Patent ID: 6980808

Claim:
A communication system, comprising: a base station controller; and at least one base transceiver station in communication with the base station controller, wherein at least one of the base station controller and the at least one base transceiver station is dynamically selected, by a selection procedure, to perform a physical channel function, the selection procedure comprising determining at least one characteristic of at least one of: at least one set of data carried by the at least one base transceiver station, and transmission of at least one data signal representing the at least one set of data; wherein the physical channel function comprises at least one of: a data selection function operating upon the at least one set of data; and a data distribution function operating upon the at least one set of data; wherein the physical channel function further comprises: a resource allocation function controlling allocation of wireless resources of the at least one base transceiver station; a multiplexing function operating upon the at least one set of data; and a termination function of at least one of: a traffic channel carrying the at least one set of data, and a control channel carrying information for controlling the at least one base transceiver station.