Patent ID: 8730827

Claim:
A method to determine signal quality values in a wireless network, comprising: determining a signal power value of a signal received from a plurality of antennas using a second preamble included in a super-frame of the signal, wherein the second preamble includes cell information; determining a noise power value of the signal received from the plurality of antennas using a first preamble included in the super-frame of the signal, wherein the first preamble includes carrier information; determining an interference power value of each sector within a cell using the second preamble, the interference power value of at least one sector of the cell determined using both unoccupied and occupied tones; applying fractional frequency reuse power boosting to the interference power in each sector within the cell using an average power for each of multiple cells; and determining a carrier to interference-plus-noise ratio (CINR) for the signal using the power-boosted interference powers.