Patent ID: 7751367

Claim:
A system, comprising: a plurality of remote stations each comprising a plurality of sectors, wherein each remote station comprises: a processor which determines sector load information; and a transmitter which transmits the sector load information; and a wireless communicator, served by a current serving sector, comprising: a channel quality estimator which measures the carrier-to-interference (C/I) ratio for each sector in the wireless communicator's Active Set (AS); a memory which stores the carrier-to-interference (C/I) ratio measurements for the sectors in the wireless communicator's Active Set (AS); and a processor which determines a new serving sector based on the carrier-to-interference (C/I) ratio measurements and the sector load information for each of the AS sectors, wherein each sector has a plurality of neighbor sectors, and wherein the current serving sector transmits the sector load information for all neighbor sectors to the wireless communicator.