Patent ID: 8417255

Claim:
An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising: a memory coupled to at least one processor; the at least one processor configured to: estimate link quality based on a transmission received from a first station; generate first channel quality information (CQI) based on the estimated link quality; send the first CQI to the first station; receive second CQI from a second station, the second CQI being different from the first CQI; receive data sent by the first station according to a first transmission schedule determined by the first station, the first transmission schedule comprising an allocation of radio resources based on the first CQI; identify a second transmission schedule for transmissions to the second station based on the second CQI, the second transmission schedule comprising an allocation of radio resources to the second station based on the second CQI; and send the data to the second station using the allocated radio resources based on the second transmission schedule based on the second CQI.