Patent ID: 8305981

Claim:
A band Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) method performed by a mobile station in a broadband wireless access system, which shares resources with a neighboring base station neighboring a service base station, the band AMC method comprising: identifying a channel status for each band of the neighboring base station by periodically scanning the neighboring base station; receiving, by the mobile station, a Neighbor Report Request (NBR-REP-REQ) message for requesting that the mobile station report the identified channel status for each band of the neighboring base station; selecting, by the mobile station, information corresponding to the identified channel status. transmitting, by the mobile station, a Neighbor Report Response (NBR-REP-RSP) message for requesting a conversion to a band sharing AMC mode, wherein the NBR-REP-RSP message comprises the selected information corresponding to the identified channel status; and converting a current mode to the band sharing AMC mode if the identified channel status satisfies a predetermined condition, wherein the band sharing AMC mode is for sharing a predetermined number of best bands among bands of the service base station and bands of the neighboring base station.