Patent ID: 8730865
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication method, comprising: operating a communication unit, which demodulates radio signals in accordance with a first air interface and applies at least one upper-layer process to the demodulated signals; receiving and demodulating a signal in accordance with a second air interface, different from the first air interface; and inputting the demodulated signal to the communication unit so as to cause the communication unit to apply the upper-layer process to the signal that was demodulated using the second air interface while superseding the first air interface, wherein the first air interface has a first performance, wherein the second air interface has a second performance that is better than the first performance, and wherein the first and second performance comprise at least one performance type selected from a group of types consisting of a spectral efficiency, an error rate and a link budget.