Patent ID: 7366507
Filing Date: 2008-04-29
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. In a cellular mobile communications system comprising at least a first cell and a set of second cells, with mobile communications units in said first cell and second cells and the mobile communications units in said set of second cells being susceptible of causing interference affecting said mobile communications units of the first cell, a method of evaluating uplink inter-cell interference affecting mobile communications units in said first cell, the method comprising the steps of: a) allocating positions of mobile communications units within said first cell (C b) allocating positions of mobile communications units within said set of second cells (C c) calculating a value (I d) repeating steps a) to c) for different sets (k) of positions of the mobile communications units, until a first predetermined criterion is satisfied; and e) determining, as the value of uplink inter-cell interference (I