Method and apparatus for reducing co-channel interference in a communcation system
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1. A method of interference avoidance, the method comprising the steps of:
- dividing at least a portion of a frame into a plurality of resource blocks, each resource block capable of supporting transmission to a plurality of remote units; and
for a particular sector, scheduling transmissions to remote units to begin near a beginning of the sector'"'"'s resource block up to a point where the resource block cannot support any more transmissions, beyond that point, additional transmissions are scheduled to be transmitted within resource blocks assigned to other sectors.
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Abstract
A downlink frame (401) is divided in to similar sized resource blocks (403, 405, 407) with each co-channel sector scheduled to transmit from the beginning of its respective assigned resource block. Transmissions to remote units within the particular sector will occur only within the particular resource block, up to a point where all N resource units have been utilized. Beyond that point, additional transmissions are scheduled to be transmitted at the end of the resource blocks assigned to the other sectors.
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1. A method of interference avoidance, the method comprising the steps of:
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dividing at least a portion of a frame into a plurality of resource blocks, each resource block capable of supporting transmission to a plurality of remote units; and
for a particular sector, scheduling transmissions to remote units to begin near a beginning of the sector'"'"'s resource block up to a point where the resource block cannot support any more transmissions, beyond that point, additional transmissions are scheduled to be transmitted within resource blocks assigned to other sectors. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of interference avoidance within a communication system, the method comprising the steps of:
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dividing at least a portion of a frame into a plurality of resource blocks;
assigning each sector within the communication system to a particular resource block;
for a particular sector, assigning N transmissions to the sector'"'"'s resource block; and
for the particular sector, assigning an N+1 transmission to occur within another sector'"'"'s resource block. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An apparatus comprising:
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a plurality of sectors; and
a base station controller dividing at least a portion of a frame into a plurality of resource blocks and assigning each sector within the communication system to a particular resource block, wherein for a particular sector, the base station controller schedules transmissions to remote units to begin near a beginning of the sector'"'"'s resource block up to a point where the resource block cannot support any further transmissions, beyond that point, additional transmissions are scheduled by the controller to be transmitted within resource blocks assigned to other sectors. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17)
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18. A method of interference avoidance, the method comprising the steps of:
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dividing at least a portion of a frame into a plurality of resource blocks, each resource block capable of supporting transmission from a plurality of remote units; and
for a particular sector, scheduling transmissions from remote units to begin near a beginning of the sector'"'"'s resource block up to a point where the resource block cannot support any more transmissions, beyond that point, additional transmissions are scheduled to be transmitted within resource blocks assigned to other sectors.
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