Patent ID: 6778518
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
A disturbed radio system, comprising:a plurality of processing elements and radio frequency transmitter elements, the processing elements and the radio frequency transmitter elements being interconnected by an Ethernet network; wherein the distributed radio system simulcasts data in the form of a common modulating signal on a common radio frequency carrier using at least two radio frequency transmitter elements which are designated as a radio frequency simulcast set; wherein the elements of the radio frequency simulcast set are configured to receive Ethernet sampled signal rackets and to transmit the information contained in the packets by modulating the radio frequency carrier; and wherein the simulcast method comprises: transmitting a first set of Ethernet packets to be received by the elements of the radio frequency simulcast set, the first set of Ethernet packets used to program the elements of the radio frequency simulcast set with a multicast address, the elements of the radio frequency simulcast set thereafter responsive to Ethernet packets containing the multicast address as the designation media access control (MAC) address.