Patent ID: 9692480
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for coordinating a cell on a plurality of resource blocks by a central control device of a wireless communication system, the cell forming a cluster with at least one other cell, the method comprising: determining by the central control device whether the cell needs to be muted on at least one resource block; determining by the central control device a ratio of the resource block on which the cell is muted to the plurality of resource blocks, in a case where the cell needs to be muted on the at least one resource block; determining by the central control device, based on the ratio, the resource block on which the cell is muted among the plurality of resource blocks, the resource block being a time resource block, a frequency resource block or a time-frequency resource block; and transmitting by the central control device information indicating muting states of the cell on the respective resource blocks and information indicating muting states of neighbor cells of the cell on the respective resource blocks to a base station corresponding to the cell.