Patent ID: 6654364
Filing Date: 2003-11-25
Classification: H04B,H04J

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