Method and apparatus for coverage and throughput enhancement in a wireless communication system

摘要

A multiple access wireless communications architecture provides selective, simultaneous communications with wireless devices located in different sections of a spatial area around a communications apparatus referred to as ''sectors''. In one embodiment, channel allocation techniques for increasing one or more of throughput and coverage in a wireless communications environment. In one embodiment, a mode of operation is selected from a plurality of modes of operation, enabling a wireless communications transmitter to be dynamically configured to reach a wireless communications devices at a greater distance from the transmitter without increased interference between communications channels (''range mode'') by selecting the channel having greatest frequency ''distance'' (gap) to other available channels or to provide wireless communications to a greater number of wireless communications devices within a relatively closer distance to the wireless transmitter (''capacity mode'') by selecting the channel having greatest throughput compared to other available channels or to provide a wireless communications using a single channel to provide wireless communications at a relatively greatest distance from the transmitter (''super range mode'') by selecting the channel having lowest interference compared to all other available channels.