Software download for a subscriber terminal of a wireless telecommunications system

摘要

Software is down-loaded from a central station 10 of a wireless telecommunications system 1 to a remote subscriber station 20 for configuring the remote subscriber station to permit wireless connection of user telecommunications equipment at the remote subscriber station to the central station. A multi-layer down-load protocol (figure 26) includes a number of independent protocol layers, preferably operating a master-slave configuration. Each protocol layer is arranged separately to manage respective sequence numbers for messages transmitted during a down-load session and reports a fault when a sequence number error is detected. Control software is arranged with a device independent boot-strap and a set of device specific external service parameters to provide software pertability.