A wireless office communication system including a wireless internet base station
(WIBS) encompassing a base station controller, a mobile switch controller and an
ethernet interface module for coupling the WIBS to an existing internet protocol
(IP) based network. A wireless office communication system can also be based on
the conventional architecture comprising the BTS, BSC and MSC. The WIBS or BTS
is attached to a number of antennas via different and identifiable delay elements
for the purpose of determining the serving antennas of mobile communication units.
A location determination logic enables the system to handle handoffs between a
WIBS or BTS and the external public communication system in an optimum manner.
Handling handoff requests in this manner prevents unnecessary ping-ponging of handoff
and can also increase the percentage of successful handoff by frequency monitoring
of the quality of the mobile communication units located in the handoff transition
area, particularly to the public communication system.
