Patent ID: 8797970

Claim:
A method for wireless communication, said method comprising: measuring, at a subscriber station, one or more channel characteristics of a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) subcarriers hosted by a first antenna resource and a second antenna resource located at a base station, wherein said one or more channel characteristics are indicative of reception quality for a corresponding OFDMA subcarrier of said plurality of OFDMA subcarriers, and wherein said first antenna resource and said second antenna resource include a plurality of antennas; sending, from said subscriber station, to said base station, data corresponding to said measured one or more channel characteristics; receiving, at said subscriber station, notification of an assignment of one or more OFDMA subcarriers of said plurality of OFDMA subcarriers, wherein said assignment is based at least on said measured one or more channel characteristics of said first antenna resource and said second antenna resource, and wherein at least one OFDMA subcarrier of said plurality of OFDMA subcarriers of said assignment is different from said first antenna resource and said second antenna resource; updating, periodically, said measured one or more channel characteristics by periodically measuring, at said subscriber station, said one or more channel characteristics of said plurality of OFDMA subcarriers hosted by said first antenna resource and said second antenna resource of said base station; sending, periodically, from said subscriber station to said base station, updated data corresponding to said periodically measured one or more channel characteristics; and receiving notification of reassignments of one or more reassigned OFDMA subcarriers of said plurality of OFDMA subcarriers, wherein said reassignments are based at least on said updated measured one or more channel characteristics of said first antenna resource and said second antenna resource.