Patent ID: 8897236

Claim:
A method for wireless communication in a wireless communications network in which at least a first base station of a first cell and a second base station of a second cell share resource blocks (RBs) via a frequency division multiplexing (FDM) scheme, the method comprising: identifying, by the first base station, a set of RBs for transmitting a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), wherein the second base station is scheduled to limit transmissions using the identified set of RBs; identifying one or more guard RBs surrounding the identified set of RBs; and transmitting the PDSCH using the identified RBs with limited or no transmissions by either the first or second base stations in the guard RBs; wherein: the identified set of RBs are a distributed resource allocation; and the guard RBs comprise one or more RBs on each side of one or more different portions of the identified set of RBs.