Abstract: Methods and systems for simultaneous determination of channel resource allocations and beam vectors for uplink frames are disclosed. One method includes receiving batch information from client devices indicating amounts of data to be transmitted on the uplink by the client devices. Further, signal quality can be measured on channel resources for each of the client devices and for each of a plurality of beam vectors. Additionally, rate information for the channel resources for each of the client devices is determined based on signal quality measurements. Moreover, the method includes computing, based on the batch information and the rate information, utilities for allocations of the channel resources to the client devices and for the beam vectors for at least one uplink frame and selecting, based on the utilities, at least one of the beam vectors and at least one of the allocations for transmission of the data on the uplink frame(s).

Abstract: Systems and methods for resource management in distributed femtocell networks include categorizing a clients into a first category that includes interference-insensitive clients and a second category that includes interference-sensitive clients and sub-categorizing the clients in the second category into a low-sensitivity sub-category and a high-sensitivity sub-category. A desired local reuse zone is determined based on a number of interference-insensitive clients and a common reuse zone size is determined based on transmissions from neighboring base stations. Positions for a local reuse zone, transition zone, and isolation zone within a frame are allocated based on the desired local reuse zone and the common reuse zone size. Probing is used on a coarse time scale to determine whether network conditions have changed and, if network conditions have changed, a fine time scale is used for probing to adjust zone sizes according to the changed network conditions.