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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2005
Sang-boh Yun, Seongnam-si, KR;
Sung-hyun Cho, Seoul, KR;
Yung-soo Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Eung-sun Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Yeon-woo Lee, Edinburgh, GB;
Stephen Mclaughlin, Edinburgh, GB;
Sang-Boh Yun, Seongnam-si, KR;
Sung-Hyun Cho, Seoul, KR;
Yung-Soo Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Eung-Sun Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Yeon-Woo Lee, Edinburgh, GB;
Stephen McLaughlin, Edinburgh, GB;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
The University Court of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, GB;
Abstract
A cellular communication system and method supporting both a time division duplexing (TDD) scheme and a frequency division duplexing (FDD) scheme. The apparatus includes a plurality of mobile stations, at least three first fixed stations communicate with the mobile station based on the FDD scheme, the first fixed station defining respective macro cells that are contiguous and form a virtual cell, and a cluster including at least one second fixed station communicating with the mobile stations based on the TDD scheme, the second fixed station defining a micro cell in the virtual cell.