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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2009
Jun Zhou, London, GB;
Linghang Fan, Surrey, GB;
Yuefeng Zhou, Oxshott, GB;
Tetsu Ikeda, Kawasaki, JP;
Jun Zhou, London, GB;
Linghang Fan, Surrey, GB;
Yuefeng Zhou, Oxshott, GB;
Tetsu Ikeda, Kawasaki, JP;
NEC Europe Ltd., Heidelberg, DE;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
For enhancing user throughput and coverage within a multi-cell radio system a method for operating a multi-cell radio system, especially an OFDMA-based radio system including a plurality of base stations, wherein different frequency reuse factors are used within different reuse zones of one cell by a fractional frequency reuse (FFR) scheme, the method includes the following steps: allocating a size or resource to the different reuse zones, and allocating users into different reuse zones. Further, a multi-cell radio system is described, preferably for carrying out the above mentioned method.