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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2012
Arthur Brisebois, Cumming, GA (US);
Sharat S. Chander, Woodridge, IL (US);
Arthur Brisebois, Cumming, GA (US);
Sharat S. Chander, Woodridge, IL (US);
AT&T Mobility II LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
System(s), method(s), and device(s) that facilitate managing resources associated with communication devices are presented. A mobile device(s) at cell edge identifies its in-use resource blocks (RBs) to a neighbor base station, or in-use RBs of a neighbor base station to the serving base station. In the former instance, the neighbor base station sorts RBs in ascending order based on signal strengths respectively associated with the RBs and mobile devices; in the latter instance, the serving base station ranks RBs in ascending order based on signal strengths respectively associated with the RBs and neighbor base stations. RBs having weakest signal strength are reused first for mobile devices at cell edge. Base station establishes a direct wireless radio path with another base station facilitated by employing a sequence of subframes where all subframes but a specified subframe are blanked, and data is transmitted between base stations during the specified subframe.