Patent ID: 9155100
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: utilizing, in a cell, a radio resource formed from a plurality of radio resource units, wherein a radio resource unit corresponds to a separable unit in at least one of time or frequency domains and consists of one or more subcarriers within a timeslot, and wherein the radio resource unit includes one or more of a carrier frequency, a timeslot or a spread spectrum code; dividing the radio resource units of a plurality of cells into more than one radio resource groups; detecting in the cell a requirement of radio resource allocation for a user equipment; determining, with a processor, an effective interference to be generated by the required radio resource to a defined group of neighbouring cells based on one or more measurement indications provided by the user equipment, the one or more measurement indications indicating a path loss to the defined group of neighboring cells; and causing the radio resource from one of the radio resource groups to be allocated for a downlink to the user equipment within the cell based on the determined effective interference to be generated to the defined group of neighbouring cells, wherein causing the radio resource from one of the radio resource groups to be allocated comprises causing two or more user equipment to be allocated to the same radio resource group including the subcarriers of the one or more radio resource units that comprise the respective radio resource group based on similarity of the determined effective interference to be generated to the defined group of neighbouring cells by the two or more user equipment.