Patent ID: 6996086

Claim:
A method of providing wireless communication service coverage, the method comprising: passing communications traffic for a mobile terminal from a base station controller to a mesh of RF-coupled radio base stations; routing the communications traffic for said mobile terminal through one or more intervening radio base stations in said mesh as needed to reach a serving radio base station; transmitting the communications traffic for said mobile terminal from said serving radio base station to said mobile terminal; receiving communications traffic from said mobile terminal at said serving radio base station; routing the communications traffic from said mobile terminal from said serving radio base station through one or more intervening radio base stations in said mesh as needed to reach said base station controller; determining the RF coupling between respective ones of said radio base stations comprising said mesh at a central network manager; generating routing information at said central network manager based on said determined RF couplings; and distributing said routing information to said radio base stations comprising said mesh.