Patent ID: 6151314
Filing Date: 2000-11-21
Classification: H04L,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
A method for implementing information transfer within a wireless access system in a communication system including a wireless access system based on wireless communication and comprising plural terminal devices (MT1, MT2), plural base stations (BTS1, BTS2, BTS3) communicating with the terminal devices, a switch (BSC) operative to communicate with said base stations, and a network system (ATM) communicating via the switch with said plural base stations, the network system being based on wired communication and comprising nodes, said switch (BSC) being one node of said nodes of said network system, said method comprising steps of communicating information as cells (C1-C10) having a header part with header fields included therein, employing throughout said wireless access system a short addressing scheme concerning said cells, transporting address data of the cells in a certain part of said header fields, and transporting other data applying to a cell and concerning data transfer internal to said wireless access system in another part of said header fields; and including identifications of individual ones of said terminal devices in respective ones of said header fields to enable synchronization of cell streams received concurrently at said switch via a plurality of said base stations from said terminal devices.