Patent ID: 9445424
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, in a radio base station, for scheduling a radio resource to a first user equipment (UE), the radio base station in a radio communications network and controlling a plurality of radio resources to be scheduled for communication to a plurality of UEs based on channel quality of channels used by the respective UEs, the plurality of UEs served by the radio base station and comprising the first UE, the method comprising: estimating a first channel quality of a channel used by the first UE based on a comparison between transmitted power from the first UE and received power at the radio base station; determining a pathloss between the first UE and the radio base station, wherein the first UE is currently served by the radio base station; selectively applying pathloss compensation to the pathloss to obtain a compensated pathloss; computing a second channel quality of the channel based on the estimated first channel quality and the compensated pathloss; and scheduling a radio resource out of the plurality of radio resources to the first UE based on the computed second channel quality.