Patent ID: 8233926

Claim:
A system for wireless communication comprising: a plurality of base transceiver stations, each respective base transceiver station having a plurality of antennas; a network connecting the base transceiver stations; an interference schedule forward control channel configured to send interference training signals from one of the base transceiver stations to an associated subscriber station; and an interference measurement reverse control channel configured to receive preferred transmission mode data from the associated subscriber station by the one of the base transceiver stations; wherein the plurality of base transceiver stations are configured to inter-communicate spatial mode schedules and scheduling decisions; further comprising a multi-base scheduling function configured to coordinate actions of the scheduling decisions; wherein the multi-base scheduling function is configured to: designate each of the base transceiver stations as a lead base transceiver station in a serial fashion; allow the lead base transceiver station to make scheduling decisions locally for the duration of the lead base transceiver station designation; report from the lead base transceiver station to other base transceiver stations spatial formatting methods to be used by the designated lead base transceiver station; and allow each base transceiver station that is not currently designated as the lead base transceiver station to make respective scheduling decisions in response to a kind of interference that will be generated by the reported spatial formatting methods to be used by the designated lead base transceiver station.