Patent ID: 8462646
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for characterizing interference in a radio communication system comprising a plurality of radio transceiver stations capable of being configured to communicate with user equipment, comprising: receiving at a serving transceiver station quantities indicative of interference from interfering transceiver stations, the quantities being measured by the user equipment in radio communication with the serving transceiver station; associating at least one codebook with the serving transceiver station, the codebook comprising a number of codewords each representing a respective quantized interference power situation in an area covered by the serving transceiver station; identifying in the codebook a codeword representative of the quantities measured by the user equipment, wherein the codeword has components determined by a number of interfering transceiver stations measured by the user equipment; wherein the serving transceiver station is configured to communicate with the user equipment in a frequency band which is organized into a number of physical resource blocks; and determining, at the serving transceiver station, the interference powers received by the user equipment in the physical resource blocks of the user equipment, based on the quantities indicative of interference from interfering transceiver stations measured by the user equipment and on the transmission powers used by the interfering transceiver stations in the physical resource blocks.