Patent ID: 8160019

Claim:
A method for providing in-band wireless backstretch communications for a plurality of backstretch cells comprising: transmitting and receiving backhaul traffic, by a plurality of backhaul collector sites, to and from transceivers associated with sectors of a frequency reuse plan using a backhaul portion thereof; transmitting and receiving the backhaul traffic, at a backstretch super collector site, to and from a subset of backhaul collector sites of a plurality of backhaul collector sites adjacent to the backstretch super collector site associated with a corresponding backstretch cell; transmitting and receiving user traffic, by the backstretch super collector site, to and from remote stations within a central microcell of the backstretch cell using a user portion of a plurality of frequency bands of the frequency reuse plan; and transmitting and receiving the backhaul traffic, by the backstretch super collector site, to and from adjacent collector sites of surrounding microcells adjacent to the central microcell using the backhaul portion of the plurality of frequency bands wherein the transmitting of the backhaul traffic includes transmitting a narrowbeam by the subset of backhaul collector sites to the backstretch super collector site associated with the corresponding backstretch cell, the subset of backhaul collector sites includes every other backhaul collector site surrounding the backstretch super collector site associated with the corresponding backstretch cell or backhaul collector sites surrounding the backstretch super collector site which form a backward Z.