and in particular for carrying out the method, wherein at least one virtual transmitter for switching the radio signals can be defined for each subscriber, and wherein the work of the virtual transmitter or transmitters can be assumed by one or more subscribers.

Claims

1. Method of establishing a radio link between subscribers in a decentralized mobile radio network with each subscriber comprising a mobile radio set which serves as both a receiver and a transmitter, wherein for each subscriber at least one virtual transmitter substantially identified by a position identification can be defined for switching radio signals, and that one or more subscribers can assume the work of each virtual transmitter, wherein for establishing a radio link between a signal transmitter and a signal receiver, a virtual transmitter is assigned to the signal receiver, and wherein the assigned virtual transmitter is allocated the position identification of a previous location of the signal receiver or a position identification that is freely selectable and not taken by another subscriber.

2. Method of claim 1, wherein the one or more subscribers, which assume the work of each virtual transmitter, individually or collectively realize the virtual transmitter by assuming the work.

3. Method of claim 1, wherein the radio signals are retransmitted to the signal receiver via the virtual transmitter.

4. Method of claim 1, wherein the virtual transmitter transmits to a previous transmitter and/or the signal transmitter the new, changed position identification of the signal receiver.

5. Method of claim 1, wherein the signal receiver computes its new position identification in its actual neighborhood area from the monitored position identifications of its neighboring subscribers.

6. Method of claim 1, wherein the virtual transmitter is defined by the signal receiver, actively with respect to a user action, or automatically as function of meeting with a predeterminable condition.

7. Method of claim 1, wherein an automatic defining of the virtual transmitter occurs, after the signal receiver has left its original neighborhood area, or after one or more predeterminable subscribers in the original neighborhood areas have left same or their original neighborhood area, or after the signal receiver has left the neighborhood area of one or more predeterminable subscribers.

8. Method of claim 1, wherein the subscribers are allocated a location-related and/or a subscriber-related identification.

9. Method of claim 1, wherein a plurality of virtual transmitters are defined which permit generating radio link structures that are realized as tree structures, star structures, ring structures, or mixed topological structures.

10. A decentralized telecommunication network comprising a plurality of subscribers, with each subscriber comprising a mobile radio set which serves both as a receiver and a transmitter, and comprising means for defining for each subscriber at least one virtual transmitter substantially identified by a position identification for switching radio signals, wherein the work of the at least one virtual transmitter is assumable by one or more subscribers, wherein the at least one virtual transmitter is assigned to a signal receiver for establishing a radio link between a signal transmitter and the signal receiver, and wherein the virtual transmitter is allocated the position identification of a previous location of the signal receiver or a position identification that is freely selectable and not taken by another subscriber.