Patent ID: 8170567

Claim:
A method for managing radio resources in a wireless cellular network with relay stations, comprising: operating a base station to provide a base station link-quality matrix to indicate quality of a link between the base station to at least one or more relay stations subordinate to the base station, and one or more subscriber stations, where each element in the link-quality matrix corresponds to a network link and quantifies a quality of a link connecting to at least one or more relay stations subordinate to the base station, and one or more subscriber stations; and operating the base station to allocate frame elements in signal transmission based on the quality of a link between the base station to the at least one or more relay stations subordinate to the base station and the one or more subscriber stations; wherein the frame elements in signal transmissions are allocated to achieve concurrent reuse based on locations and a spatial distribution of the base station, the at least one or more relay stations subordinate to the base station and the one or more subscriber stations.