BROADCAST-CENTRIC CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MOBILE STATION

摘要

A broadcast-centric cellular communication system improves broadcast channelperformance by exploiting the benefitsof macro-diversity in a cellular communication system having a plurality ofbase stations that transmit signals within a pluralityof associated cells. The system constructs an identical paging signal at theplurality of base stations, and controls the base stationsto simultaneously transmit the identical paging signal. A mobile station campson a paging channel that is common to the pluralityof base stations, and listens to paging messages being simultaneouslybroadcast by the plurality of base stations. The mobile stationselects a base station having a suitable signal quality, and transmits to theselected base station, a response to a paging messageaddressed to the mobile station.