Radio system

• US 6,980,806 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2001
• Issued: 12/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Aoyagi, Yuji, Muramoto, Mitsuru, Sasaki, Kanemi
• Primary Examiner(s): Corsaro, Nick
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHU, SANH D
• Application Number:
  US09/813,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20010055970A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,741 Days
• Field of Search: 455/25, 455/422.1, 455/446, 455/447, 455/449, 455/562.1
• US Class Current: 455/446
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/246 specially adapted for base stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/02 Resource partitioning among network components, e.g. reuse partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/12 Fixed resource partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/24 Cell structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/28 using beam steering

Abstract

The present invention is to provide a radio system that enables effective reuse of a limited number of frequencies without the occurrence of interference between subscriber stations. In the radio system according to the present invention, each base station is divided into two or more sectors, each of which is provided with an antenna different in directivity on a horizontal plane. The antennas are so placed that the antenna beams cover all the directions on the horizontal plane as a whole, and all the antennas using the same frequency and polarized wave are so arranged to face in about the same direction.

Claims

1. A radio system that divides a certain region into two or more cells and installs a base station at about the center of each cell to carry out communication between the base station and many fixed terminal stations in the cell in which the base station is installed, wherein

each base station uses plural frequencies in each cell, uses the same combination of the frequencies as adjacent base stations, and is divided into three or more sectors, each of which is provided with an antenna different in directivity on a horizontal plane, the antennas are placed in a manner so that the antenna beams cover all the directions on the horizontal plane as a whole, and all the antennas using the same frequency and the same polarized wave are arranged to face in about the same direction in all cells.

2. The radio system according to claim 1, wherein said radio system, which installs base stations to offer service in almost all the parts of the certain region using only one type of polarized wave, further installs base stations using another type of polarized wave in the existing service area.

3. The radio system according to claim 1, wherein the number of sectors at each base station and assignment of frequencies used and polarized waves correspond to those at adjacent base stations.

4. The radio system according to claim 1, wherein said radio system uses a TDD system.