Communication network and method
AssigneeStratospheric Platforms Limited
InventorDavid Grace
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Abstract
A communication network comprising a plurality of base stations arranged to communicate data to and from a plurality of mobile devices, and at least one first base station operable to establish a first wireless communication link with a selected mobile device from the plurality of mobile devices, said first wireless communication link enabling the selected mobile device to simultaneously provide further wireless communication links to two or more mobile devices for communicating data via the first wireless communication link.
Claims19
A communication network comprising:
- a plurality of permanent base stations arranged to create a core network with a plurality of mobile devices, and
- at least one backhaul base station operable to establish a backhaul wireless communication link with a selected mobile device from the plurality of mobile devices, the backhaul wireless communication link enabling the selected mobile device to operate as a temporary base station in the core network and simultaneously provide further wireless communication links to two or more of the plurality of mobile devices for communicating data to the at least one backhaul base station via the backhaul wireless communication link.
A method of communicating data in a communication network comprising a plurality of permanent base stations arranged to create a core network with a plurality of mobile devices, said method comprising:
- establishing a backhaul wireless communication link between a selected mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices and a backhaul base station to cause the selected mobile device to operate as a temporary base station in the core network, and
- by virtue of the backhaul wireless communication link, simultaneously providing further wireless communication links to two or more mobile devices for communicating data via the backhaul wireless communication link, wherein the further wireless communication links are provided by a temporary base station radio interface provided by the temporary base station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.