Patent ID: 8509177

Claim:
A method for transmitting a combined frequency reuse communication in a wireless network wherein said wireless network comprises at least two base stations, each of which is operative to transmit communications to at least three sectors and wherein communications transmitted by each of said at least two base stations are transmitted along a plurality of sub-channels associated with given frequency channel partitions, the method comprising: providing at least one of said transmitted combined frequency reuse communication frames comprising at least one sub-channel operative in accordance with a first reuse scheme and at least one other sub-channel operative in accordance with a second reuse scheme which is different from said first reuse scheme; assigning transmission power for conveying communications along at least one sub-channel in each of said at least three sectors according to said first reuse scheme; assigning transmission power for conveying communications along at least one sub-channel in each of the other sectors according to said first reuse scheme; and wherein the transmission power for conveying communications along at least one sub-channel assigned in each of said at least three sectors according to said first reuse scheme, is substantially equal to the transmission power used for conveying communications according to said first reuse scheme in each of the other sectors, and providing the at least one other sub-channel operative in accordance with the second reuse scheme, configured to convey communications at a transmission power higher than a first pre-defined threshold in at least one of said at least three sectors and to convey communications in at least one of the other sectors at a transmission power level lower than said first pre-defined threshold but higher than a second pre-defined threshold.