Patent ID: 8457239

Claim:
A method of operating an apparatus in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: detecting, at the apparatus, an interfering signal emitted from a victim apparatus; estimating among different interference power regions, the different interference power regions respectively corresponding to different interference powers between a potential apparatus and a potential victim apparatus, an interference power region corresponding to an actual interference power between the apparatus and the victim apparatus, the estimating including determining, at the apparatus, a path loss between the apparatus and the victim apparatus; determining from the path loss and an allowed interference level at the victim apparatus a threshold allowed transmit power for a signal to be transmitted from the apparatus; and adjusting, at the apparatus, transmission processing of the signal to be transmitted within the wireless communication system based upon the estimated interference power region and the threshold allowed transmit power, for protecting the victim apparatus against interference, the adjusting comprising selecting an interference avoidance process from among a plurality thereof based upon the estimated interference power region, and performing the selected interference avoidance process, the plurality of interference avoidance processes comprising a side-lobe suppression process.