Patent ID: 7738875

Claim:
A method for finding locations of base stations and using location information of said base stations to increase frequency reuse in a wireless network comprising the steps of: periodically scanning said base stations by each of a plurality of terminals on entry into the wireless network by ways of transmitting digital signals from said plurality of terminals to said base stations; periodically estimating respective distances from said base stations by each of said plurality of terminals using transmitted digital signals; periodically transmitting distance information including periodically estimated distances by each of said plurality of terminals to a central controller connected to the wireless network; storing and processing said distance information by said central controller; periodically determining relative locations of said base stations with respect to said plurality of terminals by said central controller using the stored and the processed distance information; and electronically steering respective antennas of said base stations with OFDMA/TDMA/FDMA type of physical layer based on the periodically determined relative locations of said base stations and plurality of terminals to increase frequency reuse by a scheduler in said central controller.