Patent ID: 8644838

Claim:
A method for acquiring a Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) power pattern of Frequency Partitions (FPs) at a mobile station (MS) in a wireless communication system using the FFR, the method comprising: receiving a super frame header (SFH) from a base station (BS); and acquiring an FFR power pattern for a reuse-1 partition and reuse-N partitions using the received SFH, wherein the FFR power pattern is determined by the equation k=segment identifier (ID) of the BS+1, wherein k is an index of the FFR power pattern, wherein the reuse-N partitions include N FPs, each having a power level with a range of FP1_power level to FPN_power level, and wherein a power level of a power-boosted FP in the reuse-N partitions corresponding to each FFR power pattern is set to the FP1_power level.