Patent ID: 8681713

Claim:
A carrier assignment method for a cellular system comprised of a wireless network that is comprised of at least a plurality of base stations, and a plurality of mobile stations, wherein said method comprises: a step in which said wireless network classifies each of the mobile stations into a cell center mobile station lying near the base stations and a cell edge mobile station lying away from the base stations from a propagation loss between the mobile station and a base station with which the mobile station communicates and a predetermined cell center threshold value to be used for determining whether a first carrier can be commonly used for a plurality of cells; a step in which said wireless network makes communication with said cell center mobile station using said first carrier and communication with said cell edge mobile station using a second carrier; a step in which said wireless network measures quality of communication using said first carrier; a step in which said wireless network modifies said cell center threshold value using said quality of communication using said first carrier; a step in which one or more of said base stations transmit pilot signals at a certain mobile station; a step in which when, out of levels of reception quality of said pilot signals received at said certain mobile station from said one or more of said plurality of base stations, a ratio of the highest level and the second highest level is greater than said predetermined cell center threshold value, deciding the mobile station as a cell center mobile station, or otherwise, deciding the mobile station as a cell edge mobile station; a step in which when a frequency of retransmission of data blocks, an average number of retransmission for data blocks or transmission delay time for data blocks is greater than a first quality threshold value, modifying the cell center threshold value to a higher value; and a step in which when the frequency of retransmission of data blocks, the average number of retransmission for data blocks or the transmission delay time for data blocks is smaller than a second quality threshold value, modifying the cell center threshold value to a lower value.