Patent ID: 6434129
Filing Date: 2002-08-13
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
A system for wireless transmission of data, voice, video and/or multimedia information to allow individual subscribers in an area of service telecommunication access to a telecommunications network, the system comprising:a plurality of subscriber interfaces, each of the subscriber interfaces connected to one or more items of customer premise equipment, the customer premise equipment capable of transmitting and/or receiving data, voice, video and/or multimedia signals; each of the subscriber interfaces having a modulator for modulating data, voice, video and/or multimedia signals from the customer premise equipment into a form suitable for transmission over a wireless communication channel; each of the subscriber interfaces having a demodulator for demodulating a signal received over a wireless communication channel into a data, voice, video and/or multimedia signal; a base station interface, the base station interface having a modulator for modulating data, voice, video and/or multimedia information from the telecommunication network into a form suitable for transmission over a wireless communication channel; the base station having a demodulator for demodulating a signal received over a wireless communication channel into a form suitable for transmission over the telecommunication network; and a pool of channels equal to or less than a maximum number of available channels in the system, the pool of channels being divided into a plurality of sub-pools of channels, the sub-pools being assignable to one or more of a plurality of functions necessary for operation of the system, the system dynamically decreasing the number of available channels in the system to obtain a desired bit error rate performance for the available channels.