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US 6,587,448 B1Granted
Reconfigurable wireless system base station
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsMiguel Dajer, Claire Talkin Kerr, Peter Keith LaConte, Harvey Rubin
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AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsMiguel Dajer, Claire Talkin Kerr, Peter Keith LaConte, Harvey Rubin
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A reconfigurable base station suitable for supporting multiple wireless communication system standards includes a set of channel unit boards, each providing processing operations for user signals assigned to multiple carriers of the system, a set of a radio boards, each generating a radio frequency (RF) output signal for each of at least a subset of the multiple carriers, and a reconfigurable bus interconnecting the channel unit boards and radio boards. The base stations configured to support a particular wireless system standard, such as IS-95 CDMA, by assigning particular user signals to designated signal lines of the reconfigurable bus. The base station may then be reconfigured to support other CDMA standards, such as, e.g., IS-95C with or without Orthogonal to Transmit Diversity (QTD), Multi-Carrier (MC) cdma2009, or Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, (UMTS) by assigning. other user signals to the signal lines of the reconfigurable bus. The assignment of signal lines may be implemented dynamically under the control of software running on a base station control computer, or by establishing fixed connections between the bus signal lines and appropriate ports of the channel unit and radio boards.
A base station for use in a wireless communication system, comprising:
A method of operating a base station for use in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising a plurality of channel unit boards each providing processing operations for signals assigned to multiple carriers of the communication system, and a plurality of radio boards each generating an RF output signal for each of at least a subset of the multiple carriers, the method comprising the step of:
An article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable storage medium for storing one or more programs for use in configuring a base station of a wireless communication system, the base station comprising a plurality of channel unit boards each providing processing operations for signals assigned to multiple carriers of the communication system, and a plurality of radio boards each generating an RF output signal for each of at least a subset of the multiple carriers, the one or more programs when executed implementing the step of:
A base station for use in a wireless communication system, comprising:
An apparatus for use in a wireless communication system, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.