Patent ID: 8442069

Claim:
A method of wireless communication at a cell, comprising: identifying a network cell and a set of control resources associated with the network cell; allocating a set of control resources, wherein at least a portion of the allocated set of control resources overlaps at least a portion of the set of control resources associated with the identified network cell; and selecting control resources for subsequent use from among the allocated set of control resources such that the selected control resources are substantially free from interference caused by the set of control resources associated with the identified network cell, wherein the set of control resources associated with the identified network cell corresponds to a user equipment (UE)-specific and Radio Resource Control (RRC)/Layer 3 (L3) configurable control region, the UE-specific and RRC/L3 configurable control region comprising resources for one or more of Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), Scheduling Request (SR), and persistent Acknowledgement (ACK) transmission.