Patent ID: 8320339

Claim:
An apparatus configured to support resource reuse in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising: a transmitter configured to generate a transmit signal utilizing at least one of a plurality of resources based on one or more control signals; a resource controller configured to generate the one or more control signals to the transmitter controlling a selection of the at least one of a plurality of resources; an encoder coupled to the transmitter and the resource controller and configured to encode the transmit signal to a first beam from a first beam set associated with the at least one of the plurality of resources; and a plurality of antennas coupled to the encoder and configured to broadcast the encoded transmit signal in the first beam; wherein the first beam set comprises a subset of a plurality of beam sets, and wherein a second beam set comprising a second subset of the plurality of beam sets is associated with a resource distinct from the at least one of the plurality of resources associated with the first beam set; and wherein the first beam set is substantially complementary to the second beam set.