ns in addition to the active partition by puncturing the reporting period of the active frequency partition. The BS may use the interference statistics to schedule downlink data transmissions. A Preferred Frequency Partition Indicator (PFPI) is defined in the primary fast-feedback channel to indicate the change in the preferred active frequency partition. The FFR partition information is broadcast in S-SFH SP2, and the resource metric and transmission power level are signaled in an AAI_DL-IM message and/or S-SFH SP3. When the MS attempts network entry to a system with FPCT > 1, it initially uses the frequency partition indicated by the BS. Once the MS detects the first superframe with resource metric information, it may start using the resource metric to recommend its preferred partition to the BS in distributed DRU regions or to select the preferred sub-bands in sub-band CRU allocations. In the latter case, the MS estimates the average SINR in each sub-band of the frequency partition and calculates the expected spectral efficiency for each sub-band. The expected SE can be calculated based on data rate, PER, and partition bandwidth as SEexpected = (1 PER)Data_RatelBW where Data_Rate is the uncoded data in the number of bits transmitted on four LRUs in type-1 subframe, PER is the MS estimated packet error rate in the same four LRUs, and BW is the amount of bandwidth occupied by four LRUs. The data rate is a function of average SINR per partition, and is determined according to the modulation and coding rate selected by link adaptation procedure. The MS calculates the normalized SE; of the ith frequency partition as Normalized_SE; = Expected_SE;/Resource_Metrici The MS compares the Normalized_SE; of all partitions and selects the partition with maximum normalized SE as the preferred frequency partition, i.e., i (Normalized SEi), Ai. If the preferred partition is different from the previously selected one and has relatively stable normalized SE, the MS will send an indicator through the primary fast- feedback channe