the invention will be described for the purposes of illustration only in connection with certain embodiments ; however , it is to be understood that other objects and advantages of the present invention will be made apparent by the following description of the drawings according to the present invention . while a preferred embodiment is disclosed , this is not intended to be limiting . rather , the general principles set forth herein are considered to be merely illustrative of the scope of the present invention and it is to be further understood that numerous changes may be made without straying from the scope of the present invention . the present invention includes a beam rotation scheme for the downlink of a wireless system using multiple directional beams / antennas ( e . g ., tri - sector or 9 - beam ). such rotations in the adjacent cells are done in different cycles so that the users in the overlapping areas observe reduced interference in some time slots for which the system can transmit to them . when a beam rotates , the mobiles in the edge of the beam coverage area will be placed in the middle of the beam thus improving the signal level . similarly , the signal power from the interfering beams will also be improved or reduced . since beams in the adjacent cells have different beam wobbling pattern , a mobile experiences all the combinations of beam rotation possibilities , one of which would give the best c / i for transmission . overall , substantially all the users can improve their c / i value by selecting a time slot that avoids interference . this will improve both coverage and capacity significantly . the rotations can be improved by existing beam forming methods . while it should clearly be understood that many factors , such as beam pattern , number of sectors , modulation , . . . etc . are possible , the results show significant capacity and coverage improvements with , for example , a half beam width rotation with a nine beam asymmetric antennae . with symmetric antennae and finer angles of rotation ( e . g ., quarter width ) even better improvements are possible . when multiple beams transmit in the downlink , the mobiles in the beam overlapping area get a higher level of interference from the adjacent beam . therefore , if all the nine beams in the cell are rotated by a half beam width , the users originally located in the overlapping areas will be placed in the middle of the beams after rotation and their c / i will be improved significantly . for example , the edge to middle antenna gain difference in the nine - beam antenna system used for typical system is 8 - 10 db . those users can then use these time slots for transmission . similarly , beams will overlap with the adjacent cell beams and the mobiles located at the edge of the cell will have high interference from the adjacent cell beams . when the adjacent beams are also rotated in a similar cyclic pattern , a group of users will have their interference reduced thus increasing their c / i value . so , those users can use the time slot during which the adjacent cell is in the rotated position . each ue could measure the pilot power of different beams or / and the c / i of different time slots and report the best time slots and the corresponding c / i of the beam with the strongest pilot . in order to avoid the impact of temporary fading the readings are averaged over several time slots . the scheduler in the bs is to use these c / i values and allocate times slots to the ues according to service requirements and the c / i values . in general , in all the illustrations of beam patterns herein are shown neglecting slow fading for simplicity . it should be understood that , in practice , these boundaries are not clear , although c / i based selection and scheduling and the associated gains are still valid . fig1 illustrates a directional 3 - sector antenna of 120 - degree coverage having beam widths of 40 degrees . the beams overlap at a portion of the coverage area . several ue are shown in the beam paths at various locations . it should be readily understood that the ue in the area of beam overlap would experience interference to a greater degree than the ue located at the center of a beam . by rotating the beams by 20 degrees , the beams can be better directed to the ue situated in the overlapping areas . the present invention uses a deterministic rotation pattern to rotate the beams and transmit to the ue through the best beam position relative to that ue . the 20 - degree rotation scheme with four patterns has been shown to produce significant coverage and capacity gains . when this is used with 10 - degree rotations , larger gains are possible and when used for tri - sector systems where antenna gains change by a large amount within the coverage area , significantly larger gains are possible . in such a pattern as illustrated in fig1 , the situation is fairly straightforward in that ue 10 , ue 11 , and ue 12 are located in the center of beams b 10 , b 11 , and b 12 respectively . ue 13 is located at the overlap between beams b 10 and b 11 and ue 14 is located at the overlap between beams b 11 and b 12 . rotation of the beams b 10 , b 11 , and b 12 by a half of the beam width ( i . e ., 20 degrees ) will result in ue 13 being located in the center of beam b 10 and ue 14 being located in the center of ue 14 . timing downlink transmissions to occur only when a ue is located in the center of the beam is the ideal . however , any location of the ue that yields relative improvements in c / i for that ue provides an important improvement according to the present invention . in other words , the location of a ue to which a downlink transmission is preferably effected may occur with more than one beam placement . assuming that ue 15 is served by a beam in an adjacent cell , the rotation of the beam b 11 will maximize its interference . thus , the transmission to ue 15 should avoid the rotation position of the beam b 11 . in multi - cell systems , the simplicity of fig1 is insufficient . fig2 shows a typical multi - cell system with 7 cells c 1 - c 7 that uses the beam wobbling in accordance with the present invention . in this example , the seven cells use a respective cell pattern a , b , c , or d . that is to say , the rotation pattern is re - used in such a manner as to avoid having the same pattern in adjacent cells . seven cells and four patterns are shown for purposes of illustration and any other number of patterns and reuse scheme could be used . patterns b , c , and d are duplicated as they do not overlap or otherwise interfere with one another due to their spacing across cell c 1 . in this way , inter - cell interference can be avoided by rotating the beams in the neighbouring cells with a different cycle . moreover , the multi - cell pattern may be re - used in an adjacent system . because a significant portion of interference comes only from adjacent cells , there is a large advantage in changing the rotation patterns of the adjacent cells . within a cell system as shown in fig2 that embodies the invention , beams change direction among discrete angular positions according to a predetermined , cyclic pattern . in order for this to occur , all the adjacent beams should have orthogonal position changing patterns . this necessitates that the number of orthogonal patterns should be larger than the number of potential adjacent cells . for instance , if two rotation positions and four different changing patterns are used , there will be sixteen different beam position combinations within the system . accordingly , each ue would experience a different c / i in each of these sixteen time slots . advantageously , a ue can select the beam and time slot with the best c / i . when a large number of users are in the system , then time slots could be used in an efficient manner . fig3 shows an example representation of beam wobbling in accordance with the present invention . here , it is assumed that there are nine beams per cell and three beams per sector , as also seen for cell c 1 of fig2 . beam wobbling in this example uses two rotation positions for each beam . at a beam width of 40 degrees , the beam width divided by two results in rotation angles of 0 degrees and 20 degrees being used . for simplification , fig3 shows only beams a 0 and b 0 and their rotated positions a 20 and b 20 for cell c 1 and beams c 0 and d 0 and their rotated positions c 20 and d 20 for the second cell c 2 . in this way , four time slots ts 1 , ts 2 , ts 3 , and ts 4 may be obtained and the related rotation angle combinations are as shown in tabular format in fig4 . in instances of two cells and four rotational positions , it would be necessary for sixteen time slots . fig5 shows in tabular format the combinations of rotation angles for the two - cell , four rotational position arrangement . in situations where multiple cells exist , the cells can be divided into four groups as discussed before . each of the groups would have the same rotation pattern . that is to say , the rotation pattern would be re - used in such a manner as to avoid having the same pattern in adjacent cells . for two rotation steps , sixteen time slots would be needed . similar to fig4 and 5 , time slot 0 would be where all the groups are not rotated — i . e ., a pattern { 0 , 0 , 0 }. time slot 1 would be where only the fourth group was rotated — i . e ., a pattern { 0 , 0 , 0 , 20 }. time slot 2 would be where only the third group was rotated — i . e ., a pattern { 0 , 0 , 20 , 0 }. this would continue until time slot 16 would be where all the groups are rotated — i . e ., a pattern { 20 , 20 , 20 , 20 }. fig6 illustrates a four - cell example of beam wobbling in accordance with the present invention . two rotations ( n = 2 ) are again assumed also in this example , and only the beans and / or rotations of relevance to this sector are shown . thus , fig6 illustrates one beam from each cell , denoted with a 1 , b 1 , c 1 and respectively d 1 in solid thick lines , representing the original position of the beams . the respective rotated variants a 1 r , b 1 r , c 1 r and d 1 r are shown in dotted lines . also shown is a second beam d 2 for cell d in a thinner , solid line , and the rotated variants a 2 r , b 2 r , c 2 r and respectively d 2 r of a second beam for all cells , in thinner dotted lines . ue 1 through ue 5 are located throughout the system of cells shown . it is clear from the fig6 that only a certain beam position is optimal for any of ue 1 through ue 5 . further , due to the relative positional closeness of ue 5 and ue 4 , for example , it is apparent that the interference becomes a significant factor for consideration . it is precisely in such instances where multiple beams and multiple users congregate when the value of the inventive beam wobbling is most readily apparent . by precisely timing downlink transmissions during a period when a given user is in the most suitable beam position , interference reduction can be maximized . situations of interference are clear from fig6 . for example , beams d 1 and c 1 do not overlap during downlink transmission such that interference is not likely an issue . however , beams a 1 and c 1 significantly overlap with one another as well as encompass three geographically dispersed users ue 1 , ue 2 , and ue 4 . clearly , a downlink transmission to ue 1 by beam a 1 without any compensating factors ( e . g ., reduced transmit power ) will interfere with a transmission to ue 4 in beam c 1 . further , ue 2 will be caught between two equally poor positions should beams a 1 and c 1 simultaneously try to reach it . the present invention addresses at least the aforementioned problems such that the interfering beams act as if they were aware of the interfered ue and avoid transmissions during the allocated time slot . advantageously , that time slot is not wasted because the beam will instead transmit to a different user in a different direction . this significantly improves overall system capacity . beam wobbling solves this automatically without any feedback among base stations . in fig7 , there is shown in tabular format the interferences that may affect the users for the positions illustrated on fig6 . differing users will of course have differing interferer combinations . it is evident that there are beam orientation combinations where the user can be reach with reduced interference , and that there are orientations where transmission to a certain user should be avoided . by providing a time slot for each combination , and enabling transmission to a certain user ( more precisely location ) when the respective combination of orientations is favourable , a large number of users ( e . g ., 400 per beam ) could be accommodated across the time slots . fig8 is a diagram that indicates the rotation status for one of the beams for each cell of fig7 , where the original position is shown by a ‘ high ’ value and the rotated position by a ‘ low ’ value . fig8 also shows the best time slot ( solid ) and the next best time slots ( patterned ) for the user placement illustrated in the example of fig7 . best time slots are the time slots when all the interfering beams have a weak signal and the serving beam has its best rotation position . however , depending on the competing requirements of the incoming data to be transmitted to the ues , some users may not be able to get the best time slot and could be allocated the next best time slots . as can be seen , for ue 1 the best position is when all beams a 1 , b 1 and c 1 from cells a , b and c have the original ( initial ) orientation and the beam form from cell d is rotated ( d 1 r ). the next best timeslot is when cell d rotates its beam to the original orientation d 1 , but this will result in a slight increase in the interference . so the patterned time slot is the next best time slot for ue 1 . the beam wobbling of the invention is further enhanced by the use of a scheduler . as suggested above , a user will have available several time slots with different c / i values . the scheduler can use these changes in c / i values to efficiently support multiple quality of service ( qos ) requirements . for example , time slot allocations can be changed dynamically according to qos requirements . this means that the physical layer will provides several options of transmissions to all the users . when physical layer provides such an option , the cost to the network is minimal because a higher layer could not do such allocations efficiently . moreover , low c / i users can use better time slots to improve coverage and enable higher equal throughput capacity . the e beam wobbling according to the invention generates known fading with no c / i reporting impact . in other words , the present invention allows for fade selective scheduling ( fss ) schemes such as proportional - fair ( pf ) schemes , which can be used to increase capacity when equal throughput services are not required . it should be understood that the c / i increase occurs within the present invention by avoiding specific rotation positions of other beams . in operation , the present invention provides significant coverage and capacity gains and even larger gains for the multi - qos systems ( e . g ., voice / data ). the present invention is suitable for future generation distributed architectures ( automated interference avoidance without centralized control ). while synchronization with the base station is still needed , there is no need for dynamic coordination . still further , the present invention can utilize purposely created ‘ fading ’ for even larger capacity gains possible . this is more likely with other schedulers ( e . g ., pf ). this is evident from fig4 where fading to reduce the reach of beam a 1 to encompass only ue 1 would significantly alter the system capacity in terms of cell a or cell c optimally transmitting to ue 2 or ue 4 . such fading aspect is considered well within the intended scope of the present invention . as well , it should be understood that there is flexibility for the scheduler to perform better qos handling , i . e ., physical layer multiple qos solution . the present invention may also be used together with power control within the slot period to provide an efficient voice and data solution . further , wireless local area networks with spatially switched beams may benefit from the present inventive beam wobbling . it should be understood that the preferred embodiments mentioned here are merely illustrative of the present invention . numerous variations in design and use of the present invention may be contemplated in view of the following claims without straying from the intended scope and field of the invention herein disclosed .