Claims
- 1. In a radio communication system operating within a specified radio spectrum and having a number of base stations, each communicating with a plurality of subscriber terminals over separate radio channels and each base station having access to each of said plurality of radio channels, a method of selecting a radio traffic channel for completing call set-up of incoming and outgoing calls between a base station, a subscriber terminal and a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), said base stations being located in geographical regions wherein varying portions of the radio spectrum in each geographical region are reserved for fixed radio transmission services, the method comprising the steps of:
- registering, at each of said base stations, signalling and radio traffic channels that can be allocated, said signalling and radio traffic channels being selected from radio channels covering a radio spectrum lying outside frequencies reserved for fixed radio transmission services in a geographic region of said each of said base stations;
- receiving, at a said base station, an incoming call attempt from a subscriber or from the PSTN;
- scanning, at the said base station, said radio traffic channels that can be allocated at the said base station for the presence of radio power levels above a first specified threshold;
- measuring at the said base station the power level of a scanned traffic channel;
- at the said base station selecting from the scanned traffic channels, traffic channels with radio power levels below said first specified threshold;
- sending, to the subscriber terminal, a message indicative of at least one useable traffic channel as determined at the base station;
- receiving the message at the subscriber terminal;
- switching the said base station and the subscriber terminal to a useable traffic channel indicated in the message; and
- proceeding with call connection.
- 2. In a radio communication system operating within a specified radio spectrum and having a number of base stations, each communicating with a plurality of subscriber terminals over separate radio channels, a method of determining the availability of radio channels for use between said base station and said subscriber terminals, said base stations being located in geographical regions wherein varying portions of the radio spectrum in each geographical region are reserved for fixed radio transmission services, the method comprising the steps of:
- selecting a signalling channel for call set-up on a frequency outside a range of frequencies reserved for fixed radio transmission services in a said base station's geographical region, said frequency being a frequency that is always available to said system in the said base station's geographical region; and
- registering, at the said base station associated with the said base station's geographical region, radio traffic channels that can be allocated from channels that lie outside the reserved range of frequencies for the said base station's geographical region.
Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 07/603,233, filed Oct. 25, 1990, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,276,908.
US Referenced Citations (6)
Non-Patent Literature Citations (1)
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CCIR Interim Working Paper, IWP 8/13-54, Jul. 3-12, 1990. |
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