A base station and a method of receiver initialisation therefor

摘要

The invention relates to initialisation of a receiver in a base station (205) for a cellular communication system. A receiver (217) receives an access signal and derives synchronisation parameters there from. An identification processor (221) and a base station controller (225) derive an identification and transmit a communication request message comprising the identification to an RNC (229). In addition, a synchronisation processor (219) stores the determined synchronisation parameters. The RNC (229) configures a new communication link and transmits a configuration message to the base station (205). The base station (205) checks the identification and retrieves any stored synchronisation parameters corresponding to the identification. The retrieved synchronisation parameters are then used to initialise the receiver (217). The invention is particularly applicable to the UMTS communication system.