A METHOD FOR ACCESSING A MICROCELL USING ANALOG CONTROL CHANNELS

摘要

The process of the present invention monitors a macrocell's control channelusing a microcell having a control channel tuned to the same frequency anddigital color code. Both the microcell and the macrocell have the samecontroller that waits for an access message. Once the access message isreceived, the controller waits for a duplicate access message within apredetermined time. If the duplicate access message is received from themicrocell, the microcell's control channel RSSI of the radiotelephone ismeasured (RSSIm) to determine if it is greater than or equal to the thresholdrequired for adequate communication with the microcell. If the RSSIm isgreater than or equal to the threshold, the radiotelephone is assigned to themicrocell. Otherwise, the radiotelephone is assigned to the macrocell.