Patent ID: 7496062

Claim:
A method for use in a time division multiple access wireless communication system of simulcasting information and transmitting dedicated message information from a plurality of proximately located base stations forming a cellular pattern over the same wireless frequency channel, the method comprising the steps of: constructing frames for transmission by said plurality of base stations comprising control information, simulcast message information and dedicated message information within predetermined time slots of said frames; constructing a first time slot of one said frames, said first time slot containing simulcast message information and further containing guard time occupying a first fraction of the first time slot; and constructing a second time slot of a same one said frames, said second time slot containing dedicated message information and containing guard time occupying a second fraction of the second time slot, said first and second fractions being different; wherein said control information fills time slots at the beginning of the frame and said control information is varied between predetermined time slots within said frames such that immediately proximate base stations transmit control information in different predetermined time slots.