A method and system for wireless connection to a wide area network

摘要

A method and system for providing wireless backhaul channels for use in a cellular radio network is disclosed wherein any of the subscriber terminals can be used as a backhaul terminal thus dispensing with the need for a dedicated backhaul terminal. In the preferred embodiment, the backhaul channel is integrated with the data channels provided for network payload communications, with the backhaul data being allocated the highest data priority and a traffic scheduler allocating the backhaul data time slots for transmission accordingly. This has the advantage that the bandwidth required for backhaul can be dynamically assigned to cope with the network loading at any time.