Method and system for accomodating processing delay in a cellular base station
US6799019B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 4, 1997 |
| Grant date | Sep 28, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 4, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W56/0045
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A mobile telephone system and method having a base station for receiving data bursts during consecutive frames, each frame of predetermined time duration and divided into a plurality of slots of predetermined time duration. The base station has an antenna, base station electronics and preprocessing circuitry coupled to the base station antenna and the base station electronics. Delay circuitry is coupled to the base station preprocessing circuitry and base station electronics to provide the complement of a total time delay to the data bursts through the preprocessing circuitry and the delay circuitry equal to an integral number of the predetermined time duration of a frame. The time delay of the preprocessing circuitry can be fixed or variable, in which case the time delay of the delay circuitry is either fixed or variable, respectively. In the case of variable delay, the delay circuitry will include circuitry to monitor the time delay provided by the preprocessing circuitry and adjust the delay in the delay circuit in accordance with the monitored.
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