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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1999
Miguel Dajer, Succasunna, Morris County, NJ (US);
Claire Talkin Kerr, Morris Plains, Morris County, NJ (US);
Peter Keith LaConte, West Paterson, Passaic County, NJ (US);
Harvey Rubin, Morristown, Morris County, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A reconfigurable base station suitable for supporting multiple wireless communication system standards includes a set of channel unit boards, each providing processing operations for user signals assigned to multiple carriers of the system, a set of a radio boards, each generating a radio frequency (RF) output signal for each of at least a subset of the multiple carriers, and a reconfigurable bus interconnecting the channel unit boards and radio boards. The base stations configured to support a particular wireless system standard, such as IS-95 CDMA, by assigning particular user signals to designated signal lines of the reconfigurable bus. The base station may then be reconfigured to support other CDMA standards, such as, e.g., IS-95C with or without Orthogonal to Transmit Diversity (QTD), Multi-Carrier (MC) cdma2009, or Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, (UMTS) by assigning. other user signals to the signal lines of the reconfigurable bus. The assignment of signal lines may be implemented dynamically under the control of software running on a base station control computer, or by establishing fixed connections between the bus signal lines and appropriate ports of the channel unit and radio boards.