Patent ID: 7477914

Claim:
A wireless communications network, comprising: a central controller providing for management of pools of base-station resources according to reports of duplicate base-station reception received from a plurality of remote devices; a plurality of wireless base-stations each having a respective service area for supporting communications with said remote devices, and such that individual service areas may duplicate coverage in a plurality of overlapping fringe areas; an inclusive-fringe base-station resource at each of the plurality of wireless base-stations that reserves a pool of frequency bins and time slots for communication with an assigned remote device operating within an adjacent particular one of said overlapping fringe areas according to a report received by the central controller; an exclusive-fringe base-station resource at each of the plurality of wireless base-stations that blanks/de-powers a pool of frequency bins and time slots for communication with a non-assigned remote device operating within a adjacent particular one of said overlapping fringe areas according to a report received by the central controller, and that matches a corresponding inclusive-fringe base-station resource at a neighboring one of the plurality of wireless base-stations; and a general base-station resource that includes all the frequency bins and time slots not otherwise reserved to the inclusive-fringe or exclusive-fringe base-station resources, and providing for communication with all mobile user devices within an individual service area that are further not within any of said plurality of overlapping fringe areas; wherein, the central controller provides for commands to particular ones of the plurality of wireless base-stations to erect or teardown corresponding inclusive-fringe and exclusive-fringe base-station resources according to an analysis of all the reports it receives from the mobile user devices for the whole of the wireless communications network.