Patent ID: 7433683

Claim:
A communication system for communication using wireless signals, the system comprising: a plurality of transceiver stations configured to transmit and receive wireless signals over broadcast channels and dedicated channels, said wireless signals including down-link signals to and up-link signals from mobile stations; a plurality of measurement units each configured to form measurements of said wireless signals; and a plurality of zone managers, various ones of which are connected to one another to form a zone network, wherein each zone manager, includes: a processor configured to process measurements formed by one or more of said plurality of measurement units to determine preferred ones of said plurality of transceiver stations for use in transmitting wireless signals associated with a particular mobile station over one or more particular dedicated channels, wherein transmission over the particular dedicated channels for the particular mobile station includes the use of a first radio resource; and a control unit configured to dynamically switch between said preferred ones of said plurality of transceiver stations during said transmitting wireless signals associated with the particular mobile station over the one or more particular dedicated channels, wherein said dynamic switching occurs without changing the first radio resource.