Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1992-10-29
1994-04-19
Olms, Douglas W.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
370 60, 370 601, 370 941, 370 942, 370 953, 370 851, 370 859, 379 59, 455 331, H04Q 702
Patent
active
053053087
ABSTRACT:
A wireless-access communications system, such as a CDMA cellular radio-telephone system (FIG. 2), comprises a packet-switched communications network (202, 207, 201) that interconnects cells (base stations; 202) with each other and with the public telephone network (100). Traffic of individual calls is packetized, and packet-bearing frames (300 in FIG. 7) of a plurality of calls are then statistically multiplexed and frame-relayed through the network to yield the high capacity, efficiency, and speed of traffic transport and handoff required for a CDMA cellular system. At each call processing unit (264 in FIG. 5), individual calls are handled by individual service circuits (602 & 612) which perform speech-processing functions such as coding and decoding, tone insertion, and echo cancellation, and packet-to-circuit-switched-PCM traffic conversion. Processors (602) adapt call processing unit timing to compensate for asynchrony between cells and call processing units and variations in call path transmission delays. Cell-to-cell communications, fixed call path addressing, and packetized control message transfers ensure that the same service circuit handles a call through even multiple soft handoffs (FIGS. 27-29) and efficiently communicates simultaneously with all cells involved in the handoff without involvement of system control entities and negative effect on system call-handling capacity. Both coded (packet-switched) and uncoded (circuit-switched) radio-telephone traffic are accommodated side-by-side. Wherever possible, existing and proven technology and component units are used to achieve low cost and high reliability.
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English Michael J.
Farwell Charles Y.
Hearn Michael L.
Heidebrecht Richard M.
Kissel David M.
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Blum Russell W.
Olms Douglas W.
Volejnicek David
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