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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1999
Terry L. Williams, Melbourne Beach, FL (US);
Airnet Communications Corporation, Melbourne, FL (US);
Abstract
A sectorized wireless broadband base station (BBS) having two or more assigned absolute RF channel numbers (ARFCNs) for communications with mobile subscribers in a cellular communications network. The system includes a central processing unit for exclusively allocating one or more of the ARFCNs to each of the sectors, each sector providing a communication link for subscriber calls in one or more communication cells serviced by the BBS. Further, the system includes programming and hardware for exclusively allocating an additional one of the ARFCNs to the sector upon a number of the subscriber calls in any such sector reaching a predetermined limit which exceeds a capacity for the ARFCN.