METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING RADIO SIGNALS IN A RADIO BASE STATION

摘要

A radiocommunication system is described wherein a flexible transceiver (400 ) is provided that can be switchably connected to different antenna structures (450, 460). Switching matrices (490) are provided between the antenna elemen ts and the receive processing circuitry (420) which, under the control of the central processing unit (430), allows the transceiver to handle the differen t antenna structures. The enhanced flexibility achieved by the present inventi on provides a novel transceiver which can, for example, be reconfigured between and during calls to dynamically assign resources based upon changes in the amount and type of load being experienced by the system and adjusted in orde r to render existing operating functions more efficient.