Patent ID: 9326292
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining information in relation to radio channel conditions on available communication channels at an access node of a communication system serving a plurality of wireless communication devices by at least one of averaging, filtering, and bundling of the information, wherein the information comprises information relating to a queue of packets, propagation conditions, load, quality of service, history of allocations, history of retransmissions, history of packet validity timeouts, and number of active devices; processing the information to create a metric defining interference level at an access node on each available communication channel; communicating the metric to one or more of a plurality of wireless communication devices; periodically broadcasting the metric from an access node, processing information about interference on at least one communication channel and/or sensitivity of at least one receiver, and generating information about interference per available communication channel and/or access node receiver sensitivity on the available communication channels; and communicating said information to at least one device within the coverage of the access node for use in the distributed control of radio access at the at least one device.