Referring now to FIG. 10B, one embodiment of a serving base station apparatus 1050 useful in implementing the methods of the present invention is illustrated. It will be appreciated that the base station apparatus of the invention may take the form of or be integrated with or within literally any type of wireless transmitter, such as e.g., a cellular macrocell (i.e., fully capable fixed cellular network base station), or a fixed or portable femtocell or other such less capable device (assuming adequate intra-cell communication channels exist).
In the illustrated embodiment, the base station apparatus 1050 comprises one or more substrate(s) 1068 (e.g., a plug-in card or the like) that further include a plurality of integrated circuits including a processing subsystem 1062 such as a digital signal processor (DSP), microprocessor, gate array, or plurality of processing components as well as a power management subsystem 1066 that provides power to the base station 1050.
The embodiment of the apparatus 1050 shown in FIG. 10B at a high level comprises a broadcasting circuit configured to broadcast within, for example, an OFDMA network, and which can switch between partial interference cancellation modes and non-interference cancelling modes if desired. The broadcasting subsystem comprises a digital baseband 1058, analog baseband 1056, and RF components for RX 1052 and TX 1054.
The processing subsystem 1062 may comprise a plurality of processors (or multi-core processor(s)). Additionally, the processing subsystem also may include a cache memory 1062A to facilitate processing operations.
