Patent ID: 8111655

Claim:
A method of wireless base station performance enhancement using coordinated beam forming in a wireless system having a plurality of wireless base stations having antenna systems capable of beam forming, the method comprising: identifying neighboring base stations using a receiver of at least one of the plurality of wireless base stations; determining characteristics of the neighboring base stations to be used to optimize capacity and coverage among two or more of the base stations; and configuring the antenna system of the two or more of the base stations based upon the determined characteristics to optimize capacity and coverage among the two or more of the base stations based on predetermined criteria by coordinating spatial resources among the two or more of the base stations, coordinating power resources among the two or more of the base stations, and coordinating other radio resources among the two or more of the base stations, wherein the predetermined criteria include one or more of pilot or reference signal strength, bit error rate or packet error rate, data throughput, required data rate, and quality of service requirements.