Patent ID: 7002929

Claim:
For use in a fixed wireless access network comprising a plurality of base stations capable of bidirectional time division duplex (TDD) communication with wireless access devices disposed at a plurality of subscriber premises, a TDD frame transmission synchronization apparatus comprising: a frame allocation controller capable of receiving, from a first radio frequency (RF) modem shelf associated with a first base station, access requests generated by a first group of wireless access devices communicating with said first base station, and determining, from traffic requirements associated with said access requests, a downlink portion of TDD frames used by one or more of a plurality of RF modems in said RF modem shelf to communicate with one of said first group of wireless access devices that is longest relative to a downlink portion of TDD frames used by any other of said RF modems to communicate with one of said first group of wireless access devices, and a time duration of said longest downlink portion of TDD frames, wherein said frame allocation controller further determines a frame allocation of the downlink portion and the uplink portion of TDD frames used by said plurality of RF modems to communicate with said first group of wireless access devices.