WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSIGNING COMMUNICATION RESOURCES

摘要

A layered wireless communication system (100) includes a coverage cell (102) and a plurality of traffic cells (104-116). The traffic cells (104-116) are assigned a single traffic channel carrier and do not include a broadcast channel carrier. The coverage cell frequency hops on the traffic channel carriers, and the traffic cells listen at the appropriate times to an uplink signal from a mobile. Mobiles are assigned communication resources in traffic cells returning reports indicating that the mobile is sufficiently well received in the traffic cell.