Patent ID: 6625154
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
A wireless asynchronous transfer mode communication system, comprising:an access point connected to a wireless communication network for performing wireless communications in an asynchronous transfer mode; an ATM switch connected to said access point; at least one mobile terminal present in an area covered by said access point, for performing wireless communications with said access point; said mobile terminal comprising: setting means for establishing a broadcast identifier representative of broadcast in the header of each wireless ATM cell for performing broadcast; determining means for determining the broadcast identifier and header information in the header of each received wireless ATM cell; and switching means for switching between acceptance and discarding of each received wireless ATM cell based on the determined result from said determining means; said access point comprising: identifying means for identifying a broadcast identifier in the header of a received wireless ATM cell; and returning means for returning the wireless ATM cell if the broadcast identifier is identified by said identifying means, and transmitting the wireless ATM cell to a downstream burst.