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The present invention is an extended range concentric cell base station and a method for extending a cell size or access range without incurring ASIC correlator re-design. This is accomplished with a concentric cell base station design that incorporates multiple timing protocols and search windows.

The present invention is an extended range concentric cell base station and a method for extending a cell size or access range without incurring ASIC correlator re-design. This is accomplished with a concentric cell base station design that incorporates multiple timing protocols and search windows. The concentric base station has associated a micro cell and a macro cell, wherein the micro and macro cells use a same frequency band but different timing protocols and search windows that will cause signals transmitted by mobile-telephones within their respective cells to be received within the confines of at least one search window.

대표청구항 ▼

1. A method for detecting a mobile-telephone signal comprising the steps of:transmitting a base station signal at a first frame boundary; searching at the base station for a mobile-telephone signal using a first search window beginning at a second frame boundary and ending at a time p1 after the sec

1. A method for detecting a mobile-telephone signal comprising the steps of:transmitting a base station signal at a first frame boundary; searching at the base station for a mobile-telephone signal using a first search window beginning at a second frame boundary and ending at a time p1 after the second frame boundary, wherein p1 represents a time interval corresponding to a bit limitation for a first correlator; and searching at the base station for the mobile-telephone signal using a second search window beginning after the second frame boundary but no later than the time p1 after the second frame boundary and ending at a time p2 after the second search window began, wherein p2 represents a time interval corresponding to a bit limitation for a second correlator.