Patent ID: 7020115

Claim:
A communication system for communication using wireless signals, said wireless signals including downlink signals to and uplink signals from mobile stations, said wireless signals having bursts in time slots comprising, a plurality of transceiver stations having broadcast channels and dedicated channels for said wireless signals where the dedicated channels are switchable among transceiver stations independently of said broadcast channels, system timing control means for controlling the initial timing of said bursts with initial timing advances that provide for initial guard bands between bursts, zone manager means including, switching processing means providing switching information for identifying candidate ones of said transceiver stations available to be used to service dedicated channels for said mobile stations, switching control means for dynamic switching among said preferred ones of said transceiver stations to provide said dedicated channels for said mobile stations, said dynamic switching having the potential for causing ones of said bursts to have timing shifts that result in misalignment of said bursts, macrodiversity timing control means for controlling the timing of said bursts in response to said dynamic switching to reduce said misalignment of said bursts.