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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Ritesh K. Madan, Berkeley, CA (US);
Rohit Umesh Nabar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vikram Chandrasekhar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kedar Durgadas Shirali, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An example method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving at least one performance metric from each of a plurality of cells, the at least performance metric associated with a downlink transmission from the cell to one or more user equipment devices associated with the cell. The method further includes determining a fraction of resources for allocation within a fractional frequency reuse portion of a frequency spectrum based upon the received at least one performance metric, and determining a fraction of the resources for allocation within a reuse one portion of the frequency spectrum based upon the determined fraction of resources for allocation within the fractional frequency reuse portion of the frequency spectrum.