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AssigneeMeshNetworks, Inc.
InventorPeter Stanforth
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An ad-hoc, peer-to-peer radio access system for cellular communications systems using time division duplex as a way of maximizing the bits/hz/km2 for cellular systems. The network architecture of the ad-hoc system allows the radio access to be integrated with the fixed components of a conventional cellular system, PSTN or ISP. The objective is to make the system of the invention transparent to the features and services provided by the external network. The advantages of such a system to a cellular operator are that significantly less infrastructure is required, and that the RF spectrum is more efficiently utilized resulting in much lower building and operating costs. The system architecture is comprised of remote terminals, routers, gateways, and at least one gateway controller that interfaces the ad-hoc system to a cellular network system. The ad-hoc system of the invention allows for both voice and data transmissions and receptions.
An ad-hoc radio system comprising:
In an ad-hoc radio system comprising a series of remote radio terminals each comprising a radio transceiver and a control processor, said control processor comprising software means for determining a routing path of a call, for communicating with other said radio terminals, and for establishing the respective said radio terminal as a hop for other said radio terminals during a call-connection, at least one gateway in operative communication with said series of remote radio terminals, a plurality of wireless routers in operative connection between said series of remote terminals and said at least one gateway, a method of connecting a call from a radio terminal of the ad-hoc radio system, comprising:
In an ad-hoc radio system comprising a series of remote radio terminals each comprising a radio transceiver and a control processor, said control processor comprising software means for determining a routing path of a call, for communicating with other said radio terminals, and for establishing the respective said radio terminal as a hop for other said radio terminals during a call-connection, at least one gateway in operative communication with said series of remote radio terminals, a plurality of wireless routers in operative connection between said series of remote terminals and said at least one gateway, a method of connecting an outgoing call of a radio terminal of the ad-hoc radio system, comprising:
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