Apparatus, method and computer program product providing common channel arrangements for soft frequency reuse
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1. A method comprising:
- placing 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
transmitting the common channel into the cell for reception by a plurality of receivers.
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Abstract
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.
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1. A method comprising:
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placing 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
transmitting the common channel into the cell for reception by a plurality of receivers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A computer program product comprising program instructions embodied on a tangible computer-readable medium, execution of the program instructions resulting in operations comprising:
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placing 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
transmitting the common channel into the cell for reception by a plurality of receivers. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A computer program product comprising program instructions embodied on a tangible computer-readable medium, execution of the program instructions resulting in receiver operations comprising:
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receiving at least a portion of at least one common channel from different orthogonal transmission resources on a fraction of an available bandwidth of at least one of higher transmission power or a lower transmission power of soft reuse; and
using information in the received common channel. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A device comprising:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52)
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- 53. A device comprising circuitry adapted to receive at least a portion of at least one common channel from different orthogonal transmission resources on a fraction of an available bandwidth of at least one of higher transmission power or a lower transmission power of soft reuse.
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