Patent ID: 7551595

Claim:
A communication system, comprising: a plurality of wireless channel devices, including at least two wireless channel devices that are not commonly located, each wireless channel device including: a transceiver unit configured to transmit and receive wireless signals to and from a mobile station across a plurality of channels, said wireless signals having segments with one or more component segments; an interleaver unit configured to change the order of segments in wireless signals being transmitted and received by the transceiver unit; and at least one zone manager, each zone manager including: a processor configured to process measurement and control signals used to control fast switching of dedicated ones of the plurality of channels; a control unit configured to issue broadcast commands to control down-link signals transmitted to the mobile station and collector commands to control a plurality of collectors configured to receive up-link signals from the mobile station; and an interface unit configured to provide an interface between the at least one zone manager and the transceiver unit.