Lucent Technologies Inc.

Eugene T Kendig

Irwin Gerszberg

Jesse Eugene Russell

Jeffrey S Martin

Salman Yousef Abbasi

Thomas Mark Oplinger

A wireless communication system for servicing personal communicators is connected to a a digital switch of a landline telephone network. The communication system includes a plurality of wireless communication base units, each having wireless circuitry enabling it to extract channel and setup information other from nearby wireless communication base units. Each unit measures the RSSI of channels of neighboring wireless communication base units and makes channel assignments to a base unit in response to RSSI measurements being compared to a threshold.

Wireless communication system having base units which extracts channel

A microcell unit, in a cellular telephone system using digital signal processing BSs, is digitally connected to a macrocell, via a metallic link, such as a twisted pair. The microcell includes a plurality of radio channel units (RCU), to provide voice connectivity to mobile subscribers (MS), which are under control of a radio control complex (RCC) located in the macrocell. Several time slots of the macrocell TDM bus, through which the RCC exerts control of the RCUs, are remoted to the microcell thereby enabling control of the RCUs at the microcell location by the RCC of the macrocell. This remoting action is achieved, via a remote time division multiplex (TDM) circuit pack which enables the RCC to communicate with the RCUs as if they were located within the macrocell.

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