Base station for a mobile digital system with the frequency hopping technique
AssigneeItaltel Societa Italiana Telecomunicazioni S.p.A.
InventorsArmando Colamonico, Marcello Donati
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Abstract
A base station in a mobile digital system (TDMA/FDMA) utilizes a frequency hopping technique. The interconnection among receiver/transmitters (RT1-RTm) and process nodal points (NP1-NPm) takes place in base band using a common medium as distribution means of data relevant to the different users, which are entered on and sensed from at least one bus (B, B'). According to one embodiment two separate bus are foreseen, one for transmission and the other one for reception.
Claims10
A communication base station wherein data associated to each user are transmitted and received as a bit burst in a frame including n users, such frame also containing control data, and the frames are subject to frequency hopping in which each frame is transmitted and received at a frequency changing according to an algorithm among those frames assigned to the area served by said station, said station comprising:
- a plurality of receiver/transmitters connected to a common antenna through a combining circuit;
- a plurality of process nodal points connected to a station controller;
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- a distribution circuit for the baseband control of the frequency hopping including at least a common synchronized bus onto which user's data and said control data are entered and read in time succession at a bit rate higher than that of said bit burst;
- said receiver/transmitters being connected to said synchronized bus at least through a first set of multiplexing units and a first set of demultiplexing units, said first sets of units being synchronized among themselves with respect to said frequency hopping;
- said nodal points being connected to said synchronized bus at least through a second set of multiplexing units and a second set of demultiplexing units, said second sets of units being synchronized among themselves with respect to said frequency hopping.
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