Patent ID: 8335529

Claim:
A wireless communication method in which a base station and a wireless terminal communicate with each other, comprising: an operation at which a first and a second base station each including a plurality of beam areas transmit, for each beam area, a pilot signal including identification information to identify the base station and the beam area, in a beam pattern; an operation at which the wireless terminal receives the pilot signals for each beam area from the first and the second base station, and obtains received power of each pilot signal; an operation at which the wireless terminal causes one of the beam areas of the first base station to be a desired wave beam area; an operation at which the wireless terminal determines two data rates for requiring to the base station: one of the data rates being a first data rate used in a case that interference from the second base station is relatively high and another of the data rates being a second data rate used in a case that the interference from the second base station is relatively low; the first data rate being determined based on the received power of a first interference beam area where the received power of the pilot signal from the second base station is highest or where the received power is a previously determined second threshold or higher, and the received power of the pilot signal of the desired wave beam area and; the second data rate being determined based on the received power of a second interference beam area which is one of beam areas where the received power of the pilot signal from the second base station is lower than the received power of the pilot signal of the first interference beam area and, the received power of the pilot signal of the desired wave beam area; an operation at which the wireless terminal transmits the determined first and second data rates to the first base station; an operation at which the first base station assigns a slot to the wireless terminal; an operation at which the first base station refers to beam scheduling information including identification information of a beam pattern to be used in each slot by the second base station, selects, in a case where the identification information of the beam area to be used by the second base station in the slot assigned at the assigning operation is coincident with the identification information of the first interference beam area received from the wireless terminal, the first data rate received from the wireless terminal, and selects, in a case where the identification information of the beam area to be used by the second base station is not coincident with the identification information of the first interference beam area, the second data rate received from the wireless terminal; and an operation at which the wireless terminal decodes the data received from the first base station using the first and second data rate.