DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF CARRIER FREQUENCIES IN A WIRELESS BROADBAND BASE STATION

摘要

A sectorized wireless broadband base station (BBS) (18) having two or more assigned absolute RF channel numbers (ARFCNs) for communications with mobile subscribers in a cellular communications network (16). The system includes a central processing unit (38) for exclusively allocating one or more of the ARFCNs to each of the sectors, each sector providing a communication link for subscriber calls in one or more communication cells serviced by the BBS. Further, the system includes programming and hardware (40a - 40n) exclusively for allocating an additional one of the ARFCNs to the sector upon a number of the subscriber calls in any such sector reaching a predetermined limit which exceeds a capacity for the ARFCN.