Base station for a radio communications system

US6687514B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Jorg Dauerer · Puchheim, DE
• Dieter Emmer · Starnberg, DE
• Ralf Foissner · Wolfratshausen, DE
• Zoran Gardijan · Hersbruck, DE
• Heiko Junker · Hersbruck, DE
• Holger Kunze · Bubenreuth, DE
• Franz Schreib · Hersbruck, DE
• Jörg Sokat · Wetter, DE
• Peter Spennemann · Taufkirchen, DE
• Gerhard Steib · Birkenfeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 12, 2000
• Grant date: Feb 3, 2004
• Expiry date: Jun 29, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W88/085
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A base station for a radio communications systems contains at least one carrier-related transceiver device and at least one central unit for controlling the base station. The transceiver device and the central unit each contain at least one interface device which are connected by at least one individual line in accordance with a point-to-point connection for transmitting traffic data. Therefore, point-to-point connections with individual lines for each transceiver device that do not need to satisfy the requirements of identical lengths are used instead of a bus structure. In this way, an essentially more cost-effective implementation of the transmission of traffic data between the central unit and transceiver device is possible because the data rate can also be increased in accordance with the length of the individual line. A logic bus structure is mapped onto physical point-to-point connections. Traffic data, o&m data and also synchronization data are transmitted using the bus structure. The base station is suitable for use in radio communications systems with GSM, TDMA, CDMA radio interfaces, or other radio interfaces.