Patent ID: 8768393

Claim:
A method, comprising: employing enhanced coordinated multi-point transmission by a enhanced node base station (eNB) in a wireless neighborhood to coordinate wireless transmissions to and from a user equipment (UE) traveling through the wireless neighborhood, wherein cellular regions in the wireless neighborhood are combined to form clusters, each cluster comprising a plurality of cellular regions, each cellular region being occupied by one of a plurality of eNBs, the enhanced coordinated multi-point transmission further comprising: receiving, by the eNB, a plurality of path loss calculations, wherein the plurality of path loss calculations comprise path losses between the UE and the plurality of eNBs; and eliminating, by the eNB, one or more of the plurality of eNBs whose path loss exceeds a predefined threshold value, wherein the uneliminated eNBs of the plurality of eNBs comprise cooperating eNBs; and employing enhanced fractional frequency reuse by the eNB in the cluster to allocate a frequency band to be used for the wireless transmissions, wherein the cluster is divided into a center region and a plurality of edge regions, the plurality of edge regions substantially corresponding to the edges of the plurality of cellular regions making up the cluster.