Patent ID: 6400966
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A base station for a mobile communications system, comprising:an RF signal processing unit; a baseband signal processing unit comprising a transmit unit, a receive unit, and signal processing resources including a coder unit and a decoder unit; a first signal interface, comprising a pair of signal interfaces coupled between said signal processing resources and said transmit unit and said receive unit of said baseband signal processing unit, one of said pair of signal interfaces coupled between said receive unit and said decoder unit for flexibly allocating signals between resources of said receive unit and said decoder unit, and the other of said pair of signal interfaces coupled between said transmit unit and said coder unit for flexibly allocating signals between resources of said transmit unit and said coder unit, each one of said pair of signal interfaces comprising a plurality of moderately-high speed time-slotted serial buses; and a second signal interface coupled between said RF signal processing unit and said baseband signal processing unit for flexibly allocating resources of said RF signal processing unit to any resource of said baseband signal processing unit.