Patent ID: 8315637

Claim:
A method for transmitting a signal from a mobile station in a multi-cell environment, the method comprising: receiving information indicating a specific frequency partition allocated to the mobile station according to a fractional frequency reuse scheme; receiving modulation and coding scheme (MCS) level information related to the specific frequency partition or a specific resource region within the specific frequency partition; controlling transmit power corresponding to an MCS level according to a location of the mobile station within a cell if the specific frequency partition is a frequency partition shared with a mobile station located at an edge region of a neighboring cell; and transmitting a signal at the controlled transmit power, wherein the signal is transmitted using transmit power corresponding to a predefined reference value if the controlled transmit power is less than the predefined reference value, and wherein the frequency partition shared with the mobile station located at the edge of the neighboring cell includes at least a frequency partition having a frequency reuse rate of 1 or a frequency partition having a frequency reuse rate that is the reciprocal of an integer and used by one or more mobile stations located at the edge of the neighboring cell.