Patent ID: 8046019

Claim:
A method for determining transmission power for a user in a network, the method comprising: receiving, by a user, a plurality of interference indicators, the user being associated with a sector, the plurality of interference indicators corresponding to a plurality of sectors respectively, each of the plurality of sectors being associated with one of a plurality of users and a base station, wherein each of the plurality of interference indicators respectively corresponds to an interference metric κ j associated with one sector j, j being an index for representing any one of the plurality of sectors, and wherein the interference metric κ j is broadcast by the sector j as a ratio of a quantity that equals to a predetermined interference constraint I max for the sector j subtracting a background noise N j at the sector j over inter-sector interference I j present in the sector j arising from other sectors; processing at least information associated with the plurality of interference indicators; selecting an interference indicator from the plurality of interference indicators based on at least information associated with the plurality of interference indicators, the selected interference indicator corresponding to one of the plurality of sectors; determining a gain indicator corresponding to both the terminal and the one of the plurality of sectors; processing information associated with the gain indicator; and determining a transmission power for the user based on at least information associated with the gain indicator and the selected interference indicator.