Patent ID: 7187706

Claim:
An improvement method to a frequency division duplex (FDD) distributed-network, spread-spectrum system comprising the steps of: transmitting, using radio waves, from a first base station (BS), located in, and part of, the FDD distributed network, a first BS-packet signal at a first frequency; receiving at a remote station (RS) the first BS-packet signal, thereby obtaining a first RS-received signal; transmitting, using radio waves, from a second base station a second BS-packet signal at a second frequency, with the second frequency different from the first frequency; receiving at said remote station the second BS-packet signal at the second frequency, thereby obtaining a second RS-received signal; monitoring at said remote station a first signal metric of the first RS-received signal, and a second signal metric of the second RS-received signal; and determining at said remote station that the first signal metric of the first RS-received signal falls below a threshold, and that the second signal metric of the second RS-received signal is above the threshold, and that the second base station has available capacity, thereby determining to change base stations.