Patent ID: 8885540

Claim:
A telecommunications system for communicating data to and from a mobile device, the system comprising a plurality of repeater nodes and a control node disposed to form a network, each repeater node having a transceiver unit operable to transmit the data with a first transmission power to one or more others of the repeater nodes within one of a plurality of time slots of a time frame, each repeater node being allocated one of the time slots of the time frame by the control node to transmit and receive data to and from the mobile device, wherein each of the repeater nodes is operable to transmit a pilot signal during a same one of the time slots of the time frame on a same frequency channel with a second transmission power, the second power being less than the first transmission power, the pilot signal including an identifier of the repeater node which transmitted the pilot signal, and the mobile device is operable to receive one of the pilot signals transmitted from one of the repeater nodes, to detect the identifier included in the pilot signal received from the one repeater node for identifying the location of the mobile device, and to transmit a message to the one repeater node in the one of the time slots of the time frame.