Abstract:
In a wireless communications system each base stations communicates with respective subscriber devices within a geographical area of a wireless cell served by a respective base station. The geographical area of the wireless cell comprises a geographical central area and a geographical edge area. More than a third of all transmission resources available to the serving base station are available for communicating with the subscriber devices located within the geographical edge area of the wireless cell. At least one of the transmission resources available for communicating with each of the subscriber devices currently located within the geographical edge area of the wireless cell is other than any of the transmission resources available for communicating with subscriber devices currently located within geographical edge areas of wireless cells having a geographical edge area that is adjacent to the edge area of the wireless cell at which the subscriber device is located.