Patent ID: 8478283

Claim:
A method for capacity and coverage enhancement in a wireless network including a plurality of cells, at least one cell having at least one base station and a plurality of relay stations, the base station communicating with one or more user equipments in the cell directly or through one or more relay stations in the cell, the method comprising: collecting, by at least one base station in a cell of the plurality of cells, from a first user equipment in the cell interference information identifying pathloss information between the user equipment and one or more relay stations in the cell determined by the user equipment; determining, based at least in part on the interference information, one or more noisy frequency channels or sub-channels on which interference is most severe; dynamically generating a frequency hopping (FH) pattern that identifies a plurality of frequency channels or sub-channels for the first user equipment based on the one or more noisy frequency channels or sub-channels, wherein no noisy frequency channel or subchannel is used in the FH pattern; and allocating one or more type slot types in a plurality of time slot types of the cell, wherein at least one time slot type comprises a time slot type where the base station operates at a low transmit power mode and transmits data to a second user equipment in a neighborhood of the base station, and at least one of the relay station transmits data to the first user equipment in a neighborhood of the relay station.