Method and apparatus for providing high bandwidth utilization

1. A method comprising:

allocating bandwidth in a radio network utilizing a plurality of cells among a plurality of fractionally overlapped channel bandwidths across said cells for providing communication over said radio network, wherein said cells are grouped for frequency assignment;

assigning different values of center carrier frequencies to groups of said cells for partial transmission overlap depending on the bandwidth allocation, the bandwidth allocation being frequency offset based on the center carrier frequencies, wherein the different values are set to vary frequency reuse over the allocated bandwidth;

determining frequency shift for using offset of the allocated bandwidth to support frequency reuse; and

selecting an optimal degree of frequency shift according to the different values of the center carrier frequencies.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

signaling the offset to a user equipment over either a synchronization channel or a broadcast channel to provide intra-frequency mobility.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the synchronization channel is arranged according to intra-frequency mobility conditions irrespective of the frequency offset for the center frequency.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the assignment of the center carrier frequencies provides partial overlap for spectrums of transmissions.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the radio network complies with a long term evolution (LTE)-compliant architecture.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the center frequencies are assigned to arrange spacing according to granularity of resource blocks (RB).

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the method of claim 1 .

8. An apparatus comprising:

a computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium bearing computer program code embodied therein for use with a computer, the computer program code comprising:

logic configured to allocate bandwidth in a radio network utilizing a plurality of cells among a plurality of fractionally overlapped channel bandwidths across said cells for providing communication over said radio network, wherein said cells are grouped for frequency assignment,

the logic being further configured to assign different values of center carrier frequencies to groups of said cells for partial transmission overlap depending on the bandwidth allocation, the bandwidth allocation being frequency offset based on the center carrier frequencies, wherein the different values are set to vary frequency reuse over the allocated bandwidth, and

wherein the logic is further configured to determine frequency shift for using offset of the allocated bandwidth to support frequency reuse, and to select an optimal degree of frequency shift according to the different values of the center carrier frequencies.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8 , further comprising:

a transceiver configured to signal the offset to a user equipment over either a synchronization channel or a broadcast channel to provide intra-frequency mobility.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the synchronization channel is arranged according to intra-frequency mobility conditions irrespective of the frequency offset for the center frequency.

11. The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the assignment of the center carrier frequencies provides partial overlap for spectrums of transmissions.

12. The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the radio network complies with a long term evolution (LTE)-compliant architecture.

13. An apparatus comprising:

a transceiver configured to transmit within one of a plurality of cells of a radio network utilizing a plurality of cells, wherein the cells are grouped for frequency assignment according to a frequency reuse scheme that assigns different values of center carrier frequencies for the respective groups of said cells for partial transmission overlap depending on a bandwidth allocation, the bandwidth allocation being frequency offset based on the center carrier frequencies, wherein the different values are set to vary frequency reuse over said allocated bandwidth within the radio network, and

wherein a frequency shift is determined for using offset of the allocated bandwidth to support the frequency reuse scheme, an optimal degree of frequency shift is selected according to the different values of the center carrier frequencies.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the transceiver is further configured to receive the offset over either a synchronization channel or a broadcast channel to provide intra-frequency mobility.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein the synchronization channel is arranged according to intra-frequency mobility conditions irrespective of the frequency offset for the center frequency.

16. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the assignment of the center carrier frequencies provides partial overlap for spectrums of transmissions.

17. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the apparatus is a user equipment.