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Spread-spectrum, frequency-hopping radiotelephone system

US5408496A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 18, 1993
Grant dateApr 18, 1995
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Expiry dateJun 18, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W16/28
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A multiple access communications system reuses a set of N carrier frequencies in adjacent communications sites to provide more than N minimally cross-correlated frequency-hopping communications channels. A first set of communications channels is associated with a first of the communications sites. No two of the channels in the first set employ the same frequency at the same time. A second set of communications channels is associated with a second of the adjacent communications sites. No two of the channels in the second set of channels employ the same one of the N carrier frequencies at the same time. One or more sets of the minimally cross-correlated channels are further defined so that none of the channels in such sets employ the same frequency at the same time as more than a predetermined number of the channels in another of the sets of the minimally cross-correlated frequency-hopping communications channels.

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