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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2009
Chandrasekar Sankaran, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Stanley J. Benes, Round Lake Beach, IL (US);
Philip J. Fleming, Glen Ellyn, IL (US);
Chandrasekar Sankaran, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Stanley J. Benes, Round Lake Beach, IL (US);
Philip J. Fleming, Glen Ellyn, IL (US);
Motorola Mobility, Inc., Libertyville, IL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for fractional frequency reuse in a communication system. The method includes a first stepof partitioning a sub-frame into resource partitions, wherein at least one resource partition has frequency reuse of one and all other resource partitions have frequency reuse greater than one. A next stepincludes scheduling resources for a mobile station in a sector in each resource partition used by that sector.