Interference-Improved Uplink Data Rates for a Group of Mobile Stations Transmitting to a Base Station

A base station for communicating in a radio communications system, comprising:

• electronic circuitry configured to:
• identify a set of candidate mobile stations as a candidate transmitting set,
• determine a transmit power allowable from the mobile stations in the candidate transmitting set,
• identify a subset of the candidate mobile stations in the candidate transmitting set;
• and
• assign transmission resources to the subset of candidate mobile stations so as to maximize a total number of bits processed by the base station that are received in uplink transmissions from the subset of candidate mobile stations, and
• a radio receiver for receiving the uplink transmissions from the subset of the candidate mobile stations.

A radio communications system comprising:

• multiple mobile stations, and
• a set of base stations for serving the multiple mobile stations distributed over a coverage area, each base station having multiple antennas for implementing a Selective-Per-Antenna-Rate-Control (S-PARC) scheme and including:
• electronic circuitry configured to:
• identify from the multiple mobile stations a set of candidate mobile stations as a candidate transmitting set,
• determine a transmit power allowable from the mobile stations in the candidate transmitting set,
• identify a subset of the candidate mobile stations in the candidate transmitting set;
• and
• assign transmission resources to the subset of candidate mobile stations so as to maximize a total number of bits processed by the base station that are received in uplink transmissions from the subset of candidate mobile stations, and
• a radio receiver for receiving the uplink transmissions from the subset of the candidate mobile stations.