USE OF COMMON WAVEFORM IN FORWARD AND REVERSE CHANNELS AND SUBSCRIBER STATION AS BASE STATION

摘要

A method and apparatus for operating a communication system having subscriber stations and at least one base station, the method including the steps of: (a) arranging a forward link and the reverse link to operate with a common waveform; and (b) using common forward and reverse link processing circuitry (10A-10H) in the base station and individual subscriber stations, as well as cross-connecting signal paths (SN1, SN2) enabling one of the subscriber stations to function as a base station. The common waveform enables essential forward and reverse link parameters to be identical, which may include: modulation format, chip rate, symbol error rate, bit rate, frame rate, superframe rate, frame structure, error control coding scheme, sync words, control field structure, as well as other parameters.