Patent ID: 8326341

Claim:
A method comprising: storing in a local computer-readable memory a set of J predetermined power level offsets that scale transmission power per user; selecting, by at least one processor, a set of N users to which are allocated overlapping downlink frequency resources; selecting from the set, by the at least one processor, a power level offset; signaling, via at least one transmitter, to at least one of the N users an indication of the selected power level offset; and sending, via the at least one transmitter, a multiplexed transmission to the N users in which the transmission to the at least one of the N users is sent with the selected power level offset; in which N is an integer at least equal to two, J is an integer at least equal to two, and at least one member of the set is other than 1/n in which n is any positive integer less than Nina, in which Nina, is a maximum number of users that can be multiplexed together, wherein there are at least two of the selected N users whose downlink frequency resources only partially overlap with one another.