Wireless network with signaling sequence exchange between a base station and a plurality of terminals

DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is an object of the invention to provide a wireless network in which a terminal exchanges signaling information with the assigned base station in a different manner.
With a wireless network of the type defined in the opening paragraph, the object is achieved in that the base station is provided for transmitting the start time of at least one signaling sequence of at least one terminal, in that the base station includes a device for correlating a received signaling sequence and for detecting the pulse evolved from a received and correlated signaling sequence and in that the base station, after receiving a signaling sequence, is provided for rejecting or acknowledging the request for channel capacity from a terminal over a channel collectively used by a plurality of terminals.
The wireless network according to the invention is understood to mean a network comprising a plurality of radio cells in which a respective base station and a plurality of terminals transmit control data and user data in a wireless fashion.
A wireless transmission is used for transmitting information, for example, by radio, ultrasonic or infrared channels.
After the registration and synchronization, a terminal is to request a certain user channel from the assigned base station for transmitting user data.
Such a user channel may be, for example, a dedicated user channel (for example, for speech transmission) either between base station and terminal or between two terminals.
The channel assignment is carried out by the base station.
According to the invention a terminal sends a request, for example, for a dedicated user channel through a signaling channel predefined by the base station.
The base station is to announce to the terminals at least the start time of a signaling sequence that may be known beforehand.
Alternatively, it is possible that, in addition to the start time also one of various signaling sequences is assigned to the terminals.
Such a signaling sequence is a Gold or a Casami sequence having good auto and cross-correlation properties