the field. While this scheme allows for commonality between all the remote station transmitters in the communication system, the scheme results in a poor inband noise figure for the receiver at the base station thereby limiting the number of remote stations that can communicate with the base station.
One embodiment of the present invention avoids the problems of the prior art by the use of a novel wireless point to multipoint communication system which maximizes the number of remote stations capable of communicating with a base station. The present invention allows for more remote stations by minimizing the inband noise floor of the base station receiver.
The inband noise floor of the base station receiver is affected by, among other things, the strength of the signals in the frequency bandof interest received from the remote stations with which the base station communicates. Prior art systems adjust the gain of the remote station transmitters to be the same value regardless of the distance between an individual remote station and the base station. The gain is typically set at a value to allow the remote station that is furthest from the base station to be able to communicate with the base station, which results in a gain setting for the other remote stations that are closer to the base station than the furthest remote station to have a transmitter gain setting that is higher then necessary to communicate with the base station. The higher gain setting for the closer-in remote stations results in an xe2x80x9cexcess inband signal strengthxe2x80x9d seen