Patent ID: 9167434
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of coordinated interference suppression in a communication system implementing at least a first radio access technology via a first base station and a second radio access technology via a second base station, the second radio access technology being different from the first radio access technology, the method comprising: receiving, from a first device associated with the first base station, at a second device associated with the second base station, information relating to an interference signal received at the first base station via the first radio access technology, the information relating to an interference signal including a time at which the interference signal was received by the first base station; sending an interference report to the second base station, the interference report including the time at which the interference signal was received by the first base station; identifying, at the second base station, an interfering user equipment, UE, accessing the second base station via the second radio access technology, the identifying including correlating the time at which the interference signal was received by the first base station to a time of receiving at the second base station an uplink signal from a UE; and suppressing, via the second base station, an interference caused by the interfering user equipment.