EFFICIENT ALLOCATION OF POWER TO BANDWIDTH IN A MULTI-CARRIER CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A cellular communication system includes a plurality of base stations (20), each of which assigns all frequency division multiplex, forward link carriers (32) to either a high- power set (42) of carriers (32) or a low-power set (44) of carriers (32) to improve system capacity and reduce boundary interference in a K=1 frequency reuse plan. The low-power set (44) has fewer members than the high-power set (42). The carriers (32) are simultaneously transmitted, preferably from an omnidirectional antenna (26). Access terminals (76) are configured to select carriers (32) from low-power set (44) for the receipt of data from base stations (20) when such carriers (32) from low-power set (44) provide an acceptable data rate, even though other carriers (32) may have higher SINR.