Patent ID: 6721571
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A wireless communication system infrastructure that services wireless communications for mobile terminals operating in a service coverage area, the wireless communication system infrastructure comprising:a digital enclosure that includes a plurality of wireless communication processing components, wherein some of the plurality of wireless communication processing components perform digital processing functions including baseband signal processing; a plurality of radio enclosures coupled to the digital enclosure, wherein each of the plurality of radio enclosures services wireless communications within a corresponding geographic area of the service coverage area, and in doing so converts baseband signals to Radio Frequency (RF) signals and converts RF signals to baseband signals; and wherein two radio enclosures of the plurality of radio enclosures share a communication processing component of the digital enclosure while jointly servicing a single wireless communication, wherein the shared communication processing component of the digital enclosure performs baseband processing for each of the two radio enclosures.