Communication system including at least one radio base station to which radio network terminating facilities for connecting communication terminals can be connected

• US 7,075,915 B1
• Filed: 07/01/1999
• Issued: 07/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Gustke, Andreas
• Primary Examiner(s): Sam, Phirin
• Application Number:
  US09/762,011
• Time in Patent Office: 2,567 Days
• Field of Search: 370/310, 370/328, 370319-321, 370/329, 370/330, 370335-337, 370/340, 370/345, 370/349, 370/352, 370/315, 370/338, 370/341, 370/342, 370/343, 370/344, 370/351, 370/353, 370/354, 370/324, 370/346, 370/347, 375/133, 375/350, 455421-426, 455/450, 455/428, 455/445, 455/462, 379/49, 709/239
• US Class Current: 370/341
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0016 Time-frequency-code
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0037 Inter-user or inter-terminal allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/26 Cell enhancers or enhancement, e.g. for tunnels, building shadow

Abstract

In a communication system including at least one radio base station to which radio network terminating facilities can be connected, additional wireless communication relations via which information can be switched directly between the network terminating facilities are provided between the network terminating facilities in addition to communication relations between the radio base station and the network terminating facilities.

Claims

1. A communication system, comprising:

at least one radio base station to which radio network terminating units for connecting communication terminals can be connected;

first communication relations provided between the radio base station and the radio network terminating units within a first communication network operating under a first communications standard via a first interface; and

additional transmission and switching means in the radio network terminating units for implementing at least one further communication network operating under a standard that is different from the first communications standard via a second interface, wherein the additional transmission and switching means provide for implementing additional wireless communication relations between the radio network terminating units.

2. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

at least one further radio network terminating facility, wherein the additional wireless communication relations are switched via the at least one further radio network terminating facility.

3. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one further communication network is provided for implementing additional wireless communication relations in a home domain.

4. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first communication network is a public communication network and the at least one further communication network is a private communication network.

5. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the additional transmission and switching means includes switching and transmission routines, implemented as programs, for implementing the additional wireless communication relations.

6. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of a connection-oriented wireless communication network and a connectionless wireless communication network is formed with the aid of the additional wireless communication relations.

7. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a self-configuring wireless communication network having a neural network structure is formed with the aid of the additional wireless communication relations.

8. A communication system as claimed in claim 6, wherein information to be transmitted is inserted into packet-oriented data streams and the packet-oriented data streams are switched via the wireless communication network, and wherein services based on Internet protocol are implemented with the aid of the wireless communication network.

9. A communication system as claimed in claim 7, wherein information to be transmitted is inserted into packet-oriented data streams and the packet-oriented data streams are switched via the wireless communication network, and wherein services based on Internet protocol are implemented with the aid of the wireless communication network.

10. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

means for implementing the communication relations in the radio base station and in the radio network terminating units, wherein data streams to be transmitted from the radio base station to the radio network terminating units are transmitted in accordance with at least one of a TDM-oriented, FDM-oriented and CDM-oriented multiple transmission method, and wherein data streams to be transmitted from the radio network terminating units to the radio base station are transmitted according to at least one of a TDMA, CDMA and FDMA access transmission method.

11. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the additional wireless communication relations are implemented with the aid of one of a multi carrier CDMA multiple access method, a circuit oriented FDM modulation, and a multiple access method conforming to CDMA.

12. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the radio network terminating units includes at least one further connection to an additional communication network.

13. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the radio network terminating units additionally represents a repeater network terminating unit.

14. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the radio network terminating units includes further means for encrypting information to be transmitted with the aid of the additional wireless communication relations.

15. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the radio network terminating units includes further means for compressing information to be transmitted with the aid of the additional wireless communication relations.

16. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one the radio network terminating units includes means for implementing a wireless packet-oriented communication system according to ITU Recommendation H.323 or H.324.