Hughes Aircraft Company

George D Farmer

Stanley Edward Kay

Ashok D Mehta

Christopher J Kain

Hans Bhatia

Nicholas P Sampson

Nick Sampson

A cellular system uses dynamic repartitioning and channel packing to improve capacity without impacting quality. Dynamic repartitioning is employed to convert a carrier which operates, at one time, as an analog carrier to operate, at a later time, as a digital carrier in response to changes in offered traffic. Alternatively, a carrier which, at one time, operates as a digital carrier is converted to operate, at a later time, as an analog carrier in response to changes in offered traffic. The system also supports multiple digital protocols so that a carrier can also be converted to operate in any one of several different digital modes. Channel packing is used to allocate as many digital channels as possible to as few digital carriers as possible. In a preferred embodiment, both repartitioning and channel packing are implemented in response to a request for a channel allocation or deallocation.

Channel compression and dynamic repartitioning for dual mode cellular

A cellular system uses dynamic repartitioning and channel packing to improve capacity without impacting quality. Dynamic repartitioning is employed to convert a carrier which operates, at one time, as an analog carrier to operate, at a later time, as a digital carrier in response to changes in offered traffic. Alternatively, a carrier which, at one time, operates as a digital carrier is converted to operate, at a later time, as an analog carrier in response to changes in offered traffic. Channel packing is used to allocate as many digital channels as possible to as few digital carriers as possible. In a preferred embodiment, both repartitioning and channel packing are implemented in response to call origination or call termination.

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Frederick, MD, United States of America

George D Farmer