Claims
- 1. A base station, where antenna and digital functions of a base station are separated, the base station comprising:
a master base transceiver station (MBTS); and a separate base station remote including all radio frequency (rf) components.
- 2. The base station of claim 1 wherein the MBTS comprises:
a base station kernel; and a base station mother.
- 3. The base station of claim 2 wherein the base station interface mother comprises an interface for receiving either an encoded/decoded baseband signal from the MBTS, or baseband data before encoding/decoding; and
wherein the base station is utilized in a duplex communication system and supports duplex communication.
- 4. The base station of claim 1 wherein its architecture can be used in GSM, CDMA, WiFi, or UMTS systems.
- 5. The base station of claim 1 wherein its architecture supports any digital interfaces, like: telephone wires, Ti/El lines (or higher), fiber optical links, wireless T1/E1 (or higher), digital coax links (like cable modem interfaces), or DSL lines to connect the MBTS and the separate base station remote.
- 6. The base station of claim 1 wherein the MBTS and the separate base station remote are connected by an Internet protocol (EP) based connection.
- 7. The base station mother of claim 2 wherein the base station mother can have 1 to N output ports supporting one cell where N represents the number of remotes connected to the base station mother.
- 8. The base station mother of claim 2 wherein the base station is further operable to make a decision, which data from a plurality of base station remotes to use in a simulcast environment.
- 9. The base station of claim 2 wherein the base station mother is further operable to make a decision, which data is sent to which base station remote of a plurality of base station remotes.
- 10. The base station of claim 1, wherein the separate base station remote is mounted on an existing telephone pole and is connected to the MBTS by an existing phone line.
- 11. A wireless communication network employing at least one base station having antenna and digital functions which are separated, the at least one base station comprising:
a master base transceiver station (MBTS); and a separate base station remote including all radio frequency components.
- 12. A wireless communication network comprising:
a first plurality of m clusters of simulcasting base station remotes per cluster which communicate with a master base station (MBTS) by a wireline connection; and a controller for causing the plurality of clusters to be reconfigured as a second plurality of m+1 simulcasting clusters.
- 13. A method of wireless communication comprising the steps of:
performing digital call processing in a base station kernel; providing a processed digital signal from the base station kernel to a base station mother which conditions the processed signal and transmits it on a T1 line to a base station remote which does all the radio frequency (rf) signal processing; and transmitting an rf signal with the base station remote.
- 14. The method of claim 13 wherein the signal conditioned by the base station mother is transmitted on a plurality of T1 lines to a plurality of clustered base station remotes.
- 15. A method of reconfiguring a wireless communication system comprising the steps of:
setting up an original network having a plurality of clusters or remotes of a given size to support an originally desired coverage plan; and reconfiguring the original network by reducing the size of the plurality of clusters to meet additional capacity demand.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The present invention claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Serial No. 60/399,587 entitled “Microcellular RF Transmission With Baseband Signal Delivery Via a Wireline Connection” and filed Jul. 30, 2002.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60399587 |
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