Patent ID: 7050809
Filing Date: 2006-05-23
Classification: H04W,Y10S

Abstract:
1. For use in a wireless network, a base station comprising an antenna array capable of transmitting forward channel data into S sectors associated with said base station, wherein said base station receives a plurality of data packets in a first data frame of a wireline connection, associates a first one of said received data packets with a corresponding first one of said S sectors, associates a second one of said received data packets with a corresponding second one of said S sectors, said first and second sectors being different ones of said S sectors, and concurrently transmits said first and second data packets in said corresponding first and second sectors during a first subframe of a first forward channel data frame, and wherein said first data frame of said wireline connection has a duration T, said first forward channel data frame has a duration T, and said first subframe has a duration less than T.