Patent ID: 6973314

Claim:
A method comprising: measuring one or more performance characteristics associated with each of at least a subset of a plurality of targets in a wireless communication system, each target a communication target with which to engage in two-way communication, measuring the performance characteristics including: initializing K sets of weights; estimating the signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) for each target for each of the K weights; selecting one of the K weights for each of the targets that maximizes each targets SINR, to produce K clusters of targets based, at least in part, on each target's SINR; identifying a target within each of the cluster(s) with a lowest SINR; generating a new weight for each of the cluster(s) based, at least in part, on the SINR of the identified target within the cluster(s); estimating the performance characteristics of each of the target(s) within each of the cluster(s) using the generated new weight for each of the cluster(s); and regrouping targets according to the weights that provide the best SINR for each of the targets; and selectively building one or more clusters, each cluster including one or more target(s) and which share common wireless communication channel(s), based at least in part on the performance characteristics.