Patent ID: 6947748

Claim:
A method for subcarrier selection for a system employing orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) comprising: a subscriber measuring channel and interference information for a plurality of subcarriers based on pilot symbols received from a base station, wherein the subscriber measuring channel and interference information comprises the subscriber continuously monitoring reception of the pilot symbols known to the base station and measuring signal-plus-interference-to-noise ratio (SINR) of each cluster of subcarriers, and the subscriber measuring intra-cell traffic; the subscriber selecting a set of candidate subcarriers, wherein the subscriber selects candidate subcarriers based, at least in part, on the intra-cell traffic load balancing; the subscriber providing feedback information on the set of candidate subcarriers to the base station; and the subscriber receiving an indication of subcarriers of the set of subcarriers selected by the base station for use by the subscriber.