Fast macrodiversity switching in mobile wireless networks
First Claim
1. A communication system, comprising:
- a plurality of wireless channel devices, including at least two wireless channel devices that are not commonly located, each wireless channel device including;
a transceiver unit configured to transmit and receive wireless signals to and from a mobile station across a plurality of channels, said wireless signals having segments with one or more component segments;
an interleaver unit configured to change the order of segments in wireless signals being transmitted and received by the transceiver unit; and
at least one zone manager, each zone manager including;
a processor configured to process measurement and control signals used to control fast switching of dedicated ones of the plurality of channels;
a control unit configured to issue broadcast commands to control down-link signals transmitted to the mobile station and collector commands to control a plurality of collectors configured to receive up-link signals from the mobile station; and
an interface unit configured to provide an interface between the at least one zone manager and the transceiver unit.
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Abstract
Fast macrodiversity switching (FMS) of channels that employ interleaving. The fast macrodiversity switching dynamically switches radio links used for traffic and control channels for a mobile station among a number of base transceiver stations (BTS) without switching the radio resource, using the same frequency and time slot combination (TDMA) in an environment where interleaving is occurring. The fast macrodiversity switching of channels and interleave processing is under control of an interleave manager which is distributed among zone managers. The control by the host and assistant zone managers includes switching down-link signals to and up-link signals from mobile stations among base transceiver stations which include broadcast channels (non-switched) and dedicated (switched) channels that employ interleaving. The dedicated channels are switched as frequently as a signal switch time which can be the frame rate of the up-link signals. The switch time is typically less than 1 second for mobile stations in a GSM system. The interleave processing is implemented in a GSM wireless system for TCH/FS Processing, FACCH/FS Processing and SACCH/FS Processing.
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43 Claims
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1. A communication system, comprising:
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a plurality of wireless channel devices, including at least two wireless channel devices that are not commonly located, each wireless channel device including; a transceiver unit configured to transmit and receive wireless signals to and from a mobile station across a plurality of channels, said wireless signals having segments with one or more component segments; an interleaver unit configured to change the order of segments in wireless signals being transmitted and received by the transceiver unit; and at least one zone manager, each zone manager including; a processor configured to process measurement and control signals used to control fast switching of dedicated ones of the plurality of channels; a control unit configured to issue broadcast commands to control down-link signals transmitted to the mobile station and collector commands to control a plurality of collectors configured to receive up-link signals from the mobile station; and an interface unit configured to provide an interface between the at least one zone manager and the transceiver unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method, comprising:
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selecting a first of a plurality of wireless channel devices to receive and process wireless signals transmitted from a mobile station, said wireless signals including a plurality of segments that include component segments that are re-ordered from an original order to an altered order prior to transmission by the mobile station, and wherein selection of the first wireless channel device causes it to receive a first group of the re-ordered component segments from the mobile station; subsequently selecting a second one of the plurality of wireless channel devices to receive and process said wireless signals; dynamically switching to the second wireless channel device, causing the second wireless channel device to begin receiving and processing the wireless signals, and wherein said switching results in one or more of said first group of component segments being received but not processed by the first wireless channel device; and instructing the first wireless channel device to transmit, to the second wireless channel device, those ones of the first group of component segments that were received but not processed to enable the reassembly of the component segments into the original order. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A zone manager, comprising:
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a processor configured to provide processor information to select among a plurality of transceiver stations to exchange wireless signals with a particular mobile station, the wireless signals comprising segments having one or more component segments, and wherein said wireless signals include up-link signals and down-link signals; a controller configured to dynamically switch among selected ones of said plurality of transceiver stations; and an interface unit configured to provide an interface to a corresponding one of the plurality of transceiver stations. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A communications system comprising:
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a plurality of transceiver stations; one or more mobile stations, wherein each of the plurality of transceiver stations is configured to transmit and receive wireless signals to and from the one or more mobile stations across a plurality of channels, said wireless signals comprising segments having one or more component segments, and wherein each of the one or more mobile stations and each of the plurality of transceiver stations includes an interleaver configured to change the order of segments from a first order to a second order prior to transmitting wireless signals comprising said segments; and a plurality of zone managers, each of the plurality of zone managers comprising; a processor configured to process measurement and control signals used to control fast switching of dedicated ones of the plurality of channels; a control unit configured to issue broadcast commands to control down-link signals transmitted to the mobile station and collector commands to control a plurality of collectors configured to receive up-link signals from the one or more mobile stations; and an interface unit configured to provide an interface to a corresponding one of the plurality of transceiver stations. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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