Patent ID: 9596698
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method in a first radio base station, RBS, for sharing resources between at least two entities, the first RBS provides resources to user equipments, UEs, in a cell, comprising storing an identity of at least a first entity to which a first plurality of UEs is associated, which first plurality of UEs has full access to the resources, and an identity of at least a second entity to which a second plurality of UEs is associated, which second plurality of UEs has partial access to the resources, the method comprising: receiving, by the first RBS, a request for accessing resources from a UE, determining, by the first RBS, that the UE is associated with the second entity, determining, by the first RBS, a data-rate the UE would receive in a neighboring cell served by a second RBS based on at least one of a geographical distance and a radio distance of the neighboring cell where the UE has full access to resources provided by the second RBS and is in a coverage of the neighboring cell, determining, by the first RBS, a reduced amount of resources to provide to the UE based on the determined data-rate, in response to determining that the UE is associated with the second entity, and providing the reduced amount of resources to the UE.