Patent ID: 7400606
Filing Date: 2008-07-15
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer readable medium embodying a instructions for carrying out a method for beam switching in a wireless communication system having at least one base station located within a cell which is divided into sector and sub-sector divisions, said base station configured to transmit fixed signal beams to the sub-sector divisions during transmission time slots, wherein one half of the signal beams are identified as odd and another half of the signal beams are identified as even with like identified beams not adjacently located, and one half of the time slots are identified as odd and another half of the time slots are identified as even, said instructions including instructions for: executing a command for transmitting the odd identified beams only during odd identified time slots; executing a command for transmitting the even identified beams only during even identified time slots; and executing a command for receiving a data rate control message transmitted from a subscriber station on a reverse link during a reverse link transmission time slot having an identification antipodal to the identification of the time slot in which the subscriber station is receiving data on a forward link.