System and Method for Co-Channel Interference Measurement and Managed Adaptive Resource Allocation for Wireless Backhaul

A system for managing resource allocations for a plurality radio links in a wide area wireless backhaul network comprising a plurality of nodes each comprising a transmitter and receiver, comprising:

• processor means for measuring data, comprising at least one of relative path loss and signal strength, indicative of co-channel interference, for each of the plurality of radio links, and
• scheduler means for scheduling resources based on said co-channel interference data to provide at least one of reduced interference between two or more radio links and increased aggregate capacity of two or more radio links.

A method for characterizing co-channel interference between a plurality of radio links in a wide area wireless backhaul network, comprising a plurality of nodes, each node comprising a transmitter and a receiver, comprising:

• measuring the relative path loss or signal strength for each of a plurality of the radio links comprising reserving a predetermined resource block across multiple nodes, and using said predetermined resource block to measure the relative path loss or signal strength between multiple radio transmitters and multiple radio receivers.