Patent ID: 7787407
Filing Date: 2010-08-31
Classification: H04B,H04H,H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for use in a time division multiple access wireless communication system of simulcasting message information and transmitting dedicated message information from a plurality of proximately located base stations forming a cellular pattern over the same wireless frequency channel, the method comprising the steps of: constructing frames for transmission by said plurality of base stations comprising control information, simulcast message information and dedicated message information within predetermined time slots of said frames; allocating said control information to time slots at a beginning of the frame; and allocating said simulcast message information and said dedicated message information to time slots of the same frame at positions after the control information, the time slots containing simulcast message information and the time slots containing dedicated message information being interspersed within the frame, the positions of the time slots containing simulcast message information and of the time slots containing the dedicated message information being predetermined by said control information of said frame.