Patent ID: 8229369

Claim:
A method performed by a receiver device for mitigating interference in a communication network, comprising: selecting a subset from a plurality of disjoint subsets of degrees of freedom as a function of an identifier, the identifier is determined by at least one of a transmitter device or the receiver device, wherein a degree of freedom corresponds to a communication resource unit of the communication network, the selected subset comprising a plurality of resource blocks, and each resource block comprising a number of degrees of freedom; selecting, as a function of the identifier, at least one degree of freedom within each of the plurality of resource blocks, the selected degrees of freedom comprising a first portion of a signal, the first portion being transmitted by the transmitter device; receiving the signal; and based on determining that energy of a second portion of the signal transmitted by at least one interfering transmitter is present in resource blocks of the subset other than the selected resource blocks, discarding the received signal.