Patent ID: 8325701

Claim:
A radio communication system that conducts a communication between a base station and a plurality of terminals wirelessly, wherein the base station comprises a multiple-beam antenna made up of a plurality of antennas, and emits radio waves having a same frequency at a same timing from the multiple-beam antenna toward a plurality of specific areas corresponding to the plurality of antennas without overlapping by time division to form a plurality of spot beams, wherein radio frames transmitted between the base station and the terminals each comprise a plurality of beacon channels which are channels from the base station to all of the terminals and are allocated for each of the antennas, a plurality of request channels which are channels from all of the terminals to the base station and are allocated for each of the antennas, and a downlink channel and an uplink channel allocated to a request terminal, the plurality of request channels being arranged within each radio frame between the plurality of beacon channels and the downlink channel, each of the plurality of beacon channels and request channels within each of the radio frames has the same frequency, wherein the base station transmits broadcast information including information for identifying the antenna from each of the plurality of antennas through the plurality of beacon channels, wherein when a terminal that exists in any one of the plurality of specific areas receives the broadcast information through the beacon channel, the terminal selects an optimum beacon channel from the plurality of beacon channels, and transmits a communication establishment request including information for identifying the antenna and a bandwidth request including a desired communication bandwidth to the base station through a single request channel which, among the plurality of request channels, corresponds to the information for identifying the antenna, which is included in the broadcast information received through the selected optimum beacon channel, and wherein when the base station receives the communication establishment request and the bandwidth request through the request channel, the base station determines whether or not a channel is to be allocated to the frame for the request terminal, and when the channel is allocated, the base station schedules a modulation scheme and an encoding scheme for communicating with the request terminal, and a channel allocation time including the downlink data channel and the uplink data channel.