Patent ID: 8761824

Claim:
A method of communicating in a wireless communication network, comprising: communicating on a first carrier at a first transmit power level by a first base station; and communicating on a second carrier at a second transmit power level by the first base station, the second transmit power level being lower than the first transmit power level to reduce interference to a second base station communicating on the second carrier, the first and second base stations belonging in different power classes or supporting different association types, wherein the first and second carriers are for downlink, wherein the communicating on the first carrier comprises sending control information on the first carrier at the first transmit power level to a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE and sending a first data transmission on the first carrier at the first transmit power level to the first UE, and wherein the communicating on the second carrier comprises sending a second data transmission on the second carrier at the second transmit power level to the second UE.