Patent ID: 8145229

Claim:
A method for data-optimized (DO) multi-carrier wireless communications in a base transceiver system comprising the acts of: detecting a wireless subscriber unit within a coverage area; determining a Quality of Service (QoS) for the wireless subscriber unit; determining a radio frequency (RF) condition for the wireless subscriber unit by receiving signal-to-noise ratio information from the wireless subscriber unit; selecting a number of DO carrier frequencies from a set of available DO carrier frequencies to allocate the selected number of DO carrier frequencies to said wireless subscriber unit based on said QoS and said RF condition, wherein each of the selected DO carrier frequencies includes a forward link channel having a plurality of time slots and at least one of the plurality of time slots is assigned to the wireless subscriber unit for each of the selected number of DO carrier frequencies; and allocating bandwidth of the selected number of DO carrier frequencies based on said QoS and said RF condition, wherein the number of DO carrier frequencies selected is less than the set of available DO carrier frequencies and satisfies the determined QoS for the wireless subscriber unit in said RF condition, and wherein when the determined QoS is a low QoS, one DO carrier is selected as a default number of DO carriers, and when the wireless subscriber unit is in a poor RF environment, an additional DO carrier is allocated to satisfy the determined QoS.