PERFORMING SOFT, SOFTER OR SOFT SOFTER HANDOFF WITH A MOBILE STATION HAVING A SMART ANTENNA

摘要

A mobile station configured to perform a soft handoff . The mobile station comprises a receiver (108) and a smart antenna module (107) . The receiver is configured to receive a plurality of similar RF signals that comprises a plurality of first RF signals generated by a serving base station or first base station transmitter, and a plurality of second RF signals generated by a second base station transmitter. The smart antenna module comprises a means for classifying the similar RF signals from the second base station transmitter as an interference signal. Additionally, the mobile station comprises a means (106) for reslassifying the interference signal from the second base station transmitter as a desired signal when the first RF signals generated by the serving base station are below a first threshold. The mobile station also comprises a second threshold, which triggers an instruction to transmit a first signal strength associated with the first RF signals and a second signal strength associated with the second RF signals to the first base station. The mobile station then receives an instruction from the first base station transmitter to simultaneously demodulate and combine similar RF generated by the first base station transmitter and the second base station transmitter.