Capacity adaptive technique for distributed wireless base stations

摘要

A radio transmission system and method routes incoming user signals to at least one radio equipment that is eligible to handle the user signal. The average user population and rate of change of user population for each radio equipment are calculated by control circuitry monitoring a plurality of radio equipment. A ceiling threshold and user population threshold are initially established for each of the radio equipment. As users are admitted to the system, incoming user signals are routed to a radio equipment selected from eligible radio equipment. The radio equipment deemed eligible are those which have current user population below their population thresholds and population thresholds adequately below their ceiling thresholds. Incoming user signals are routed to at least one selected radio equipment based on the average user population and rate of change of user population of the radio equipment of the system. The population thresholds of the radio equipment are updated after incoming user signals have been routed to at least one radio equipment.