| 摘要 |
<p>Methods and apparatus for improved utilization of air link resources are discussed in wireless communications systems employing multi-sector base sta tions and wireless terminals with multiple antennas. Timing synchronization is maintained across the base station sectors, and the same set of tones are used in adjacent sectors. In a sector boundary region, which is typically a high interference region, a wireless terminal is set to a sector pair state and operated in a MIMO mode of operation, communicating with two adjacent b ase station antenna faces of the same base station concurrently, the two dif ferent adjacent base station antenna faces corresponding to different adjace nt sectors. Thus, typically high interference sector boundary regions, are c onverted into high capacity regions by having the sectors coordinated and ut ilizing MIMO techniques.</p> |
