Abstract: A single-cell wireless communication system is partitioned into n sectors, to which channels are allocated from two groups of non-adjacent channels. If the available channels are consecutively numbered from lowest to highest frequency, or vice versa, the groups are, respectively, the even-numbered channels and the odd-numbered channels. These two groups are each subdivided into n/2 sets, with the first set of each group including the lowest numbered channels of the group, the next set including the next lowest-numbered channels of the group, and so forth. The sets are then allocated to the sectors such that the first set of one of the groups is allocated to a first sector, the next set of the same group is allocated to a contiguous sector and so forth, with the last set of the second group allocated to the nth sector.

Abstract: A radio frequency control technique for use in a wideband communications system, such as a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system in which the use of several wideband forward channels is allocated in each cell depending upon the apparent location of the mobile station in the cell. In particular, a first set of forward channel frequencies is reserved for the mobiles located within a first certain radius of the base station antenna, and a second set of channels serve the area forming mobiles located in a concentric annular ring centered around the base station antenna. Third, fourth, and subsequent concentric rings may be used to provide successively longer radii from the base station to support the use of additional frequency sets in each cell.

Abstract: A technique for allocating frequencies in a cellular communication system. The frequency reuse plan divides all available frequencies into six groups with the frequencies assigned in an ascending index order modulo 6. A three cell reuse plan is implemented with six 60.degree. sectorized antennas per cell, and two frequency groups being assigned for use in each cell. The channel groups are allocated to the sectors such that no two adjacent sectors use the same frequency groups. As a result, an effective times one frequency reuse plan is implemented. A frequency assignment process which attempts to avoid assigning the same frequency to a mobile which is located in the outer portion of a sector which is also in use in potential interfering outer sectors of homologous cells insures that carrier to interference (C/I) ratio minimums can be met without specialized encoding techniques.