Patent ID: 7474895

Claim:
A method for frequency reuse in a wireless communication system, comprising: allocating available frequency channels at different channel frequencies for a base station into a nonreusable frequency pool for channel frequencies designated for use by the base station only, a reusable frequency pool for channel frequencies that can be used by the base station and neighboring base stations, and an unallocated frequency pool for channel frequencies that are not allocated to the nonreusable and the reusable frequency pool; allocating a channel frequency from either the reusable frequency pool or the unallocated frequency pool to a wireless subscriber station in communication with the base station when the wireless subscriber station is in a non-hand-off zone to communicate with the base station only; and allocating a channel frequency from the nonreusable frequency pool for the base station to a wireless subscriber station in communication with the base station when the wireless subscriber station is in a hand-off zone to communicate with the base station and at least one neighboring base station.