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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2009
Giuseppe Caire, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Haralabos Papadopoulos, San Jose, CA (US);
Sean A. Ramprashad, Los Altos, CA (US);
Christine Pepin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Giuseppe Caire, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Haralabos Papadopoulos, San Jose, CA (US);
Sean A. Ramprashad, Los Altos, CA (US);
Christine Pepin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for varying transmit power patterns in a multi-cell wireless transmission environment. In one embodiment, the method comprises varying transmit power coordination patterns for base stations in the wireless communication system to jointly vary base station power over a set of virtual channels over base stations within a cluster and across clusters of base stations; and jointly transmitting by groups of the base stations to one or more user terminals in their respective clusters based on the transmit power coordination patterns.