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Efficient Allocation of Power to Bandwidth In a Multi-Carrier Cellular Communication System

  • US 20100265927A1
  • Filed: 04/21/2009
  • Published: 10/21/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2009
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. In a communication system providing radio coverage over a plurality of distinct geographical regions in which a radio-frequency (RF) bandwidth is divided into a plurality of frequency-division multiplexed (FDM) forward link carriers and repeatedly reused throughout said regions, a method of communicating with an efficient allocation of power to bandwidth comprising:

  • providing an antenna for each of said distinct geographical regions;

    assigning, for each of said distinct geographical regions, every one of said plurality of FDM forward link carriers to either a first set or a second set of said FDM forward link carriers;

    transmitting, from said antenna associated with each of said distinct geographical regions, a radio-frequency signal using said first set of said FDM forward link carriers and said second set of said FDM forward link carriers, wherein;

    a strongest member of said second set of said FDM forward link carriers is transmitted at lower power than a weakest member of said first set of FDM forward link carriers, andsaid second set of said FDM forward link carriers has at least one of said FDM forward link carriers and at most 50% of the number of said FDM forward link carriers included in said first set of said FDM forward link carriers.

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