Using a single logical base transceiver to serve multiple physical locations

A mobile telecommunication system, comprising:

• a communication interface configured to receive a call traffic associated with a call associated at a mobile network with an assigned timeslot of a logical base transceiver station, wherein the logical base transceiver station is seen as a single logical transceiver base station by the base station controller, wherein the logical base transceiver station represents a plurality of serving physical base transceiver stations, wherein the logical base transceiver station comprises a plurality of logical transceivers, wherein the plurality of logical transceivers have a pooled number of logical timeslots, wherein the pooled number of logical timeslots includes a single broadcast channel and a set number of assigned packet data channels;
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• a processor coupled to the communication interface and configured to remap a timeslot with which the call traffic is associated from the assigned timeslot to a serving timeslot being used at a serving physical base transceiver station to facilitate the call, in the event the call traffic comprises inbound call traffic being sent into the mobile network from the serving physical base transceiver station, or from the serving timeslot to the assigned timeslot in the event the call traffic comprises outbound call traffic being sent from the mobile network to the serving physical base transceiver station, wherein the processor is configured to remap the broadcast channel of the logical base transceiver station to each broadcast channel of each serving physical base transceiver station, wherein the processor is configured to remap the assigned packet data channels of the logical base transceiver station to each set of packet data channels of each serving physical base transceiver station, and wherein the processor is configured to remap each traffic channel of the logical base transceiver station to one of traffic channels of the plurality of serving base transceiver stations.

A computer program product for providing mobile telecommunication service, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

• receiving a call traffic associated with a call associated at a mobile network with an assigned timeslot of a logical base transceiver station, wherein the logical base transceiver station is seen as a single logical transceiver base station by the base station controller, wherein the logical base transceiver station represents a plurality of serving physical base transceiver stations, wherein the logical base transceiver station comprises a plurality of logical transceivers, wherein the plurality of logical transceivers have a pooled number of logical timeslots, wherein the pooled number of logical timeslots includes a single broadcast channel and a set number of assigned packet data channels;
• remapping a timeslot with which the call traffic is associated from the assigned timeslot to a serving timeslot being used at a serving physical base transceiver to facilitate the call, in the event the call traffic comprises inbound call traffic being sent into the mobile network from the serving physical base transceiver, or from the serving timeslot to the assigned timeslot in the event the call traffic comprises outbound call traffic being sent from the mobile network to the serving physical base transceiver station, wherein each serving physical base transceiver station has its own physical transceiver, each physical transceiver having its own serving timeslots;
• remapping the broadcast channel of the logical base transceiver station to each broadcast channel of each serving physical base transceiver station;
• remapping the assigned packet data channels of the logical base transceiver station to each set of packet data channels of each serving physical base transceiver station;
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• remapping each traffic channel of the logical base transceiver station to one of traffic channels of the plurality of serving base transceiver stations.

A method of providing mobile telecommunication service, comprising:

• receiving an indication that a call to be provided via a serving physical base transceiver station is associated at a mobile network with an assigned timeslot of a logical base transceiver station;
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• configuring the serving physical base transceiver station to operate with respect to a serving timeslot of the serving physical base transceiver station, which serving timeslot corresponds to the assigned timeslot of the logical base transceiver station, at a selected one of a plurality of frequencies at which the serving physical base transceiver station is configured to operate with respect to the serving timeslot, the selected frequency corresponding to an assigned frequency associated at the mobile network with the logical base transceiver station, wherein the logical base transceiver station is seen as a single logical transceiver base station by a base station controller, wherein the logical base transceiver station represents a plurality of serving physical base transceiver stations, wherein the logical base transceiver station comprises a plurality of logical transceivers, wherein the plurality of logical transceivers have a pooled number of logical timeslots, wherein the pooled number of logical timeslots includes a single broadcast channel and a set number of assigned packet data channels, wherein each serving physical base transceiver station has its own physical transceiver, each physical transceiver having its own serving timeslots, wherein the broadcast channel of the logical base transceiver station is remapped to each broadcast channel of each serving physical base transceiver station, wherein the assigned packet data channels of the logical base transceiver station is remapped to each set of packet data channels of each serving physical base transceiver station, and wherein each traffic channel of the logical base transceiver station is remapped to one of traffic channels of the plurality of serving base transceiver stations.