Patent ID: 6741582
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: H04B,H04J

Abstract:
In a CDMA PCS telecommunications network, a telecommunications cell comprising:an antenna site configured into a plurality of sectors and including antennas for transmission and reception of CDMA PCS telecommunications traffic for the sectors; a base station coupled with the antennas and operable for controlling the transmission and reception over the antennas using selected ones of a defined set of CDMA codes for each of said sectors; the antennas including, for a selected sector, a plurality of antennas oriented to configure the selected sector into a plurality of subsectors; and the base station being operable for controlling telecommunications traffic for each of the sectors using selected ones of a defined set of sixty-four CDMA Walsh codes and using two different subsets thereof for the subsectors with each subset including a pilot channel and a synchronization channel, one of the subsectors using channel 0 as the pilot channel and channel 32 as the synchronization channel, and with the other subsectors using channel 33 as the pilot channel and channel 64 as the synchronization channel.