Apparatus, method and computer program product providing common channel arrangements for soft frequency reuse

摘要

A device includes circuitry adapted to place at least a portion of at least one common channel on a fraction of an available bandwidth of a cell in a cellular communication system that uses soft reuse such that different orthogonal transmission resources are transmitted with different transmission powers and power usage is planned on a cell-by-cell basis; and a transmitter to transmit the common channel into the cell for reception by a plurality of receivers. Also disclosed is a method and a computer program product operable with the device.