Mobile femto-cell in a wireless safety network

1. A mobile femto-cell providing localized communication within a moving vehicle comprising:

a primary radio interface to provide services within the mobile femto-cell coverage area;

a secondary radio interface to communicate with a macro-cell and a service provider core network,

wherein the primary radio interface is configured to provide service to a multiplicity of selected users inside the vehicle; and

wherein the secondary radio interface is configured to carry communication intended for said multiplicity of selected users inside a multi-user packet; and

wherein dedicated user traffic of said multiplicity of selected users received on the primary radio interface is aggregated into a multi-user packet by a mobile femto-cell media access control (MAC) layer before transmission to the macro-cell via the secondary radio interface; and

wherein said mobile femto-cell MAC layer provides identification of a selected user packet within a multi-user packets transmitted on the secondary radio interface;

wherein an aggregated multi-user packet received from the macro-cell on the secondary radio interface containing user traffic intended for the multiplicity of selected users inside the vehicle is de-aggregated by the mobile femto-cell MAC layer into single user packets before said single user packets containing the user traffic received from the macro-cell on the secondary interface are sent to the multiplicity of selected users via the primary radio interface.

2. The mobile femto-cell of claim 1 , wherein one selected user of the multiplicity of selected users completes handover between a macro-cell and the mobile femto-cell, the mobile femto-cell sends a message to the macro-cell on the secondary radio interface indicating presence of the selected user of the multiplicity of selected users; and wherein upon receiving said message, the user traffic intended for the selected user of the multiplicity of selected users is included in the multi-user packet transmitted on the secondary interface, while said user traffic previously transmitted by the macro-cell on the secondary radio interface is terminated.

3. The mobile femto-cell of claim 1 wherein said primary radio interface supports one or multiplicity of wireless cellular radio access technologies.

4. The mobile femto-cell of claim 1 wherein said secondary radio interface operates in the same or different cellular radio frequency channel as the primary radio interface.

5. The mobile femto-cell of claim 1 wherein said secondary radio interface uses same or different cellular radio access technology as the primary radio interface.

6. A method of providing wireless communication inside a vehicle comprising the steps of:

signaling the presence of a selected user presence inside the vehicle to a macro-cell;

receiving single user packets from a multiplicity of users located inside the vehicle using a mobile femto-cell primary radio interface;

aggregating the single user packets into a multi-user packet in a mobile femto-cell media access control (MAC) layer before transmission to the macro-cell;

wherein the aggregating further comprises providing, by the mobile femto-cell MAC layer, identification of a selected user packet within the multi-user packet transmitted on the secondary radio interface;

transmitting said multi-user packet to the macro-cell on a mobile femto-cell secondary interface;

receiving multi-user packets from a macro-cell using the mobile femto-cell secondary radio interface;

de-aggregating, at the mobile femto-cell MAC layer, said multi-user packets received from the macro-cell into individual user packets; and

transmitting said individual user packets containing user traffic to the multiplicity of users inside the vehicle on the mobile femto-cell primary radio interface.

7. The mobile femto-cell of claim 1 , wherein upon one selected user of the multiplicity of selected users completes handover between the mobile femto-cell and the macro-cell, the mobile femto-cell sends a message to the macro-cell on the secondary radio interface informing absence of the selected user of the multiplicity of selected users; and wherein upon reception of said message, current communication to the selected user of the multiplicity of selected users is transferred to the macro-cell dedicated radio interface while said user traffic transmitted on the secondary radio interface is terminated.