Patent ID: 7801071
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication system, comprising: a beamformer that is adapted to provide a plurality of beams, each of the plurality of beams providing communication for a corresponding coverage envelope, the plurality of coverage envelopes comprising at least one pair of overlapping coverage envelopes and at least one pair of non-overlapping coverage envelopes; and a scheduler that assigns system resources from a group of shared system resources to a plurality of receivers distributed throughout the coverage envelopes, the scheduler being adapted to schedule the allocation of the group of shared system resources such that no two users served by a pair of overlapping coverage envelopes are assigned the same system resources from the group of shared system resources for use during a simultaneous data transmission to a receiver in each of the coverage envelopes that comprises the at least one pair of non-overlapping coverage envelopes, wherein the group of shared system resources comprises a group of channelization codes.