Patent ID: 8005479

Claim:
A process for allocating carriers in a multicarrier system, the process comprising: determining a location of a subscriber with respect to a base station; selecting carriers from a band of multi-carriers to allocate to the subscriber according to the location of the subscriber with respect to the base station; allocating selected carriers to the subscriber, indicating to the subscriber whether or not to adjust transmit power to above its normal transmit power range based, at least in part, on the selected carriers allocated to the subscriber; adjusting a power control setting for the subscriber at the base station; and assigning a spectral priority code to the subscriber based on whether the subscriber is near or far from the base station, wherein the spectral priority code assigned to a subscriber far from the base station is higher in priority than the spectral priority code assigned to a subscriber near the base station, and wherein carrier allocation occurs based on the spectral priority code.