Method and apparatus for the synchronisation of the physical layers in heterogeneous mobile communications networks

摘要

The method according to the present invention provides synchronization in a heterogeneous mobile network, for the purpose of interoperability, of a wireless local area network, in which a medium is reserved for a certain service or user in radio channel reservation periods (702) of variable duration, to a radio access network, transmitting data in transmission time intervals of pre-defined duration (603). The variable duration of a radio channel reservation period (702) is defined such that it ends by a pre-defined time period (609) before the end of a transmission time interval (603). The method may be implemented in an access point (1400) of a heterogeneous network as well as in a mobile station (1500).