Patent ID: 8412249

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining, based on an interference mitigation pattern, a plurality of downlink transmission powers associated with a corresponding plurality of subcarriers available to a base station, wherein the interference mitigation pattern determines power level sets used by each base station to transmit over the downlink so that each base station can concurrently transmit over a first portion of the subcarriers in a low power level set and over a second portion of the subcarriers in a high power level set subject to the constraint that base stations serving adjacent cells do not transmit on the same subcarrier using a downlink transmission power in the high power level set; determining, based on the plurality of downlink transmission powers, a plurality of priority metrics indicating priorities for allocating each of the plurality of subcarriers to said at least one mobile unit; and assigning at least one of the plurality of subcarriers to said at least one mobile unit based on the plurality of priority metrics, wherein assignment of the plurality of subcarriers proceeds in a predetermined assignment order that is determined based on the interference mitigation pattern.