Communication system
View Patent ↗A communication system includes a control unit, a switch and a diversity hand-over processing unit connected to the control unit and the switch for receiving both a first communication signal received from a radio base station which outputs the hand-over instruction, and a second communication signal received from another radio base station to which the communication signal will be hand-over so as to output one of the first and second communication signals to the associated interface circuit. The diversity hand-over processing unit transmits the communication signal received through the radio base station from the mobile station on the reception side for communication to both the interface circuit associated with the radio base station as a source of hand-over and the interface circuit associated with the radio base station as a destination of hand-over.
1. A communication apparatus performing a diversity hand-over from a first radio base station to a second radio base station among a plurality of radio base stations when a radio terminal has moved from a first location to a second location, comprising:
a plurality of input and output ports;
a switch transferring communication signals from said plurality of input ports to at least one of said plurality of output ports in accordance with routing information included in the respective communication signals; and
a diversity hand-over processing unit connected to a succeeding side of said switch and including control functions for receiving from a communication source both a first communication signal incoming from said radio terminal through said first radio base station and a second communication signal incoming from said radio terminal through said second radio base station and selecting one of said first and second communication signals to be transferred to a communication destination.
2. A communication apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a plurality of interface units performing transmission and reception of the communication signals between said plurality of radio base stations.
3. A communication apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a plurality of interface units performing transmission and reception of the communication signals between said plurality of radio base stations, and between other communication apparatuses.
4. A communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of said diversity hand-over processing units are connected to the succeeding side of said switch in parallel.