SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REASSIGNING AN UPLINK TIME SLOT ASSIGNED TO A CIRCUIT-SWITCHED CONNECTION OF A FIRST MOBILE DEVICE TO A GPRS PACKET-SWITCHED CONNECTION OF A SECOND MOBILE DEVICE

摘要

A wireless communication system (100) includes a first mobile device (110) with a circuit-switched connection using adaptive multi-rate (AMR) speech coding. This first mobile device (110) is assigned to a first time slot by a base station (130). The base station (130) also serves at least a second mobile device (120) with a packet-switched connection and assigned to a second time slot. The base station (130) instructs the second mobile device (120) to transmit data on the first time slot, as well as its originally-assigned second time slot, during a no-speech-data AMR frame of the first mobile device (110). The base station ceases to instruct the second mobile device (120) to transmit data on the first time slot when it receives an AMR Access Burst (AAB) from the first mobile device (110). A 52-multiframe structure, used by the second mobile device (120) when it is transmitting on the first time slot, includes at least one A-idle frame when the first mobile device (110) can transmit its AAB.