Patent ID: 9344255
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: H04J,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for mitigating interference in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining, by a first transmission point (TP) capable of configuring a first Almost Blank Subframe (ABS) pattern, a number (N) of subframes that are to be shifted in a second ABS pattern of a second TP; and transmitting the number N by the first TP to the second TP, wherein N is determined to maximize a number (K) of Multimedia Broadcast multicast service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframes that can be set to ABSs of the first ABS pattern, and wherein the ABSs of the first ABS pattern do not overlap in the time domain with ABSs of the second ABS pattern.