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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 25, 1994
Minoru Hagio, Fukuoka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A channel monitoring method and a base station for use in carrying out the method are employed in a mobile communication system operating according to time-division multiple access and including a mobile switching controller for controlling radio channels in a plurality of radio zones; a plurality of base stations connected to the mobile switching controller by wires for forming the radio zones, respectively; and a plurality of mobile units for communicating with the base stations through radio channels. The channel monitoring method is characterized by, in the mobile communication system, assigning control channels of the respective base stations to one and the same slot and moving a traffic channel to the slot for the control channels for monitoring the traffic channel. Also, the base station in the mobile communication system is characterized by having a channel controller for assigning control channels of the respective base stations to one and the same slot, specifying the slot for control channels to a slot for monitoring a traffic channel, and switching a traffic channel to a control channel; and a slot synchronization unit for establishing slot synchronization among the respective base stations.