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A wireless communication system can implement beamforming across multiple omni-directional antennas to create beams at different spatial directions. The communication system can arrange the beams in sets, with each set arranged to provide substantially complete coverage over a predetermined coverage

A wireless communication system can implement beamforming across multiple omni-directional antennas to create beams at different spatial directions. The communication system can arrange the beams in sets, with each set arranged to provide substantially complete coverage over a predetermined coverage area. The communication system can arrange the multiple SDMA beam sets to support substantially complementary coverage areas, such that a main beam from a first set provides coverage to a weak coverage area of the second beam set. The wireless communication system assigns or otherwise allocates substantially orthogonal resources to each of the beam sets. The wireless communication system allocates resources to a communication link using a combination of beam sets and substantially orthogonal resources in order to provide improved coverage without a corresponding increase in interference.

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What is claimed is: 1. A method of resource reuse in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:determining terminal information;determining a first beam in a first beam set from a plurality of beam sets based upon the terminal information, each beam in the first beam set associated with

What is claimed is: 1. A method of resource reuse in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:determining terminal information;determining a first beam in a first beam set from a plurality of beam sets based upon the terminal information, each beam in the first beam set associated with a subset of resources of a plurality of resources;transmitting signals utilizing the first beam in the first beam set on at least some of the subset of resources; andtransitioning transmission of signals from the first beam to a second beam of a second beam set different than the first beam set, and on another subset of the resources orthogonal with respect to the subset of resources associated with the first beam set, the another subset being associated with the second beam set, wherein positions of the beams in the first beam set are complementary to positions of the beams in the second beam set such that a beam from the first beam set provides strong coverage to a weak coverage area of the second beam set.