Adaptive carrier assignment in multiple reuse patterns for packet data systems based on service type and user location

摘要

A system and method of assigning frequencies from a reuse group according to service type and subscriber location in a wireless communications network utilizing multiple reuse frequency groups for the assignment of transmission channels. Initially, a mobile station requests a transmission channel. A network element then receives the request and determines the data rate requirements of the mobile station for the level of service provided by the network to the mobile station. Concurrently, the signal strength from the mobile station to a serving base station subsystem is measured. The network element then assigns a frequency to the mobile station which belongs to a reuse frequency group that supports the data rate requirements at the signal strength measured.