Traffic forwarding by radio relay in personal communication networks

Base stations for personal wireless communications are ordinarily connected to switching facilities through a wired network. This paper examines applications for radio relay of traffic among base stations, particularly as a protective fallback or startup alternative to wired base station networks. We presume that a portion of the PCN access channels are used instead for base station-to-base station links. We show, for a simple serving area model, that roughly fifteen percent of the traffic capacity of a wired base station network can be salvaged through radio relay if the wired network fails.