US Patent 7257406 Restrictive reuse set management

A restrictive reuse set management algorithm for equal grade of service on a forward link (FL) transmission is described. While a restrictive reuse algorithm is known to improve the SINR of weak users in interference limited networks, the fairness issue associated with restrictive reuse has not been explored. The bandwidth allocated to each reuse set, the reuse set loading and the harmonic mean of the spectral efficiencies of all users sharing the reuse set are used to estimate the equal-grade-of-service (EGoS) user throughput over the reuse set. An iterative algorithm is then designed to maximize the sector throughput under the constraint of equal user throughput over all reuse sets.